I joined the department in 1998 and have published broadly in criminology and sociology.  I was elected on to the editorial board of Sociology and currently serve on the British Journal of Criminology, the international advisory editorial board of Crime, Media, Culture and an associate editor of Theoretical Criminology.  I have been an external examiner for the degree programmes at Goldsmiths College, University of London (Sociology), and Roehampton University (Criminology), while I am currently the external examiner for the MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Keele University and for the undergraduate programme at the University of Salford.  I am also a member of HEFCE’s Sociology sub-panel that will assess the quality of research for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

BA (Hull) MSc PhD (Salford)

I am currently writing a book on Crime and Social Theory and unlike many of the books on this topic, the work will concentrate on how aspects of social theory illuminate key problems in criminology. It will avoid presenting theoretical work in a series of discrete chapters in which theories seem to be entirely cut off from one another and divorced from any direct relationship with empirical research.  Instead it will aim to advance current understandings of crime, order and security so that more convincing explanations of complex social processes can be generated.

In collaboration with Dr Chrissie Rogers at Anglia Ruskin University we are devising a research project on how prisoners with learning disabilities experience imprisonment.  This group are amongst the most vulnerable and marginalised group in custody, yet precious little is known about the systemic deprivations prisoners with learning disabilities encounter in their daily institutional lives.  Conceptually, the research takes a lead from recent developments in the sociology of rights and differing theories of social justice.

Finally, I plan to write a book on The Iconography of Punishment, which develops arguments from my Crime, Culture and the Media (2008).  This book will focus on how punishment has been represented in the literary and visual arts and it will intervene in the recent turn to cultural analyses in the sociology of punishment.  Work from this project has already been published in The Prison Service Journal, and a more extended treatment of the issues is covered in my chapter on 'Telling Prison Stories' in an edited collection on The Arts of Imprisonment, while the distinctive ethical problems posed by visual criminology are addressed in an article for the British Journal of Criminology. A further paper on 'Images of Torture' has been published in Crime, Media, Culture and this piece examines the debates provoked by the notorious Abu Ghraib photos and those produced in the wake of the scandal. 

I am particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research in the following areas:

• Crime and the Media
• Cultural and Social Geography
• Popular Music and Sociological Thinking
• Punishment and Human Rights
• Sociology of Imprisonment
• Visual Sociology
• Youth Culture

This is only intended to be an indicative list and I am happy to discuss ideas with potential research students. 

Over the years I have designed and taught the following modules: 

Undergraduate

SC205 Punishment, Justice and Modernity
SC206 Crime, Media and Culture
SC242 Sociology of Crime and Control
SC301 Current Disputes in Sociology
SC304 The Criminological Imagination
SC310 Youth Culture: Crime, Consumption and the City

Postgraduate

SC914 Contemporary Debates in Criminology
SC916 Criminological Research Methods

Research Student Supervision

I have supervised the following PhD theses to completion:

• Hua-Fu Hsu (2002) 'Penality Beyond the West: The Experience of Imprisonment in Taiwan'
• Gareth Millington (2006) 'Racism, Community, Place: Inside the Ethnoscapes of Southend-on-Sea (ESRC funded)
• James Ormrod (2006) 'The Pro-Space Movement in the 21st Century: A Sociological and Psychoanalytic Study of Space Advocacy and Activism' (ESRC funded)
• Emma Bond (2008) 'Children's Perceptions of Mobile Phones and Risk in their Everyday Lives' (co-supervised with Dr. Becky Ellis)
• Elisabeth Carter (2008) ‘Policing Talk: An Investigation in to the Interaction of the Officer and the Suspect in Police Interviews’ (ESRC Funded).
• Natalie Mann (2008) 'Doing Harder Time? The Experiences of an Ageing Prison Population' (ESRC funded)
• Jennifer Bullen(2010) 'Media Representations of Footballers Wives' (ESRC funded, co-supervised with Dr. Pam Cox)
• Jennifer Murphy (2011) 'Contextualizing Parolee Reintegration: Narrative Themes in Community Re-engagement in Two Cities in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada' (co-supervised with Prof. Nigel South)
• Yen Wan-Chen (2012) ‘Governing Sex, Building the Nation: The Politics of Prostitution in Postcolonial Taiwan’ (co-supervised with Dr. Pam Cox)• Jennifer Bullen(2010) 'Media Representations of Footballers Wives' (ESRC funded, co-supervised with Dr. Pam Cox)
• Allison Boggis (2012) '"Deafening Silences": Listening to Inarticulate Children and Young People'.

I am currently supervising the following full-time doctoral students:

• Caroline Mosler 'The Right to Freedom in Bangladesh'
• Pimporn Netrabukkana 'Rehabilitation in Thailand’

And co-supervising the following doctoral student:

• Stuart Agnew 'Male Perceptions of Commercial and Non-Commercial Sexual Relationships' (co-supervise with Dr. Lynne Pettinger)

Books

Carrabine, E. Crime, Culture and the Media (Cambridge, Polity, 2008).

Carrabine, E. Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot. (Dartmouth, Ashgate, 2004).

Carrabine, E., P. Iganski, M. Lee, K. Plummer and N. South, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, (London, Routledge, 2004).
2nd Edition published 2009 co-authored by Carrabine, E., P. Cox, M. Lee, K. Plummer and N. South.

Carrabine, E., P. Cox, M. Lee and N. South (2002) Crime in Modern Britain, (Oxford, Oxford University Press)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Carrabine, E. (forthcoming) 'Criminology, Deviance and Sociology', in Holmwood, J. and J. Scott (eds.) History of Sociology in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan.

