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      Dr Jenni Ward

      PGCert HE, BSc, PhD
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Criminology
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Criminology & Sociology
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6418
      EMAIL: J.R.Ward@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Before joining Middlesex in 2007 I was an academic researcher at Goldsmiths College and before that at Imperial College. My main areas of research were young people living in state care, illicit drug use, and youth transitions to adulthood. I held funding awards from the ESRC and Home Office to examine the lives of care leavers making the transition to independent living. My doctoral research was an ethnography of rave nightclub culture and drug dealing. I currently research the magistracy and transformations to summary justice in the lower criminal courts.

        My main areas of teaching are the criminal courts and justice administration. I am the Programme Leader for the MSc. Criminology with Forensic Psychology. I lead the module CRM4722 Criminal Justice, Courts and Prisons, and I am the joint module leader for CRM2530 Criminal Courts and Prisons and CRM2540 Institutions of Criminal Justice. I supervise UG and PG dissertations and doctoral research across a range of topics.

        Education

        • 2009 PGCert. (Higher Education) Middlesex University
        • 2006 Ph.D. (Sociology) Drug Use and Drug Dealing in the 'Rave' Club Culture. Goldsmiths College
        • 1993 BSc. Applied Social Sciences Hons, University of North London

        Employment

        • Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University
        • 2007-2009 Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University
        • 2004-2007 Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University
        • 1999-2004 Research Associate, Goldsmiths College
        • 1993-1999 Research Assistant, then Associate, The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour (CRDHB), Imperial College School of Medicine

        Selected publications

        Authored books

        • Ward, J. (2016, manuscript submitted) Transforming Summary Justice: Modernisation in the Lower Criminal Court. London: Routledge
        • Ward, J. (2010) Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene. Willan Publishing, Cullompton, Devon.

        Refereed articles

        • Ward, J. (2015) Transforming 'Summary Justice' through Police-led Prosecution and 'Virtual Courts' – Is 'Procedural Due Process' Being Undermined? British Journal of Criminology, 55, 2, 341-358.
        • Ward, J. (2014) Are Problem-solving courts the Way Forward for Justice? Howard League What is Justice? Working papers 2/2014.
        • Ward, J. (2013) The Punishment of Drug Possession Cases in the Magistrates' Courts: Time for a Rethink, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research,19, 4, 289-307.
        • Ward, J. (2011) Policing Problem Drug Use Through the Anti-Social Behaviour Legislation: Questions and Contradictions, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 17, 4, 323-341.
        • Ward, J. (2008) Researching Drug Sellers: An Experiential Account from the Field. Sociological Research Online, 3, 1.
        • Ward, J with Patel, N. (2006) 'Broadening the Discussion on Sexual Exploitation: Ethnicity, Sexual Exploitation and Young People'. Child Abuse Review, 15, 5, 341-350.
        • Ward, J. and Henderson, Z. (2003) 'Some Practical and Ethical Issues Encountered While Conducting Tracking Research with Young People Leaving the 'Care' System'. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 6, 3, 255-259.
        • Ward, J. (1998) Substance Use Among Young People Looked After by Social Services. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 5, 3, 257-267.
        • Ward, J. (1998) Changing Youth Transitions: New Risks and Vulnerabilities. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 5, 1, 105-107.
        • Ward, J., Hunter, G., Power, R. (1997) Peer Education as a Means of Drug Prevention and Education Among Young People: An Evaluation. Health Education Journal, 56, 251-263.

        Chapters in edited collections

        • Ward, J.  and Pearson, G. (2016) Drugs, Care and Sex Work: Sex and Survival, in D. Hobbs (Ed.) Mischief, Morality and Mobs: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson. London: Routledge.
        • Ward, J and Thom, B. (2009) Drug Consumption in London: A City of Diverse and Changing Scenes, in I. Eisenbach-Stangl, J. Moskalewicz and B. Thom (Eds.) Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
        • Ward, J. with Bayley, M. (2007) 'Young People's Perceptions of Risk', in B.Thom; R. Sales and Pearce. J (Eds.) Growing Up With Risk. London: Policy Press.
        • Ward, J. and Fitch, C. (1998) 'Dance Culture and Drug Use', in Stimson/Fitch/Judd (Eds) Drug Use in London. Leighton Print: London.
        • Ward, J. and Pearson, G. (1997) Recreational Drug Use and Dealing in London. In Korf/Riper (Eds) Illicit Drugs in Europe. Proceedings of the seventh annual conference on drug use and drug policy. Amsterdam University: The Netherlands.

        Official Reports

        • Ward, J., Henderson, Z. and Pearson, G. (2003) One Problem Among Many: Drug Use Among Care Leavers in Transition to Independent Living. Home Office Research Study 260. London: Home Office.
        • Ward, J. and Warkel, K. (2015) Northampton Youth Offending Service Review Panel Evaluation- Final Report. London: Middlesex University. LINK

