Member Profile
Name:
Dr Stephanie Brown
Institution:
University of Hull
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Criminology
Additional disciplines:
History
Science Studies
Science Studies
Other societies:
Social History Society
British Society of Criminology
Economic History Society
Local Population Studies Society
British Society of Criminology
Economic History Society
Local Population Studies Society
Research interests:
Stephanie is a historian of crime and criminal justice interested the prosecution of violent crime from 1350 to 1900. Her research interests include legal and social conceptions of violence, the socio-economic backgrounds of criminals and victims, and the construction of criminality. Her work tackles the question of how prosecution is shaped by social ideas about violence, gender, ethnicity, and class.
Her forthcoming monograph Murder and Mercy: Homicide and capital punishment in nineteenth-century Wales argues that not everyone had an equal chance at mercy. It examines the attitudes towards murder, murderers, and victims and assess how these views were modified by concepts of gender, race and nationality, and the growing concerns surrounding a criminal class.
Her forthcoming monograph Murder and Mercy: Homicide and capital punishment in nineteenth-century Wales argues that not everyone had an equal chance at mercy. It examines the attitudes towards murder, murderers, and victims and assess how these views were modified by concepts of gender, race and nationality, and the growing concerns surrounding a criminal class.