School of Law

Staff

Biography
Graham Ellison completed his undergraduate studies at Queen's University where he graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Political Science and Sociology. He completed his PhD at the University of Ulster (Jordanstown) in 1996, and in 1997 was appointed to the post of Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University, England. In September 2000 he returned to Belfast to take up a Lectureship in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Queen's University. He has just completed an ESRC funded research project to investigate young people's experiences of crime, policing and victimisation in Northern Ireland, and is currently managing a research project funded by the Irish Government to develop closer criminological and criminal justice research links between the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• MSSc Criminology & Criminal Justice /Criminology and Human Rights
• Criminology in Practice (core theory course)
• Dissertation Workshop
• Elective Modules in Policing, Fear, Crime and the Media, Crime Prevention and Informal Justice

    Undergraduate

• Law and Society

Research
Policing and Social Conflict, Transnational Policing, Youth Crime and Youth Justice, Cultural Criminology, Social Movements.

Selected Publications

The Crowned Harp: Policing Northern Ireland (2000, with Jim Smyth) London: Pluto Press

"Reforming the RUC" (1998) Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Composition, Recruitment and Training of the RUC, Northern Ireland Select Committee, House of Commons, Third Report, Vol. II, London: HMSO

"Reflecting All Shades of Opinion: Public Attitudinal Surveys and the Construction of Police Legitimacy in Northern Ireland" (2000) 40 British Journal of Criminology 88

"Policing, Collective Action and Social Movement Theory: the case of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Campaign" (with Greg Martin) (2000) 51 British Journal of Sociology 681

"Young People and the Royal Ulster Constabulary: A Survey of Inter-Communal Attitudes" (2001) 11 Policing and Society 321

Policing in Northern Ireland (2001, edited with Aogan Mulcahy) special edition of Policing and Society

Administration
Member of Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice 2000-present
Examinations Officer within the ICCJ 2000-present
Member of Teaching and Learning Committee 2001-present