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Professor Emmeline Taylor

Professor of Criminology

School of Policy & Global Affairs Department of Sociology and Criminology

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Professor Emmeline Taylor City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

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Emmeline Taylor is Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) in the School of Policy and Global Affairs. Originally from Manchester, she has gained substantial experience in criminological research and teaching having been employed in the public, private and academic sectors, and on three continents.

Professor Taylor joined City, University of London in 2017 having previously held positions at the Australian National University (Australia), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Greater Manchester Probation Trust (UK), the University of Salford, and Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International (UK), She was previously an Associate of the Designing out Crime (DOC) research centre at the University of Technology, Sydney and has been a Visiting Researcher at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University College London (UCL). Emmeline has completed empirical research in a number of sociological and criminological areas including; surveillance and the societal impact of new technologies, armed robbery, residential burglary, retail crime, crime and security in education, and several evaluations of criminal justice initiatives in England and Australia. She is currently working on several projects to improve retail security, tackle violence towards staff, loss of goods and criminal damage. Professor Taylor has published extensively across these topics, including the books:

Armed Robbers: Identity and Cultural Mythscapes in the Lucky Country (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Surveillance Schools (Palgrave, 2013);
Surveillance Futures (Routledge, 2017, w/T. Rooney);
The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control (Palgrave, 2018, w/J. Deakin and A. Kupchik);
Crime, Deviance, and Society: A Sociological Introduction (Cambridge University Press, w/ A. Rodas et al.)

Professor Taylor is a member of the government’s National Retail Crime Strategy Group (NRCSG) chaired by the Minister of State for Crime and Policing and has worked on multiple 'task and finish' groups led by the Home Office with the explicit aim of improving outcomes for victims and achieving more effective criminal justice responses to crime. She is a member of the Home Office Expert Panel for the annual Commercial Victimization Survey (CVS). Professor Taylor has also recently been appoint Chair of the Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) National Standards Board.

Emmeline is a regular guest on national television and has had her research featured on many high profile shows including: The One Show (BBC1), Supermarket Secrets (BBC1), Daybreak (ITV), The Wright Stuff (ITV) and BBC Breakfast (BBC1). A career highlight was having her research on SWIPERS (people who steal from self-service checkouts) included as the 'most talked about this week' segment on BBC's Have I Got News For You with some hilarious commentary. She is currently appearing on BBC 1s Frontline Fightback and Ch5s Shoplifters and Scammers.

Committed to the public dissemination of research and knowledge exchange, Emmeline has authored opinion pieces in national newspapers such as the Sydney Morning Herald and academic blogs, as well as having her work cited in mainstream publications such as WIRED magazine, Forbes, The Guardian and The Telegraph (UK). She is often a guest on national radio shows including BBC Radio 2’s Thinking Allowed and ABCs Late Night Live discussing issues related to crime, security and surveillance.

Emmeline is a member of the Editorial Board for the British Journal of Criminology and was formerly on the boards of the Security Journal, Surveillance & Society, the International Advisory Board of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, the Advisory Board for Criminological Encounters, and on the judging panel for the Outstanding Security performance Awards (OSPAs). Emmeline was formerly Co-Director of the Surveillance Studies Network, and served as the elected state representative for the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC).

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Books (6)

  • Taylor, E. (2022). Armed Robbers Identity and Cultural Mythscapes in the Lucky Country. ISBN 978-0-19-885513-2.
  • Rodas, A., Beckley, A., Rawlinson, P., Simpson, A., Taylor, E., Thomsen, S. … Walters, R. (2020). Crime, Deviance and Society: A Sociological Introduction to Criminology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Deakin, J., Taylor, E. and Kupchik, A. (Eds.), (2018). The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance and Social Control. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-71558-2.
  • Taylor, E. and Rooney, T. (2017). Surveillance Futures: Social and ethical implications of new technologies for children and young people. ISBN 978-1-317-04813-8.
  • Taylor, E. (2013). Surveillance Schools: Security, Discipline, and Control in Contemporary Education. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-30886-3.
  • Deasey, S., Smith, N., Forrest, C., Taylor, E. and Maslen, J. (Eds.), (2007). Authentic Artifice Cultures of the Real. ISBN 978-1-902496-49-8.

