I am a lecturer in criminology with an interest in combining philosophy with criminology. I have expertise in criminological theory and feminist theory. I am particularly interested in researching and teaching on topics that address social injustice and question the legitimacy of state power. My research and teaching interests include: critical criminology; state violence; abolitionism; zemiology; existential criminology; feminist theory; violence against women.

In 2021 I completed my PhD in Philosophy and Criminology at the University of Sussex. My thesis incorporates philosophy, feminist theory, and criminology to theorise the mind of the rapist, providing an account of the individual that is compatible with a structural analysis of rape. The subjectivity of the rapist in the moment of the act is theorised through combining Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialism with symbolic interactionism. Providing an account of sexual objectification as a process in the mind of the rapist counters the recent shift to embracing sexual objectification as empowering for women, and the anti-humanist trend in feminist theory... It also refutes criminological explanations of the rapist as vulnerable, and philosophical accounts of sex as inherently objectifying. This exposition of the rapist thereby challenges a range of current orthodoxies in feminist theory, philosophy and criminology. I am currently working on publications from my thesis that will contribute to the emerging field of existential criminology, and to debates within feminist theory.

I am also interested in researching and publishing on state violence, advocating for prison abolitionism and the need for a renewed anti-war movement. This research will consider the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex through the lens of racial capitalism. Overall, my interest in teaching and research is to expose social harms and injustices to allow for conversations around radical social change.