Graham Wright
Email: graham.wright@bcu.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 121 331 7722
Bio & Interests
Graham Wright is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law. His main teaching areas are in Criminal Law and Criminology. He is the module co-ordinator responsible for the delivery of the crime courses on the LL.B. and CPE programmes.
Graham has been actively engaged in research for many years in the area of community safety on urban estates. Graham has previously researched the sentencing philosophies of magistrates and, sponsored by the Home Office' s Safer City initiative, has conducted a survey of fear of crime among the elderly residents of an inner city estate. He has been involved in consultancy work for Birmingham City Council in the field of fear of crime and advised managers of a large retail group as to the legal issues around retail theft. He was part of a research study examining the perceptions of crime held by the owner-managers of small businesses in Birmingham Heartlands.
Research Supervision
Criminal Law topics
- Homicide
- Bodily and sexual offences
- Property crimes
Criminal Justice topics
- Theories of punishment/sentencing
- Negotiated/plea justice
- Alternative dispute settlements
Criminological Issues
- Community Safety
- Restorative Justice
- Corporate/white collar crime
- Ageism
- Media represenations of crime.
Select Publications
Graham Wright (with Jane Hill)(2004), 'Victims, Crime and Criminal Justice' in Muncie J. & Wilson D. (eds) Student Handbook of Criminal Justice & Criminology London: Cavendish
Graham Wright (with Jane Hill)(2003), 'Youth, Community Safety and the Paradox of Social Inclusion" The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol. 42 No. 3 July 2003
Graham Wright (with Jane Hill) (in preparation), 'Crime Victims and Restorative Justice' in Pamela Davies and Peter Francis (eds) Victims in the Criminal Justice System .
Projects
With Jane Hill, Graham has negotiated access to observe the restorative programme for offenders operating in H. M. P. Swinfen Hall from January, 2006. The research will feed into their planned publications on the potential for the principals of Restorative Justice to take on a material reality within UK criminal justice practice.