Anna Wimbledon

Dr Anna Wimbledon

  • Lecturer In Criminology
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Biography

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. Sexual objectification is used to theorise the subjectivity of the rapist through combining Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialism with symbolic interactionism. 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...

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