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Dr Vici Armitage

Research Associate in the School of Applied Social Sciences

(email at v.j.armitage@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Vici first joined Durham University’s School of Applied Social Sciences in 2007 after being awarded a Durham Doctoral Fellowship to complete doctoral research exploring young people’s experiences and conceptions of anti-social behaviour.  Vici’s background is in criminology, she holds a BA (2004) and MA (2006) in criminology from the University of Hull.  Her research interests are broadly around young people and deviance, with particular reference to the social and historical changes in the construction of young people as ‘deviant’.

During her PhD Vici taught at Durham University and lectured in criminology at the University of Hull in 2010-11.  Outside of academia she has worked in a variety of posts in the civil service, health care, police, and charitable organisations. Vici is committed to understanding and helping young people and is involved with youth work in her community, sitting on a youth club management committee and holding a voluntary youth worker position.

Vici was awarded her PhD in early 2012 and is currently working as a Research Associate and Project Coordinator on the ESRC project ‘Implementing Youth Justice Policy’ with Prof. Jo Phoenix and Dr. Laura Kelly. 

Research Interests

  • Youth (crime and deviance, justice, transitions)
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • Labelling and stigma
  • Liminality
  • The history and social construction of deviance

Thesis: PhD

Armitage, V. (2012) The Inbetweeners: Young people making sense of youth anti-social behaviour.  Durham University, PhD.

Research Groups

School of Applied Social Sciences

Research Projects

School of Applied Social Sciences

Publications

Conference papers

  • Armitage, V. (2011), "It’s like my auntie says, they have to remember that they were young once": Anti-social behaviour, youth and 'growing up', Economies and Insecurities of Crime and Justice, British Society of Criminology Annual conference, 3-6 July 2011. Northumbria University, Newcastle, England.
  • Armitage, V. (2010), "Anti-social behaviour, all chavs innit?": Young people’s collective responses to an anti-social label, Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Dilemmas and Diversity in Criminology, British Society of Criminology Annual conference (postgraduate section), 11-14 July 2010. University of Leicester, Leicester, England.
  • Armitage, V. (2010), "I was anti-social that night.but it’s not like me": Young people and negotiating anti-social identities, Youth 2010: Identities, Transitions and Cultures, 5-7 July 2010. University of Surrey, Surrey, England.

Journal papers: academic

  • Armitage, V. (Planned). "It's just part of growing up": youth conceptualisations of anti-social behaviour as a characteristic of liminal youth.
  • Armitage, V. (Planned). Making sense of 'being anti-social': young people's negotiation of an anti-social identity.