Academic staff

Though we draw on a wide range of disciplines, our approach to criminology at Glasgow is rooted in and informed principally by sociological analyses of crime and punishment. We insist on interrogating the relationships between criminal and social justice and injustice.

In particular, our staff have expertise in:

• Young people, crime and youth justice (especially youth violence and gangs)
• Social and legal responses to gender-based violence
• Criminalisation and punishment of women
• Inequalities and intersectionality (including in relation to disability)
• Security studies, including policing and regulation
• Sentencing and the penal system, particularly imprisonment, parole and probation
• Desistance from crime, rehabilitation and reintegration
• Media, culture and representations of crime and punishment
• Criminological theory, including urban criminology, cultural criminology, critical criminology, digital criminology, sensory criminology, punishment and society studies, and feminist perspectives
• Creative and collaborative approaches to criminological research
• Illicit markets, including the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects