Visiting Fellows 2011-12

Prof Katja Franko Aas, Professor, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo (29 September 2011 - 13 May 2012)

Katja Franko Aas is Professor of criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. She has written extensively on issues of globalization, security, border control, surveillance and uses of information and communication technologies in contemporary penal systems. Her recent publications include Technologies of Insecurity (co-edited with H.M. Lomell and H. O. Gundhus, Routledge-Cavendish, 2009), Globalization and Crime (Sage, 2007), Sentencing in the Age of Information: from Faust to Macintosh (Routledge-Cavendish, 2005) and Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (co-edited with C. Baillet, Routledge, 2011). She is currently working on a project about the impact of immigration on criminal justice.

Dr Paul Knepper, Reader in Criminology, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield (1 October - 31 December 2011)

Paul Knepper (PhD Arizona State University) is Reader in Criminology, Department of Sociological Studies, at the University of Sheffield. He pursues historical criminology, theoretical criminology, and crime prevention. He has completed two books on the emergence of crime as an international issue ( The Invention of International Crime: A Global Issue in the Making, 1881-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) and International Crime in the Twentieth Century: The League of Nations Era, 1919-1939 (Palgrave Macmillan 2011)) and is working on a third, tentatively entitled International Crime Since 1945: Britain, America and the United Nations. He is also carrying out archival research, funded by Nuffield Foundation, concerning the League of Nations enquiry into traffic in women (1923-27), the first social-scientific study of a global crime problem.

Dr Richard L. Lippke, Senior Scholar, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, USA (1 September - 28 December 2011)

Richard Lippke is a Senior Scholar in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, USA. He is the author of three books: Radical Business Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), Rethinking Imprisonment (OUP 2007), and The Ethics of Plea Bargaining (OUP forthcoming). He has also published numerous articles on issues in the philosophy of criminal law and in applied ethics more generally. In addition to Indiana University, he has taught at James Madison University and DePauw University. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University. While at the Centre for Criminology, he will be working on projects in the areas of sentencing theory, criminal procedure, and prosecutorial ethics.

Prof Lisa L. Miller, Rutgers University, USA (1 September 2011 - 31 August 2012)

Lisa L. Miller is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her interests are at the intersection of law, constitutionalism, social policy and inequality, specifically the politics of race and criminal punishment. She has written extensively on American-style federalism and its implications for crime victimization, criminal punishment and inequality.  Her most recent book, The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty and the Politics of Crime Control (2008, Oxford University Press), explores the impact of U.S. federalism on the politics of crime and punishment and racial inequality.  She has also published in the Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Perspectives on Politics, Criminology, and Policy Studies Journal. She is currently working on a book examining the relationship between democratic politics, inequality and punishment in a comparative context.

Dr James Sheptycki, McLaughlin College, York University, Canada (Hilary Term 2012)

James Sheptycki is a Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published widely on criminological topics including organized crime, money laundering, transnational policing and comparative criminology. His abiding interest is in the philosophy of policing and he has published a number of articles and papers concerning the ‘constabulary ethic’. He is a commissioning editor for the Palgrave-MacMillan Series on Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security and is a member of the editorial boards of Policing and Society, Global Crime, and Cahiers Politiestudies.

His recently published work includes two books: Global Policing (co-authored with Ben Bowling) published by Sage in 2011 and, also in 2011, Transnational Crime and Policing; Selected Essays, for the Ashgate series Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology. In 2009 he co-edited a special issue of the journal Criminology and Criminal Justice with Adam Edwards on the theme of ‘Guns, Crime and Social Order’ (vol. 9 No. 3) and in 2007 he co-edited a book titled Crafting Transnational Policing, with Andrew Goldsmith (Oxford: Hart Publishing). In 2011 he published an essay titled ‘Existential Predicaments and Constabulary Ethics’ in a book titled Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments, edited by James Hardie-Bick and Ronnie Lippens (Palgrave MacMillan).

During his fellowship at Oxford he will be working on research concerning the intersection of intelligence-led policing and media-wise policing with reference to organised crime and problems of policing governance.

Links

Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security ; Policing and Society ; Global Crime ; Cahiers Politiestudies ; Global Policing ; Transnational Crime and Policing; Selected Essays ; Criminology and Criminal Justice ; Crafting Transnational Policing ; Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments

Malcolm Thorburn, Faculty of Law, Queen's Univesity, Canada (1 September 2011 - 31 August 2012)

Malcolm Thorburn holds the Canada Research Chair in Crime, Security and Constitutionalism at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada where he is an associate professor of law and a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre. He is an associate editor of the New Criminal Law Review and a member of the editorial board of Law and Philosophy.

Malcolm's writing focuses on theoretical issues in criminal law, criminal procedure and sentencing. His work has appeared in such publications as theYale Law Journal, theBoston University Law Review, theUniversity of Toronto Law Journal, Criminal Law and Philosophyand several books at Oxford University Press and Hart Publishing. He was a visiting fellow at the John Fleming Centre for the Advancement of Legal Research at the Australian National University in 2008, and at the Institut für Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtssoziologie, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität, Munich, Germany and the Centre des Etudes Sociologiques en Droit et Institutions Pénales(CESDIP) in Paris, France in 2011. Malcolm is also the Robert S. Campbell Visitor at Magdalen College, Oxford for the 2011-2012 academic year.

During his fellowship at Oxford, Malcolm will be working on a monograph on the liberal foundations of the state's power to enforce the criminal law.