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
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Academic support hours
Tuesdays, 11:00-13:00
Profile
Biography
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 regulation, representation and enforcement of incivilities in the urban space, and individuals’ and groups’ resistance to social control in the physical and digital space. 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
Street sex work
Urban policing
Media representations
Crime prevention and security measures
Economic organised crime, Corruption
Conferences and presentations
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)
Publications
Journal articles (11)
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
Book chapters (5)
Di Ronco, A. and Allen-Robertson, J., 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
Di Ronco, A. and Lavorgna, A., (2019). Constructing migrants as crime and public order problems: comparing local press representations in two Italian cities. In: Combatting Cross-border Crime in East- and West-Europe Borders. Eleven Publishing
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. Eleven International Publishing
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
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
Contact
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Tuesdays, 11:00-13:00