Ian Mahoney

Phone:
Email:
Location: Keele
Role: PhD Student

Thesis Title

“Unemployment and Criminality in Stoke on Trent: What is the impact of unemployment upon criminal careers in an area of high skill and employment deprivation?”

My research focuses upon the lived experience of unemployment in Stoke on Trent among young men and how it leads to some becoming increasingly involved in crime.

 

  • Crime and Masculinities: A Theoretical Review, presented at the Keele Sociology Symposium 18th March 2011.
  • ‘Looking Inside the Frame: Reframing Identity in the face of post-industrial decline’ at the Keele PGR Sociology Symposium 13th March 2012.
  • Looking inside the frame: post-industrial identity and the threat of unemployment and crime. Presented at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 4th July 2012.  Awarded Ministry of Justice Postgraduate Bursary to attend and present at the conference.