Current Research Students

These students are currently undertaking DPhils at the Centre of Criminology.

Reem Abdalla, DPhil Criminology -  Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth 

Thesis: Criminology, "Exploring Increased Border Securitization and Detention Centre Expansion in East Africa: A Case Study of the Khartoum Process"

Anu Adebogun, DPhil Criminology -  Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Thesis: Violence, Socio-spirituality and the Non-Ideal Victim: Exploring How Black Women of Faith Define, Negotiate and Access Justice

Kauther Alhusainy, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Dr Leila Ullrich

Thesis: Citizenship Stripping Trials and the use of International Minority Rights in British and German Domestic Courts

Sara Almohamadi, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Dr Leila Ullrich

Thesis: Injecting an Economic Logic into a Shari'a Based Legal System: policing morality through penalties

Jennifer Aronson, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Judicial Gatekeeping: Junk Science Admissibility in American Criminal Courts

Aimee Clesi, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: A Comparative Exploration of Judicial and Legislative Paths to Death Penalty Abolition in the United States

Amanda Clift-Matthews, DPhil Criminology (Part-time) - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: An exploration of the presumption of innocence in capital drug trafficking cases in Singapore

Etiene Coelho Martins, DPhil Criminology (Part-time) - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Thesis: Field:Crime and the family. Title: Adolescent-to-parent abuse:investigating family experiences and criminal justice practices in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luiz Dal Santo,  DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader

Thesis: Mass incarceration at Global Periphery

Bill De la Rosa, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth 

Thesis: Penal Power, Immigration Enforcement, and Noncitizens

Sophie Evekink, DPhil Criminology (Part-time) - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: Seeking 'Justice' for Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Aubrey Favors, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth and Dr Hindpal Singh Bhui

Thesis: Racialised Expectations: How Race Impacts the Experiences and Conduct of Black and Minority Ethnic Prison Officers

Lauren Fox, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth 

Thesis: Invisibility, Narratives, and Disbelief:Understanding the Relationship Between Legal Frameworks and the Life Stories of Women in Immigration Detention

Gonzalo Garcia-Campo, DPhil Criminology  - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader 

Thesis: In defence of a Democratic Governance of police

Matthew Goldberg, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: Abolition of the Death Penalty in a Digital Landscape: Civil Society Organisations and the United Nations

Tarik Gungor, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Lucia Zedner 

Thesis: An analysis of crime and its justification

Laura Haas, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Katrin Mueller-Johnson

Thesis: Moving away from a focus on discipline and power - An exploration of the effects of military service and PTSD as a result from war on prison officers

Frankco Harris, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Thesis: Intergenerational Experiences of Gang and Youth Violence in Bermuda

Ben Hodgson, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader

Thesis: Breaking the Social Contract: Crime, Disenfranchisement and Citizenship in Liberal Ideologies.

Rashid Ismail, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: The Effectivness of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism in Restricting the Inpostition of the Death Penalty

Zarek Khan, DPhil Criminology (Part-time) - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth 

An English longitudinal study of men's and women's experiences of imprisonment and their resettlement into society

Adam Kluge, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Thesis: Carceral Communities: Serious Offenders, Secondary Stigmatisation, and Collateral Harms of Imprisonment

Elizabeth Kullmann, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth and Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: Penal Power and Bordered Identity in England and Wales: Polish Prisoner Perspectives.

Maya Lahav, DPhil Criminology (Part-Time) - Supervised by Katrin Mueller-Johnson

Thesis: The Nexus Between Trafficking & Technology

Claudia McHardy, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth and Professor Lucia Zedner 

Thesis: Parole, Border Control, and Penal Innovation: New Zealand's Returning Offenders Act. 

Misha Mir, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader 

Thesis: Philosophy of punishment "Utopianising abolition - deconstructing the logics that prevent or permit the imagination of a world without punishment"

Naida Osei, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Dr Katrin Mueller-Johnson

Thesis: Police Perspectives on Sexual Violence Investigation

Marquis Palmer, DPhil Criminology (Part-Time) - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader 

Field: Urban Anthropology. Title: "Navigating Gun Violence: An Urban Ethnography of Black Mobility in a Contemporary Ghetto"

Camila Pelsinger, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader 

Theses: Redefining Public Safety through Participatory Budgeting

Arthur Rizer, DPhil Criminology (Part-Time) - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader 

Thesis: Watching the Watchmen: How Do the Police View their Monopoly of Violence Over the Protected and Served?

Emily Roper, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth

Thesis: Politics A collusion of silences: the role of the EU’s externalisation practices in border violence against migrants in Turkey

Nicholas Santis, DPhil Criminology (part time) - Supervised by Professor Julian Roberts 

Thesis: Judicial Criminology and the Practice of Punishment

Maria Serbanescu, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Human Trafficking in Romania and the Family: what is the impact of women's trafficking experiences on their family members and family relationships?

Serene Singh, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle 

Thesis: Cruel and Unusual? Female Death Row Inmates in the U.S.

Eva Maria Spiekermann, DPhil Criminology (part time) - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth 

Thesis: Exploring migrants' practices of resistance at border spaces in Europe

Amy Taylor, DPhil Criminology (part time) - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry and Professor Ian Loader 

Thesis: A new model for youth justice? Exploring the theoretical principles underpinning the latest round of reforms to the youth justice system

Vicky Taylor, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth  

Thesis: Asylum policy and borderwork in the English Channel: the case of ‘small boats'.

Leonie Thies, DPhil Criminology  - Supervised by Dr Katrin Mueller-Johnson

Thesis: The (De-) Construction of Victim Credibility in Sexualised Violence Cases - Institutional Ethnography in the German Criminal Justice System

Lucy Trafford, DPhil Criminology  - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Thesis: How do Police Officers work with and respond to the gender dynamics of male and female intimate partner violence perpetration?

María Jesús Valenzuela Suárez, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Ian Loader

Thesis: Comparative effects of body-worn cameras on abusive or unreasonable use-of-force within different policing approaches in Chile, Latin America

Iulia-Cristiana Vatau, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Rachel Condry

Thesis: Therapeutic Justice in Juvenile Drug Courts: Challenging Non-Adversarialism with Insights from Participants in the United States and Chile

Elspeth Windsor, DPhil Criminology - Supervised by Professor Mary Bosworth and Professor Lucia Zedner

Thesis: The Rule of Law vs the Rule of Politics: a Comparative Study of Due Process Safeguards in Court and Tribunal Removal Proceedings.