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Colleen Moore

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Senior Lecturer

Faculty:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
School:
Humanities and Social Sciences
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Criminology , Policing
Research Supervision:
Yes
Courses taught:

Colleen is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Policing whose current research interests are related to sexual violence, particularly victim/survivor perspectives and experiences.

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Background

After working as a researcher at Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology, Colleen joined ARU in 1999.

Colleen’s work is broadly concerned with ‘justice’, and how it is perceived by people who have diminutive voices in public debates and legal responses, particularly women and girls.

She is currently contributing to several active research projects, including Social Enterprise initiatives and Wartime crime in 2022-2023 Ukraine.

Colleen has taught on a variety of modules, and currently focuses her teaching in the areas of violence, sexual violence, the regulation of sex (prostitution, exploitation and pornography) and violence against women.

In addition, for her part in team-teaching, Colleen has been awarded two Vice Chancellor’s Awards, as well as an Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Award.

Research interests

  • Rape, sexual violence and sexual harassment
  • Violence against women in conflict zones
  • Justice
  • Violent victimisation
  • Feminist criminology

Most recently, Colleen’s research has involved exploring some of the ways in which women cope with the impact of sexual violence (especially those who do not officially report their experiences). Colleen is currently examining the contexts through which silence and articulating that which is 'unspeakable' is embedded into women's lives, narratives and sexual scripts.

Colleen’s previous research has examined the repositioning of victims into one of a deviant, even criminal actor, especially when morals and sexual conduct are scrutinized; sexual exploitation and trafficking. In addition, previous research has focused on the age of criminal responsibility; parole and the discretionary lifer process; young people and their treatment in the youth justice system; and community service evaluation.

Areas of research supervision

  • Rape and sexual victimisation
  • Violence against women and girls
  • 'Online Gender-Based Violence', PhD
  • 'Disconnects between policy and practice in addressing domestic abuse', PhD
  • 'Male prisoners’ attitudes towards women, and their perceptions of culpability from a Delhi prison', PhD successful completion, 2019
  • 'Honour-based violence in Ethnic Communities in England and Wales', PhD successful completion, 2018
  • 'Understanding violence In Pakistan', PhD, successful completion, 2017
  • 'What is the difference between Ecstasy and MDMA?' PhD, successful completion, 2016

Teaching

Colleen currently teaches on the following modules:

  • Making a Difference (Level 5)
  • Lessons Learned (Level 5)
  • Undergraduate Major Projects: Criminology and Policing

Qualifications

  • PGCE, Anglia Ruskin University 
  • MPhil Institute of Criminology, Cantab, University of Cambridge 
  • BA (Hons) Social Policy, Anglia Ruskin University

Memberships, editorial boards

  • British Society of Criminology
  • European Society of Criminology

Selected recent publications

Moore, C. (2013). Beguiling Eve and Her Innocent Counterpart: Victim-Offender Identities in the Criminal Justice Process. In Global Criminology (pp. 289–314).

Gilbert, A. and Moore, C. (2010), ‘Human Trafficking in the UK: The Journey So Far and the Road Ahead’, Criminal Law, 194: 1–5.

Markovska, M. & Moore, C. (2008) “Stilettos and Steel Toe-caps: Legislation of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, and its enforcement in the UK and Ukraine” in Van Duyne, P., Harvey, J., Maljevic, A., von Lampe, K. & Scheinost, M. (eds) European Crime Markets at Crossroads: Extended and extending crime in Europe.

Graham, J. & Moore, C. (2007) “Beyond Welfare versus Justice” in Junger-Tas, J. (ed) (2007) International Handbook of Juvenile Justice, Decker.

'Community Punishment: A Review of the Community Service Pathfinder Evaluation' by Gelsthorpe, L., S. Rex and Moore, C. (2004). Vista Perspectives on Probation 8 (3): 146-154.

Rex, S., Gelsthorpe, L. Roberts, C. & Jordan, P., with Moore, C., Howes, M., Osada, M., Powell, P., Webb, A. & Merrington, S. (2003). Crime Reduction Programme: An Evaluation of Community Service Pathfinder Projects Final Report 2002, RDS Occasional Paper, Home Office, London.

Recent presentations and conferences

  • Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVIRI), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2017
  • Restorative Justice and Sexual Violence Conference in Belgium, Nov 2014

Media experience

  • Many interviews on news radio and TV