Nic Groombridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 4974896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nic Groombridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nic |
| FAMILY NAME | Groombridge |
| SIGNATURE | GROOMBRIDGE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Mary's University Twickenham London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6859-9521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jamie Bennett and Victoria Knight, Prisoners on Prison Films
Sports Criminology
Sports Criminology
This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Hampshire : Waterside Press ( 2010 ) 163pp . £19.95hb ISBN 978-1-90438-058-0 Lord Byron may have been mad, bad and dangerous to know but Herschel Prins is not. He is charming and affable, and, like the reviewer, a member of the Editorial Advisory Group of this journal. Moreover, one of the journal's editors, David Wilson, has provided a foreword and glowing jacket quote. The ‘dangerous’ refers to Prins's eventual area of practice and academic int…
Flashback
Cullompton : Willan ( 2010 ) 189pp. £45.00hb ISBN 978-1-84392-791-4 This book is one of Willan's ‘Crime Ethnography Series’ chosen by Dick Hobbs and Geoffrey Pearson. The latter supervised the PhD on which this is based. It covers the years 1993 to 1998 and comes to us only now. Calling the book Flashback references the drug scene but, in reality, this is a barely refashioned PhD. A lot of drugs are bought and sold but there is no sense of the wi…
Offenders on Offending
(Ed.) . Cullompton : Willan ( 2010 ) 328pp . £65.00hb ISBN 978-1-84392-777-8 £25.00pb ISBN 978-1-84392-776-1 I agree with both Michael Tonry, in his foreword, and Wim Bernasco, the editor of this selection, on the importance of hearing the voices of criminals within criminology, but would point to the work of Tony Parker and Pat Carlen's collection as places where that voice can be heard louder (see Soothill 1999; Carlen 1985). The voice of crimi…
Ian Loader and Richard Sparks, Public Criminology
Framing Crime
Abingdon : Routledge-Cavendish ( 2010 ) 224pp. £25.19pb ISBN 978-0-41545-9-044 Any reviewer will know the difficulty of reviewing an edited collection – twelve chapters and 17 contributors here – so Hayward makes a bold claim in his introductory chapter that the book is not ‘just another collection of “sexy” essays [...] we have sought a degree of consistency’ (p.10) and is clear what the book is about with a longer list of what the book is not a…
I'm Making a TV Programme Here!’
This article examines the TV series Banged Up and media reactions to it. In doing so it seeks to argue that it served a wider public service purpose, or public criminology, than simply entertainment. A number of other ‘experiments’ and the crossover between those and reality TV are also explored. The series was not universally admired and no attempt is made to hide this. In addition to engaging with theoretical matters the experience of one of th…
Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture
Cullompton : Willan ( 2008 ) 262pp. £55.00hb ISBN 978-1-84392-256-8 £19.50pb ISBN 978-1-84392-255-1 Calling on favours left over from past work in the estates of the North East the authors talk to and hang out with petty thieves, dealers and prostitutes. Thus, ‘Karen’ claims her ‘worker can rattle off all the bull she wants about what I do, at the same time as staring at my Gucci boots and hungering for them’ (p.35). A local dealer is envied as h…
Counterblast
Dead Wrong
Westport, CN : Praeger ( 2006 ) 320pp. £28.99pb ISBN 0-275-99221-7 The author has been an advisor to the USA's National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the book seeks to further those ends. Interestingly, Sister Prejean's praise in the blurb focuses on Stack's capacity to move the debate from penological issues about the deterrent capacity of the death penalty to the manifest flaws in the criminal justice system, rather than moral issu…
Criminologists Say
This article examines UK national press coverage of criminology and criminologists for the twelve months up to April 2005. In part it replicates work done on sociology and sociologists in the previous year by Gaber (2005) . Both serious and by the bye contributions by criminologists and mentions of criminology – favourable and unfavourable – are analysed, to provoke discussion within criminology and criminal justice studies about how the discipli…
Crime Control or Crime Culture TV
In criminological and in popular or media discourse CCTV is seen to be 'working'. Sometimes concern is raised about the civil liberties issues raised by such surveillance - for instance, in its extension from shopping malls to police cells. This paper reviews the criminological contributions to the debate but goes on to cross the borders of criminology into media and cultural studies by examining popular cultural texts which focus on or incorpora…
Stars of CCTV? How the Home Office wasted millions - a radical 'Treasury/Audit Commission' view
This paper looks back on earlier pieces on CCTV in Britain by Groombridge and Murji and argues that the identified failures of CCTV, in terms of effectiveness and value-for money, have been consistently ignored both at the time and in more recent government evaluations
The Violences of Men
Perverse Criminologies
This article argues for the importance of (homo)sexuality to the criminological enterprise. It traces a course of criminological engagement with homosexuality from the works of Lombroso and the early sexologists, through the 'nuts, sluts and perverts' period of interactionism to gay activism and polemic against homophobic violence and discrimination. Criminology is seen to have lumped both the 'criminal' and the 'homosexual' together in its early…
