Simon Winlow
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Biography
Dr Simon Winlow is a British sociologist and criminologist working at the University of YorkUniversity of York
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, UK. Specialising in crime
Crime
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, violence
Violence
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, masculinity
Masculinity
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and criminology
Criminology
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, he is an internationally respected ethnographer and theorist who produces 'qualitative sociology at its best'. His recent work with Prof. Steve Hall
Steve Hall
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on the relationship between crime
Crime
Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...
and consumer culture has been described in the academic press as 'an important landmark in criminology' and by Prof. David Wilson
David Wilson
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in the UK national press as 'extraordinary'.
Simon Winlow was born in Sunderland
Sunderland
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in 1972. He received his BA from the University of Durham in 1993 and his PhD in 1996. Since then has researched and taught at the University of Durham, Brunel University
Brunel University
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and Teesside University before joining the University of York in 2005. With Dr. Rowland Atkinson, Dr. Winlow recently organized the revived National Deviancy Conference at the University of York, UK, in July 2011.
Published Works
Books:(2008) Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, exclusion and the new culture of narcissism. London: Willan/Routledge (with Steve Hall and Craig Ancrum)
(2006) Violent Night: Urban leisure and contemporary culture. Oxford: Berg (with Steve Hall)
(2001) Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and new masculinities. Oxford: Berg
Selected Articles:
Winlow, S. and Hall, S. (2012) ‘What is an ‘Ethics Committee’?: Some broad theoretical and contextual observations on the management of criminological research practice in the UK’, British Journal of Criminology (in press)
Winlow, S. and Hall, S. (2009) ‘Retaliate First: Memory, humiliation and male violence’, Crime, Media, Culture 5(3): 285-304
Winlow, S. and Hall, S. (2009) ‘Living for the Weekend: Youth identities in North-East England’, Ethnography, 10(1): 91-113
Hall, S. and Winlow, S. (2007) ‘Cultural Criminology and Primitive Accumulation: A formal introduction for two strangers who should really become more intimate’, Crime, Media, Culture, 3(1): 82-90
Hall, S. and Winlow, S. (2005) ‘Night-time leisure and violence in the breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process’, Probation Journal, 57(4): 377-390
Hall, S. and Winlow, S. (2005) ‘Anti-Nirvana: Crime, culture and instrumentalism in the age of insecurity’, Crime, Media, Culture, 1(1): 31-48
Hall, S., Winlow, S. and Ancrum, C. (2005) ‘Radgies, Gangstas and Mugs: imaginary criminal identities in the twilight of the pseudo-pacification process’, Social Justice, 32(1): 100-112
Hall, S. and Winlow, S. (2003) ‘Culture, Gender and Violence: a key problem’, Criminal Justice Matters, 53: 14-15
Hall, S. and Winlow, S. (2003) ‘Rehabilitating Leviathan: Reflections on the state, economic regulation and violence reduction’, Theoretical Criminology, 7(2): 139-162