Dr Mark Berry
- mberry at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6267-9192
- Lecturer In Criminology
- BGB
Biography
Mark Berry is the BA Criminology Programme Leader at Bournemouth University. He specialises in illicit drug markets, organised crime, youth crime and cyber crime. His PhD was a semi-covert ethnography of active drug dealers in a city in England. His research aims to investigate the nature of illicit drug markets, the crime risk management practices of drug dealers, and possible reasons for their involvement and patterns of activity. Mark is an advocate of ethnographic research in ethically challenging settings with hard-to-reach groups. He has international experience delivering participatory action research interventions with youth at-risk of serious and organised crime. Mark also has a practical knowledge of the criminal justice system, having worked in the Youth Offending Team. In regard to teaching, Mark has extensive experience, having taught across a wide range of criminology units during his career.
Journal Articles
- Berry, C.R. and Berry, M.A., 2024. Countering surveillance: using actor-network theory to understand how organised crime is displaced and harms arise as offenders become invisible to the gaze of electronic monitoring and law enforcement. Crime, Law and Social Change, 82 (5), 1189-1211.
- Berry, M., 2024. Trying to Make it: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade by R.V. Gundur. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 6 (1), 60-63.
- Berry, M., Salinas, M. and Gundur, R.V., 2023. Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering. TRENDS IN ORGANIZED CRIME.
- Berry, M., 2019. Covert Research: The Art, Politics and Ethics of Undercover Fieldwork. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, 19 (5), 613-614.
- Berry, M., 2018. Technology and organised crime in the smart city: an ethnographic study of the illicit drug trade. City, Territory and Architecture.
Chapters
- Gundur, R.V., Taodang, D. and Berry, M., 2021. Using Digital Open Source and Crowdsourced Data in Studies of Deviance and Crime. Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches. 145-167.
Reports
- Schwandner-Sievers, S., Berry, M., Sheppard, N. and Thartori, K., 2023. Local Perspectives on Young Albanian Serious Organised Crime (SOC) Risks (Results of Focus Group Discussions). Bournemouth - Tirana: Centre for Seldom Heard Voices. Available from: https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/centre-seldom-heard-voices/centre-working-papers-resources.
- Berry, M., 2023. Music for Futures Lyrics and Beats Making Workshop Cultivating resilience to organised crime in Albanian youth through music. Bournemouth - Tirana: Centre for Seldom Heard Voices. Available from: https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/centre-seldom-heard-voices/centre-working-papers-resources.
Internet Publications
- Berry, M. and Gundur, R., 2025. Money laundering plays a key role in every part of the illegal drugs industry – here’s how it works. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/money-laundering-plays-a-key-role-in-every-part-of-the-illegal-drugs-industry-heres-how-it-works-251288.
Others
- Berry, M., Schwandner-Sievers, S. and Fisher, E., 2023. Music for Futures - Lyrics and Beats Making Workshop: A Manual for Practitioners. Bournemouth University: Centre for Seldom Heard Voices. Bournemouth University & RAYS Albania. Published online.
Grants
- SOUNDS: Understanding and Tackling the Drivers and Enablers of SOC in Albania through music (HipHop) elicitation and cocreation (Home Office, 01 Apr 2021). Completed
- PhD Scholarship (Dawes Trust, 01 Sep 2014). Completed