Dr Bethan Loftus
Uwch Ddarlithydd Troseddeg a Chyfiawnder Troseddol
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Bethan joined the School of Social Sciences in January 2016, having previously been the recipient of several grants and fellowships at the School of Law, University of Manchester (2011-2015), and the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Oxford (2008-2011). She holds a PhD in Criminology (Keele University), an MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (Bangor University, received with distinction) and a BA in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Bangor University, first class).
Her research interests lie in socio-legal and comparative understandings of policing and security. In particular: policing cultures, covert/undercover policing and surveillance; the operation and governance of private security; border enforcement; and the policing of social divisions. Bethan also has broad interests in crime and social exclusion under conditions of late modernity. She has conducted two major ethnographic field studies, both of which involved conducting prolonged observations of police officers as they went about their ordinary duties. She has been awarded research grants from the ESRC, and won a Simon Fellowship at the University of Manchester where she conducted research on the policing of international borders. Bethan is the author of Police Culture in a Changing World (Oxford University Press) and articles in major journals.
Bethan is currently a Co-Investigator on an ESRC grant entitled 'Borders, Boundary Mechanisms and Migration'. This project forms part of the WISERD Civil Society Research Centre, and will examine the changing role of police and civil society organisations in the making and unmaking of political borders. Recent years have witnessed a tightening and hardening of borders by EU and nation-states. This has coincided with both a mobilisation of civil society and humanitarian response to the migration and refugee crisis, a rise in authoritarian government policy towards immigration, as well as a rise in non-state extreme right political activity at borders. The research will explore how both police and civil society agencies are navigating this changing context.
Since January 2020, Bethan is an Editor for the British Journal of Criminology, and an Associate Editor for Theoretical Criminology, having previously been the book review editor for the latter (2012-2019).
Gwybodaeth Cyswllt
Office: 114.2 Mezzanine Floor, Main Arts Building
Phone: 01248 382183
Email: b.loftus@bangor.ac.uk
Cyfleoedd Project Ôl-radd
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- CyhoeddwydPolice Culture: Origins, Features and Reform
Loftus, B., 2022, 81 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Adroddiad Comisiwn › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasgjava.lang.NullPointerException
- E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffujava.lang.NullPointerException
2020
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2019
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2018
- CyhoeddwydPrivate security as a moral drama: A tale of two scandals
Löfstrand, C. H., Loftus, B. & Loader, I., 2018, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 28, 8, t. 968-984
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2016
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2015
- CyhoeddwydBorder regimes and the sociology of policing
Loftus, B., 2015, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 25, 1, t. 115-125
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2013
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2012
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2010
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- CyhoeddwydPolice Occupational Culture: Classic Themes, Altered Times
Loftus, B., 2010, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 20, 1, t. 1-20
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2008
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2007
- CyhoeddwydPolicing the ‘Irrelevant’: Class, Diversity and Contemporary Police Culture
Loftus, B., 2007, Police Culture: New Debates and Directions. O'Neill, M., Marks, M. & Singh, A-M. (gol.). Oxford : Elsevier Press, t. 181-204 (Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance; Cyfrol 8).
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
Gweithgareddau
2020
- Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy (Cyfnodolyn)
Ethnography and the Evocative World of Policing
Ion 2020 →
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd gwadd)
2019
- British Journal of Criminology (Cyfnodolyn)
2019 →
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Ethics of Police Stings
2019 →
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Theoretical Criminology (Cyfnodolyn)
Reviews Editor (since 2013)
2019 →
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Golygydd)
2018
- Live podcast for College of Policing
I took part in a series of three podcast interviews for the College of Policing, where I was discussing leadership and police culture.
Underpinning research: Based on original ethnograhpic fieldwork which has been published as a book and numerous articles.
Beneficiaries: The police.
General notes: Informing about the potentials and pitfalls of the occupational culture within the police.
10 Medi 2018
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr) - Normalising Covert Surveillance: The Subterranean World of Policing
Invited speaker, All Souls Seminar Series, University of Oxford
2018 →
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Watching the Watchers: Reflections on an Ethnography with Covert Police
Keynote: University of Liverpool
2018 →
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
Projectau
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KESS II MRes with North Wales Police- BUK2228
01/03/2022 – 31/03/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)
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KESS II MRes with North Wales Police- BUK2197
01/10/2019 – 31/10/2020 (Wedi gorffen)