Criminology

BSc (Hons) Sociology and Politics; MA (Hons) Cultural Studies; PhD

Born in Salford (Greater Manchester). After school Tony worked in various occupations before deciding "that the only way to avoid being underpaid, under valued and under appreciated was to become a University Lecturer". Consequently Tony completed an Access course and went to University as a mature student. After competing his undergraduate studies he completed an MA in Cultural Studies and a PhD on older urban residents, fear of crime and cultural strategies employed by this group to try to manage perceptions of risk and fear of criminal victimisation. While completing his postgraduate studies Tony worked as a tutor in FE and Adult Education (teaching A Levels, Access modules and related courses) He also worked as a conference organiser and held various temporary research posts. Tony obtained his first lectureship (in Criminology and Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University) in 1998. He joined Keele in 2002.

Media representations of Crime; relationships between crime texts and public attitudes to crime and criminal justice; the role of ‘the criminal’ in late modernity; challenges to self identity in late modernity and the role of ‘otherness’ in producing and maintaining a defensible self; Cultural histories of crime and criminological theory; general theoretical and philosophical issues about crime, especially in the context of forms of critical criminology.

Currently Tony is writing a book on Popular Culture and Crime for Sage, and he is also particularly interested in developing hisinterests in cultural and oral histories of crime. In this context Tony is trying to do interesting criminological things with the ‘Foundations of Sociology’ archive.