Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Colin Webster BA (CNAA/Birmingham), MA (Leeds), PGCE (Leeds), PhD
(Leicester)
Professor of Criminology/ Faculty Post-Graduate Tutor at Leeds Metropolitan University
Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Teesside
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
Leeds Metropolitan University
Broadcasting Place
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds LS2 9EN
0113 8124903
c.webster@leedsmet.ac.uk
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Education
Birmingham Polytechnic 1972-74, 1975-76, full-time BA
University of Bradford 1976-78, full-time MPhil
Huddersfield Polytechnic 1979-80, full-time PGCE
University of Leeds 1983-85, part-time MA
University of Leicester 1991-1996, part-time PhD
Qualifications
BA Sociology (2:1, CNAA/Birmingham Polytechnic)
MA Sociology (Leeds)
PGCE (Distinction, Leeds)
PhD (Leicester)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Appointment History
Bradford & Ilkley Community College:
Lecturer Grade 1 in General Education 1981-83 Full-Time
Lecturer Grade 2 in Sociology of Education 1983-90 Full-Time
Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Deviance and Criminology) 1990-95 Full-Time
University of Teesside:
Senior Lecturer in Criminology 1995 to 2005 Full-Time
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Visiting Research Fellow 2007 to present
University of York:
Visiting Lecturer in Criminology 1996 to 2000
Leeds Metropolitan University:
Senior Lecturer in Criminology 2005 to 2006
Reader in Criminology 2006 to 2011
Professor of Criminology 2011
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Current Teaching, Administrative and Academic Leadership Roles
I contribute to the teaching of an undergraduate first year course Crime, Justice and Society, a
second year course Youth Crime and Justice and an MSc Criminology module Contemporary
Criminal Justice. I am module leader for two compulsory second year undergraduate courses
Contemporary Criminological Theory and Crimes of the Powerful and two third year optional
modules, Understanding Race and Crime, and Crime, Community and Crime Prevention. I also
lead and contribute to Contemporary Issues in Criminology and Contemporary Criminological
Theory on MSc Criminology. These compulsory (n.150 students) and optional modules (n.50-70
students) are large and receive ‘good’ to ‘excellent’ student evaluations.
As a Professor my leadership roles in the Faculty and Social Sciences Group are first academic.
They are to offer advice, support and mentor colleagues in their individual and collaborative
research, scholarly activity and research plans, and to lead or collaborate with colleagues in
bidding for research grants within and without the University (e.g. I coordinate the Social Policy
UoA for the University’s REF 2010 bid). I am also Post-Graduate Tutor for the Faculty coordinating and mediating PhD registrations. The evidence of successful research bidding is
catalogued below. I lead and managed – as co-investigator – a national AHRC/ESRC funded
research project (ID No: G014086/1) over three research sites, for which my primary
responsibility was to manage a Research Fellow and the conduct of the research in Bradford,
which is one of the research sites.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Research Interests and Grants
An overarching theme of my research are relationships between biography, place and social
change using in-depth, close-up, qualitative methods, supplemented with contextual data using
surveys and local socio-economic profiles and profiles of social change.
My specific research interests are ethnic identity and social cohesion, and the ways in which
young people order their moral relationships as individuals and in groups; cultural and social
change in urban settings; relationships between space, place, crime and disorder; urban theory
and the sociology of the city; ‘race’, ethnicity and crime; criminal identities and career; social
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exclusion; critique of risk assessment; and racist violence; and poverty and youth/young adult
transitions. The three overall substantive themes that define my work and contributions are:
 Young people, youth transitions and poverty (e.g. Poor Transitions)
 Urban neighbourhood studies (e.g. Negotiating Identities)
 Race, ethnicity and crime (e.g. Understanding Race and Crime)
My most recent research bid was with colleagues at Strathclyde University (Prof. Ross Deuchar
and Dr. Monica Barry). We were informed in August 2011 this bid was not successful. This was
an ESRC Bid Youth Gangs, Racism and Inter-Cultural Social Capital in Glasgow and Liverpool
(£334,083: 2011).
Co-investigator (with Prof. Nicola Madge – Principal Investigator and Prof. Anthony Goodman)
of an AHRC and ESRC funded research project (2009/11: £490,236) Negotiating Identity: young
people’s perspectives on faith values, community norm and social cohesion. (Grant ID No:
G014086/1)
Co-Investigator (with Prof. Tracy Shildrick – Principal Investigator and Prof. Robert MacDonald)
of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded research project (2008/10: £106,000) Two Steps
Forward, Two Steps Back? Understanding recurrent poverty.