Chapters (17)

  • Taylor, E. and Southerton, C. (2021). Dataveillance and the dividuated self: the everyday digital surveillance of young people. In B.A., A. and B.G., S. (Eds.), The Pre-Crime Society: Crime, Culture, and Control in the Ultramodern Age Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Taylor, E. and Lee, M. (2020). The camera never lies?: Police body-worn cameras and operational discretion. Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability (pp. 80–94). ISBN 978-1-138-34243-9.
  • Taylor, E. (2018). Recent Developments in Surveillance: An Overview of Body-Worn Cameras in Schools. The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control (pp. 371–388). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-71558-2.
  • Taylor, E. and Kearney, A. (2018). School Discipline and Surveillance: Developments in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control (pp. 87–104). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-71558-2.
  • Taylor, E., Deakin, J. and Kupchik, A. (2018). The Changing Landscape of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control. The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control (pp. 1–13). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-71558-2.
  • Taylor, E. (2018). Closed-Circuit Television. In Arrigo, B. (Ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4833-5994-6.
  • Taylor, E. (2018). COPS and Robbers: Customer operated payment systems, new point of sale technologies and the impact on retail crime. In Ceccato, V. and Armitage, R. (Eds.), Retail Crime International Evidence and Prevention Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-73064-6.
  • Taylor, E. and Rooney, T. (2017). Digital Playgrounds; Growing up in the surveillance age. In Taylor, E. and Rooney, T. (Eds.), Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People Routledge.
  • Taylor, E. (2017). "If I Wanted to Be on Big Brother, I Would’ve Auditioned for It": Examining the Media Representation of CCTV in Schools and the Impact of Visual Surveillance on Schoolchildren. In Taylor, E. and Rooney, T. (Eds.), Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People Routledge.
  • Taylor, E. (2017). Teaching us to be ‘smart’? The use of RFID in schools and the habituation of young people to everyday surveillance. In Taylor, E. and Rooney, T. (Eds.), Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People Routledge.
  • Taylor, E. (2017). Commercial Armed Robbery. The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice (pp. 147–158). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-55746-5.
  • Taylor, E. and Gill, M. (2014). CCTV; Its Use, Abuse and Effectiveness. In Gill, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Security Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Taylor, E. (2012). The rise of the surveillance school. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (pp. 225–231). ISBN 978-0-415-58883-6.
  • Taylor, E. (2012). Awareness, understanding and experiences of CCTV amongst teachers and pupils in three UK schools. (pp. 1–16). ISBN 978-1-61499-112-0.
  • Deasey, S., Forrest, C., Maslen, J., Smith, N. and Taylor, E. (2007). Making it a Reality: The Authentic as an Artifice. In Deasey, S., Forrest, C., Maslen, J., Smith, N. and Taylor, E. (Eds.), Authentic Artifice: Cultures of the Real Manchester: European Studies Research Institute. ISBN 1-902496-49-3.
  • The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime. In Routledge.
  • Taylor, E. and Lee, M. The camera never lies? Police body worn cameras and operational discretion. In Newell, B. (Ed.), Police on Camera. Oxon: Routledge.

Internet publications (11)

  • Yesberg, J., Posch, K., Jackson, J. and Taylor, E. (2020). Track, Trace and Trust: the Covid 19 tracing app. Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
  • Taylor, E., Jackson, J., Yesberg, J. and Posch, K. (2020). Coronavirus: survey reveals what the public wants from a contact-tracing app. The Conversation.
  • Taylor, E. (2019). Rising violence and verbal abuse towards retailers. Policing Insight.
  • Taylor, E. (2018). How shoplifters justify theft at supermarket self-service checkouts. The Conversation.
  • Taylor, E. and Michael, K. (2016). Smart Toys that are the Stuff of Nightmares [Editorial]. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Taylor, (2016). Body-worn cameras are not a panacea for poor policing. The Conversation.
  • Taylor, (2014). A vision of control: the increased sophistication of CCTV brings new controversy. LSE Blog.
  • Taylor, (2013). School surveillance puts trust at risk. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  • Taylor, and Michael, K. Hello Barbie, hello hackers: accessing personal data will be child’s play. The Conversation.
  • Taylor, The real cost of CCTV might stop you smiling. Sydney Morning Herald.
  • Taylor, E. Rising violence and verbal abuse towards retailers – stories from shop floor reveal lifelong impact. The Conversation.

Journal articles (30)

Reports (14)

Other (7)