Professor Dr. Hannah Marshall

Biography

Hannah Marshall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, joining in December 2024. She was previously a junior research fellow and affiliated lecturer in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She has completed her PhD in Criminology at the University of Cambridge, an MA in Social Anthropology at Brown University, and a BA in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her research primarily focuses on critical criminology, examining the constructed status of victims within criminal justice systems. She is particularly interested in the experiences of young people at the intersection of victimization and offending. Currently, she is working on a book project that explores the processes of victim identification, aiming to develop novel theoretical insights into the concept of 'victim'. Her broader research interests include policing, criminalization, social justice, youth justice, sociology of childhood, politics of vulnerability, queer theory, and relational sociology. As a qualitative researcher, she employs methods such as grounded theory, ethnography, and arts-based participatory research.

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