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

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Amaha Senu

• 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.

• ASC324 Dissertation

  This module will equip students with the skills needed to produce a dissertation of between 8,000 and 10,000 words. A series of 3 compulsory meetings with an allocated dissertation supervisors assists the students to complete this task. The completion of a dissertation is an independent learning activity. This means that there isn¿t a taught aspect to it. However, each student will be allocated a supervisor. Supervision meetings will take the form of four compulsory individual face-to-face meetings between the student and supervisor. Supervisors will also review drafts of elements of the dissertation to a maximum of 4,000 words, which are to be submitted to supervisors at specific points in the academic year. Supervisors will only provide feedback on drafts that are submitted on time. Staff will provide feedback to students within seven working days.

• ASCM21 Prisons: Past, Present and Future

  In the modern period the prison has held a central symbolic position in the criminal justice system and in the treatment of offenders. This module will examine the history of prisons and imprisonment, and current issues in prison policy and research. This course focuses on prisons, exploring their hegemonic function in past, present and future criminal justice practices and plans. It draws on a range of penal abolitionist perspectives to critically question the existence, composition and function of a carceral state. In doing so the course examines the theoretical and practical implications of carceral abolitionism for understanding shifts in criminal justice policy and practice

• 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