Stephen Farrall

In September 2007, Stephen Farrall took up a post of Reader in Criminology in the Law School at Sheffield University, lecturing to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He was promoted to Chair of Criminology in January 2010. Prior to that, he has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Keele. He has held visiting positions at ANU (Australia) and the Department of Criminology at Keele University.

His research has focused on the fear of crime (especially how best to measure it), why people stop offending, middle-class crimes, and crime histories. He has recently completed a 5th sweep of interviews with a cohort of probationers who were originally supervised in 1997-98. His other research interests include the long-term impact of Thatcherite social and economic policies on Crime, and cognitive interviewing to improve survey questions.

Qualifications:

October 1989 – July 1993 B.Sc. in Applied Sociology (2i), University of Surrey, Guildford, England.
October 1993 – September 1994 M.Sc. in Social Research Methods, University of Surrey, Guildford, England.
October 1998 – March 2001, D.Phil. St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Probation, Social Context and Desistance From Crime. Awarded: 15th June 2001.