Miss Leanne Monchuk

Biography

Leanne graduated from the University of Huddersfield in 2006 with a first class honours degree in BSc (Hons) Applied Criminology (Criminal and Community Justice). Since then, Leanne has been employed as a Research Assistant in the Applied Criminology Centre (ACC). Leanne has a specific interest in the field of designing out crime and is currently undertaking a part-time PhD entitled: ‘Mainstreaming Designing Out Crime?: Assessing the Impact of Greater Manchester Police Design for Security Consultancy’.

Leanne has also co-edited a special edition of the Built Environment journal entitled ‘International Perspectives on Planning for Crime Prevention’ and is currently co-editing a special edition of the Safer Communities journal entitled 'Designing out Crime: Voices from the Fields' which is due to be published in October 2013.

Research & Scholarship

Designing out Crime
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Surveillance
Anti-social behaviour

Selected Research Projects:

Parliamentary Inquiry into Crime Prevention through Environmental Design in Victoria (Australia)
Evaluation of the Street Safety Camera Program in Sydney, Australia (In collaboration with the Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney).
Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council: The Preparation of Abu Dhabi Safety and Security Planning Manual (In collaboration with Llewelyn Davies Yeang, Scott Wilson and Happold Safe and Secure).
COPING (Children of Prisoners: Interventions and Mitigations to Strengthen Mental Health)
The Role of Crime Reduction Advisors in Greater Manchester
Residential Design and Crime
National Police Crime Prevention Service Evaluation (NPCPS)
Re-Evaluating Secured by Design in West Yorkshire - Ten Years On
The Prevalence of Racially Motivated Offending and Provision of Targeted Interventions
Greater Manchester Police Architectural Liaison Service Evaluation
Security versus Sustainability

Publications (in press):

Monchuk, L and Clancey, G. (Eds.) (due to be published October 2013) Designing out Crime: Voices from the Fields. Special Edition of the Safer Communities Journal.
Manby, M., Monchuk, L. and Sharratt, K. (in press) The importance of maintaining family ties during imprisonment – Perspectives of those involved in HMP New Hall’s Family Support Project.

Publications and Other Research Outputs

2013

Ekblom, P., Armitage, R., Monchuk, L. and Castell, B. (2013) ‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in the United Arab Emirates: A Suitable Case for Reorientation? ’ Built Environment , 39 (1), pp. 92-113. ISSN 02637960

Monchuk, L. and Clancey, G. (2013) ‘A Comparative Analysis of Crime Risk Assessments and their Application in Greater Manchester and New South Wales ’ Built Environment , 39 (1), pp. 74-91. ISSN 02637960

2012

Batley , R., Rogerson, M., Johnson , D., Chintakayala , P., Nellthorp , J., Wardman , M., Hirschfield, A., Newton, A., Shires , J., Monchuk, L., Armitage, R. and Sharratt, K. (2012) Evaluating measures to improve personal security and the value of their benefits Rail Safety and Standards Board

Monchuk, L (2012) ‘Findings from evaluating Secured by Design (SBD) ’. In: Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Burglary Reduction Working Group Meeting , 19 April 2012, Arrow Centre, Nottingham

Monchuk, L (2012) ‘Greater Manchester Police Design for Security Consultancy. The Way forward in Designing out Crime? ’. In: Comparative CPTED Conference, Institute of Criminology , 24 January 2012 , University of Sydney, Australia

2011

Smithson, H., Monchuk, L. and Armitage, R. (2011) ‘Gang Member: Who Says? Definitional and Structural Issues’. In: Youth Gangs an International Perspective: Tales from the Eurogang Program of Research. London: Springer. pp. 53-68. ISBN 978-1-4614-1658-6

Armitage, R. and Monchuk, L. (2011) ‘Sustaining the crime reduction impact of designing out crime: Re-evaluating the Secured by Design scheme 10 years on ’ Security Journal , 24 (4), pp. 320-343. ISSN 0955-1662

Smithson, H., Wilcox, A., Monchuk, L., Christmann, K. and Wong, K. (2011) ‘The prevalence of youth racially motivated offending: What do we really know?’ Probation Journal , 58 (3), pp. 233-249. ISSN 0264-5505

Monchuk, L (2011) ‘The Way Forward in Designing Out Crime? : Greater Manchester Police Design for Security Consultancy’ Safer Communities: a journal of practice, opinion, policy and research , 10 (3), pp. 31-40. ISSN 1757-8043

Monchuk, L. and Armitage, R. (2011) ‘1999 to 2009: Re-evaluating Secured by Design (SBD) Housing in West Yorkshire’. In: HCA Design Forum North East, Yorkshire and The Humber: Designing out Crime , 11 March 2011 , Leeds

Armitage, R., Monchuk, L. and Rogerson, M. (2011) ‘It Looks Good, but What is it Like to Live There? Exploring the Impact of Innovative Housing Design on Crime’ European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research , 17 (1), pp. 29-54. ISSN 0928-1371

