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Mr Tom Ellis

Biography

Thomas Ellis is a principal lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. His areas of expertise include Japanese criminal justice, youth justice, prisons, prostitution, and race, diversity and criminal justice, where he sits on the Ministry of Justice's Race Statistics Advisory Board. Until 1999, he worked for the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate and also had a two-year spell at UNICRI based in Rome. Tom is also an external member of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) Research Panel.

Expertise

  • Project management, fieldwork, survey design, quantitative and qualitative analysis in large and small scale research and evaluation studies
  • Japanese and Korean criminal justice 
  • Youth justice
  • Prisons
  • Prostitution - Video Small / Large. "The News" - Newspaper Article
  • Race, diversity and criminal justice

  • Combat Sports

 Research areas:

  • Project management, fieldwork, survey design, quantitative and qualitative analysis in large and small scale research and evaluation studies

  • Japanese and Korean criminal justice

  • Youth justice

  • Prisons

  • Policing

Major contribution areas:

  • Race and criminal justice

  • Comparative research

  • Youth justice

Research Interests

Current Research Projects

  • An evaluation of the introduction of personal issue body worn video cameras 2013-2014. Initial funding from Hampshire Police £18,000.
  • Evaluation of the Wessex Resettlement Consortium 2011-2012. Youth Justice Board. £50,000.

Previous Research Projects

  • Setting up a research-based Anglo-Japanese network on crime and criminal justice matters to facilitate effective knowledge transfer. Funded by £3,500 from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, 2005-2006.
  • Research collaboration to produce Anglo-Japanese comparative criminal justice articles and book Funded by £10,000 from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, 2006-2007.
  • Fundamental Review of Section 95 Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System. Funded by £54,000 from Criminal Justice System Race Unit (Home Office, CPS and DCA), 2004-2005.
  • Persistent Young Offenders Project, Portsmouth Youth Offending Team. Jointly responsible with Claire Nee (Director of the Centre for Forensic Psychology, University of Portsmouth). Funded by £35,000 from Portsmouth City Council / Single Regeneration Budget, 1999-date
  • Evaluation of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Race for Justice (Local Criminal Justice Board)  project impact on newcomer and BME community confidence in Criminal Justice. Funded by £7,500 from Criminal Justice System Race Unit (Home Office, CPS and DCA) 2005.
  • The Impact of Anti-racist Training in the Criminal Justice System: A Comparative Study of Canada and the UK. Joint pilot project in partnership with Department of Social & Political Science, Royal Holloway, University of London. Funded by $10,700 (Can.) from Canadian Studies Institutional Research Program, Canadian High Commission, 2002.
  • Establishing a Baseline of Sentencer Satisfaction in the Youth Courts. Funded by £9,000 from Wessex Youth Offending Team, 2001-2002
  • Improving Race Relations in Prisons (Partners of Prisoners). Management of instrument design and evaluation in collaborative project with Partners of Prisoners in the North West and published in Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate Findings. Funded by £40,000 from Prisoner Administration Group, HM Prison Service, 2000-2001.
  • Establishing an outcome-based approach to ensuring compliance with probation orders in Humberside and Teesside. Project Leader with Research Assistant. Funded by £10,000 by Humberside and Teesside Probation Services, 2000-2001.
  • Previous applied research carried out for the Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate (RDS) or United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) includes:
    • Enforcement of Community Penalties
    • Strategies for Effective Offender Supervision: HM Inspector of Prisons, First 'What Works' study
    • Community Sentence Demonstration Project
    • Comparative Study of Drugs Training for the police in eight countries
    • Cocaine Markets and Law Enforcement in five countries
    • Police and Criminal Evidence Act, Codes of Practice
    • Public Order Act, Section 5
    • Drinking and Disorder Project

Publications

Articles

Books

Book Sections

  • Ellis Tom, Brooks G., Lewis Chris, Al Hashemi A. (2011) Contrary crimmigration: limitations to the hypothesis for policing Dubai In: Schroeder D., eds. The 2011 AAPS Annual Conference Proceedings "Asian Policing Strategies: Comparative Perspectives" : Asian Association of Police Studies and others, pp. 64-88 ISBN

  • Ellis Tom, Hall Nathan (2010) Hate crime In: Brown J., Campbell E,, eds. Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology : Cambridge University Press, pp. 511-519 ISBN 9780521878098

  • Ellis Tom, Lewis Chris, Hamai K., Williamson T. (2008) Japanese community policing under the microscopeIn: Williamson T., eds. The handbook of knowledge based policing: current conceptions and future directions :Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd ISBN 9780470028995

  • Lewis Chris, Ellis Tom (2007) Victim protection in the United Kingdom: policies, practice and the law In: Wei Z., eds. Criminal victim support study : People's Court ISBN 9787802174405

  • Scurlock Bill, Ellis Tom (2005) Mauritius police force In: Sullivan Larry E., eds. Encyclopedia of law enforcement : SAGE Publications, pp. 1184-1186 ISBN 9780761926498

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