Professor of Criminology

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5705 
• Email: yj25@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 2.07a second floor, 152 Upper New Walk
• Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Yvonne Jewkes, (BA Hons), MA (Leicester), PhD (Cantab) was appointed Professor of Criminology in November 2007. Prior to this she was Reader in Criminology at the Open University. Her research interests lie in two broad areas. First, she is interested in the intersections between crime, media and culture. Most recently this has involved researching the role of popular news media discourses as sites of social inclusion and exclusion, and the importance of visual images as a sensory expression of cultural meaning. Past research has embraced cultural criminology, cybercrime and cyber-deviance, and the problems associated with policing the Internet. Yvonne is Founding Editor (with Chris Greer and Jeff Ferrell) of Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal and is also on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology. She is author of the best-selling Media and Crime, now in its second edition (Sage, 2004/2011). Her other main area of interest and expertise is prisons and the sociology of imprisonment, especially prison architecture, design and technology, and prison culture, including social networks, constructions of masculine identities and flows of power in prisons. She has recently guest edited (with Ben Crewe) a special issue of Punishment & Society on 'The Pains of Imprisonment Revisited' December 2011 Vol 13(5) and a special issue of Prison Service Journal on the theme of 'Prison Space' 2010 Vol 187.

Research Interests

Yvonne’s main current research interest is the impact of architecture, design and technology on the lives of the prisoners and staff who occupy carceral spaces; and the potential role of computer mediated technologies on the everyday lives and future prospects of prisoners. A theme which underpins much of her work is that of self and identity: how masculinity is 'performed' in men’s prisons; how lifers manage their identity through a disrupted lifecourse; how new communication technologies permit individuals to create, transform, play with, or steal identities, etc.

PhD Supervision

Professor Jewkes would be interested in supervising PhD study in the following areas:

• Prison architecture and design
• The sociology of imprisonment
• Crime, media and culture
• Constructions of masculinities, identity and self

Teaching

• Media and Crime (Postgraduate optional module)
• Prisons, Probation and and Punishment (Undergraduate year 2 core module)

Administrative Responsibilities

• Director of Research
• Member of Management Group
• Member of Marketing Committee
• Member of Faculty Research Committee
• MSc Applied Criminology Placement Co-ordinator

Recent Publications

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Autoethnography and emotion as intellectual resources: doing prison research differently', Qualitative Inquiry 18 (1): 63-75

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Penal Aesthetics and the Pains of Imprisonment' in J. Simon, N. Temple and R. Tobe (eds.) Architecture and Justice, Ashgate

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Penal Aesthetics and the Art of Prison Architecture', in L. Cheliotis (ed.) The Arts of Imprisonment: Essays on Control, Resistance and Empowerment, Aldershot: Ashgate

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Identity and adaptation in prison' in B. Crewe and J. Bennett (eds.) The Prisoner, Cullompton: Willan

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Online Child Pornography, Paedophilia and the Sexualised Child: mediated myths and moral panics' in E. Quayle and K. Ribisl (eds.) Internet Child Pornography, Routledge

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Reflections on "The Media and the Message"', Prison Service Journal Vol 200: 20-25

Jewkes, Y. (2012) 'Penal Hell-Holes and Dante's Inferno', Prison Service Journal Vol 199: 40-44

Ayres, T. and Jewkes, Y. (in press) The Haunting Spectacle of Crystal meth: A Media Created Mythology?, Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal

Jewkes, Y. and Wykes, M. (in press) 'Reconstructing the sexual abuse of children: "cyber-paeds", panic and power', Sexualities

Jewkes, Y. and Leukfeldt, R. (in press) 'Policing Cyber Crime' in R. Leukfeldt and W. Stol (eds.) Cyber Safety: an Introduction, Eleven Publishing

Full listing of publications