Library Dissertation Showcase

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Latest Dissertations

What is Machiavelli’s view on crime and punishment within his work ‘The Prince’?

  • Author:
  • Genevieve Keerie
  • Subject:
  • Criminology
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2023
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Criminology

Knife Crime in Britain: The Impact of Youth Service Cuts on Youth Service’s Ability to Help Combat Knife Crime. The Need for Reinvestment and Moves Towards a Public Health Approach

  • Author:
  • Jack Evans
  • Subject:
  • Criminology
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Criminology

A critical exploration of the formation of state crime: examining the application of definitional frameworks and criminological theory on different presentations of state crime through the use of case studies

  • Author:
  • Haajir Booley
  • Subject:
  • Criminology
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Criminology

A study looking into the variation of football-related crime across England and Wales

  • Author:
  • Joe Bates
  • Subject:
  • Geography
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2022
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Geography

A thematic analysis of the effectiveness of the Assisting Rehabilitation through Collaboration (ARC) programme in Lincolnshire

  • Author:
  • Niamh Reeson
  • Subject:
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • MSc Forensic Psychology

Making a celebrity: an analysis of the representation of serial killers as celebrities within ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’, and ‘Mindhunter’

  • Author:
  • Harriet Olivia Richardson
  • Subject:
  • Media Production
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Media Production

What do the newspaper articles, and trial of Robert Coombes tell us about the representations of criminally insane children in the late nineteenth-century?

  • Author:
  • Niamh Carney
  • Subject:
  • History
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2021
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) History

Has the true crime phenomenon influenced public attitudes towards forensics, and does it influence people’s fear of crime?

  • Author:
  • Paulina Rybak
  • Subject:
  • Forensic Science
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BSc (Hons) Forensic Science

An examination of the pro-social components of desistance for young people accessing a boxing club in London

  • Author:
  • Charlotte Jackson-Smith
  • Subject:
  • Criminology
  • Year of Publication:
  • 2020
  • Award:
  • BA (Hons) Criminology