Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5706
• Email: nac5@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 2.03 2nd floor, 154 Upper New Walk
• Office Hours: Wednesday 9:30 - 11:30 

Biography

Having graduated from the University of Birmingham with an undergraduate degree in Law, Neil completed his postgraduate qualifications here at the Department of Criminology, graduating with an MA in Criminology in 1999 and a PhD in Criminology in 2007. He has worked at the Department since 1999, during which time he has conducted research on behalf of the British Oil Security Syndicate and the Dixons group to investigate issues of retail security; the Charlton Athletic Race Equality (CARE) Partnership to analyse the development of its anti-racist initiatives; and Greater Manchester Police to evaluate the effectiveness of their diversity training programme.

Since then, Neil has conducted a series of research studies commissioned by public authorities across three English counties designed to assess the problem of rural racism and minority ethnic households’ experiences of racist victimisation and criminal justice responses. His other funded research projects include a systematic review of policing gang violence; an analysis of police engagement strategies used to promote dialogue with faith communities; and an evaluation of public authority responses to targeted violence and harassment undertaken on behalf of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. He is currently conducting research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that has been designed to gain insights into experiences of targeted victimisation and expectations of criminal justice responses to such victimisation. He has also been appointed as a Commissioner on an independent commission of inquiry into sex in prisons, established by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Neil sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Howard League for Penal Reform, having previously been a member of their Research Advisory Group, and is the lead organiser (with Jon Garland) of the Partnership Against Targeted Hate (PATH), a knowledge exchange partnership between the University of Leicester and regional criminal justice organisations.

Neil has published widely on issues of hate crime, victimisation and diversity. He is editor of Hate Crime: Concepts, Policy, Future Directions (Willan, 2010), author of Hate Crime: Impact, Causes and Responses (Sage, 2009, with Jon Garland), and editor of Rural Racism (Willan, 2004, also with Jon Garland).

Research Interests

Hate crime and targeted violence; vulnerability; identity and ‘difference’; victimisation; rural racism; policing diversity.

PhD Supervision

Dr Chakraborti would be interested in supervising PhD study in the following areas:

• Hate crime victimisation, perpetration or policy (in the context of either racist, religiously motivated, homophobic, transphobic or disablist hate crime)
• Violence, harassment or abuse directed towards people because of their ‘difference’, vulnerability or social disadvantage

Teaching

• Theories of Crime (Undergraduate year 1 core module)
• Policing (Undergraduate year 2 core module)
• Hate Crime (Undergraduate year 3 optional module)
• Working in Criminal Justice (Undergraduate year 2 optional module)

Administrative Responsibilities

• Chair of the Department’s Academic Committee
• Member of Management Group
• Member of the College of Social Sciences Academic Committee

Most Recent Publications

Chakraborti, N. and Zempi, I. (2012) 'The Veil under Attack: Gendered Dimensions of Islamophobic Victimisation' International Review of Victimology 18 (3)

Garland, J. and Chakraborti, N. (2012) 'Divided By a Common Concept? Assessing the Implications of Different Conceptualisations of Hate Crime in the European Union', European Journal of Criminology, 9 (1).

Chakraborti, N. (ed.) (2011) 'Hate Crime Victimisation', International Review of Victimology, 12 (1): 1-4.

Full listing of publications