Sex and Crime

About Alexandra FanghanelEmma MilneGiulia Federica ZampiniMichael FiddlerStacy Banwell

Dr Alexandra Fanghanel is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology University of Greenwich. Alexandra researches fear of crime security sexuality and sexual practice in public space and uses queer feminist post-structuralist and anti-colonialist approaches to analyse power and to strive for social justice. Alexandra views education as a tool through which to become free and to begin to undo the injustice of the world; that is why she is committed to radical critical pedagogy. Dr Emma Milne is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Plymouth. Emma is an activist for womens rights specifically reproductive rights and justice. Emmas research and teaching is interdisciplinary focused on criminal law and criminal justice responses to women who are deemed to be criminal or deviant specifically those suspected of newborn child killing and foetal harm. The wider context of Emmas work is social cultural and legal controls and regulations of all women notably in relation to motherhood pregnancy sex and reproduction. Emma co-edited Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing Victims and Offenders? (Palgrave 2018) and her research is informed by and uses feminism intersectionality and post-structuralism. Emmas approach to law and legal research is from Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Legal Studies perspectives. Dr Giulia Federica Zampini is a Senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Giulias formal academic studies span across history politics social policy and socio-legal studies but she is also interested in anthropology ethics and moral psychology. Giulia is attracted to a variety of theoretical and epistemological positions including but not limited to feminism standpoint theory critical theory and critical realism. Giulias research interests centre around evidence and policy; drugs prostitution morality harm reduction decriminalisation and prison education. Giulia is dedicated to research activism and advocacy for harm reduction across drug policy and prostitution policy and committed to enabling platforms for marginalised communities and knowledges including people who use drugs and people who are incarcerated. Her current ongoing project People and Dancefloors: narratives of drug-taking involves team-based participatory action research through film. Dr Stacy Banwell is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich and Programme Leader of MSc Criminology Gender and Sexualities University of Greenwich. Stacys background is in Criminology and Criminal Justice and her current research interests are:  - Gender and the violence(s) of war armed conflict including the relationship between war/armed conflict and climate insecurity. - Gender and economic foreign policy specifically US foreign policy on abortion. Stacy is currently reviewing the impact of President Trumps revised global gag rule (GGR) and the defunding of UNFPA in humanitarian and war-affected settings. These topics are addressed in Stacys monograph Gender and the Violence(s) of war and armed conflict: More dangerous to be a woman? (2020). This work draws on Critical Feminist and Visual Criminology; International Relations Security Studies (including environmental security) Post-colonial Studies and Gender Studies. Stacys research practice is informed by feminist standpoint theory (which she applies to both human and non-human animals) and participatory action research. Dr Michael Fiddler is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Michaels research has explored prison architecture as well as the ways in which the gothic and uncanny can be applied to representations of imprisonment and violence. Michaels urrent project is focused upon Ghost Criminology and unpacking the ways in which the conceptual metaphors of haunting and spectrality can be applied to crime and punishment.