Welcome to all

Hello! The Criminology staff team are really keen to welcome all our students to this new academic year. Whether you are a level zero, a first, second or third year student we are looking forward to meeting with you all at our induction events and across our modules. As well welcoming new students to UWE, since the …

What’s the connection between cuckoos and drug dealing?

When David Downes famously described criminology as a ‘rendezvous discipline’ he referred to the study of crime as a meeting place for areas of study including sociology, psychology, history and law. Ornithology, however, probably didn’t cross his mind. In a recently published paper, my co-authors and I have analysed a practice termed ‘cuckooing’. Mirroring the …

Summarising our Celebration

On the 19th February we celebrated a huge achievement; 10 years of Criminology at UWE, and we did so in style. We held the Capturing Crime event at The Arnolfini, to showcase the perspectives on crime, criminology and criminality from the point of view of students, and there was a massive turnout: a bunch of …

End It Now

The End It Now Campaign is a student led campaign at UWE, which focuses on eliminating sexual and domestic abuse and hate crime (islamophobia, homophobia, ableism, racism etc). The campaign works with students to make sure they feel safe and supported at UWE, as well as aiming to positively change social norms regarding these issues. …

Hello and Welcome Back!

Hello to new staff members Dr David Brewster and Dr Olivia Pearson who both join us from Cardiff University. David and Olivia will be teaching across the Criminology programme and  both can be found in 3L15C if you wish to drop in and say hello. Welcome back to you all. We hope that you are …

19/02/2016

I assume that by now you’ve had the chance to read about our Capturing Crime event from my previous blog post, and are here now for an update. If so, stay tuned. If not and you somehow stumbled across this page, but have no idea what I’m talking about, please click here  The Capturing Crime …

Join the Howard League Society!

It was only a few days ago that I floated the idea of a Howard League Student Society in front of a big Criminology student audience at UWE, and I am thrilled to share the news that UWE Criminology students are now setting up a Howard League Student Society. This is truly fantastic news for …

Stand Against Violence conference 2015

Stand Against Violence (SAV) is a specialist violence prevention charity that focuses on the reduction of interpersonal violence through research based primary prevention measures (http://standagainstviolence.co.uk/about-us/). On Friday 2nd October SAV held their first annual stand against violence conference organised by Adam Fouracre. Dr James Hoggett from UWE chaired the event at the Gloucestershire Cricket Ground. The …

New Staff

This year we are pleased to welcome several new members of staff to the Criminology Department. Dr Georgie Benford, who joins us from the University of Nottingham. Dr Anastasia Karamalidou, who joins us from Middlesex University and Dr Jane Nolan who joins us from Leeds Beckett.

Street Art Induction

Banksy’s Well hung lover, is the first piece of art UWE’s Year 1 Criminology and Sociology students saw on their Street Art tour of Bristol. The tours were hosted by departmental staff alongside local guides from Where the Wall, who celebrate and promote Bristol’s most famous cultural export; graffiti. Although Banksy, and his often humorous …