Co-Director (with Prof. Robert MacDonald) of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded research
project (2003/4: £37,000) Extended Youth Transitions and Social Exclusion: A Critical Case
Study.
Co-Director (with Prof. Robert MacDonald) of University of Teesside funded research project
(2003/7: £24,000) Extended Youth Transitions, Higher Education and Social Inclusion: A Critical
Case Study.
Director of Middlesbrough Council funded Research Project (2004: £20,000) Evaluation of Social
Cohesion Projects in Middlesbrough.
Co-Director (with Prof. Tim Blackman and Dr Roger Sapsford) of a Middlesbrough Council
funded Research Project (2003: £15,000) From Segregation to Social Cohesion in
Middlesbrough.
Co-Director: Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded (1998-2000: £57,000) Young People,
Exclusion and Alternative Careers, (with Professor Les Johnston and Dr. Rob MacDonald,
University of Teesside).
Director: UNITE Mediation Services funded (1998-2001: £8,000) Evaluation of the Effects of
Peer Mediation on Bullying in Eight Schools.
Director: Drug Prevention and Advisory Service/ Stockton Drug Action Team funded (2002,
£8,000) Needs Assessment of Opiate Dependent Users and Evaluation of Drugs Services.
Director: Home Office, Research and Planning Unit funded (1989 - 1993; £35,000) Evaluation of
Detached Youth Work Project and Role of the Youth Service in Crime Prevention.
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Director: Bradford Safer Cities funded (1992-93; £8,611.55) Local Crime and Victim Survey.
Director: Bradford Safer Cities funded (1993; £500) Evaluation of the Role of Youth Work in
Crime Prevention.
Director: Bradford & Ilkley Community College Corporation funded (1994-95; £6,162.86)
Qualitative Follow-up Study of The Keighley Crime and Victim Survey.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER OUTPUTS
Authored Books
Phillips, C. and Webster, C. (eds.) (forthcoming 2013) New Directions in Ethnicity, Crime and
Justice, London: Routledge.
Madge, N., Calestani, M., Goodman, A., Hemming, P., King, K., Kingston, S., Stenson, K. and
Webster, C. (forthcoming 2012) Youth On Religion: the development, negotiation and impact of
faith and non-faith identity, London: Routledge.
Shildrick, T., MacDonald, R., Webster, C. and Garthwaite, K. (forthcoming 2012) Poverty and
Insecurity: Life in Low-pay, No-Pay Britain, Bristol: Policy Press.
Webster, C. (2007) Understanding Race and Crime, Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Webster, C., Simpson, D., MacDonald, R., Abbas, A., Cieslik, M., Shildrick, T and Simpson, M.
(2004) Poor Transitions: Social exclusion and young adults, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Johnston, L., MacDonald, R., Mason, P., Ridley, L. and Webster, C. (2000) Snakes & Ladders:
Young People, Transitions and Social Exclusion, Bristol: Policy Press.
Webster, C. (1995) Youth Crime, Victimisation and Racial Harassment: The Keighley Crime
Survey, Centre for Research in Applied Community Studies, Bradford: Bradford & Ilkley
Community College Corporation.
Chapters in books
Webster, C. (2012) ‘The discourse on “race” in criminological theory’, in Hall, S. and Winlow, S.
(eds.) New Directions in Criminological Theory, London: Routledge.
Webster, C., MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T. and Garthwaite, K. (2012) ‘Communities of Fate?
Researching the Lives of Poor Neighbourhoods’, in Watt, P., Smith, D. and Darcy, M. (eds.) Social
Housing Estates as Spaces of Social Exclusion, London: Routledge.
Webster, C. (2012) ‘Different forms of discrimination in the CJS’, in Sveinsson, K. (ed.) Criminal
Justice v Racial Justice: Over-Representation in the Criminal Justice System, London: The
Runnymede Trust.
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Webster, C. (2012) ‘The Construction of British Muslim Criminality and Disorder’, in Wetherly,
P., Farrar, M., Robinson, S. and Valli, Y. (eds.) ‘Islam’ in ‘the West’: Key Issues in
Multiculturalism, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
MacDonald, R., Webster, C., and Simpson, M. (2011) ‘Paths of exclusion, inclusion & desistance:
understanding marginalised young people’s criminal careers’, in Farrell, S. and Sparks, R. (eds.)
