Harry Annison
DPhil Criminology
Harry read Law at the University of Southampton, obtaining First Class Honours. He completed the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) at the Centre for Criminology in 2009, receiving the Willan Publishing Prize for Criminological Research. His MSc dissertation was entitled ‘Imprisonment for Public Protection: A Consideration of the Concept of Risk in an English Context’.
The recipient of an ESRC 1+3 Studentship, he began his DPhil in 2009 under the supervision of Professor Ian Loader. His thesis examines British penal politics in the early 21st century, using the Imprisonment for Public Protection provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 as his case study.
He served as Assistant Editor for the European Journal of Criminology from 2009 until 2011, has a range of teaching experiences and was a visiting academic at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) in Autumn 2011.
Publications
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Book Reviews
(2011) 'Book Review: Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State, J. Sim', Criminology and Criminal Justice, 11(3) 277-280
(2010) 'Book Review: Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm, T. Ward and S. Maruna', Howard Journal, 49(2) 193-195
Conference Papers
(2012) 'The People’s Politics? The Role of "Public Opinion" in the Creation of the IPP Sentence’. Political Studies Association Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
(2011) 'Imprisonment for Public Protection: Notes on an Interpretive Study of Risk and Politics', Institute for Criminology seminar series, University of Sydney, Australia.
(2011) 'Imprisonment for Public Protection: An English Instance of the New Punitiveness?' Criminal Justice Research Network seminar series, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
(2011) ‘Le risque, innovation conceptuelle et idéologie: étude de cas en Grande-Bretagne et en France’, Co-authored with Marion Grosini, doctoral student, Rouen University. Congrès Association Française de Sociologie.
Interests
Research: Penal politics; dangerousness; risk; interpretive political analysis; sentencing; constitutional law; desistance from crime
Other details
Correspondence address:
Green Templeton College
Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6HG
Link to Centre for Criminology web site
