Critical Criminology

我的主要研究兴趣在于批判犯罪学，特别是犯罪和相关犯罪学概念的构建，如受害者和罪犯。我很着迷于每个社会是如何决定为什么某些行为是犯罪的，而另一些行为不是，以及每个社会想象和恐惧罪犯的方式，特别是如果这个想象的犯罪世界与经验现实大不相同。我热衷于发展我在本科最后一年的实证研究项目中完成的工作，通过性别的视角审视犯罪的构建，从女权主义理论出发，将犯罪视为社会中创造和维持性别父权制框架的众多结构之一。离开学校的这段时间让我有机会反思我在本科时期所做的工作，我现在意识到，虽然我仍然为它感到自豪，但它在结构和方法上确实存在不足，我希望在我的硕士研究中加以解决。特别是我把重点放在性别上，而忽略了身份的其他重要方面，比如性取向和种族。此外，我想超越简单地理解刑法如何塑造社会对这些概念的概念，而是进一步询问被压迫群体或少数群体是否将刑事法规作为一种手段来创造身份，作为对犯罪本身的回应。我也有兴趣发展的主题和想法，我在我的论文研究中发现，引起了我的兴趣，但超出了我的研究问题的范围，即政治和政治意识形态在塑造围绕犯罪的话语中所起的作用，以及这对刑事司法系统的感知和有效性的影响。我的研究目标是在身份和犯罪建构的研究中推进批判犯罪学领域，并利用实证田野调查来创建政策导向的研究，旨在教育和指出解决当前刑事司法系统中犯罪建构不足的实际方法。从长远来看，我希望继续我的研究到博士学位，并完成犯罪学博士学位，因此我希望参加研究生课程，这将给我提供高质量的深入研究和分析技能的适当基础，使我有资格承担这样一个长期和尝试的承诺。

My main research interests lie in critical criminology, in particular the construction of both crime and associated criminological concepts such as victims and offenders. I am fascinated by how each society is able to decide why certain actions are criminal while others are not , and the way in which each society imagines and fears its criminals, particularly if this imagined criminal world is much different from the empirical reality. I am keen to develop the work I completed as an undergraduate during my final year empirical research project in examining the construction of crime through the lens of gender, working from feminist theories that see crime as one of many structures within society that create and maintain a patriarchal frame work of gender. My time away from study has given the opportunity to reflect upon the work I performed as an undergraduate however, and I now realise that, whilst I am still proud of it, it did have deficiencies in its construction and methodology that I wish to address in my masters research. Particularly that I focused heavily on gender to the exclusion of other important facets of identity such as sexuality and race. Furthermore I want to go beyond simply understanding how the criminal law shapes society's conception of these concepts but to further interrogate if oppressed or minority groups use criminal regulation as a means to create identity as a response to criminality itself. I am also interested in developing on themes and ideas I uncovered during my dissertation research that intrigued me but were beyond the scope of my research question, namely the role that politics and political ideologies play in shaping the discourse surrounding crime, and the impact this has on the perception and effectiveness of the criminal justice system. My aim with my research is to advance the field of critical criminology within the study of identity and crime construction, and to use empirical fieldwork to create policy orientated research that aims to educate and indicate practical means of addressing deficiencies in the current construction of crime within the criminal justice system. In the long term, I wish to continue my research to a doctorate level and complete a PhD in criminology, and thus want to undertake a graduate programme that will give me the proper grounding in high quality intensive research and analysis skills that will qualify me for such a long term and trying commitment.