Staff profiles
Tanya Miles-Berry
Criminology lecturer, BA (Hons) Law / Criminology, RMN
Phone 0114 225 5803
E-mail t.miles-berry@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
Criminology
I am a qualified psychiatric nurse and spent most of my professional career working in medium secure environments within the forensic psychiatric field. I then completed my BA and am in the process of completing my PhD - looking at where mentally disordered offenders go when they are released from prison or discharged from hospital.
Research interests
- care and supervision of mentally disordered offenders
- issues of risk and dangerousness
- implications of the new mental health legislation
- professional working practices as related to mentally disordered offenders
- issues and implications of the 'risk assessment' process
Teaching interests
- anything concerning the above
- criminological research methods
- criminal justice system
- history and development of punishment and social control
- introduction to criminology
