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- Tony Kearon
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 his interests in cultural and oral histories of crime. In this context Tony is trying to do interesting criminological things with the ‘Foundations of Sociology’ archive.
Selected Publications
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MAHONEY, I. and KEARON, T. Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent. International Journal of Social Quality, 8 (1). ISSN 1757-0344. full text>2018.
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Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent. In Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-Class Men in International Perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.2018.
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(De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research. Research Ethics. doi> full text>2017.
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The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order. In The International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Brown M (Ed.). Routledge. link> full text>2017.
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Journal Articles
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MAHONEY, I. and KEARON, T. Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent. International Journal of Social Quality, 8 (1). ISSN 1757-0344. full text>2018.
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(De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research. Research Ethics. doi> full text>2017.
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- 2012.
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Alternative Representation of the Prison and Imprisonment - Comparing Dominant Narratives in the News Media and in Popular Fictional Texts. Prison Service Journal, vol. 199, 4-10.2012.
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FORTHCOMING: Surveillance Technologies and The Crisis of Confidence in Regulatory Agencies. Criminology and Criminal Justice.2012.
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From Arbiter to Omnivore. The Bourgeois Transcendent Self and the Other in Disorganised Modernity. Human Studies. doi>2012.
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Making Sense of Emergency Advice: Public Perceptions of the Terrorist Risk. Security Journal, vol. 20(2), 77–95. doi>2007.
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We Have Never Been Liberal -- Bourgeois Identity and the Criminal(ized) Other. Social Justice, vol. 32(1), 5-19.2005.
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Hearing loss in the built environment: The experience of elderly people. ACUSTICA, vol. 87(5), 610-616. link>2001.
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Invasion of the 'body snatchers': Burglary reconsidered. THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY, vol. 4(4), 451-472. link> doi> full text>2000.
Chapters
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Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent. In Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-Class Men in International Perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.2018.
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The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order. In The International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Brown M (Ed.). Routledge. link> full text>2017.
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Victims of Crime: A Question of History. In Handbook of Victims and Victimology . Walklate S (Ed.). Willan Publishing.2007.
Other
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Crime reduction, cultural and economic regeneration - the case of Newcastle-Under-Lyme town centre.2013.
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Noise Nuisance, Intergenerational Conflict and Fear of Crime.2004.
Current courses:
Psychology and Crime
Criminal Justice: Process, Policy, Practice
Popular Culture and Crime
MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice