Ms Ruth Jamieson

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Lecturer

Contact Details
Email address r.jamieson@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3458
Room 27.103, 27 University Square

Degrees
BA Hons. (Sociology and English Literature) Queen's University, Canada
M Phil (Criminology) Cambridge University

Biography
Ruth Jamieson completed her undergraduate studies at Queen's University, Canada where she graduated with a Joint Hons BA in Sociology and English Literature in 1973. She completed her MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge in 1988. Before joining the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Queen's in 2004 she taught at Keele University from 1995-2004 and at Cambridge University. Prior to that she worked for the Canadian Department of Justice on the research and evaluation of Federal/ Provincial Legal Aid and Access to Justice Programs. She also has published widely in the areas of war and crime and transnational crime. She is currently involved in research on topics such as the effects of long-term imprisonment and gender and resilience in armed conflict.

She was an Invited Special Expert to Tenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders, 11-15 April 2000, Vienna. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology and Temida (Journal of Victimology, Human Rights and Gender for the Former Yugoslavia).

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • International Criminal Justice

Postgraduate

  • Theory and Practice in Criminology (MSSc)
  • Transnational Crime (MSSc)

Research

Gender and Armed Conflict; Trauma and Resilience; Effects of Imprisonment; Transnational Crime.

Selected Publications

"State Crime by Proxy and Juridical Othering" (with K.McEvoy) (2005) 44,2 British Journal of Criminology

“Conflict, Suffering and the Promise of Human Rights” (with K. McEvoy) in D.Downes et al (eds) Crime, Social Control and Human Rights (2007, Willan).

 “No Sense of an Ending: Researching the Experience of Imprisonment and Release upon Republican Ex-Prisoners” (with Adrian Grounds) (2003) 7 Theoretical Criminology 347

“Genocide and the Social Production of Immorality” (1998) 3 Theoretical Criminology 131

“Towards a Criminology of War in Europe” in Ruggiero, South and Taylor (eds), The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe (1998, London: Routledge) 480

Administration

  • Member of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Equal Opportunities Officer 2004-present