Staff profile

staff list  BackMs Claire Cohen

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Law and Criminal Justice Studies
  • Tel: 01227 782934
  • Campus: Canterbury
 

QUALIFICATIONS:
Reading for a PhD in Critical Theory with the University of Nottingham. Thesis title: 'Male Rape is a Feminist Issue: Feminism, Governmentality and Male Rape'.

MPhil Critical Theory (UoN); MA Critical Theory and Cultural Studies (UoN; dissertation entitled "The reification of the Muslim 'Race': Islamophobia and Post 9/11 sites and technologies of Power"); PGCert Social Sciences (Open University); BA (hons) Criminology (Nottingham Trent University; dissertation entitled "True Blue? The political Nature of Public Order Policing")

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Programme Director for BSc Crime and Policing Studies and Senior Lecturer in Applied Criminology

Module Leader for 5 undergraduate Modules: 
 Policing and the Police (Year 1)
 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Crime and Justice (Year 1)
 Criminological Psychology (Year 2)
 Victims and Victimology (Year 3)
 'Terrorism' and Political Violence (Year 3)

Also contributes to teaching on BA/BSc Applied Criminology, the Foundation degree in Policing and the MA in Criminology as well as Departmental Generics on the Law and Criminal Justice Studies Framework. Examples of teaching include the following modules: Introduction to Criminological Thinking (Year 1); Crime in Context (Year 1); Overview of Justice (Year 1); Crime and Social Control (Year 2); Applications of Criminology (Year 3); Youth, Crime and Justice (Year 3); Understanding Criminology (MA Module)

DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Programme Director for BSc Crime and Policing Studies; Member of the Student Services Group; Member of the Faculty Board; Member of the Volunteering Forum; Academic Lead for the Department's Film for Thought Series; Academic Lead for the Crime and Policing Student Forum.

RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Research interests are varied but are unified by an interest in 'power' and subscription to the Critical stances (Critical Psychology, Critical Criminology, Critical Race Theory and Critical Theory being pertinent examples). This includes the general areas of Cultural Criminology, particularly film and the so-called 'new' media; Foucault and Governmentality; Said and Orientalism. 

Particular concerns include the criminalization and scapegoating of marginalised groups and the social construction and reification of derogated identities. Examples of which are: the Islamicization of 'terrorism' post 9/11; the particularized construct of the 'female' terrorist; child on child sexual offending and homicide; male victims of domestic and sexualised violence; the particularized construct of the 'female' sexual predator; and the phenomenon of technological developments in dissidence (sousveillance, hactivism etc).  Above all this engagement is guided by Foucault's imperative to 'think differently'.

Conferences and Publications:
Cohen, Claire (forthcoming) Monograph entitled: 'Male Rape is a Feminist Issue: Feminism, Governmentality and Male Rape', Palgrave MacMillan: London

2008 – Towards Knowledge Led Policing and Security (Department of Law and Criminal Justice Studies, CCCU) – attended Conference.

Cohen, Claire (2007) "Feminism, Governmentality and the Political Economy of Male Rape: Why Male Rape is a Feminist Issue" (The British Society of Criminology Conference: 'Crime and Justice in an Age of Global Insecurity', London School of Economics, 18/09/07).

Cohen, Claire, Waters, Ben and Phipps, Jennifer (2007) "Teaching Diversity: Islamophobia, Critical Pedagogy and the Education of Criminal Justice Professionals" (The Second International Conference on Citizenship & Human Rights in Education: 'Education and Extremism', Roehampton University, 07/07/07).