        Conferences

        • Ward, J. (2013) Implementing Community Justice Howard League for Penal Reform What is Justice? Re-imagining Penal Policy, Oxford, UK, 1st-2nd Oct.
        • Ward, J. (2012) Punishing Drug Possession in the Magistrates' Courts. British Society of Criminology (BSC), Portsmouth, UK, 4th -6th July
        • Ward, J. (2011) Punishing Drug Offenders. European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD), Aarhus, Denmark, 24th – 26th Sept.
        • Ward, J. (2010) Drug Use Combinations Among a Sample of 'Problem Drug Users – Drug Market Influences and Challenges for Drug Services. European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD), Dubrovnik, Croatia. 30th Sept. -2nd Oct.
        • Ward, J. (2008) Drug use in London. European Society of Criminology (ESC), Edinburgh, UK. 2nd -5th Sept.
        • Ward, J. (2002) Tracking a 'High Risk' Group of Young People- Care Leavers. Longitudinal qualitative methods seminar, Southbank University: 8th April.
        • Ward, J. (2001) Drug Use and State Care: A Study of Drug Use Among Young People Living in State Care in the UK. European Society for Social Drugs Research (ESSD) Venice, Italy, 4th-6th Oct.
        • Ward, J. (2001) Hard Times: Youth, Disadvantage and Transitions to Adulthood. Co-sponsored by the Foyer Federation and the Government Office of the North-East: Newcastle.
        • Ward, J. (2001) Mixed Blessing: The Role of the Family in Young People's Transitions to Adulthood. Co-sponsored by the former Family Policy Studies Centre: London.
        • Ward, J. (2000) Moving In, Moving Out: Young People's Involvement in Drug Dealing Within the London Rave Dance Scene. American Society of Criminology (ASC) San Francisco, U.S.A 15th-18th Nov.
        • Ward, J. (2000) Problems With Drugs: Case of Young People in Care – The Association of Professionals in Services for Adolescents Annual Conference – Addictive Behaviour in Adolescence: London 26th/27th Oct.
        • Ward, J. (2000) Drugs in Everyday Life: Case of Young People in Care- ESRC and Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Youth Research Conference, Keele University 4th /5th Sept.

        Blogposts

        Ward, J. (2015) Changing Prisons in Challenging Times. Middlesex Minds blogpost- 27 March 2015. www.mdxminds.com

        Editorships

        • International editorial board Drugs:Education, Prevention and Policy

        Membership of Professional Bodies

        • Member of the British Society of Criminology
        • Member of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
        • Associate member of the Magistrates Association
        • Member of the Socio-legal Studies Association

        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Curriculum/subject area

        Criminology and criminal justice

        I am the Programme Leader for the MSc. Criminology with Forensic Psychology and I teach the modules 'Criminal Courts and Prisons', 'Criminal Justice, Courts and Prisons', and 'Institutions of Criminal Justice'.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        My current research interests are sentencing and punishment in the criminal courts, the lay magistracy, and modernising transformations in the lower criminal courts.

        Other research interests are comparative criminal justice processes, particularly differences between New Zealand and the UK courts, specialist courts and 'therapeutic juisprudence',prison privatisation, young people accommodated within the state childcare system, and careleavers transition to independent living.

        Previous research and publications are on illegal drug use and drug markets and my particular interest in recreational drugs markets and ethnographic research led to the publication of my study 'Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Culture' (2010). It is an account of the organisational features of drug trading among different friendship groups and within different London nightclubs in the mid to late 1990s.

        Doctoral students are welcome in the following areas:

        • Sentencing and punishment in the criminal courts
        • Criminal justice process
        • Illicit drugs use and drugs market organisation
        • European drug policy
        • Urban criminology and the night-time economy
        • Ethnographic research
        • Perceptions of risk among young people
        • Young women and sexual exploitation
        • Young people accommodated in state care

        Publication Feed

        Transformative learning through university and prison partnership: an evaluation of the Middlesex University and HMP Wandsworth Prison module

        Ward, Jennifer and Gray, Natalie and Cracknell, Matthew (2017) Transformative learning through university and prison partnership: an evaluation of the Middlesex University and HMP Wandsworth Prison module. In: Middlesex University Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2017, 08 Sept 2017, Middlesex University, London, UK.

        Transforming summary justice: Modernisation in the lower criminal courts

        Ward, Jennifer (2016) Transforming summary justice: Modernisation in the lower criminal courts. Frontiers of Criminal Justice . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138846739

        Northampton Youth Offending Service review panel evaluation

        Ward, Jennifer and Warkel, Kathryn (2015) Northampton Youth Offending Service review panel evaluation. Project Report. Middlesex University, London.

        Changing prisons in challenging times- reporting from a roundtable seminar

        Ward, Jennifer (2015) Changing prisons in challenging times- reporting from a roundtable seminar. In: School of Law Roundtable Seminar: Changing Prisons in Challenging Times, 16 Mar 2015, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom.

        Drugs, care and sex work: sex and survival

        Ward, Jennifer and Pearson, Geoffrey (2016) Drugs, care and sex work: sex and survival. In: Mischief, Morality and Mobs: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson. Hobbs, Dick , ed. Routledge Advances in Ethnography . Routledge, London, pp. 195-207. ISBN 9781138679733

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        2014 – Principal applicant (Jenni Ward) Transforming Summary Justice, Middlesex University, School of Law Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee £1300.

        2007 - ESRC Training Bursary £1000 - Training in the use of NVIVO7 provided by SdG Associates.

        2002 – Principal applicant and grant holder (Jenni Ward), co-applicant (Geoffrey Pearson)  – Economic and Social Research Council. Tracking Care Leavers As They Move to Independence. £41,392.11 Reference no. R000223982

        2001 – Principal applicant and grant holder (Jenni Ward), co-applicant (Geoffrey Pearson) Home Office Drugs and Alcohol Research Unit. Care Leavers as a Group Vulnerable to Drug Use. £98,239.98�0�a

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        I am amember of the international editorial board on the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.

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