Carrabine, E. (forthcoming) 'Crime, Culture and the Media in a Globalizing World', in Arrigo, B. and H. Bersot (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies, Routledge.

Carrabine, E. (2012) 'Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology', in British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 52, No.3, pp. 463-489.

Carrabine, E. (2011) 'The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty', in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp.452-464.

Carrabine, E. (2011) ‘Images of Torture: Culture, Politics and Power', in Crime, Media, Culture, Vol. 7, No.1, pp.5-30.
Reprinted in Hughes, J (ed.) (2012) SAGE Visual Methods, London: Sage.

Carrabine, E. (2011) ‘Telling Prison Stories: The Spectacle of Punishment and the Criminological Imagination’, in Cheliotis, L. (ed.) The Arts of Imprisonment: Essays on Control, Resistance and Empowerment. (Ashgate)

Carrabine, E. (2010) 'Imagining Prison: Culture, History, Space', in Prison Service Journal, No. 187, Jan. pp.15-22.  The paper can be accessed at: http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/assets/documents/100049A3psj_187_jan_2010_3_imagining_prison.pdf

Carrabine, E. (2007) ‘Popular Music’ in Edwards, T. (ed.) Cultural Theory (Sage).

Carrabine, E., (2006) ‘Punishment, Rights and Justice’ in Morris, L. (ed.) Rights: Sociological Perspectives (Routledge).

Carrabine, E., (2005) ‘Prison Riots, Social Order and the Problem of Legitimacy’ in British Journal of Criminology, 45:6, pp.896-913.

Carrabine, E. and B. Longhurst (2002) ‘Consuming the Car: Anticipation, Use and Meaning in contemporary youth culture’, in Sociological Review, 50:2, pp. 181-197.

Bosworth, M and E. Carrabine (2001) ‘Reassessing Resistance: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Prison’ in Punishment and Society, 3:4,pp.501-515.
Reprinted in Britton, D. (ed.) (2005) Gender and Prison, Dartmouth: Ashgate.

Carrabine, E., M. Lee and N. South (2000) ‘Social Wrongs and Human Rights: Some Recent Causes for Concern in Britain’ in Social Justice, 27:2, pp. 193-211.

Carrabine, E., (2000) ‘Discourse, Governmentality and Translation: Toward a Social Theory of Imprisonment’ in Theoretical Criminology, 4:38, pp. 309-331.

Carrabine, E. and B. Longhurst (2000) ‘What Difference does a Course Make? Music, Education and Everyday Life’ in Journal of Popular Music Studies, 1997-1998, 9-10 pp. 79-91.

Carrabine, E. and B. Longhurst (1999) ‘Mosaics of Omnivorousness: Suburban Youth and Popular Music’, in New Formations, 38 pp.125-140.

Carrabine, E. and B. Longhurst (1998) ‘Gender and Prison Organisation: Some Comments on Masculinities and Prison Management’, in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 37:2 pp.161-176.
Reprinted in Britton, D. (ed.) (2005) Gender and Prison, Dartmouth: Ashgate.

Some recent ones include:

Carrabine, E. 'Seeing Things: Violence, Voyeurism and the Camera'. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology conference, November 2012, Chicago.

Carrabine, E. 'Seeing Things: Violence, Voyeurism and the Camera'. Invited to give a seminar at All Souls Criminology Seminar Series, University of Oxford, October 2012.

Carrabine, E. 'Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology'. Invited to give seminar at the Department of Sociology, City University, London, November 2011.

Carrabine, E. 'The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty'.  Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology conference, November 2011, Washington, DC.

Carrabine, E. 'Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology'.  Invited to give seminar at the Department of Sociology, University of Southampton, November 2010.

Carrabine, E. 'Deviance, Transgression and Sociology.' Paper presented to Why the Mainstream Needs its Margins: The Function of the Marginalised in Psyche and Society, November 2010 at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies Annual Conference, University of Essex.

Carrabine, E. 'Crime, Criminology and Social Theory'.  Paper presented at the British Society of Criminology conference, July 2010, University of Leicester.

Carrabine, E. 'The Iconography of Punishment: Penal Landscapes and the Suffering of Others'.  Invited to present at an international workshop on Gender, Geography and Punishment in Comparative Perspective, at the University of Oxford, June 2010. A podcast is available at:

http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/events/100622/ecarrabine.mp3?CAMEFROM=podcastsGET

Carrabine, E. and C. Rogers 'Prisoners with Intellectual Disabilities: Citizenship, Justice and Rights', Paper presented at the Human Rights and Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Conference, April 2010, Niagara Falls, Canada.

Carrabine, E. ‘The Moral Significance of the Media: For an Ethics of Representation’. Paper presented at the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, August 2009, University of Central Lancashire.

Carrabine, E. ‘Crime, Culture and the Media’. Invited to give seminar at the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, October 2008.

Carrabine, E. ‘Images of Torture: Culture, Politics and Power’. Invited to give paper at a research symposium on Representing the Social: Visual Methodologies, Ethics and Politics, University of Essex, May 2008.

Carrabine, E. ‘Youth Justice in the UK’. Invited to give paper at the UKIERI Child Rights Conference, University of Essex, April 2008.

Carrabine, E. ‘Crime and the Media: Cultural Politics, Textual Poetics and the Criminological Imagination’. Invited to give seminar at Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, November 2007.

Invited to give the opening address at ‘The Banality of Good: Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: An International Interdisciplinary Symposium’ at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge in April 2007.