Escape Attempts: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment, London: Routledge.
Webster, C. (2009) ‘Young People, Race and Ethnicity’, in Furlong, A. (ed.) International
Handbook on Youth and Young Adulthood, London: Routledge.
Webster, C. (2009) ‘Stuart Hall’, in Hayward, K., Maruna, S. and Mooney, J. (eds.) Fifty Key
Criminological Thinkers, London: Sage.
Webster, C. (2009) ‘Guide to minority groups in the youth justice system’, Community Care
Inform, available at
http://www.ccinform.co.uk/Articles/2009/03/06/2965/Guide+to+minority+groups+in+the+yout
h+justice+system.html?Keywords=guide+to+minority+groups&CategoryName=Guide+To...&Top
ics=&DateFrom=&DateTo=&SearchBrowse=&SearchType=General
Webster, C. (2008) ‘The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry’, in Newburn, T. (ed.) Dictionary of Policing,
Cullompton: Willan.
Webster, C. (2008) ‘Race, Youth Crime and Justice’, in Goldson, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Youth
Justice, Cullompton: Willan.
Webster, C. (2008) ‘Racist Victimisation in England and Wales’, in Winterdyk, J. A. and
Antonopoulos, G. A. (eds.) Racist Victimisation: International Reflections and Perspectives,
Aldershot: Ashgate.
Webster, C. (2007) ‘Drugs Treatment’, in Simpson, M., Shildrick, T., and MacDonald, R. (eds.)
Drugs in Britain: Supply, Consumption and Control, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Webster, C. (2006) ‘Race, Youth Crime and Justice’, in Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (eds.) Youth
Crime and Justice, London: Sage.
Webster, C. (2006) ‘Communes: A Thematic Typology’ in Hall, S. and Jefferson, T. (eds.)
Resistance Through Rituals: Post-War Youth Subcultures, Second Edition, Abingdon: Routledge.
Webster, C., MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T. and Simpson, M. (2005) ‘Young Adults, Social Exclusion
and Extended Transitions’, Commissioned by the Barrow Cadbury Trust for Lost in Transition: A
Report of the Barrow Cadbury Commission on Young Adults and the Criminal Justice System,
London: Barrow Cadbury Trust, available at
www.bctrust.org.uk/snapshots/social-exclusion-young-adults/
Webster, C. (2004) ‘Policing British Asian Communities’, Hopkins Burke, R. (ed.) Hard Cop/Soft
Cop: Dilemmas and Debates in Contemporary Policing, Cullompton: Willan Publishing.
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Webster, C. (1998) ‘Researching Racial Violence: A Scientific Realist Approach’, in Vagg, J., and
Newburn, T. (eds.) in Emerging Themes in British Criminology: Selected papers from the 1995
British Criminology Conference. Leicester: British Society of Criminology Website.
Webster, C. (1993) ‘Process and Survey Evaluation of an Anti-racist Youth Work Project’, in
Francis, P., and Matthews, R. (eds.) (1993) Tackling Racial Attacks, Leicester: University of
Leicester.
Webster, C. (1976) ‘Communes: A Thematic Typology’ in Hall, S., and Jefferson, T. (eds.) (1976)
Resistance Through Rituals: Post-War Youth Subcultures. London: Hutchinson.
Refereed Articles for Academic Journals
Madge, N., Hemming, P., Goodman, A., Goodman, S., Kingston, S., Stenson, K. and Webster, C.
(forthcoming, 2011) ‘Conducting large-scale surveys in schools: the case of the Youth On
Religion (YOR) project’, Children & Society.
Antonopoulos, G.A., Tierney, J. and Webster, C. (2008) ‘Police Perception of Migration and
Migrants in Greece’, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice, 16(4), 353-378.
Webster, C. (2008) ‘Marginalised white ethnicity, race and crime’, Theoretical Criminology, Vol.
12(3): 293-312.
Webster, C., MacDonald, R. Simpson, M. (2006) ‘Predicting Criminality? Risk Assessment,
Neighbourhood Influence and Desistance’, Youth Justice, Vol. 6, No. 1: 7-22, reprinted in
Muncie, J. and Goldson, B. (2008) (eds.) Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice, (Sage Library of
Criminology), London: Sage.
MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T., Webster, C. and Simpson, D. (2005) ‘Growing up in poor
neighbourhoods: The significance of class and place in the extended transitions of socially
excluded young adults’, Sociology, 39(5): 873-891.
Webster, C. (2003) ‘Race, Space and Fear: imagined geographies of racism, crime, violence and
disorder in Northern England’, Capital & Class, No. 80: 95-122, May.
MacDonald, R., Mason, P., Shildrick, T., Webster, C., Johnston, L., and Ridley, L. (2001) ‘Snakes
and Ladders: In Defence of Studies of Transition’, Sociological Research On-line, 5, 4.
Webster, C. (1996) ‘Local Heroes: violent racism, localism and spacism among white and Asian
young people’, Youth & Policy, No 53: 15-27, reprinted in South, N. (ed.) (1999) Youth Crime,
Deviance and Delinquency, International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology,
volume II. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Webster, C. (1997) ‘The Construction of British “Asian” Criminality’, International Journal of the
Sociology of Law, 25, pp 65-86.
Webster, C. (1996) ‘Local Heroes: violent racism, spacism and localism among white and Asian
young people’, Youth & Policy, No 53, pp 15-27.
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Research Reports/ Monographs
Shildrick, T., MacDonald, R., Webster, C. and Garthwaite, K. (2010) The low pay, no pay cycle:
Understanding recurrent poverty, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, available at
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/unemployment-pay-poverty-full.pdf
Webster, C., Blackman, T., Sapsford, R., Neil, B. and Chapman, T. (2004) A Better Place to Live:
Social and Community Cohesion in Middlesbrough, University of Teesside: Social Futures
Institute. Available at:
http://www.tees.ac.uk/docs/docrepo/social%20futures/FinalCommunityCohesionReport.pdf
Webster, C., and Robson, G. (2002) Needs Assessment of Young Substance Misusers and Drug
Services in Stockton, Stockton: Drug Action Team and DPAS.
Webster, C. (1993) Keighley Youth Activity Group: Evaluation Report. Bradford: Bradford Safer
Cities.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Invitations to Present
Webster, C. (2011) ‘Poverty in the UK’, International Seminar on Poverty, University of Harstad,
Norway, 16-17 November.
Webster, C. (2011) ‘The Future of Assessments in Youth Justice’, Annual Youth Justice
Convention, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, London, November 2-3 November.
Webster, C. and Kingston, S. (2011) ‘Negotiating Religious Identity and Social Cohesion in
Bradford’, British Society of Criminology Inaugural Meeting, University of Leeds, 10 May.
Webster, C. (2010) ‘History, Biography, Place and Structure: Teaching theory to students and
practitioners of youth justice?’ Social Work with Children in Trouble: The Pedagogy of Youth
Justice, IUC Symposium, Dubrovnik, 15-18 June.
Webster, C. (2010) ‘Response to “The Dynamics of Desistance”’, Book Launch, University
College, Dublin, 9 June.
Webster, C. (2010) ‘”New” Directions: Ethnicity, race, crime and justice debates’, Race, Ethnicity
and Crime Research Symposium, Open University, 8 June.
Webster, C. (2009) ‘The “Asian” disorders 2001: Antecedents, causes and consequences’,
presentation to community cohesion research seminar, University of Huddersfield, February.
Webster, C. (2008) ‘Rethinking Race, ethnicity and Crime: the racialisation and criminalisation of
white ethnicity’, Postgraduate and Staff Research Seminar Series, University of Kent.
Webster, C. (2008) ‘Marginalised White Ethnicity, Race and Crime’, Globalisation, Ethnicity and
Racism: Challenging Criminology Research Symposium, January 10 – 11, Centre for Criminology,
University of Oxford.
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MacDonald, R., Webster, C., Shildrick, T. and Simpson, M. (2007) ‘Paths of Exclusion, Inclusion &
Desistance: Understanding Marginalised Young People's Criminal Careers’, ESRC ‘Life after
Punishment’ research seminar, Keele University.
MacDonald, R., Webster, C. and Shildrick. T. (2007) ‘Class, consumption and prejudice:
contemporary representations of ‘the social scum’, ESRC Research Seminar, University of
Teesside, April.
Webster, C. (2007) ‘The Social Construction of British Asian Criminality’, paper presented to
“Flashpoints in a Fraught Relationship: Understanding ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’”, one-day
conference held at Leeds Metropolitan University, 21st February 2007.
