Dr Jo Mockeridge

I have worked at CCCU for just over a decade and studied here as an undergraduate in the early 2000s. I completed my MSc at the London School of Economics and returned to CCCU to undertake a PhD in criminal justice.

My PhD is focused on the youth justice system in England and Wales and particularly how youth justice practitioners can shape or subvert policy. I am especially interested in the concept of human agency/autonomy and how we reconcile children's limited capacities for such (in comparison with adults) with their prosecution.

I teach on Crime: Representations and Realities at L4; Youth, Crime and Justice at Level 5, and Police Cultures and Societies at Level 6. 

I have previously worked as an initial crime investigator at Kent Police and as an associate academic at the University of Kent. 

Prior to joining the AC team I taught on various modules/programmes within the Policing team at CCCU. I continue to teach in this area in AC at Level 6, but most of my teaching is focused on youth crime and youth justice.

I have previously led the L4 theoretical module in AC and for the past 2 years have been responsible for running one of the core L4 modules in semester 1, which introduces new AC students to the socially constructed concepts of 'crime' and 'justice'.

My research has tended to be focused entirely on my PhD for the past few years. I contributed a book chapter in 2017, which focused on the responsibilising tendencies of youth justice in England and Wales, and the lack of empirical enquiry into how this is experienced by children/young people involved with the service.

(Mockeridge J. (2017) 'Responsibilisation in the Youth Justice Service: Repositioning marginalised knowledge’, in K. Atkinson, A. R. Huber and K. Tucker (eds.) Voices of Resistance: Subjugated knowledge and the challenge to the criminal justice system. London: EG Press Limited.)

2021: Responsibilisation as Rehabilitation? Exploring the implications of responsibility narratives to youth justice practice', presentation to British Crime Historians Symposium;

2019: 'Perspectives on Youth Justice' presentation to British Society of Criminology;

2016: Responsibilisation in the YJS, presentation to the British Society of Criminology conference;

2016: Responsibilisation in the YJS: Repositioning Marginalised Knowledge? Presentation to the North West Postgraduate Conference at Liverpool John Moores University