Dr Anna Di Ronco
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872115
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Location
6.351, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Centre for Criminology Deputy Director Sociology Department Event Coordinator Member of the Human Rights Centre Anna is a senior lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Deputy Director for the Centre for Criminology. She has joined the Department of Sociology in September 2016, after working at the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law of Ghent University (Belgium), where she completed her PhD in Criminology. Before starting her PhD, she completed a five-years degree in law at the University of Trento (Italy). Anna’s research focuses on urban and digital criminologies, and on social harm in non-science-based health practices. Within the first two areas, her main research interests cover the penalisation of incivilities in urban settings, and individuals' resistance to social control both on-the-ground and online. She has published her research extensively in all these areas in internationally peer-reviewed journals, including The European Journal of Criminology, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Crime, Law & Social Change, Crime, Media & Culture, and The International Journal of Crime, Law and Justice. Anna has also co-authored one of the UK's best selling criminology textbooks (Criminology: A Sociological Introduction) with a team of colleagues from the Centre for Criminology and has co-edited a book on medical misinformation and social harm in non-science based health practices (both to be published in late 2019). Anna has given numerous presentations and papers at conferences in the UK and abroad, and has also been invited to give guest talks in many universities, including UNICAMP (Brazil), the University of Sassari (Italy), BGU (Israel), and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY, US). In 2019, she visited the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (VUB, Belgium) as a visiting research fellow. Her two more recent research projects focus on the local regulation of prostitution in European cities and their effects on sex workers (funder: The Sociological Review Foundation), and on the role of social media in supporting otherwise criminalised or silenced environmental activism (funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Trust).
Qualifications
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Ph.D. in Criminology (Ghent University, Belgium)
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LLM (University of Trento, Italy)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Personal Tutor, Sociology, University of Essex (1/9/2017 - 31/8/2018)
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Event Co-ordinator, Sociology, University of Essex (1/8/2018 - present)
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminology @UoECrim, Sociology, University of Essex (1/9/2018 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Regulation and social control of uncivil behaviour
Criminalisation of sex work
Urban policing
Criminalisation of environmental protest
Non-science-based medical practices and their social harm
Conferences and presentations
Invited talk at the University of Trento (Italy)
Trento, Italy, 18/10/2019
Medical misinformation and social harm in non-science-based health practices
EUROCRIM 2019, Ghent 18-21 September 2019, Ghent, Belgium, 20/9/2019
Representations of environmental protest online and offline
EUROCRIM 2019, 18-21 September 2019, Ghent, Belgium, 19/9/2019
Representations of environmental protest online and offline
RESISTING STATE-CORPORATE HARMS IN TIMES OF REPRESSION TOWARDS A THEORY OF INSURRECTION, Barcelona 4-6 September 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 6/9/2019
Law in action: local-level and collaborative governance of prostitution in two European cities
The International Workshop ‘The Police and Sex Work: then and now’ (Berlin, 13-14 August 2019), Berlin, Germany, 14/8/2019
Invited talk
- Workshop on Migration, Trafficking, sex Work and the Law, Pagù (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, 1-5 July 2019, Campinas, Brazil, 2/7/2019
Law in action: local-level and collaborative governance of prostitution in two European cities
Annual Meeting on Law and Society (Washington DC, May 30 - June 2, 2019), Washington D.C., United States, 31/5/2019
Invited talk at The Research Group Crime and Society (CRiS) (VUB), 28th February 2019
Brussels, Belgium, 28/2/2019
Invited talk at the
Centre of Expertise Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA) (VUB), 25th February2019, Brussels, Belgium, 25/2/2019
The Representation of environmental protest online and offline: The case of the TAP pipeline
Invited presentation, Invited talk at the Centre for Environment and Society (CES), 7/11/2018
Activism against medicine on social media: untangling the #novax protest on Twitter
18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 31/8/2018
Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter: The case of the TAP pipeline in Italy
Global Issues, Cultural Perspectives, Utrecht, Netherlands, 29/6/2018
Invited talk at the University of Sassari (Italy)
Invited presentation, research seminar, Sassari, Italy, 16/5/2018
