Thomas Considine

Member of the British Society of Criminology

Member of the Howard League for Penal Reform

Prior to working at the University and I spent four years working in the Prison Service and nine years working for the West Yorkshire Probation Service.

As a Probation Officer I carried out the full range of duties including the assessment and management of dangerous offenders, the preparation or court reports and attendance at MAPPA and Child Protection meetings.I have delivered a wide variety of training programmes and attended several practitioner conferences as well as deliver a domestic violence perpetrators programme.

Teaching & Academic Responsibilities

Module Leader for ‘Victims, Witnesses and Survivors’ [Applied Criminology]

Module Leader for ‘Assessment, Advice and Support’ [ Police Studies]

Module Leader for Social Policy and Community Safety and Crime Prevention

Contributes teaching on the ‘Work with Offending Behaviour’ ;Policing and Prisons’ and ‘Contemporary Issues and Debates in Criminal Justice’{Applied Criminology} and ‘Equality Diversity and Rights’ [Police Studies] amongst other areas.

Contribute to the teaching and Assessment on Advice and Support, Offending and Mental Health and Social and Professional Practice

Main research interests include; victims and Victimology; policing and victims; policing and victims; gendered crime (domestic violence and rape);risk assessments and dangerousness;’ Risk Society’ and Governmentality.

2011

Considine, T (2011) ‘The Newlove Report: a new opportunity or an obligation for communities to confront crime?’ Criminal Justice Matters , 86 (1), pp. 10-11. ISSN 0962-7251

Considine, T (2011) ‘Book review: Rebuilding lives after domestic violence: long term outcomes. Abrahams, H. (2010), London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers’ British Journal of Community Justice , 9 (1/2), pp. 151-153. ISSN 1475-0279

Considine, T (2011) ‘Book Review: Paul Rock. Victims, Policy Making and Criminological Theory: Selected Essays ’ Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice , 5 (3), pp. 281-283. ISSN 1752-4520

Considine, T (2011) ‘How can Communities be Policed in an Age of Austerity: Vigilantism?’ The Howard Journal of Criminal Justices , 50 (1), pp. 92-95. ISSN 0265-5527

2010

Considine, T (2010) ‘Between the Policing Pledge and Police Practice: how victim theories can improve the treatment of victims by the police’. In: To Report or not to Report - The Choice Facing Victims Victim Support Scotland, 5-7 October 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland

2008

Kiteley, R. and Considine, T. (2008) ‘Using wikis to support student collaboration and research’. In: Teaching and Learning Conference 2008: Enhancing Learning: Technology by Design, 15th September 2008, University of Huddersfield

Areas for supervision are as follows:

• Victims of crime and criminal justice agency responses;
• Policing and victim support;
• Risk management and supervising dangerous offenders;
• Developments in community safety and crime prevention practices.