Dr Karen Duke

Principal Lecturer in Criminology

Department: Health and Social Sciences

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Qualifications

BA (Hon) MPhil PhD

Research Interests

Areas of work: The interface between drugs, alcohol and criminal justice policy; alcohol and drug policy in prisons; shifts in the ideologies, discourses, and practices of drug treatment professionals; harm reduction in prisons; personalisation and drug treatment; recovery and criminal justice; stakeholder analysis in addictions policy (EU funded FP7project 2011-2016)

Teaching Interests

Programme Leader for BA Youth Justice and MA Comparative Drug and Alcohol Studies,

Module Leader for CRM 4315 Drugs, Crime and Criminology (DL) and Module Leader CRM 3330 Drugs, Crime and Criminal Justice

Biography

Education

  • 2000 PGCERT (Higher Education), Middlesex University
  • 1999 PhD 'Containing contradictions: the development of prison drug policy in England since 1980', Middlesex University
  • 1991 MPhil Criminology, University of Cambridge
  • 1990 BA (Hon) Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Employment

  • Principal Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University - current
  • 2001-2006 Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University
  • 1998-2001 Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University
  • 1994-1998 Research Fellow, Middlesex University
  • 1992-1994 Researcher, Home Office Research and Planning Unit
  • 1989-1990 Researcher (PT), National Parole Board of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada
  • 1989-1990 Research Assistant (PT), Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Selected publications

Authored books

Duke, K. (2003). Drugs, Prisons and Policy-Making. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Refereed articles

Duke, K. (2010) 'Clashes in Culture: the professionalization and criminalization of the drugs workforce', British Journal of Community Justice, Special Edition, 8 (2): 31-43.

Duke, K. (2006) 'Out of crime and into treatment?: The criminalisation of contemporary drug policy since Tackling Drugs Together', Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 13 (5) 409-15.

Duke, K. (2005). Deja vu?: opportunities and obstacles in developing alcohol policy in English prisons. Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 12 (5): 417-430.

Duke, K. (2002). Getting beyond the 'official line': reflections on dilemmas of access, knowledge, and power in researching policy networks. Journal of Social Policy, 31(1): 39-59.

Duke, K. (2001). Evidence-based policy-making?: the interplay between research and the development of prison drugs policy. Criminal Justice, 1(3): 277-300.

Duke, K. (2000). Shifting agendas and policy networks: the case of prison drugs policy. Drugs: Education, prevention and policy, 7(4): 398-408.

Chapters in edited collection:

Duke, K. (2011) 'Re-conceptualizing harm reduction in prisons', in Fraser, S. and Moore, D. (eds)The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Duke, K. (2009) "The focus on crime and coercion in UK drug policy", in MacGregor, S. (ed). Responding to Drugs Misuse: Research and Policy Priorities in Health and Social Care. London: Routledge.

Conferences

Duke, K. (2009) Creating User-Centred Drug Services: the benefits and challenges', April 2009, Royal Society of Arts. - Invited speaker to seminar for senior policy-makers and practitioners.

Duke, K (2009) Research-driven policy or policy-driven research? The case of prison drugs policy. Research for Government Training Course, HM Treasury.

Duke, K. (2006) Research-driven policy or policy-driven research? The case of prison drugs policy. Research for Government Seminar, Cabinet Office.

Duke, K. (2003). Containing Contradictions: Prison Drugs Policy since 1980. Drug and Alcohol Seminar Series, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Duke, K. (2000). Evidence-based policy-making?: Research utilisation and the development of prisons drugs policy. Social Policy Association Conference, University of Surrey.

External Examining

External Examiner for MSc Drugs and Alcohol Policy, Trinity College, Dublin

Editorships

Editor of refereed journal, Drugs: Education, prevention and policy.

Professional Membership

  • Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA)
  • Member of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the Social Policy Association
  • Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society.
  • Fellowof Higher Education Academy

Honours and Prizes

1990-1991 Wakefield Scholarship in Criminology and Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship

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