Professor Gordon Hughes

Position:Chair in Criminology

School:Social Sciences

Email:HughesGH@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 79055
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74175
Address:1.20, Glamorgan Building

Comparative trends in crime control, crime prevention and community safety;
Criminology and sociological theory;
Crime and social policy;
Expertise, political agency and new community governance
The politics of crime, disorder and community;
The production of criminological knowledge
Youth justice and community safety in Wales
The comparative analysis of the politics and practices of local crime control and public safety across the UK and in mainland Europe.

Director, RSPCA project ‘”Status dogs”, young people and criminalisation: towards a preventative approach’ (2010-, £26000 RSPCA funding. With Dr Jenny Maher (University of Glamorgan) and Claire Lawson (RSPCA)
Director , ‘Evaluation of the Safer Communities Fund 2006-9’ (2008-2009, £115000 Welsh Assembly Government funding) . With Adam Edwards, Stephen Case and Kevin Haines (Swansea University) and Mark Liddle, Alison Smith and Sam Wright (ARCS Ltd). Report available as SOCSI Working Paper 126 and 127 (Welsh language version).
Co-researcher, ‘The role of the community safety officer in Wales (2007-8, £4000 WACSO funding. With Adam Edwards and Jasmin Tregidga. Report available as SOCSI Working Paper 104.
Co-director of ESRC funded seminar series ‘Rethinking community policing in an age of diversity’ (2005-6, £16 000 ESRC funding. With Michael Rowe, formerly University of Leicester);
Member of EU funded research project, DOMUS: safe city policies in European cities (2004-5, 50000 Euros)
Safer Clubbing and Pubbing in Milton Keynes: an evaluation of the drug and alcohol strategy (2002, £30000 Home Office/Milton Keynes Council);
Consultant to Australian Research Council Linkage project ‘Assessment of Local Community Safety and Crime Prevention Roles in Victoria’ (2003-4);
Anti-social behaviour and community safety in the UK (ongoing participant observation/action research with National Community Safety Network, 2005- present).

Cardiff School of Social Sciences