Webster, C. (2006) ‘Stuff Happens: Criminality, Risk, Neighbourhoods and Desistance’, keynote
speech to The Howard League for Penal Reform one day conference ‘Out for Good: the
resettlement needs of young adult offenders, 31st May 2006.
Webster, C (2006) ‘Re-conceptualising race, crime and justice’, talk to Middlesex University
Postgraduate and Staff Seminar, November, University of Middlesex.
Webster, C. (2006) ‘Desistance from Offending’, keynote speech to Leeds Common Purpose
event ‘Reducing Re-offending in Leeds’, 25th May 2006.
Webster, C. (2006) ‘Predicting Criminality? Risk Factors, Neighbourhood Influence and
Desistance’, paper presented to Keele University Postgraduate and Staff Research Seminar, 17th
May.
Webster, C, (2006) ‘Predicting Criminality? Risk Factors, Neighbourhood Influence and
Desistance’, paper presented at University of York research seminar, 21st February.
Webster, C. and MacDonald, R. (2005) ‘The Teesside Youth Studies’, British Society of
Criminology conference, University of Leeds, as part of invited panel.
Webster, C. (2005) ‘Using Longitudinal Biographical Data in the Teesside Studies’. Paper
presented to MSc Research Methods and Doctoral Students, University of Bradford, 18th
November 2005.
Webster, C. (2004) ‘Policing British Asian Young People’, Talk presented to the Centre for
Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds, 17th February 2004.
Webster, C. (2002) ‘Needs Assessment of Young Substance Misusers and Drug Services in
Stockton’, Presentation to Stockton DAT, 11th September 2002.
Webster, C. (2002) ‘From Segregation to Integration: Building Cohesive Communities in
Middlesbrough’, Keynote Speech to Social Cohesion Conference, The Enterprise Centre,
University of Teesside, 12th July 2002
Webster, C. (2001) ‘In Search of Respect: Asian young people and disorder in northern England’,
talk presented to the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, London School of
Economics, 17th October.
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Webster, C. (2001) ‘Qualitative Career Research on Perpetrators of Racist Violence’, paper
presented to ESRC Violence Seminar, University of Lancaster, 6th July.
Webster, C. (2001) ‘When Heroin Hits Home: Methadone in the Community?’ paper presented
to Drugs Conference, Thistle Hotel, Middlesbrough, 26th April 2001.
Webster, C. (2001) ‘Race, space and fear: imagined geographies of racism, crime, violence and
disorder in Northern England’, paper presented to ‘The Geography and Politics of Fear’ One Day
Workshop, University of London Union, Bloomsbury, July 3rd.
Webster, C. (2000) ‘Poor People Behaving Badly? Criminality and Economic Rationality’, paper
presented to Criminology Research Seminar Series, University of Teesside, December.
Webster, C. (2000) ‘Young People, Transitions and Social Exclusion: Implications For The
Connexions Service’, keynote speech to one day DfEE conference Research to Inform the
Development of the Connexions Service, Forte Posthouse, Bloomsbury, London WC1, 14th June.
Webster, C. (1998) ‘Researching Racial Violence: A Critical Realist Approach’. Paper presented
to the MSc Sociology course, University of Northumbria, March.
Webster, C. (1996) ‘Public Discourse and Asian Criminality’, paper presented to the British
Society of Criminology, London, April.
Webster, C. (1995) ‘The Myth of ‘Asian’ Criminality?’ paper presented to the Criminal Justice
Day School, Scarman Centre for the Study of Public Order, University of Leicester, September.
Webster, C. (1994) ‘A Youth Work Approach to Working with Offenders and Victims’,
presentation to Home Office Seminar, Research and Planning Unit, Home Office, April.
Refereed conference papers
Webster, C. and Kingston, S. (2011) ‘Negotiating Identity and Social Cohesion: Young people on
religion’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Vilnius, September 2011.
Webster, C. and Kingston, S. (2011) ‘The meanings young people attach to faith, community
norms and social cohesion’, British Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, University of
Northumbria, 14 July.
Webster, C. (2010) ‘Criminal careers & desistance: the contingencies of ‘private troubles’ & the
‘public issues’ of class, place and history’, European Society of Criminology Conference,
University of Liege, 9 September.
Webster, C. and MacDonald, R. (2010) ‘Criminal careers & desistance: the contingencies of
‘private troubles’ & the ‘public issues’ of class, place and history’, British Society of Criminology
Conference, University of Leicester, 12-14 July.
