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Ian Mahoney

Ian Mahoney

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Role

Ian Mahoney is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and the Course Leader for the BA Criminology in the Criminology in the Criminal Justice Department.  He is also the co-director of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research group.  In addition to his teaching and research roles Ian is module co-leader for CRIM10310/315 The Justice Process and CRIM30295 Cultural Criminology. He is also a supervisor for third year and master's level dissertations.


Modules taught on:

CRIM100310/315: The Justice Process (module co-leader)

CRIM30295: Cultural Criminology (module co-leader)

CRIM40200 Approaches to Criminological Theory and Research Methods

Career overview

Ian is an actively engaged in both teaching and research, with a focus around cultural criminology and social justice.  After completing his doctoral thesis at Keele University in 2015 entitled 'Graftin' up 'Anley Duck: narrating the influence of unemployment upon identity and crime in Stoke-on-Trent' he worked as a Housing Options Officer for Walsall Council and taught at Birmingham City University and Liverpool Hope University.  Ian joined NTU in 2018 and since then has continued to explore core themes around social exclusion and marginalisation in research and teaching.

Research areas

His interests lie at the intersection between crime, culture, society and active citizenship.  He is currently working on a number of projects including exploring violence in a Young Offenders' Institute, understanding constructions of sharks in the popular imagination, and is a co-investigator on a Nuffield Foundation project exploring themes around Transformative justice, women with convictions and uniting communities. He has previously explored themes around the roots of Brexit in deprived post-industrial communities, issues around marginalisation, critically evaluated the harms underpinning the leisure cruising industry, and explored the impact of populist constructions of sexual offending in society.  He is developing an edited collection entitled 'Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending' with Rahmanara Chowdhury at MIHE which they hope to publish in late 2023.

Opportunities arise to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD in the areas identified above. Further information may be obtained on the NTU Research Degrees website https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/research-degrees-at-ntu

External activity

Ian has previously conducted evaluations of the Homes for £1 housing scheme in Liverpool on behalf of Liverpool City Council, and as part of a team at NTU on reducing violence in a Young Offender's Institute

Publications

In development:

Mahoney I, Slade K and Thurston L (in development) Quick-Time, Slow-Time: Developing a model of learning, understanding and staff support following violent incidents in a Young Offenders’ Institute

Motley L, Tiwari P, Mahoney I and Thompson B (in development)  Analysing the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Commission of Residential Burglary in London

Mahoney I and Chowdhury R (in development) Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending (London: Routledge) - due late 2023

Publications:

Mahoney I, Teague K, Long M and Winder B (2022) Populist and vindictive responses to sexual offending against children, pluralities of violence and the implications for criminal and social justice, Archives of Criminology 44(1) pp.123-145

Mahoney I and Collins V (2020) The capitalist voyeur: commodification, consumption and the spectacle of the cruise. Leisure Studies 39(2) pp.280-293

Mahoney I (2019) Considering the role of homeless hostels as sites of discipline and regulation. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 39(3/4) pp.250-263

Mahoney I and Kearon T (2018) Social Quality and Brexit in Stoke-on-Trent, England. International Journal of Social Quality 8(1) pp.1-20

Mahoney I and Kearon T (2018) (De)Constructing Ethical Narratives in Criminological Research. Research Ethics 14(2) pp.1-5

Mahoney I and Kearon T (2017) Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke-on-Trent, in Walker C and Roberts S (Eds.) Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-class men in International Perspective, Palgrave: London.  pp.77-99

Op-Eds:

Mahoney I and Kearon T (2017) Selling Homes for £1 Gives Local Authorities the Power to Revive Deprived Communities. The Conversation [Online] available at https://theconversation.com/selling-homes-for-1-gives-local-authorities-the-power-to-revive-deprived-communities-88265

Mahoney I (2016) Censoring the Terrors of War, Open Democracy [Online] available at https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/ian-mahoney/censoring-terrors-of-war

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