Invited talk at BGU
Invited presentation, Research seminars, Beersheba, Israel, 20/12/2017
Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter: The case of the TAP pipeline in Italy
Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 18/9/2017
Invited talk at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Invited presentation, 11/9/2017
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Sociology of Crime and Control (SC204)
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Crime, Media and Culture (SC306)
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Formative Debates in Criminology (SC555)
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PhD Colloquium 1: Defining Your Research (SC800)
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Globalisation and Crime (SC304)
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Sociology - Research (SC999)
Publications
Journal articles (12)
Di Ronco, A., Law in Action: Local-level prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers. European Journal of Criminology
Di Ronco, A., Allen-Robertson, J. and South, N., (2019). Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter: The case of the TAP pipeline. Crime, Media, Culture. 15 (1), 143-168
Di Ronco, A. and Lavorgna, A., (2018). Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press. Trends in Organized Crime. 21 (1), 1-23
Di Ronco, A., (2018). Disorderly or simply ugly? Representations of the local regulation of street prostitution in the Italian press and their policy implications. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. 52, 10-22
Persak, N. and Di Ronco, A., (2018). Urban space and the social control of incivilities: perceptions of space influencing the regulationof anti-social behaviour. Crime, Law and Social Change. 69 (3), 329-347
Lavorgna, A. and Di Ronco, A., (2018). Media representations of complementary and alternative medicine in the Italian press: a criminological perspective. European Journal of Criminology. 15 (4), 421-441
Di Ronco, A., (2017). La estrategia europea de la prevención de la delincuencia a través del incivismo a examen [Inspecting the European crime prevention strategy towards incivilities]. InDret. 2017 (4)
Di Ronco, A., (2016). Media representation of regulated incivilities: Relevant actors, problems, solutions and the role played by experts in the Flemish press. Criminology and Criminal Justice. 16 (5), 585-601
Di Ronco, A., (2016). Public drunkenness as a nuisance in Ghent (Belgium) and Trento (Italy). Crime, Law and Social Change. 66 (1), 59-81
Di Ronco, A., (2016). Inspecting the European crime prevention strategy towards incivilities. Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 18 (2), 141-160
Di Ronco, A. and Lavorgna, A., (2015). Fair play? Not so much: Corruption in the Italian football. Trends in Organized Crime. 18 (3), 176-195
Di Ronco, A. and Peršak, N., (2014). Regulation of incivilities in the UK, Italy and Belgium: Courts as potential safeguards against legislative vagueness and excessive use of penalising powers?. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. 42 (4), 340-365
Books (1)
Lavorgna, A. and Ronco, AD., (2019). Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-science Based Health Practices A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Routledge. 1138388661. 9781138388666
Book chapters (5)
Di Ronco, A. and Lavorgna, A., (2019). Constructing migrants as crime and public order problems: comparing local press representations in two Italian cities. In: Constructing and Organising Crime in Europe. Eleven Publishing. 978-94-6236-955-9
Di Ronco, A. and Sergi, A., (2019). From harmless incivilities to not-so serious organised crime activities: The expanded realm of European crime prevention and some suggestions on how to limit it. In: Constructing and Organising Crime in Europe. Eleven International Publishing. 978-94-6236-955-9
Di Ronco, A. and Allen-Robertson, J., (2019). Activism against medicine on social media: untangling the #novax protest in Italy on Twitter. In: Medical Misinformation and Social harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Editors: Lavorgna, A. and Di Ronco, A., . Routledge. 9781138388666
Lavorgna, A. and Di Ronco, A., (2017). Fraud victims or unwary accomplices? An exploratory study of online communities supporting quack medicine.. In: The many faces of crime for profit and ways of tackling it. Editors: van Duyne, PC., Harvey, J., Antonopoulos, GA. and von Lampe, K., . Wolf Legal Publishers. 9789462404366
Persak, N., (2016). Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities. In: Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities. Routledge. 108- 124. 9781138951549
Conferences (1)
Di Ronco, A. and Allen-Robertson, J., Activism against medicine on social media: untangling the #novax protest in Italy on Twitter
Other (1)
Di Ronco, A., Law in action: local-level and collaborative governance of prostitution in two European cities - Antwerp (Belgium) and Catania (Italy)
Grants and funding
2020
ContraST: Roundtable on governing sex work and �human trafficking� in European cities
University of Essex
2018
Law in action: local-level and collaborative governance of prostitution in two European cities
The Sociological Review
The representation of environmental protest Online and Offline
British Academy