Dr Sam Hanks

Research Highlights

1. Hanks, S. (2022). The safeguarding delusion: sex work and policing in Wales. Justice, Power and Resistance, 5(1-2)

   https://doi.org/10.1332/VYJF2519, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59002
2. Hanks, S. (2021). Increased Vulnerabilities: Considering the Effects of Xeno-Racist Ordering for Romanian Migrant Sex Workers in the United Kingdom. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(4)

   https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1661, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55648
3. Hanks, S. & Hanks, S. (2020). Embodying masculinity in female dominated research settings: A male reflection of ‘doing research’ in massage parlours. Sexualities, 23(5-6), 757-774.

   https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719847096, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48030

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719847096
4. Robinson , A., Clancy , A., & Hanks, S. (2014). Prevalence and Characteristics of Serial Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: Multi-Agency Evidence from Wales

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48045
5. Robinson , A., Clancy, A., & Hanks, S. (2014). Defining and Profiling Serial Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: An All-Wales Feasibility Review

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48046

All Research

• Exploring Female Sexual Offenders from a Criminal Justice Perspective (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Tracey Sagar

  Other supervisor: Dr Victoria Silverwood

• ASC212 Criminological Theory: Content and Application

  This module provides students with an understanding of criminology as a theoretical, conceptual and applied discipline. Therefore, the module analyses criminological theories of crime and deviance, and explores the application of the theories in real life cases. The module builds on level 4 understandings of competing theories and perspectives to provide students with deeper a knowledge of Criminology from a theoretical and conceptual perspective. It is delivered through interactive sessions that give students the opportunity to evaluate the extent to which each of the theories applies in real life cases. Students are guided through the processes of applying each theory to topical and sometimes contentious crimes, acts of deviance, and punishments.

• ASC222 Developing and Planning a Research Project

  Developing and Planning a Research Project is available as an optional 10 credits module to all Criminology and Criminal Justice Single Honours students, and Joint Honours Social Policy and Criminology students. It is important to note that Developing and Planning a Research Project is a pre-requisite to ASC324 Dissertation; therefore if you want to take the Dissertation in your final year then you must select this module. Students need to achieve a 2.1 or above in the assessment of this module in order to be eligible to undertake an empirical research project in their third year dissertation. The module builds on the knowledge and skills gained form the ASC208 Research Methods module and introduces students to the research skills required to develop a rigorous research project. A mixture of lecturer-led and independent learning methods will be used to prepare students for the task of completing their dissertation. All teaching materials will be available through Canvas. Other relevant material will also be made available through Canvas.

• ASCM28 Case Studies in Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology

  The module consists mainly of a series of case studies of recent research in crime and criminal justice, presented by the people who actually did the research. The focus is on how and why the researchers chose the particular methodologies and strategies used; how these choices were influenced by ethical concerns and the interests of research subjects; what constraints and pressures were created by resource limitations or the expectations and agendas of research funders (for example, the Home Office); and, where relevant, how `impact¿ was defined and conceptualised within the research.

• ASCM44 Developing Criminological Research

  The module provides students with an understanding of key methodological approaches which are used in the field of Criminology to help them undertake either literature-based or empirical research themselves in partial completion of their dissertation in Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology. A keen focus will be afforded, through this module, both the conceptual and applied natures of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and how these can be utilised to address specific types of research questions. This optional module will be of particular interest to students whose first degree was not in Criminology and/or social science.

• ASCM46 Stigmatising Identities: Deviance and Crime

  This module examines the relationship between identity, deviance and crime. It examines how multiple fluid and intersecting identities interact with deviant and illicit behaviour. It considers how interaction with deviant activity, the criminal justice system and its institutions can bring about changes in how we perceive ourselves, as well as those around us. The module draws on a broad range of literature from across the social sciences and applies them to a range of contemporary criminological debates. ASCM46 examines how we come to be `known¿ as, and associated with deviance, and how these perceptions influence social interaction and behaviour. The module involves a critical examination of stigma as a key means of social control. Not only how the stigmatised experience the social world, but how they produce and reinforce the stigma they seek to resist. The module involves the application of theoretical concepts to explore how stigma and identity interact to create challenges for criminological policy and practice. It critically examines the implications of stigma and identity for desistance and recidivism. Students are given the opportunity to apply these concepts to their own area of interest.