Dr Anna Wimbledon is a lecturer in criminology and the current Programme Leader for the BA in Criminology with Law. Anna has expertise in criminological theory and feminist theory, and she is particularly interested in researching and teaching on topics that address social injustice and question the legitimacy of state power. Anna’s research and teaching interests include: critical criminology; state violence; the criminalisation of migration; abolitionism; zemiology; existential criminology; feminist theory; violence against women.

In 2021 Anna completed a PhD in Philosophy and Criminology at the University of Sussex. Anna’s thesis theorised the mind of the rapist, providing an account of the individual that is compatible with a structural analysis of rape. Anna’s current and forthcoming publications contribute to the emerging field of existential criminology through introducing the value of Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialism to theorising sexual violence.

Anna is also interested in researching and publishing on state violence, through the lens of racial capitalism... Anna is currently working on the criminalisation of migration, and in collaboration with colleagues she has been awarded funding from the British Academy and the British Council to build national and international networks on this topic. Anna is an advocate for prison abolitionism and the need for a renewed anti-war movement. Overall, Anna’s interest in teaching and research is to expose social harms and injustices to allow for conversations around radical social change.