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    Dr Tony Kearon

    Dr Tony Kearon

    Title
    Senior Lecturer in Criminology
    Location
    CBB1.031
    Role

    UG Criminology Programme Director
    Research Cluster Lead 'Crime, Social Justice and Policing'
    Study Abroad Subject Tutor (Criminology)
    Contact me
    During office hours, posted on my door, or via email appointment
    Phone
    01782 (7)34382
    Email
    a.t.kearon@keele.ac.uk

    Biography

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

    Born in Salford (Greater Manchester). After school Tony worked in various occupations (most notably as a postal worker) before completing an access course and going to university as a mature student. His undergraduate degree was followed by an MA and then a PhD on fear of crime and its impacts on older urban residents. While completing his postgraduate studies Tony worked as a researcher on various crime related research projects and taught undergraduates as well as student nurses and midwives.  He also worked as a tutor in FE and adult education (teaching A levels, access modules and related courses), and as a conference organiser. Tony obtained his first lectureship (in Criminology and Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University) in 1998. He joined Keele in 2002.

    Research and scholarship

    Policing; Domestic Violence; Victims and Victimisation; Multi-Agency Partnership Working to Reduce Crime And Support Victims and Vulnerable People; Criminal Justice Policy

    Teaching

    Current courses:

    • Psychology and Crime
    • Criminal Justice: Process, Policy, Practice
    • Policing and The Police
    • Ma Criminology And Criminal Justice 

    Selected Publications

    • Kearon AT and Mahoney I. 2018. MAHONEY, I. and KEARON, T. Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent. International Journal of Social Quality, 8 (1). ISSN 1757-0344. full text>
    • Mahoney I and Kearon AT. 2018. 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. (14 vols.). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. link> doi> link>
    • Mahoney I and Kearon AT. 2017. (De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research. Research Ethics. doi> full text>
    • Kearon AT. 2017. 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>
    • Kearon T and Leach R. 2000. Invasion of the 'body snatchers': Burglary reconsidered. THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY, 451-472, vol. 4(4). link> doi> full text>

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    Journal Articles

    • Kearon AT and Mahoney I. 2018. MAHONEY, I. and KEARON, T. Social quality, Brexit and Stoke-on-Trent. International Journal of Social Quality, 8 (1). ISSN 1757-0344. full text>
    • Mahoney I and Kearon AT. 2017. (De)constructing ethical research narratives in criminological research. Research Ethics. doi> full text>
    • Kearon T and Leach R. 2000. Invasion of the 'body snatchers': Burglary reconsidered. THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY, 451-472, vol. 4(4). link> doi> full text>
    • Kearon T. 2013. Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies. CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE, 415-430, vol. 13(4). link> doi>
    • Kearon T. 2012. From Arbiter to Omnivore. The Bourgeois Transcendent Self and the Other in Disorganised Modernity. HUMAN STUDIES, 383-399, vol. 35(3). link> doi>
    • Kearon AT. 2012. Alternative Representation of the Prison and Imprisonment - Comparing Dominant Narratives in the News Media and in Popular Fictional Texts. Prison Service Journal, 4-10, vol. 199.
    • Kearon AT. 2012. FORTHCOMING: Surveillance Technologies and The Crisis of Confidence in Regulatory Agencies. Criminology and Criminal Justice.
    • Kearon AT. 2012. From Arbiter to Omnivore. The Bourgeois Transcendent Self and the Other in Disorganised Modernity. Human Studies. doi>
    • Austin JC, Day CR, Kearon AT, Evans DL, Haycock PW. 2010. Comparison method to differentiate between painted objects using polychromatic X-rays. INSIGHT, 140-143, vol. 52(3). link> doi>
    • Austin JC, Day CR, Kearon AT, Haycock PW. 2009. Single element mapping in radiography. X-RAY SPECTROMETRY, 492-504, vol. 38(6). link> doi>
    • Day CR, Austin JC, Butcher JB, Haycock PW, Kearon AT. 2009. Element-specific determination of X-ray transmission signatures using neural networks. NDT & E INTERNATIONAL, 446-451, vol. 42(5). link> doi>
    • Austin JC, Day CR, Kearon AT, Valussi S, Haycock PW. 2008. Using polychromatic X-radiography to examine realistic imitation firearms. Forensic Sci Int, 26-31, vol. 181(1-3). link> doi>
    • Austin JC, Day CR, Kearon AT, Valussi S, Haycock PW. 2008. Characterisation of metallic powder impregnated pastes using polychromatic X-radiography. INSIGHT, 550-553, vol. 50(10). link> doi>
    • KEARON AT, Mythen G, Walklate S. 2007. Making Sense of Emergency Advice: Public Perceptions of the Terrorist Risk. Security Journal, 77–95, vol. 20(2). doi>
    • KEARON AT. 2005. We Have Never Been Liberal -- Bourgeois Identity and the Criminal(ized) Other. Social Justice, 5-19, vol. 32(1).
    • Davies WJ, Cox TJ, Kearon AT, Longhurst BJ, Webb CL. 2001. Hearing loss in the built environment: The experience of elderly people. ACUSTICA, 610-616, vol. 87(5). link>

    Chapters

    • Mahoney I and Kearon AT. 2018. 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. (14 vols.). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. link> doi> link>
    • Kearon AT. 2017. 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>
    • KEARON AT. 2007. Victims of Crime: A Question of History. In Handbook of Victims and Victimology . Walklate S (Ed.). Willan Publishing.

    Other

    • Kearon AT. 2013. Crime reduction, cultural and economic regeneration - the case of Newcastle-Under-Lyme town centre.
    • KEARON AT and Massey, J.. 2004. Noise Nuisance, Intergenerational Conflict and Fear of Crime.

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