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Dr Stephanie Brown

Lecturer in Criminology

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Criminology, Sociology and Policing

Qualifications

  • MPhil (University of Cambridge)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Cambridge)

Summary

Stephanie is Lecturer in Criminology. Before joining Hull, she was a Fellow in Criminology and co-led of the Violence and Social Justice Research at the University of Warwick. She won an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, which was held at the University of Cambridge (2022-23). She was also awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of London (2021-22).

Histories of Punishment (L6)

Global Insecurities (L5)

Global Issues in Criminal Justice (L7)

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

No explanation needed: Gendered narratives of violent crime

Brown, S. E. (2023). No explanation needed: Gendered narratives of violent crime. In S. Banwel, L. Black, D. K. Cecil, Y. K. Djamba, S. R. Kimuna, E. Milne, L. Seal, & E. Y. Tenkorang (Eds.), The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Acts of Violence (19-32). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231002

'Completely Innocent or Wholly Culpable' Judicial Outcomes of Women Tried for Homicide in Pre-Modern England

Brown, S. (2022). ‘Completely Innocent or Wholly Culpable’ Judicial Outcomes of Women Tried for Homicide in Pre-Modern England. In I. Masson, & N. Booth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202295-4

The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900.

Brown, S. (2020). The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900. In P. Low, H. Joan Rutherford, & C. Sandford-Couch (Eds.), Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429318832-12

Journal Article

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–1500

Brown, S. (online). Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–1500. The Economic history review, https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13409

Thesis

Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85

Brown, S. (2022). Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85. (Thesis). University of Cambridge. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4920031

Research interests

Stephanie is a historical criminologist with interests in the history of crime, punishment, and policing. Her research lies at the intersection of the histories of violence, gender, and community in England and Wales. Stephanie's work tackles the question of how prosecution is shaped by social ideas about violence, gender, ethnicity, and class. She is interested in changes and continuities in the law, punishment, and the wider criminal justice system.

Stephanie's period of expertise is 1350-1900, however she is more than happy to supervise dissertations on twentieth-century or contemporary criminology projects that overlap with her wider research interests. Her wider research interests include legal and social conceptions of violence, the socio-economic backgrounds of criminals and victims, the construction (and deconstruction) of criminality, media narratives on crime, public perceptions on crime and criminal justice, and critical criminology. 

Her forthcoming monograph Murder and Mercy: Homicide and capital punishment in nineteenth-century Wales argues that not everyone had an equal chance at mercy. It examines the attitudes towards murder, murderers, and victims and assess how these views were modified by concepts of gender, race and nationality, and the growing concerns surrounding a criminal class.

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

From Criminal Justice to Public Health

Funder

00 100% DA/DI (0% overhead; 0% inflation)

Grant

£750.00

Started

1 November 2024

Status

Ongoing

Postgraduate supervision

Happy to support PhDs in the broad areas of:-

historical criminology

critical criminology

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