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Dominic Aitken joined Edinburgh Law School in 2025 as a Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence. He has previously worked at the University of Strathclyde from 2022 to 2025, the University of Bath from 2020 to 2022, and Roehampton University from 2018 to 2020. His teaching and research interests encompass criminal law and evidence, criminological theory, sociology of punishment, and the historical and political contexts of criminal justice institutions. He has published work on issues such as prison suicide investigations in England and Wales, featured in 'Punishment & Society', and on staff in UK immigration removal centres, published in the 'British Journal of Criminology'. Currently, he is writing a book that focuses on the role of experts in the creation, operation, and implementation of law. In 2019, Dominic completed his DPhil at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, supported by a competitive Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1+3 Studentship. Before his DPhil, he earned an MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice with Distinction from the University of Oxford, where he received the Roger Hood Prize for being the top graduate. In 2014, he was awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize for distinguished undergraduate law at the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Law School • Edinburgh
Teaching Criminal Law and Evidence, conducting research in related fields.
University of Strathclyde • Strathclyde
Lecturing in Criminal Law.
University of Bath • Bath
Teaching and research in Criminal Law.
Roehampton University • Roehampton
Academic responsibilities in Criminal Law.
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