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Research interests
I joined the Department of Social & Policy Sciences as a Lecturer in Criminology in September 2020, having previously worked as a full-time Associate Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Roehampton. My research focuses on the politics of criminal justice and migration control, particularly prisons and immigration removal centres (IRCs).
My doctoral research at the University of Oxford, fully funded by an ESRC 1 + 3 studentship, examined responses to deaths in custody. I conducted fieldwork in an IRC and interviewed coroners, inquest lawyers, professionals from regulatory bodies and those involved in policy efforts to make places of custody safer.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
2015 → 2019
Master of Science, University of Oxford
2014 → 2015
Bachelor of Laws, University of Edinburgh
2010 → 2014
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Investigating prison suicides: The politics of independent oversight
Aitken, D., 9 Feb 2021, In: Punishment and Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Book review: Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid: W. Lopez. Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press (2019) 232pp. $27.95hb ISBN‐10 1421433311
Aitken, D., 15 Jun 2020, In: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 59, 2, p. 236-237 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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Life and Death in Immigration Detention
Aitken, D., 2018, Criminal Justice Research in an Era of Mass Mobility. Routledge, (Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Liberal guilt? The political origins of US mass incarceration
Aitken, D., 1 Nov 2017, In: Theoretical Criminology. 21, 4, p. 549-553 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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Book review: Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues
Aitken, D., 5 Sep 2017, In: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 56, 3, p. 387-389 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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