Staff profile

staff list  BackMs Sofia Graca

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Law and Criminal Justice Studies
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3180
  • Campus: Canterbury
Sofia Graca

 

QUALIFICATIONS:  
 Reading for a PhD in Law (University of Kent)
MPhil in Criminological Research (University of Cambridge)
PGCLT (HE) (Canterbury Christ Church University)
BA in Law (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
 Director of Taught Postgraduate Provision; Programme Director MSc in Policing; Programme Director MA Criminology and Criminal Justice. Undergraduate modules: Victims and Victimology (L6), Crime, Offenders and Society (L5), Crime in Context (L4).

DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 
 Director of Taught Postgraduate Provision; Member of the Children and Families Strategic Planning Committee; Member of the Black and Ethnic Minority committee.
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RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Research areas are mostly on the fields of gender studies, gender and the criminal justice system and domestic violence.

Publications:

Contributor for Bryant, R and Bryant, S (eds) (2012 forthcoming) Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook 2013, 7th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Graca, S. (2012) 'O Modelo Ingles de Combate a Violencia Domestica' Jornal Estado de Direito n.33 ano VI

Contributor for Bryant, R and Bryant, S (eds) (2011) Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook 2012, 6th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Guest lecturer at the Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei (German University of Police), Germany (2011).

Contributor for Bryant, R and Bryant, S (eds) (2010) Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook 2011, 5th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Guest lecturer at the University Cergy-Pontoise (2010).

Graca, S (2009) Book Review: Turton, J. Child Abuse, Gender and Society Oxon: Routledge for Theoretical Criminology.

Graca, S (2008) 'Night Time Economy: Cooperation between Formal and Informal Social Control (Case Study of Margate)' Dalby: Vathek Publishing The Police Journal Vol. 81, Nº2.

Graca, S (2008) Book Review: Walklate, S (2007) Handbook of Victims and Vicitimology Devon: Willan Publishing for the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.

Graca, S (2008) Book Review: Heidensohn, F (2006) Gender and Justice, new concepts and approaches London: Willan Publishing for the Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Vol 2, May.

Graca, S (2007) Book Review: Padfield, N (2006) Criminal Law Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Society of Criminology (available at: http://www.britsoccrim.org/reviews.htm|).

2006 - Interview for ITV Meridian on the subject of "Women's Imprisonment."

Conferences:

2011 - British Society of Criminology Annual Conference.  Presented paper on Domestic Violence and Migrant populations: the case study of the Portuguese community.

2010 – Knowledge-Drive Security organised by the Estonian Academy of Security Services. Presentation for Workshop II, entitled 'Harmonizing Education – Opportunities and Challenges for Internal Security and Law Enforcement.'

2010 – I International Mediation Congress organised by the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas with the collaboration of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. Attended conference.

2008 - Domestic Violence Conference: Positioning Culturally Sensitive Provision organised by the University of Wolverhampton and Ashram. Attended conference.

2008 - Race and Diversity at the Argentinean Embassy in London: attended conference.

2008 - Towards Knowledge-Led Policing and Security organised by CCCU: attended conference.

2007 – British Society of Criminology's annual conference: presentation of preliminary findings on a literature review and small field research on the Night-Time Economy of Margate, under the title Policing, security and crime prevention in the night-time economy - the case study of Margate. (September, 2007 at LSE).

2007 - British Society of Criminology's annual conference: chair of session held under the title "Professional Consideration for Community Workers."

OTHER INTERESTS:
Member of the British Society of Criminology
Member of the Howard League for Penal Reform
Member of the Ordem dos Advogados (Portuguese Attorney's Bar)
Fellow of the Cambridge European Trust
Fellow of St. Edmunds College (Cambridge)

Address: Room Pcf05, Dept. of Law and Criminal Justice Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, CT1 1QU.

Telephone: 01227 767700 3180

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