David Porteous

Principal Lecturer in Criminology

Department: Criminology and sociology

Contact

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 4948
E-mail: d.porteous@mdx.ac.uk

Qualifications

BA Philosophy and Politics, University of Leeds

MA Politics of International Resources and Development, University of Leeds

Research Interests

Youth justice; drugs; mentoring; community safety; school exclusion; violence in schools.

Teaching Interests

Criminological Theory and Research; Youth Crime and Youth Justice; International Comparative Criminology.

Biography

Current work:

Lifelong cannabis use

Employment

Current: Principal Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University

1996-2003 Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, University of Luton

1994-1996 Research Officer, Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University

1990-1994 Research Assistant (PT to 1992), Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University

Selected publications

Edited books

Porteous, D., Volond, B. (2002) Working with Young People in Europe Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing.

Articles and chapters in edited books

Martin D, Chatwin C and Porteous D (2011) ‘‘Risky Places’-Young People’s experiences of crime and victimisation at school and in the community ‘ in Hayden, C. And Martin, D. (Eds.) Crime, Anti-Social Behaviour and Schools Basingstoke: Palgrave/MacMillan.

Porteous D (2008) 'The Wrong Kind of Victim: Young People and Street Crime' in Kennison P Goodman A (Eds) Children as Victims Learning Matters

Porteous D (2007) 'The prevention of youth crime: a risky business?' in Pearce J, Sales R Thom B (Eds) Growing Up with Risk, London, Policy Press

Porteous D (2004) 'Mentoring in Youth Justice' in Bateman T Pitts J The Russell House Companion to Youth Justice, Lyme Regis, Russell House Publishing

Refereed articles

Porteous D. (2011) ‘Good Cop, Polish Cop: Findings from an evaluation of the secondment of two Polish Police Officers to work with the Metropolitan Police Service’ in Safer Communities, April 2011.

Pitts, J., Porteous, D. (2005). Nobody should feel alone? Re-introducing socially excluded, cultural and ethnic minority children and young people to educational and vocational opportunity. European Journal of Social Work, 8(4): 435-450.

Non-refereed journal articles

Porteous D., Chatwin C., Martin D Goodman A. (2007) 'Young Victims of Street Crime in an East London Borough' in Community Safety Journal Vol 6, Issue 3, July 2007

Porteous D. (2007) 'The Rise and Fall of Mentoring in Youth Justice' in Prison Service Journal No. 170, March 2007

Martin D., Chatwin C. Porteous D. (2007) 'Young People, Surveillance and Security' in Criminal Justice Matters No 68, Summer 2007

Pitts J Porteous D (2006) 'Averting Ghettoisation: the role of educational services in reducing crime and victimisation in the ethnic minority community in Anderlecht, Brussels' in Community Safety Journal Vol. 5 Issue 3 June 2006

Research reports

Porteous D. (2007) The Impact of Former Early School Leavers on Youngsters at risk of Early School Leaving: A Report on the Third Peer Review Workshop of the RESTART Project held in Ljubljana, 21-23 February 2007 (see (http://www.qec-eran.org/projects/Restart/Restart_index.htm)

Porteous D (2007) The Impact of Former Early School Leavers on Youngsters at risk of Early School Leaving: Case Studies Report (see (http://www.qec-eran.org/projects/Restart/Restart_index.htm)

Chatwin C., Goodman A., Martin D., Porteous D. Stenson K. (2007) The Experiences and Views of Young People in Newham in relation to Crime, Bullying and Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University

Conferences

Porteous D (2011) In Defence of Transgression: The Right to have a Good Time Paper presented at a one day seminar on Crime and Human Rights at Crime and Conflict Research Centre, Middlesex University, March 25^th 2011

Porteous, D (2010) When ‘Big Brother’ met ‘Motorway Man’: Some reflections on the recent politics of surveillance in the UK Paper presented to Workshop on 'Video surveillance and data protection: the public-private interface' at the University of Barcelona, September 23rd 2010

Chatwin C & Porteous D (2010) Insiders: Studies in the Sociology of Normality Paper presented to the Common Studies Session in Critical Criminology at John Jay College, City University of New York, November 22-24^th 2010

Porteous D. (2007) Learning from Experience Restart Project Third Peer Review Workshop Ljubljana, 21-23 February 2007.

Porteous D. (2006) Odysseus returns? The Rise (and Fall?) of Mentoring in Youth Justice British Criminological Society Annual Conference, Glasgow

Professional Membership

Member of the British Society of Criminology