Dr Jane Hill
Email: jane.hill@bcu.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 121 331 6201
Bio & Interests
Jane Hill has worked at Birmingham City University for eleven years and teaches on BA Sociology programmes, MA Research methodology and MA Criminal Justice Policy and Practice. Her teaching has covered most major areas of sociology with special interests in crime and the social construction of 'deviance' as well as research methodology.
Jane graduated as a mature student and went on to gain a Graduate teaching Assistantship at Keele University in 1990. At Keele, Jane taught social policy and began researching the issue of inter-agency cooperation in relation to child abuse, which was the subject of her PhD thesis.
Jane's research, with Graham Wright, has investigated the processes by which young people are marginalised by the discourses of community safety. Jane and Graham are now researching and writing on the potential for Restorative Justice in the current UK policy context.
More recently Jane worked on the final stage of the Just Justice project, on behalf of the Children’s Society, which charted young black people’s experiences through-out the CJS. The report will be launched in February 2006
Research Supervision
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Restorative Justice
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Community Justice
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Community safety
Select Publications
Daring to Dream
Jane Hill (2006) Daring to Dream: Towards an Understanding of Youth Black People's Reflections Post-Custody. The National Association for Youth Justice.Vol 6 (3). 181-193
Jane Hill and Graham Wright (2004), ‘Victims, Crime and Criminal Justice’ in Muncie J. & Wilson D. (eds) Student Handbook of Criminal Justice & Criminology London: Cavendish
Jane Hill (with Graham Wright) (2003), 'Youth, Community Safety and the Paradox of Social Inclusion” The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol. 42 No. 3 July 2003
Jane Hill and Graham Wright (in preparation), ‘Crime Victims and Restorative Justice’ in Pamela Davies and Peter Francis (eds) Victims in the Criminal Justice System .
Projects
With Graham Wright, Jane has negotiated access to observe the restorative programme for offenders opperating 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.
Dr Jane Hill's Full Faculty Research Profile