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Francis Dodsworth is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Kingston University, London. He has been a faculty member since 2014, previously serving for a decade at the Open University’s ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), with a focus on urban studies and governmentality. His academic career began at the University of Manchester, where he studied the cultural history of crime and policing during the 1990s.
Education:
- PhD, University of Manchester
- MA, University of Manchester
- BA (Hons), University of Wales, Lampeter
Research Interests:
His research lies at the intersection of historical criminology, policing, and security studies. He is particularly interested in the gendered politics of protection, the historical sociology of crime, and the spatial dimensions of justice. His work draws on Foucauldian governmentality theory and Elias’s civilising process to interrogate how vulnerability and protection have been configured in modern Britain.
His recent monograph, The Security Society: History, Patriarchy, Protection (2019), explores the evolution of security from public policing to self-defence through a gendered lens. He is currently extending this into a study of emotion and identity in policing and security institutions.
Publications and Impact:
Dodsworth has published extensively across criminology, urban studies, and cultural history. His work spans from the material culture of religion to urban governance, but consistently returns to the historical construction of crime, policing, and security. His articles often appear in leading journals such as The British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Culture and Religion.
Supervision and Teaching:
He currently co-supervises five PhD students working on topics ranging from cold case investigations in Pakistan to housing policy in Manchester. He is course leader for the BSc in Criminology and the BSc in Criminology and Forensic Psychology. He teaches modules including Social Order and Social Control, Policing and Punishment, and Risk and Crime.
