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Louise Westmarland

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Louise Westmarland
Academic background
Alma materDurham University
ThesisAn ethnography of gendered policing
Academic work
Disciplinecriminology
InstitutionsOpen University

Louise Westmarland is a British criminologist and Professor of Criminology at Open University, where she is also head of discipline in social policy and criminology. She has researched police conduct since the early 2000s.[1] Her research focuses on police and policing, including gender and policing, homicide investigations, and corruption, integrity and ethics. She is director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research.[2][3] She earned her PhD at Durham University in 1998 with the thesis An ethnography of gendered policing.[4] According to Google Scholar her work has been cited over 3,000 times in academic literature.[5]

In January 2024 Westmarland's comparison of Jo Phoenix to a "racist uncle" was mentioned in the judgment of an employment tribunal case Phoenix brought against her former employer.[6]

Selected bibliography

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  • Researching crime and justice: tales from the field, Routledge, 2011
  • Creating citizen-consumers: Changing Publics and changing public services, Sage, 2007
  • Gender and policing: sex, power and police culture, Willan Publishing, 2001

References

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  1. ^ "Scandal-hit Met signals wider problem in British policing". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Professor Louise Westmarland". Open University. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Louise Westmarland Biography". OpenLearn. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  4. ^ Westmarland, Louise (1998). An ethnography of gendered policing (Doctoral). Durham University. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Professor Louise Westmarland". Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  6. ^ Siddique, Haroon (22 January 2024). "Open University academic wins tribunal case over gender-critical views". theguardian.com. Guardian. Retrieved 28 January 2024.