Professor Eugene McLaughlin
Professor of Criminology and Director, Criminology & Criminal Justice MA
Email: E.mclaughlin@city.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7040 4554
Overview
Professor McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre of Law, Justice and Journalism at City. His first academic post was at the University of Hong Kong and he was at The Open University before moving to City.
He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.
He is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology; Crime, Media and Culture; and Theoretical Criminology.
Professor McLaughlin has written extensively on policing and police reform, police-community relations and criminal justice policy. He has also made a significant contribution to the development of criminological theory.
His current research concentrates on: the policing challenges of multi-pluralist, risk societies; the news-media, crime and criminal justice policy; the politics of law and order and new developments in criminological theory.
Professor McLaughlin welcomes inquiries from prospective Ph.D students in his fields of expertise.Teaching
Undergraduate: Introduction to Criminology, Key Issues in Criminology, Policing and Social ControlPostgraduate: Contemporary Criminology; Human Wrongs; Media, Violence and Society
Publications
Books
The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory, (with T.Newburn) London, Sage. (2010)The New Policing, London, Sage. (2007), pp.264+vii, ISBN 0 8039 80905 9
The Sage Dictionary of Criminology (with J. Muncie) 2nd ed. London, Sage. (2005), pp. xii + 490, ISBN 0 7619 5907 6.
Criminological Perspectives: Essential Readings (ed. with J. Muncie and G. Hughes) London, Sage. (2003) 2nd Edition, pp. xii + 612, ISBN 0 7619 4143 6.
Restorative Justice: Critical Issues (ed. with R. Fergusson, G. Hughes and L. Westmarland) London, Sage. (2003) pp. xii + 224, ISBN 0 7619 4208 4.
Journal special issues
Public Criminologies, (co-edited with L. Chancer), Theoretical Criminology: an International Journal, 11: 2, (2007) pp.155-317,Journal articles
‘Trial by Media: Policing, the 24-7 News Mediasphere, and the ‘Politics of Outrage’’, Theoretical Criminology, 15, 1: (2011) 1-25. (with C. Greer)‘We Predict a Riot: Public Order Policing, News Coverage and the Rise of the Citizen Journalist’, in British Journal of Criminology, 50, 6: (2010) 1041-1059. (with C. Greer)
‘Researching up: interviews, emotionality and policy making elites’, Journal of Social Policy, 39, (2009) pp.689-707 (with Sarah Neal)
‘Last one out turn off the ‘Blue Lamp’: the geographical placement of police performance management’, (2008) Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 2:3, pp.266-275
‘Who can speak to race and nation? Intellectuals, public policy formation’ and the future of multi-ethnic Britain’. Cultural Studies, 21:6, (2007) pp. 911-931_(with Sarah Neal)
‘Forcing the Issue: New Labour, New Localism and the Democratic Renewal of Police Accountability’, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 44:5 (2005) pp.473-89.
‘From Reel to Ideal: the ‘Blue Lamp’ and the cultural construction of PC George Dixon’, Crime, Media and Culture: an International Journal, 1:1, (2005) pp.1-32.
‘Misrepresenting the multi-cultural nation: the policy making process, news media management and the Parekh Report’, Policy Studies, 25:3 (2004) pp.155-74 (with S.Neal)
‘Upravlanje kriminalitete in neredov v skupnosti: trendi in nestabilnosti v Velki Britainiji’ in Varstvoslovje: Revija za Teorijo in Prakso Varstvoslovja 5: 4, (2004) pp. 273-82.(with G.Hughes)
‘A force for change: the prospects for applying restorative justice to citizen complaints against the police in England and Wales’ (with A. Johansen) British Journal of Criminology, 42:3 (2002), pp.635-653.