Centre for Criminology at Essex
At
Essex we take the sociological approach to studying crime and deviance to answer
questions such as:
- Why are laws made?
- Why are these laws subsequently broken?
- What can be done about it?
- Why is society fascinated with crime?
One aspect of criminology is to focus on the individual, but here at Essex we
take a much broader perspective and research criminology from the social
perspective.
Since the early 1970s, with the publication of Folk Devils and Moral
Panics by our founding professor, Stan Cohen, we have grown into one of the
largest groupings of researchers in the department.
Our Centre for Criminology will act as a platform for inter-disciplinary
engagement with colleagues from the departments of Economics, Government, Health
and Human Science, History, Law, Literature, Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS),
Philosophy, Psychology and others.
The aim of the centre
Our Centre for Criminology is to become a local and international centre of
excellence for the study of criminology, to attract research funding and produce
world class research outputs.
We're keen to attract the very best quality postgraduate research students to
our Department and use our criminological research activities as a base for
teaching at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels.
Our members
We have seven members of staff actively researching in the fields of:
- crime and the media;
- drug use and markets;
- green criminology and crimes against the environment;
- major events and security;
- organised crime;
- security;
- surveillance; and
- terrorism and counter-terrorism.
We're all criminology teachers but also engaged researchers and as a
consequence our teaching is research based and of the real world.
Members of the criminology team are:
Study criminology
We welcome high-quality
undergraduate,
masters and
research students who want to study
criminology.
As a research student you will work closely with your supervisor/s, all of
whom have excellent reputations for conducting cutting edge research. You will
play a full and active role in the various activities that the Centre is
currently developing.
Members of the Centre have excellent contacts with local and central
government agencies and international academic and policy networks, which will
benefit students working with us and allow us to bid for funding. We have
already been successful in attracting funding from the:
- Home Office;
- ESRC;
- ESPRC; and
- the European Economic Community (EEC).
If you'd like further information about the Centre for Criminology at Essex
please contact either Dick Hobbs or
Pete Fussey.