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Webster, C., MacDonald, R. and Shildrick, T. (2008) ‘Criminality, Careers and Class: Enduring
Risk Factors and Social Exclusion’, European Society of Criminology Conference, University of
Edinburgh, September.
Webster, C. (2008) ‘Marginalised White Ethnicity, Race and Crime’, British Society of
Criminology Conference, University of Huddersfield, July.
Webster, C. and Stenson, K. (2007) ‘Rethinking the Racism, Crime and Justice Debate’, British
Society of Criminology Conference, London School of Economics, September.
Webster, C., MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T., Simpson, M. (2007) ‘Theorising criminal careers’,
British Society for Criminology conference, LSE, London, September.
Webster, C. (2007) ‘Criminal Careers in Context: Biography, History and Risk’, European Society
of Criminology Conference, University of Bologna, September.
Webster, C. (2005) ‘Predicting Criminal Careers Through Risk Assessment: an empirical critique
using longitudinal qualitative data’, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of
Leeds, 12th – 14th July 2005.
Webster, C. (2004) ‘Putative Desistance? A Qualitative, Longitudinal Study of Criminal and
Dependent Drug Using Careers’, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of
Portsmouth, 6th – 9th July 2004.
Webster, C. (2003) ‘Responses to the “Asian” Disorders in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham: The
Racialisation of “Community Cohesion”’, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of
Wales, Bangor, 24th-26th June.
Webster, C., and Simpson, D. (2003) ‘Extended Youth Transitions, Social Capital & Social
Exclusion: A Critical Case Study’, International Conference on Young People, Social Capital and
Empowerment, University of Strathclyde, September 11th-14th September.
Webster, C. (2003) ‘The Methadone Monopoly: The Treatment and Care of Young Heroin
Users’, European Sociological Association Conference, University of Murcia, Spain, 23rd – 26th
September.
Webster, C. (2003) ‘A Critical Case Study of Extended Criminal and Drug Careers: Social Capital
and Social Exclusion’, American Society of Criminology Conference, Denver, Colorado, 18th-22nd
November.
MacDonald, R., Webster, C., Simpson, D., Abbas, A., Cieslik, M., Simpson, S., and Shildrick, T.
(2003) ‘Social Exclusion and Social Networks’, Connections that Count: International Youth
Research, Policy and Practice Conference, University of Strathclyde.
Webster, C. (2001) ‘Young People, Racism and Racist Violence: Racialising Space and
Temporising Race’, paper presented to the British Sociological Association Conference,
Manchester Metropolitan University, April.
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Webster, C. (2000) ‘Young People, Social Exclusion and Criminal Careers: Neighbourhood
Effects’, paper presented to the British Society of Criminology Conference, University of
Leicester, July.
Webster, C. (1999) ‘Youth, Social Exclusion and Alternative Careers’. Paper presented to the
American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto, November.
Webster, C. (1998) ‘Toward a Theory of Adolescent Racist Violence’. Paper presented to the
British Society of Criminology Conference, John Moores University, Liverpool, July.
Webster, C. (1997) ‘Ordinary Racism: Conceptualising Racism Among British Young People’,
paper presented at The American Society of Criminology Conference, San Diego, November.
Webster, C. (1997) ‘Inverted Racism: An Empirical Study of Perpetrators of Racial Violence’.
Paper presented to the British Society of Criminology Conference, The Queen’s University of
Belfast, July.
Webster, C. (1997) ‘White Racial Violence: perpetrators accounts’, paper presented at the
Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, University College Wales, Cardiff, April.
Webster, C. (1995) ‘Local Heroes: Violent Racism, Localism and Spacism Among Asian and
White Young People’ paper presented to the British Society of Criminology Conference,
Loughborough University, July.
Webster, C. (1995) ‘Racial Attacks in Northern England’ paper presented to Centre for
Criminology, Middlesex University, February 1995, and the British Sociology Association
Conference, University of Leicester, April.
Webster, C. (1995) ‘Racial Harassment, Space and Localism: Qualitative Aspects of the Keighley
Crime Survey’ presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Conference, Brunel University, March.
Webster, C. (1995) ‘Racism, Spacism and Localism: Quantitative Aspects of the Keighley Crime
Survey’ presented at the British Institute of Geographers Conference, University of Northumbria,
January.
Webster, C. (1994) ‘Findings from the Keighley Crime and Victim Self Report Survey’, paper
presented to the British Society of Criminology, University of Sheffield, May.
