Biography
Evi Girling was born in Cyprus and moved to the UK in 1987 after completing her undergraduate studies at Duke University in North Carolina. She obtained her MPhil and DPhil (1993) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford (Linacre College). She studied law for two years completing the Common Professional Examination (1993) and the Legal Practice Course (1994). She held two research fellowships on ESRC funded projects at Keele between 1994 and 1997 and was appointed as a lecturer in 1997.
Research and scholarship
I currently carry out research on penal sensibilities focusing on issues of globalization and identity; the Italian anti-death penalty movement, restorative justice, globalization and punishment.
Teaching
I teach qualitative methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and offer a third year option on the Cultures of the Death Penalty.
Current Courses:
- Murder
- The Politics and Culture of the Death Penalty in the 21st Century
- MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Selected Publications
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Encountering Death In Punishment: The Deathscapes of Incarceration (Introduction). The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. doi> full text>2016.
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Sites of crossing and Death in Punishment: The parallel lives, trade-offs and equivalencies of the Death Penalty and Life without Parole in the US. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 345-361, vol. 55(3). doi> link> full text>
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Looking Death in the Face': The Benetton Death Penalty Campaign. Punishment and Society, 271-288, vol. 6(3). doi>2004.
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Fear and Everyday Urban Lives. Urban Studies, 885-898, vol. 38(5-6). doi>2001.
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We, on Death row: Death Penalty in the US under the European Gaze. In Zur Aktualität der Todesstrafe. BWV Berliner-Wissenschaft.2009.
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Journal Articles
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Encountering Death In Punishment: The Deathscapes of Incarceration (Introduction). The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. doi> full text>2016.
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Sites of crossing and Death in Punishment: The parallel lives, trade-offs and equivalencies of the Death Penalty and Life without Parole in the US. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 345-361, vol. 55(3). doi> link> full text>
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Looking Death in the Face': The Benetton Death Penalty Campaign. Punishment and Society, 271-288, vol. 6(3). doi>2004.
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Fear and Everyday Urban Lives. Urban Studies, 885-898, vol. 38(5-6). doi>2001.
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Looking death in the face. Punishment and Society, 271/285, vol. 6(3).2004.
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Between reconciliation and rejection: contemporary penal dilemmas through the eyes of children. Criminal Justice Matters, 18/25, vol. 49(3).2002.
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Lessons from history: pasts, presents and futures of punishment in children's talk. Children and Society, 116-130, vol. 16(2). doi>2002.
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Children talking about justice and punishment. International Journal of Children's Rights.2001.
Chapters
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We, on Death row: Death Penalty in the US under the European Gaze. In Zur Aktualität der Todesstrafe. BWV Berliner-Wissenschaft.2009.
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The Trial and its alternatives as speech situations. In The Trial on Trial: Judgment and Calling to Account v. 2. Duff A, Farmer L, Marshall S, Tadros V (Eds.). Hart Publishing.2006.
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European identity, penal sensibilities, and communities of sentiment. In Perspectives on Punishment The Contours of Control. Armstrong S and McAra L (Eds.). Oxford University Press.2006.
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European Identity and the mission against the death penatly in the US. In The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives. Stanford University Press.2005.
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Public Sensibilities Towards Crime: Anxieties of Affluence. In Crime: Fear or Fascination?. Chester Academic Press.2002.
Other
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Fear and Everyday Urban Lives. Urban Studies.2001.
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