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Dr Paula Hamilton PhD, BA (Hons), FHEA

Senior Lecturer

Summary

My main areas of interest in terms of teaching and research include gendered crime, criminal justice policy and practice, penology and desistance from crime. I am Course Leader for the MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice Practice and am involved in teaching on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules and in supervision at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Masters and Doctoral level.

About

As an undergraduate, I read politics at Liverpool University receiving the John Patterson University Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Scholarship for academic achievement. In 1999, I began my Probation Officer training, gaining a further degree in Community Justice from Manchester University. Following qualification, I worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester before joining Manchester University as a lecturer in Criminology and Community justice. I came to Sheffield Hallam in September 2004. I was awarded a University Inspirational Teaching Award for the academic year 2011/12.
 
My teaching and research interests include gender and crime/criminal justice, particularly violence against women; penology; criminal justice/penal policy, and the use of qualitative methods, particularly narrative enquiry, in criminological research. My doctoral research consisted of a narrative inquiry into the lived experiences of men who were regarded as desisting from a previously entrenched criminal lifestyle and identity.
 
Whilst at Hallam I have held a range of academic and administrative posts and have been involved as researcher and lead researcher in a range of contract research projects. I am currently course leader for the MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice Practice course.

My teaching and research interests include gender and crime/criminal justice, particularly violence against women; penology; criminal justice/penal policy, and the use of qualitative methods, particularly narrative enquiry, in criminological research.

I was awarded a University Inspirational Teaching Award for the academic year 2011/12.

Teaching

Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice

College of Social Sciences and Arts

BA (Hons) Criminology
BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology
BSc (Hons) Criminology and Psychology
MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice Practice

Experiencing Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Leadership and Reform
Dissertation supervision - undergraduate & postgraduate

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I am currently completing my doctoral research; a narrative enquiry into how people desist from a previously criminal lifestyle and of the role of contemporary rehabilitative interventions in that process.

I have been have been involved in a range of contract research, for example an investigation of the efficacy of help lines for victims and perpetrators of domestic violence at Manchester University, and an evaluation of a multi-agency service to respond to domestic violence with the Hallam Centre for Community Justice.

Publications

Journal articles

Cano, I., Best, D., Beckwith, M., Phillips, L.A., Hamilton, P., & Sloan, J. (n.d.). Stigma related to health conditions and offending behaviors: Social distance among students of health and social sciences. Stigma and Health, 5 (1), 38-52.

Book chapters

Hamilton, P. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 19-42). Bristol: Policy Press:

Hamilton, P. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 9-18). Bristol: Policy Press:

Goodwin, S. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 67-90). Bristol: Policy Press:

Robinson, A. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: transforming identities. (pp. 91-120). Bristol: Policy Press:

Burrows, J. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use transforming identities. (pp. 153-174). Policy Press:

Sloan, J. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 43-66). Bristol: Policy Press:

Best, D. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming identities. (pp. 175-194). Bristol: Policy Press:

Irving, J. (2016). . In Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.) Moving on from crime and substance use: Transforming Identities. (pp. 195-228). Bristol: Policy Press:

Hamilton, P., & Albertson, K. (2015). . In Cowburn, M., Duggan, M., Robinson, A., & Senior, P. (Eds.) Values in criminology and community justice. (pp. 329-342). London: Policy Press

Books

Robinson, A., & Hamilton, P. (Eds.). (2016). . Bristol: Policy Press.

Reports

Hamilton, P., Wilkinson, K., Meadows, L., & Cadet, N. (2008). . Sheffield: Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.

Theses / Dissertations

Gilman, H. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Hamilton, P., Phillips, J., & Burrows, J.

Postgraduate supervision

Penology
Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice

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