2010

Wilcox, A., Smithson, H., Christmann, K., Monchuk, L. and Wong, K. (2010) Racially motivated offending and targeted interventions London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

Smithson, H., Wilcox, A. and Monchuk, L. (2010) ‘Current Responses to Youth Racially Motivated Offending’ Youth Justice , 10 (2), pp. 157-173. ISSN 1473-2254

Monchuk, L. and Armitage, R. (2010) ‘1999 to 2009: Re-Evaluating Secured by Design (SBD) Housing in West Yorkshire ’. In: National ALO/CPDA Training Event, 26-28 January 2010, Nottingham

2009

Armitage, R. and Monchuk, L. (2009) ‘1999 to 2009: Re-evaluating Secured by Design Ten Years On’. In: Proceedings of iDOC'09 'What's Up Doc' International Design Out Crime Conference. Perth, Western Australia: Design Out Crime Research Centre. . ISBN 9781876394189

Monchuk, L. and Armitage, R. (2009) ‘Reconciling Security with Sustainability: The Challenge for Eco-Homes’. In: 9th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 9–12 September 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Armitage, R. and Monchuk, L. (2009) ‘Reconciling Security with Sustainability: The Challenge for Eco-Homes’ Built Environment , 35 (3), pp. 308-327. ISSN 02637960

Monchuk, L (2009) ‘As Safe as Green Houses? Security and Sustainability’. In: National ALO/CPDA Training Event, 27-29 January 2009, Crown Plaza Hotel, Nottingham

2008

Monchuk, L (2008) ‘How Green Was My Padlock? Security and Sustainability’. In: Designing Out Crime Association (DOCA) Annual General Meeting, 19 November 2008, West Midlands Police HQ, Edgbaston

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Annex 4: Guildford, prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Final Report prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Annex 2: Birmingham, prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Technical Annex prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Annex 5: Nottingham, prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Annex 1: Blackpool, prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Rogerson, M., Monchuk, L. and Wilcox, A. (2008) Evaluation of Licensing Act: Measuring Crime and Disorder in and around Licensed Premises, Research Study SRG/05/007 Annex 3: Croydon, prepared for the Home Office University of Huddersfield

Newton, A., Armitage, R., Hirschfield, A., Monchuk, L., Rogerson, M., Wilcox, A. and Hunter, G. (2008) The Impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on Levels of Crime and Disorder: Key Findings of the Guildford Case Study, prepared for the Home Office King's College London

Newton, A., Armitage, R., Hirschfield, A., Monchuk, L., Rogerson, M., Wilcox, A. and Hunter, G. (2008) The Impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on Levels of Crime and Disorder: Key Findings of the Croydon Case Study, prepared for the Home Office King's College London

Jacobson, J., Newton, A., Armitage, R., Hirschfield, A., Monchuk, L., Rogerson, M. and Wilcox, A. (2008) The Impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on Levels of Crime and Disorder: Key Findings of the Nottingham Case Study, prepared for the Home Office King's College London

Newton, A., Armitage, R., Hirschfield, A., Monchuk, L., Rogerson, M., Wilcox, A. and Jacobson, J. (2008) The Impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on Levels of Crime and Disorder: Key Findings of the Birmingham Case Study, prepared for the Home Office King's College London

Newton, A., Armitage, R., Hirschfield, A., Monchuk, L., Rogerson, M., Wilcox, A. and Jacobson, J. (2008) The Impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on Levels of Crime and Disorder: Key Findings of the Blackpool Case Study, prepared for the Home Office King's College London

Esteem

Keynote Speaker: Contemporary Overview of Crime Prevention in England and Wales. NSW Local Government Community Safety and Crime Prevention Network Conference, Newcastle (NSW), Australia, 7-8 March 2013.
Editor (with Rachel Armitage) of Special Edition of Built Environment Journal - Armitage, R and Monchuk, L. (2013) (eds) ‘Planning for Crime Prevention: An International Perspective’ Built Environment 39 (1). See: www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/common/resources/built_environment_39no1.pdf.
Editor (with Garner Clancey) of Special Edition of the Safer Communities Journal - Designing out Crime: Voices from the Fields (2013).
Invited Guest Lecturer (via video conference) delivering input into the Environmental Criminology: Space and Place Unit in the Masters of Criminology degree delivered at the University of Sydney.
See: www.hud.ac.uk/news/researchnews/thedownunderdimension.php
Conference Administrator and Member of the Local Organising Committee for the British Society of Criminology Conference 2008. Hosted by the Applied Criminology Centre.
Strategic link in collaborations between the University and the Sydney Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney).
See: www.hud.ac.uk/news/researchnews/sydneyinstituteofcriminology.php
Member of the Greater Manchester Police Crime Prevention/Reduction Steering Group.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)