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Criminology
Parent category: Social sciences
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Professor Simon Hackett
Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences
Principal, St Mary's College
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Specialist expertise:
- Adoption and parenting
- Child abuse and child protection
- Child development and welfare
- International social work
- Interpersonal violence
- Sex offenders
- Youth crime and juvenile offenders
Dr Christopher Lawless
Lecturer, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: 0191 334 1506
Specialist expertise:
- Forensic science
- Scientific evidence and law
- Technological risk regulation
Prof David S. Wall
Professor of Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46840
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46840
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Home telephone: +44 (0)1904 656716
Specialist expertise:
- Crime and Technology
Dr Nicole Westmarland
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46833
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 46833
Mobile telephone: 07932 604722
Specialist expertise:
- Violence against women, in particular rape, domestic violence, prostitution.