Eamonn Carrabine

BA (Hull) MSc PhD (Salford)

Undergraduate Director, Department of Sociology

Eamonn Carrabine joined the department in 1998 and has published broadly in criminology and sociology. Eamonn was elected on to the editorial board of Sociology (2004-06) and currently serves on the British Journal of Criminology (2009 -). He is also the book reviews editor on Theoretical Criminology (2007 -) and external examiner for the degree programmes at Goldsmiths College, University of London (Sociology), and Roehampton University (Criminology).

He is 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 Eamonn is 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, and along with colleagues in the Department of Sociology here at Essex, Eamonn is producing an edited work provisionally entitled Criminology: A Sociological Reader. This collection is intended as a companion volume to our textbook Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, and brings together some of the key articles in the field (some well known, others less so), which will also be a valuable reference work for research students and lecturers.

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