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Dr Jo Phoenix, B.Sc., M.Sc, PhD

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41486

(email at jo.phoenix@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

I joined the School in June 2007. Previously I held posts at the University of Bath and Middlesex University. I have two main research interests: youth justice and sex and regulation – espeically in relation to prostitution. At the empirical level, the bulk of my work in both these areas examines not just the policies, but how professionals put them into practice, how agencies working with young lawbreakers and/or sex workers make sense of professional context and how sex workers and/or young lawbreakers experience the policies and professional interventions to which they are subject. At the theoretical level, my research explores questions of regulation, governance and social control in the area of youth justice and prostitution. I have held a number ESRC and Nuffield Foundation grants on prostitution and have written extensively on various prostitution policy innovations and reforms. I have also held a large ESRC examining concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘need’ in decision-making in youth justice. I am on the Editorial Board of two major journals: the British Journal of Criminology (for which I am the Book Review Editor) and Youth Justice. I am also on the Chair of the Regional Groups and Specialist Network on the Executive Committee for the British Society of Criminology as well as on the Steering Group for the Youth Justice Youth Criminology Specialist Network.

Selected Publications

Books: authored

  • Phoenix, J. & Oerton, S. 2005. Illicit and Illegal: Sex, Regulation and Social Control. Collumpton, Devon: Willan Publishing. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Phoenix, J. 2001. Making Sense of Prostitution. London: Palgrave.

Books: edited

  • Phoenix, J. 2009. Regulating Sex for Sale: Prostituion, Policy Reform and the UK. Bristol: Policy Press.

Books: sections

  • Phoenix, J. 2009. Beyond Risk Assessment: The Return of Repressive Welfarism. In Youth Offending and Youth Justice (Research Highlights in Social Work). McNeil, F. & Barry, M. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  • Phoenix, J. 2009. Frameworks for Understanding. In Regulating Sex for Sale: Prostitution, policy reform and the UK. Phoenix, J. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Phoenix, J. 2009. Whose Account Counts? Politics and Research in Youth Justice. In Youth Justice: Research, Theory and Policy. Taylor, W. & Earle, R. Collumpton, Devon: Willan Publishing.
  • Phoenix, J. 2008. Reinventing the Wheel: Contemporary Contours of Prostitution Regulation. In Sex as Crime. Letherby, G., Williams, J., Birch, P. & Cain, M. Collumpton, Devon: Willan Publishing.
  • Phoenix, J. 2008. Shifting Offical Discourses: Prostitution, Economic Exploitation and Male Violence. In Demanding Sex: Crtical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution. Munro, F. & Della Guista, M. London: Ashgate.
  • Phoenix, J. 2006. Regulating Prostitution; Controlling Women's Lives. In Gender and Justice: New Concepts and Approaches. Heidensohn, F. Collumpton, Devon: Willan Publishing. 76-95. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Phoenix, J. 2002. Youth Prostitution Policy Reform: New Discosurses, Same Old Story. In Women and Punishment: A Struggle for Justice. Carlen, P. Collumpton, Devon: Willan Publishing.

Journal papers: academic

  • Phoenix, J. 2008. Governing Prostitution: New Formulations, Old Agendas. The Canadian Journal of Law and Society: Special Edition on Urban Governance and Legality from Below 22(22): XX-XX.
  • Phoenix, J. 2007. Community Safety and Prostitution Policy Reform: The Price Women and Children Pay. Community Safety Journal 6(1).
  • Phoenix, J. 2003. Rethinking Youth Prostitution: National Provision at the Margins of Child Protection and Youth Justice. Youth Justice 3(3): 152-168. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Phoenix, J. 2002. In the Name of Protection: Youth Prostitution Policy Reforms in England and Wales. Critical Social Policy 22(2): 353-375. (Additional information) (View publication online)

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Research Groups

Teaching Areas

  • Criminological Theory
  • Sociology of Punishment

Supervises

Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

  • Criminology: Youth Justice generally and specifically the delivery of youth justice in the UK
  • Criminology: Prostitution and prostitution policy

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