Masculinities and Crimes Against the Environment
This article argues from a green perspective that criminology has failed adequately to address either the environment or masculinities. It explores elements of `car culture' such as `joyriding' and `road rage' as well as protests against road-building and the car. Using methods drawn from cultural studies and Sumner's concept of censure, it seeks a more holistic criminology and crime policy
The Violences of Men
Perverse Criminologies
This article argues for the importance of (homo)sexuality to the criminological enterprise. It traces a course of criminological engagement with homosexuality from the works of Lombroso and the early sexologists, through the 'nuts, sluts and perverts' period of interactionism to gay activism and polemic against homophobic violence and discrimination. Criminology is seen to have lumped both the 'criminal' and the 'homosexual' together in its early…
Masculinities and Crimes Against the Environment
This article argues from a green perspective that criminology has failed adequately to address either the environment or masculinities. It explores elements of `car culture' such as `joyriding' and `road rage' as well as protests against road-building and the car. Using methods drawn from cultural studies and Sumner's concept of censure, it seeks a more holistic criminology and crime policy
Crime Control or Crime Culture TV
In criminological and in popular or media discourse CCTV is seen to be 'working'. Sometimes concern is raised about the civil liberties issues raised by such surveillance - for instance, in its extension from shopping malls to police cells. This paper reviews the criminological contributions to the debate but goes on to cross the borders of criminology into media and cultural studies by examining popular cultural texts which focus on or incorpora…
Criminologists Say
This article examines UK national press coverage of criminology and criminologists for the twelve months up to April 2005. In part it replicates work done on sociology and sociologists in the previous year by Gaber (2005) . Both serious and by the bye contributions by criminologists and mentions of criminology – favourable and unfavourable – are analysed, to provoke discussion within criminology and criminal justice studies about how the discipli…
Stars of CCTV? How the Home Office wasted millions - a radical 'Treasury/Audit Commission' view
This paper looks back on earlier pieces on CCTV in Britain by Groombridge and Murji and argues that the identified failures of CCTV, in terms of effectiveness and value-for money, have been consistently ignored both at the time and in more recent government evaluations
Masculinities and Crimes Against the Environment
This article argues from a green perspective that criminology has failed adequately to address either the environment or masculinities. It explores elements of `car culture' such as `joyriding' and `road rage' as well as protests against road-building and the car. Using methods drawn from cultural studies and Sumner's concept of censure, it seeks a more holistic criminology and crime policy
Perverse Criminologies
This article argues for the importance of (homo)sexuality to the criminological enterprise. It traces a course of criminological engagement with homosexuality from the works of Lombroso and the early sexologists, through the 'nuts, sluts and perverts' period of interactionism to gay activism and polemic against homophobic violence and discrimination. Criminology is seen to have lumped both the 'criminal' and the 'homosexual' together in its early…
The Violences of Men
Crime Control or Crime Culture TV
In criminological and in popular or media discourse CCTV is seen to be 'working'. Sometimes concern is raised about the civil liberties issues raised by such surveillance - for instance, in its extension from shopping malls to police cells. This paper reviews the criminological contributions to the debate but goes on to cross the borders of criminology into media and cultural studies by examining popular cultural texts which focus on or incorpora…
Stars of CCTV? How the Home Office wasted millions - a radical 'Treasury/Audit Commission' view
This paper looks back on earlier pieces on CCTV in Britain by Groombridge and Murji and argues that the identified failures of CCTV, in terms of effectiveness and value-for money, have been consistently ignored both at the time and in more recent government evaluations
Criminologists Say
This article examines UK national press coverage of criminology and criminologists for the twelve months up to April 2005. In part it replicates work done on sociology and sociologists in the previous year by Gaber (2005) . Both serious and by the bye contributions by criminologists and mentions of criminology – favourable and unfavourable – are analysed, to provoke discussion within criminology and criminal justice studies about how the discipli…
Counterblast
Dead Wrong
Westport, CN : Praeger ( 2006 ) 320pp. £28.99pb ISBN 0-275-99221-7 The author has been an advisor to the USA's National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the book seeks to further those ends. Interestingly, Sister Prejean's praise in the blurb focuses on Stack's capacity to move the debate from penological issues about the deterrent capacity of the death penalty to the manifest flaws in the criminal justice system, rather than moral issu…
I'm Making a TV Programme Here!’
