Ben Hartshorn BA (Hons),
PGCRM
Current roles
- Programme Leader: BA (Hons) Criminal Justice
Biography
I began my academic studies at The University of Hull where I
graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Sociology and
Anthropology and received the class prize for academic excellence
due to my interest and work on attempting to utilise Chaos Theory
to understand complex human behaviour. After completion, I received
a full scholarship from the European Social Fund to study research
methods at Nottingham Trent University and graduated with a
Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods. I then joined the Law
and Criminology team at The University Centre Doncaster as a
Graduate Teaching Assistant and also enrolled at the University of
Sheffield to pursue a Doctorate in Criminology. In September 2010 I
became a full time Lecturer and consequently became the Programme
Leader for the programme Criminal Justice BA (Hons).
Current modules taught
BA (Hons) Criminal Justice:
- Representing Crime
- Academic and Professional Development
- Criminology and the Explanation of Crime
- Dissertation
- Penology
- Policing and Crime Prevention
Research / scholarly activity
My teaching and research interests include social control
theory, criminological theory, the sociology of criminology,
representations of crime, chaos theory as a research method, the
criminalisation of ‘urban’ culture, the control of ‘problem’
populations, police culture, prison culture, revisionism, bias and
inequality in the penal system, crime prevention and community
safety, the ‘death’ of probation, issues in youth justice and the
politics of control.
External activity / professional links