Staff profiles
Dr Sunita Toor
PhD, MA, PGCHE, BA (Hons)
Phone 0114 225 5387
E-mail s.toor@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
Criminology
I joined Sheffield Hallam in March 2006 as a senior lecturer in criminology.
I previously worked at Nottingham Trent University as a lecturer in criminology; other posts have included research fellow at the University of Sheffield and research manager at the Hallam Centre for Community Justice.
Research interests
- race, ethnicity, culture and crime
- female offending
- women, crime and criminal justice
- Asian criminality
- minority young people, crime and criminal justice
Research and consultancy projects
- SOVA - Producing a manual for criminal justice agencies on tackling the barriers to employment for women leaving prison (2005)
- Derby Children's Fund - local evaluation (2005 and 2004)
- Toor, S. (2003) Understanding the Criminality of Minority Ethnic Girls. PhD Thesis: University of Leeds
- National Evaluation of On Track (2000-02), University of Sheffield
- EQUAL 'Women into Work' Project (2002)
- Yorkshire and Humberside Resettlement Strategy (2002), Government Office/Yorkshire Forward in the region (launched June 2003)
Teaching interests
- race, crime and criminal justice
- exploring diversity in criminal justice and criminology
- gender and crime
- criminological theory
Recent publications
Toor, S. (2005). Manual on Tackling Barriers to Employment for Women Leaving Prison. Sheffield: SOVA
Bowpitt, G.; Toor, S. and Weigard, T. (2005). Derby Children's Fund: Local Evaluation Report. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University
Bowpitt, G.; Toor, S. and Weigard, T. (2004). Derby Children's Fund: Local Evaluation Report. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.
Senior, P. and Toor, S. (2002). Regional Resettlement Framework: Consultative Document. July 2002 (Sheffield Hallam University Press)
Kennedy, J. and Toor, S. (2001) Evaluation of Out of the Blue Community Safety Shop. Sheffield: NACRO