This article examines the TV series Banged Up and media reactions to it. In doing so it seeks to argue that it served a wider public service purpose, or public criminology, than simply entertainment. A number of other ‘experiments’ and the crossover between those and reality TV are also explored. The series was not universally admired and no attempt is made to hide this. In addition to engaging with theoretical matters the experience of one of th…
Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture
Cullompton : Willan ( 2008 ) 262pp. £55.00hb ISBN 978-1-84392-256-8 £19.50pb ISBN 978-1-84392-255-1 Calling on favours left over from past work in the estates of the North East the authors talk to and hang out with petty thieves, dealers and prostitutes. Thus, ‘Karen’ claims her ‘worker can rattle off all the bull she wants about what I do, at the same time as staring at my Gucci boots and hungering for them’ (p.35). A local dealer is envied as h…
Framing Crime
Abingdon : Routledge-Cavendish ( 2010 ) 224pp. £25.19pb ISBN 978-0-41545-9-044 Any reviewer will know the difficulty of reviewing an edited collection – twelve chapters and 17 contributors here – so Hayward makes a bold claim in his introductory chapter that the book is not ‘just another collection of “sexy” essays [...] we have sought a degree of consistency’ (p.10) and is clear what the book is about with a longer list of what the book is not a…
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Hampshire : Waterside Press ( 2010 ) 163pp . £19.95hb ISBN 978-1-90438-058-0 Lord Byron may have been mad, bad and dangerous to know but Herschel Prins is not. He is charming and affable, and, like the reviewer, a member of the Editorial Advisory Group of this journal. Moreover, one of the journal's editors, David Wilson, has provided a foreword and glowing jacket quote. The ‘dangerous’ refers to Prins's eventual area of practice and academic int…
Flashback
Cullompton : Willan ( 2010 ) 189pp. £45.00hb ISBN 978-1-84392-791-4 This book is one of Willan's ‘Crime Ethnography Series’ chosen by Dick Hobbs and Geoffrey Pearson. The latter supervised the PhD on which this is based. It covers the years 1993 to 1998 and comes to us only now. Calling the book Flashback references the drug scene but, in reality, this is a barely refashioned PhD. A lot of drugs are bought and sold but there is no sense of the wi…
Offenders on Offending
(Ed.) . Cullompton : Willan ( 2010 ) 328pp . £65.00hb ISBN 978-1-84392-777-8 £25.00pb ISBN 978-1-84392-776-1 I agree with both Michael Tonry, in his foreword, and Wim Bernasco, the editor of this selection, on the importance of hearing the voices of criminals within criminology, but would point to the work of Tony Parker and Pat Carlen's collection as places where that voice can be heard louder (see Soothill 1999; Carlen 1985). The voice of crimi…
Ian Loader and Richard Sparks, Public Criminology
Sports Criminology
Sports Criminology
This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology
Jamie Bennett and Victoria Knight, Prisoners on Prison Films
Sociology (16 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (6 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)