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Hannah Thurston is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton. Her research focuses on punishment systems, cultural criminology, and museum studies, with particular emphasis on Texas' death penalty practices and prison tourism.
- BA Hons Psychology and Criminology, University of Brighton
- MA Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Brighton
- PhD, University of Kent (thesis: 'Don't Mess With Texas: The Cultural Life of Punishment in Lone Star Museums')
Research interests include:
- Societal punishment mechanisms and cultural narratives
- Museum ethnography as storied spaces of narrativity
- Comparative analysis of criminal justice systems (Texas vs Scandinavia vs UK)
- Death penalty in the American South
- Cultural memory and forgetting in penal contexts
Article trends show multidisciplinary work at the intersection of:
- Criminology and museology
- Narrative theory and penal history
- Cultural studies and ethnographic methodology
- Prison tourism and visual representation
- Comparative analyses of Western punishment systems
- Media representation of crime and punishment
Scientific contributions include:
- Recipient of teaching award nomination
- Key publications in Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
- Research outputs spanning 2008-2021 on punishment narratives
Teaching portfolio includes modules on:
- Cross-Cultural Criminology (death penalty, Scandinavian prisons, American gun crime, Mexican drug cartels)
- Criminology in Action (UK criminal justice professions)
- Explaining Crime and Criminals (media representation of offenders)
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