Julie Trebilcock - Keele University

Criminology

Trebilcock Dr J.D. (Julie)

Title: Lecturer in Criminology
Phone: 34166
Email:
Location: CBB1.015
Role: Disability Liaison Officer
Contacting me: During office hours posted on my door or via email appointment

Dr Julie Trebilcock joined the criminology programme at Keele in September 2011. Prior to this Julie completed a BA(Hons), MA and PhD in criminology at Keele before working as a Research Associate in the field of mental health and addiction at Imperial College London.

Julie’s PhD was interested in a particularly controversial development under the New Labour government – the introduction of four high security units in both prisons and the mental health system to offer treatment to a group of men with so called “Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder” (DSPD). Drawing from the case records of these men and interviews with Parole Board (PB) and Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) members Julie’s thesis explored how the journeys of patients and prisoners prior to and following DSPD admission are presented to the PB and MHRT, and how DSPD may impact on PB and MHRT decision-making. Julie went on to secure funding from the DSPD Programme (a joint initiative of the Ministry of Justice, Department of Health & HM Prison Service) to extend her research to interview DSPD staff and consider the legal authority by which DSPD patients and prisoners are detained in either a hospital or a prison based DSPD unit.

 

On completion of her PhD Julie began work as a Research Associate at Imperial College London. Here Julie was involved with a range of projects in the field of mental health and addiction including a large government funded evaluation study - the Multi-method Evaluation of the Management, Organisation and Staffing (MEMOS) study of high security treatment services for people with DSPD. Julie also worked on an evaluation of a new NHS treatment service for pathological gambling.

 

Alongside her work at Keele University Julie also works as a research consultant for the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Governors Association.

Current undergraduate teaching:

  • Understanding crime
  • Murder
  • Building safer communities
  • Working for justice
  • Research methods
  • Criminal justice: Process, policy and practice
  • Forensic mental health and offending

 

Postgraduate teaching:

  • MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice