Simon Winlow
BA, PhD (Durham)
Simon Winlow
Email:sw514@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 433058
Ext: 3058
Office: W/248
Research interests
I am keen to supervise PhD students interested in the following areas:
- Working-class cultures and identities
- Masculinities
- Theoretical criminology
- Covert street ethnography
- The night-time economy
- Social exclusion
- Criminal identities
- Youth identities
- Consumerism and identity
- Violence and identity
- Celebrity and contemporary media cultures
- The sociology of happiness
Publications
Authored Books
Winlow, S. (2001), Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and New Masculinities, Oxford: Berg
Hobbs , D., Hadfield, P., Lister, S. and Winlow, S. (2003), Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Winlow, S. and Hall, S. (2006), Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture, Oxford: Berg
Hall, S., Winlow, S. and Ancrum, C. (2007), Criminal Identities and Contemporary Culture, Cullompton: Willan
Chapters of books
Winlow, S., Hobbs, D., Lister, S. and Hadfield, P. (2003), ‘Bouncers and the social context of violence: masculinity, class and violence in the night-time economy’ in E. Stanko (ed.) The Meanings of Violence, London: Routledge
Hall, S. and Winlow, S. (2004), ‘Barbarians at the Gate: Crime and violence in the breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process’, in Ferrell, J., Hayward, K., Morrison, W. and Presdee, M. (eds), Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: Cavendish
Biography
Simon was born in Sunderland in 1972. He was educated at Durham , gaining a BA in Sociology before going on to complete a PhD, an ethnography on crime and social, cultural and economic change in the north east of England . The PhD was eventually published by Berg in 2001 and entitled Badfellas. While studying for his PhD at Durham , Simon taught part-time in the department of Sociology before moving on to take a full-time post as Lecturer in Criminology at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College . After a year or so in Buckingham, Simon returned to the north east as Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside , and eventually ended up at the University of York in 2005 as Lecturer in Sociology.
Simon's research interests continue to focus on the changing fortunes of what used to be called 'the working classes'. This has led him to investigate aspects of crime and deviance, masculinity, violence and youth identities within this particular social group. He currently teaches Youth Identities, Crime and Deviance, and 'The Underclass' and Social Exclusion on York 's undergraduate sociology degree, and contributes to the MA in Social Research Methods (criminology).