Published Dissertations

Below is a list of all dissertations published by the Hallam Criminology Society to date.

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Public Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses towards Sex Offenders and the Impact that Parenthood has upon these

Anna Morton

An Exploration of Media Campaigns & Policy Formulation

Charlotte Taylor

Youth Gang Membership: An Investigation of Young People Joining and Leaving Gangs

Daniel S Hounslea

The influence of the ‘hip-hop lifestyle’ on the possession and use of weapons by young male gang members in the UK

Danielle Ward

Sugar and Spice...And all Things Nice? Perceptions and Understandings of Female Perpetrators of Filicide 

Eleanor Peers

Sex Offenders & How They Use the Internet

Joasia Lesniak

Drug use at U.K. Music Festivals

Laura E Eaton

Youth Offending Teams: Preventing Crime and Social Exclusion

Paul Wilkinson

Rape and Responsibility: A quantitative study into gendered student perceptions of female rape and the attribution of responsibility

Rebecca C King

The Impact of Gender upon Fear of Crime in Victims and Non-Victims

Louise Bisatt

A sociopsychological investigation into the possible motivations of youth involvement within delinquent gangs in contemporary society

Kayley Louise Cracknell

Do Women Need Gender Specific Secure Services?

Hannah Hillyer

To What Extent has Recreational Drug Use become Normalised within a Contemporary Student Population?

Paul Murray

Is there a correlational relationship between a person's perceived level of adaptive unconscious and the rate of accuracy in the detection of deception?

Charles Smedley

An Investigation into Articles from The Sun Newspaper Which Portray the Police Negatively in their Detections of or Investigations into Burglary to Discover the Themes that are Used to Make Such News Stories Newsworthy and Why they Make Such News Stories Newsworthy

Kirsty Woollen