Victoria Canning

Before joining Lancaster University Law School as professor of criminology, Victoria Canning was associate professor of criminology at the University of Bristol. She is head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, associate director in Border Criminologies at Oxford University, and Trustee of Statewatch. She researches violence, harm and torture, and has worked for more than a decade on migrant rights and women’s rights.

Publications
Books
- Canning, V. (2023) Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitional Boundaries of Torture, Bristol: Bristol University Press
- Canning, V., Martin, G. and Tombs, S. (2023), International Handbook of Activist Criminology, Bingley, Emerald Publishing
- Canning, V. and Tombs, S. (2021) From Social Harm to Zemiology, Oxon: Routledge
- Bhatia, M. and Canning, V. (2021) Stealing Time: Migration, Temporality and State Violence, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Canning, V. (2017) Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System, Oxon: Routledge
- Canning, V., Caur, J., Gilley, A., Kebemba, E., Rafique, A. and Verson, J. (2017) Migrant Artists Mutual Aid: Strategies for Survival, Recipes for
Resistance, London: Calverts Publishing
- Canning, V (ed.) (2014) Sites of Confinement: Prisons, Punishment and Detention, Bristol: EG Press

Academic journal articles (refereed)
- Canning, V. and Pali. B. (2022), Feminist abolitionism and the lure of law: decarceration strategies for interpersonal and sexualised violence, Howard
Journal for Penal Reform, Vol. 61: Issue 1: 68-86
- Canning, V. (2021) Managing Expectations: Impacts of Hostile Immigration Policies on Practitioners in Britain, Denmark, and Sweden. Journal of Social
Science, Vol. 10, No. 2: 1-14
- Canning, V. (2020), Corrosive Control: State-Corporate and Gendered Harm in Bordered Britain, Critical Criminology, Vol. 28: 259-275
- Canning, V. (2019), Keeping up with the Kladdkaka: Kindness and Coercion in Swedish Immigration Detention, European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 17,
No. 6: 723-745
- Canning, V. (2019), Degradation by Design: Women Seeking Asylum in Northern Europe, Race & Class, Vol. 61, No. 1: 46-63
- Canning, V. (2019), Abject Asylum: Degradation and the Deliberate Infliction of Harm against Refugees in Britain, Justice, Power and Resistance, Vol. 2,
No. 2, 37-59
- Canning, V. (2019), What is it Like to Seek Asylum? Sociology Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, 7-10
- Canning, V. (2016) Unsilencing Sexual Torture: Responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Denmark, British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 56, No. 3:
438-456.
- Canning, V. (2014) International Conflict, Sexual Violence and Asylum Policy: Merseyside as a Case Study, Critical Social Policy, February 2014, Vol. 34,
Issue 1: 23-45.
- Canning, V. (2010) Who’s human? Developing sociological understandings of the rights of women raped in conflict, International Journal of Human Rights
Vol. 14, nos 6-7, 847-862.

Chapters in edited books
- Canning, V. and Bhatia, M. (2024), Expanding Existential Confinement: Contemporary Challenges to Detention Abolitionism, in Bosworth et al,
International Handbook of Border Criminologies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Canning, V. (2024), Torture, Treaties and Tropes: Why International Conventions on Torture Fail Women, in Colby, G. and Freedman, J. (eds), Feminist
Representations: Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice and Testimony, Routledge.
- Canning, V. (2024), Advancing Abolitionism: Why the Immigration Detention Industry Must End, in Petrie, M. (2023), Immigration Detention and Social
Harm, Oxon: Routledge.
- Canning, V., Hillyard, P. and Tombs, S. (2023), Zemiology and Social Harm, in Maruna, S., (ed) Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Oxford: Oxford
University Press
- Canning, V. (2023), You have the right to remain! Developing and implementing the Asylum Navigation Board in the UK, in Canning, V., Martin, G. and
Tombs, S. (2023), International Handbook of Activist Criminology, Bingley, Emerald Publishing
- Canning, V. (2023), Exposing ‘Incalculable Cruelty’: Writings on border harms and atrocity as resistance, in Moones, M. and Tofighian, O. (eds), A Duty to
History: The Writings of Behrouz Boochani, London: Bloomsbury
- Canning, V. (2022), Sanctuary as Social Justice: A Feminist Critique, in Monk, H., Atkinson, K., Tucker, K. and Barr, U. (eds), Feminist Responses to
Injustices of the State and Its Institutions, Bristol: Bristol University Press
- Canning, V. (2021), Temporal Harm, Uncertainty and the Compounding of Trauma in Refugee Lives, Bhatia, M. and Canning, V. (2020) Stealing Time:
Migration, Temporality and State Violence, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Canning, V. (2020), Bureaucratised Banality: Asylum and Immobility in Britain, Denmark and Sweden, in Abdelhady, D., Gren, N. and Joormann, M.
(eds.), Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in northern Europe, Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Canning, V. (2020), The Confinement Continuum: Sensing and Unease in Danish Asylum and Immigration Detention Centres, in Herrity, K., Schmidt, B
and Warr, J. (eds), Sensory Penalities, Emerald Publishing
- Bhatia, M. and Canning, V. (2020) Misery as Business: How Immigration Detention Became a Cash-Cow in Britain's Borders, in Albertson, K., Corcoran,
M and Phillips, J. (eds) Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice, Bristol: Bristol University Press
- Canning, V. (2018) Border (Mis)Management, Ignorance and Denial, in Barton, A. and Davis, H. (eds) Agnotology, Power and Harm: The Study of
Ignorance and the Criminological Imagination, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Canning, V. (2018) Zemiology at the Border, in Boukli, P. and Kotze, J. (eds.) Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm, Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan
- Canning, V. (2017) The Multiple Forms of Violence in the Asylum System, in Cooper, V. and Whyte, D. (eds) The Violence of Austerity, London: Pluto
Press
- Canning, V. (2011) Who’s human? Developing sociological understandings of the rights of women raped in conflict, in Hynes, P., Lamb, M., Short, D. and
Waites, M. (eds.) Sociology and Human Rights London: Routledge