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Before coming to Keele university I worked at Liverpool John Moores University as a sessional lecturer and at the Open University as an Associate Lecturer, responsible for tutoring D315 Crime, Order and Social Control.
I was employed at Keele university in 2000 as a sessional lecturer teaching a third year module on the subject of Victimology. I have been employed as a full time lecturer since January 2001 at Keele.
- Executed women in 19th century England and Wales.
- Reprieved women in 20th century England & Wales.
- Executed and reprieved women in 20th century Scotland
- Domestic abuse victims and punishment.
- State responses to violence against women.
Forthcoming:
- Book-chapter: ‘Feminist Research, State Power and Executed Women: The Case of Louie Calvert’ in Farrall, S., Sparks, R., Maruna, S and Hough, M. (eds) (2009) Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment Routledge
- Book-chapter entitled TBC (working title: Sexual Murder) in Brown, J. and Walklate, S. (eds) (2010) Handbook of Sexual Violence Willan Publishing.
- Book – Capitalising on Punishment: State Power, Gender and Women Who Kill (October 2010) Ashgate.
Selected Publications
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2011. Destroying Women: Sexual Murder and Feminism. In Handbook on Sexual Violence. Brown JM and Walklate SL (Eds.). Routledge.
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2010. Feminist Research, State Power and Executed Women: The Case of Louie Calvert. In Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment. Farrall S, Sparks R, Maruna S, Hough M (Eds.). Routledge.
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2010. Gender, Power and the State: Same as it ever was?. In State, Power, Crime. Whyte D, Coleman R, Tombs S, Sim J (Eds.). Sage Publications Ltd.
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2008. Class and Crime. In The new Oxford companion to law. Cane P and Conaghan J (Eds.). Oxford University Press, USA.
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2008. Crime and Social Differentiation. In The New Oxford Companion to Law. Cane P and Conaghan J (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Full Publications List show
Books
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2000. Dead woman walking. Ashgate Pub Ltd.
Journal Articles
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2007. Masculinity in the Dock Legal Responses to Male Violence and Female Retaliation in England and Wales 1900-1965. Social and Legal Studies, vol. 16(4), 459-481. doi>
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2005. Reasonable Women Who Kill. OUTLINES - Critical Social Studies, vol. 7, 65-82.
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2002. Surviving the prison place. SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES, vol. 11(4), 589-591. link>
Chapters
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2011. Destroying Women: Sexual Murder and Feminism. In Handbook on Sexual Violence. Brown JM and Walklate SL (Eds.). Routledge.
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2010. Feminist Research, State Power and Executed Women: The Case of Louie Calvert. In Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment. Farrall S, Sparks R, Maruna S, Hough M (Eds.). Routledge.
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2010. Gender, Power and the State: Same as it ever was?. In State, Power, Crime. Whyte D, Coleman R, Tombs S, Sim J (Eds.). Sage Publications Ltd.
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2008. Class and Crime. In The new Oxford companion to law. Cane P and Conaghan J (Eds.). Oxford University Press, USA.
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2008. Crime and Social Differentiation. In The New Oxford Companion to Law. Cane P and Conaghan J (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2008. Feminist Analysis of Crime. In The new Oxford companion to law. Cane P and Conaghan J (Eds.). Oxford University Press, USA.
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2008. Race and Crime. In The new Oxford companion to law. Cane P and Conaghan J (Eds.). Oxford University Press, USA.
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2008. Reconceptualising social control: case studies in gender, punishment and murder 1900-1965. In Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective. Johnson H (Ed.). Palgrave.
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2007. The 'Worse' of Two Evils?. In Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Criminology. Barton A, Corteen K, Scott D, Whyte D (Eds.). Willan Publishing.
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2003. Researching and Redefining State. In Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States and Corporations. Whyte D and Tombs S (Eds.). Peter Lang Pub Inc .
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2003. Researching and Redefining State Crime: Feminism and the Capital Punishment of Women. In Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful. Tombs S and Whyte D (Eds.). Lang, New York.
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1996. The Guilt of the Innocent and the Innocence of the Guilty: The Cases of Marie Fahmy and Ruth Ellis. In No angels. Myers A and Wight S (Eds.). Pandora Press.
Other
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New Labour and responses to violence against women.
Module Leader of the following modules:
- CRI-20014 Crime, Criminalisation & Social Order
- CRI-30002 Victimology: Power, Processes and Victimisation
- CRI-30010 Gender, History & Punishment
I also teach as part of a team on various first and second year Criminology modules.

