Staff profiles
Dr Ed Pollock
BA Law with Politics, PgDip Research Methods, MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice, PhD Criminology
Phone 0114 225 5378
E-mail e.pollock@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
Criminology
Ed joined Sheffield Hallam University as a lecturer in criminology in October 2006, having previously taught criminology at Nottingham Trent University since October 2002. He read Law with Politics at the University of Central Lancashire before undertaking an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Loughborough University.
In 2006 Ed completed his PhD in criminology, which focused on how the internet can create an enabling environment for the expression and development of online racial hatred, and facilitates criminal and other harmful activity.
Ed is on the editorial board of the Internet Journal of Criminology and is chairman of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Whatton, Nottinghamshire.
Specialist areas of expertise
- hate crime
- hi-tech crime
- policing
- treating and managing offenders
Recent publications
Pollock, E. (2009) 'Researching White Supremacists Online: Methodological Concerns of Researching 'Speech' Online. Internet journal of criminology.
Hopkins Burke, R. and Pollock, E (2004) A Tale of Two Anomies: Some observations on the contribution of (Sociological) Criminological theory to explaining hate crime motivation. Internet journal of criminology.
Conference papers
July 2007 Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Berlin, 2007 - Interaction and the BNP: An analysis of the legality of BNP-affiliated postings on the Internet
February 2005 The SOLON and Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate crime, bias and Prejudice third International Hate Crimes Conference - Theorising hate crime motivation in the UK and USA: The enduring contribution of Anomie theory
February 2004 The SOLON and Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Bias and Prejudice second International Hate Crimes Conference - A typology of Activity in Internet Newsgroups
February 2003 The SOLON and Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Bias and Prejudice first International Hate Crimes Conference - A Tale of Two Anomies: Some observations on the contribution of (Sociological) Criminological theory to explaining hate crime motivation.
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