Dr Harry Annison LLB (Soton), MSc, DPhil (Oxon)
Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology, Co-Director for the Centre for Law, Policy and Society (CLPS)
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Dr Harry Annison is a Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology at Southampton Law School. His research currently focuses upon penal policymaking, and indeterminate sentencing.
LLB (Soton) 2006; MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice (Oxon) 2009; DPhil Criminology (Oxon) 2013.
Harry is Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology, and Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Policy and Society (CLPS). He is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology in Michaelmas 2016.
His research primarily centres upon penal policymaking, analysing the beliefs and practices that underpin criminal justice policy. He also has a keen interest in indeterminate sentencing , and the theoretical and practical issues raised therein. His first monograph Dangerous Politics was published by Oxford University Press in October 2015. His work has been published in leading journals including Theoretical Criminology and The Journal of Law and Society.
Dr Annison has also conducted research on criminal justice practice, serving as co-investigator on a project researching Integrated Offender Management (IOM) for Thames Valley Police and Thames Valley Probation. He has also collaborated with the Howard League for Penal Reform on its ‘What is Justice?’ symposium, acting as consultant for the ‘One Idea for Change’ and ‘Ideas for Justice’ initiatives.
Harry welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral applicants in his fields of interest.