Webster, C. (1993) ‘International Self-Report Delinquency Study: some preliminary findings
from the Keighley area study’, paper presented at the British Society of Criminology Conference,
University of Wales, Cardiff, July.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Research Supervision and Examination of Research Degrees
Research supervision
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Director of Studies: three PhD’s (University of Teesside until 2008)
Completions: one completion (University of Teesside 2006)
Examination of Research Degrees
External Examiner PhD ‘Governing Disengagement: Young People, Participation and Policy’,
Open University (2011)
External Examiner PhD ‘Labour in a Northern Town: Call Centres, Labour Markets and Identity in
Post-Industrial Middlesbrough’, University of York (2011)
Internal Examiner PhD ‘From Care to Custody: Young, Looked After and Criminalised’, Leeds
Metropolitan University (2010)
External Examiner PhD ‘Albanian Young People in Athens: experiences of crime, drugs and
criminal justice’, London School of Economics (2009)
External Examiner PhD, ‘Recent Developments in Probation Practice: the Impact of Risk
Analysis’, University of Hertfordshire (2008)
External Examiner PhD, ‘The Captive Mother: Investigation into Third World Infant Malnutrition
and Mortality through the Lived Experience of Bereaved Mothers and Paediatricians’, University
of Keele (2005)
External Examiner MPhil, ‘An Investigation into the Impact of the Criminal Justice System on the
Pakistani/Kashmiri Muslim Community in West Yorkshire’, University of Sheffield (2001)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reviewing
Reviewing articles for journals, research proposals for the ESRC, pre-publication reviewing of
Home Office reports and book proposals and manuscripts for publishers as an external reader
or proposal referee is evidence of academic standing. As well as reviewing for several
publishers – notably Willan Publishing and Oxford University Press, I have carried out academic
review/ assessment for journals and the Home Office. For example, The Oxford Handbook of
Criminology (Maguire et al) for Oxford University Press, Criminology (Newburn) for Willan,
Criminal identities and Consumer Culture (Hall and Winlow) for Willan, Criminological
Perspectives (McLaughlin and Muncie) for Sage. These are key texts that define the teaching
and development of British Criminology.
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EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Academic Consultant to the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales ‘Changing the Risk
Assessment Framework’ (2010-11)
External Assessor for Periodic Review of BA Criminology and BA Sociology, University of
Sunderland, 25 Nov 2010.
Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Teesside (2007- present)
Member ESRC Research Advisory Group ‘Youth Offending and Youth Transitions’, Universities of
Glasgow and Strathclyde (2010-2012)
External Assessor BA/BSc Youth Justice Studies, Open University (2009) – this is the Youth
Justice Board’s preferred national qualification for all practitioners in the Youth Justice system
in England and Wales.
External Assessor for the Open University’s and Youth Justice Board’s distance learning course
for Youth Justice Managers, K288 ‘Delivering the Youth Rehabilitation Order’ (2009). My
Independent Report to the Youth Justice Board that evaluates the design of this course is
available at http://www.yjb.gov.uk/engb/practitioners/WorkforceDevelopment/HRandLearning/NationalQualificationsFramework/YR
O_ScaledApproachTraining/
Member of European Criminology Criminal Careers Network (2007-present)
External Examiner BA Criminology and BA Police Studies, Bucks New University (formerly
Buckingham Chilterns University College) (2005-2009)
External Examiner MA Crime and The City, University of York (2006-7)
External Assessor, Revalidation of BA Criminology and BA Criminal Justice and Criminology,
Middlesex University, 19th May 2000
Book Reviews Editor, International Journal of the Sociology of Law (1997-2004)
Research Advisor West Yorkshire Police (2007-present)
Evidence to the Oldham Independent Review into the Oldham Disorders of 26-29 May 2001
Joseph Rowntree Advisory Group/ Black Housing Federation: ‘Racial Violence in the UK: A
Victim’s Perspective’ (1997-1999)
Advisor ESRC Violence Programme (Racial Violence) (2000-2003)
In 2005 – 2007, since the publication of Poor Transitions the authors have been invited to
consult with national policy agencies about the implications of our findings for: policies towards
disadvantaged young adults (for the SEU and Princes Trust); a full employment strategy for the
North East (IPPR North); policy in respect of young people not in education, employment and
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training (IPPR); and youth justice policy (Barrow Cadbury Trust).
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