Hannah Marshall

Assistant Professor

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I joined the Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor in December 2024. Previously, I was a junior research fellow and affiliated lecturer in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. I completed my PhD in Criminology at the University of Cambridge, my MA in Social Anthropology at Brown University, and my BA in Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

Research interests

I am a critical criminologist and my research examines how victim status is constructed and conceptualised within criminal justice systems. Within this overarching area of focus, I am particularly interested in the experiences of young people and in intersecting experiences of victimisation and offending. My current book project explores processes of victim identification in order to develop novel theoretical insights into 'victim' as a concept. The book draws on two recent pieces of empirical research: an ethnographic study of a specialist police unit focusing on child criminal exploitation in the UK, and an interview and observation based study with young people identified as potential victims of child criminal exploitation and with the professionals working to support them. My wider research interests include: policing, the criminalisation of drugs, social justice, youth justice, the sociology of childhood, the politics of vulnerability, queer theory, and relational sociology. I am primarily a qualitative researcher with a interest in grounded theory, ethnography, and arts-based and participatory research methods.

Publications

Marshall, H., Bacon, M., and Spicer, J. (2024) ‘Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing’ The British Journal of Criminology, [Online First] htps://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae020

Marshall, H. (2024). ‘Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status’, The British Journal of Criminology, [Online First] htps://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae008

Marshall, H. (2024). ‘Victim as a Relative Status’. Theoretical Criminology, 28 (2) 157-174.

Marshall, H. (2023). ‘Victims First? Examining the Place of ‘Child Criminal Exploitation’ Within ‘Child First’ Youth Justice’. Children & Society, 37 (4), 1156- 1170.

Marshall, H. (2022) ‘An Intersectional Analysis of Young Men’s Perspectives on Child Criminal Exploitation and their Involvement in County Lines’ in Contemporary Intersectional Criminology: Examining the Boundaries of Intersectionality and Crime, Eds. Jane Healy and Ben Colliver, Bristol University Press, Bristol.

Marshall, H., Harvey, J., Lanskey, C. (2020) ‘Connectors, Horizon Stretchers, Outsiders: Youth Justice Practitioners in Rural England’ Youth Justice, 20 (3) 293- 308.