- Introduction
- Members
- Publications
- Police Research Unit (PRU)
- Power, Discourse & Harm Research Unit
- Research in Action
- PhD Students
- Contact
Introduction
There is a long tradition of criminological research at Edge Hill University going back over 30 years. In that time, Edge Hill criminologists have produced important and influential research, for instance on disasters, corporate and state harm, policing, and theoretical and philosophical criminology.
The Police Research Unit is a centre for research excellence in policing. Members of the PRU provide cutting edge independent research which aims to make evidence-based impacts on policy and practice at local, national and international levels.
The Department of Law and Criminology is also home for the Power, Discourse and Harm Research Unit which focuses on research on: state/corporate power; state/corporate discourse; zemiology (the study of harms); and agnotology (the study of the deliberate construction of social ignorance).
All other criminological research comes under the umbrella of the Criminology Research Group. Alongside policing and power discourse and harm, the members of the Criminology Research group specialise in research on:
- Children, Young People and Families
- Migration and Race
- Crime and Place
- Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
We welcome applications for undergraduate study in criminology or policing.
Members
Members
Publications
Publications
Publications from 2014 onwards
The full publications list is on the University Research Archive
Books
Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Conference Papers and other Invited Presentations
Earlier publications (2008-2013)
Books
Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Research Reports
Conference Papers and other Invited Presentations
Police Research Unit (PRU)
The Police Research Unit was launched in 2017 and is a centre for research excellence in policing. Members of the PRU provide cutting edge independent research which aims to make evidence-based impacts on policy and practice at local, national and international levels. The PRU also provides opportunities for BA(Hons) Policing students to engage in cutting edge research.
Members
Professor Andrew Millie (Director)
(0)1695 657202
Andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk
Dr Steven Hirschler
(0)1695 654208
steven.hirschler@edgehill.ac.uk
Andrew Whittle
(0)1695 657378
whittlea@edgehill.ac.uk
Lawrence Forrest
(0)1695 656376
Lawrence.Forrest@edgehill.ac.uk
Research Projects
Events
2016-2017
8 February 2017
I4P and Department of Law & Criminology Annual Policing Lecture
Policing Gender and Ethics: An Ethnographic View of Culture and Practice
Dr Louise Westmarland, The Open University
2015-2016
10 December 2015
I4P and Department of Law & Criminology Annual Policing Lecture
The Recent Politics of the Police: Re-Professionalisation and Regulation
Professor Simon Holdaway, University of Sheffield
Contact
The PRU welcomes proposals for study at MRes or PhD, as well as enquiries for collaborative ventures.
To contact the Police Research Unit, please email Professor Andrew Millie
Police Research Unit
Department of Law and Criminology
Edge Hill University
St Helens Road
Ormskirk, Lancashire
L39 4QP
United Kingdom
(0)1695 657202
Andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk
Power, Discourse & Harm Research Unit
Power, Discourse & Harm Research Unit
The Power, Discourse and Harm Research Unit was established in 2015 and provides a network for colleagues who are engaged in research around the inter-relationship between: state/corporate power and state/corporate discourse; and an examination of their impacts through the lenses of zemiology (study of social harms) and agnotology (deliberate construction of social ignorance). The focus of the Unit is ‘institutional power’, or to use David Whyte’s (2009) definition, the “form of power transmitted through state institutions and private business organisations or companies”.
Members
- Dr Alana Barton
- Dr Howard Davis
- Helen Elfleet
- Dr Helen Baker
- Dr Agnieszka Martynowicz
- Julie Davies
- Anita Hobson
- Dr Clare Kinsella
The work of the Unit relates directly to teaching on modules CRI1104 Generating Criminological Knowledge; CRI3105 Expanding the Criminological Imagination; and CRI3106 Crimes of the Powerful.
Recent publications and conference papers
Research in Action
Research in Action
Members of the Criminology Research Group and the Power, Discourse and Harm Research Unit are involved in important and innovative research on a range of topics. Summaries of some of their work are available here.
Power, Discourse & Harm Research Unit
Neo-liberalism and the criminological imagination
Disaster crime and crisis management
The prison and the public
Truth, justice and Hillsborough: A personal reflection
Policing Research
Re-imagining policing post-austerity
Reassurance policing
Police architecture
Children, Young People and Families
Parenting Orders and the criminalisation of parenting
Exploring the issue of parent abuse as a social problem
Crime and Place
Behavioural expectations and city living
Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
Philosophical criminology
New horizons in criminology
PhD Students
PhD Students
“Everyday morality and anti-social behaviour”
Supervisors: Professor Andrew Millie and Dr Leon Culbertson
Helen Elfleet (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
“The impact and experience of mental health problems on women in prison”
Supervisors: Dr Alana Barton, Dr Eleanor Peters and Professor Alyson Brown
dunbabinh@edgehill.ac.uk
Contact
Contact
Email Professor Andrew Millie (Convener of the Criminology Research Group)
Edge Hill University
Department of Law & Criminology
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP
United Kingdom
01695 657202