Lol Burke
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice
Contact Details:
Address: John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3386
Email: L.Burke@ljmu.ac.uk
Organisational Role and Responsibilities
I am the Level 3 tutor and Course Leader for the MA International Criminal Justice. As such I teach on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I run the Prisons module (LAWCJ3010) at Level 3 as well as contributing to the Policing (LAWCJ3011) and Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (LAWCJ1014) modules. At postgraduate level I am module leader for Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice (LAWCJM046); Responding to International Crime (LAWCJM047) and Criminal Justice: Process, Policy and Practice (LAWCJM037).
Biography
Prior to embarking on my academic career I worked for Merseyside Probation Area in over a period of 15 years. During this time I held a range of posts involving the supervision of offenders in both community and prison settings. Between 1997 and 2005 I was Director of the Community Justice Unit in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social work at Liverpool University having previously been a joint appointment between the University of Liverpool and Merseyside Probation Area on the MA Social Work programme. I was Course Leader for the Diploma in Probation Studies programme which was delivered collaboratively with the Universities of Manchester and Lancaster and was a nationally recognised qualification for the training of probation officers. I also taught a range of modules on the BA Criminology Programme at the University of Liverpool in the areas of prisons, criminological theory and the politics of crime control.
I am currently Editor of the Probation Journal (http://prb.sagepub.com/).
Research Interests
My research interests include the organisation and governance of the National Probation Service and HM Prison Service, the international politics of crime control, and the application of criminological theories to practice. I have presented papers on these areas at conferences throughout Europe and North America.
Publications
Mair, G. & Burke, L. (2011) Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management (Due to be published by Routledge Willan in June 2011).
Burke, L. (2010) No Longer Social Workers: Developments in Probation Officer Training and Education in England and Wales, Revista de Asistenţă Socială (Social Work Review) No 3.
Burke, L. & Collett, S. People are not things: What New Labour has done to Probation Probation Journal September 2010 57: 232-249, Sage
Burke, L. & Collett, S. (2008) Doing with or doing to – what now for the probation service?, Criminal Justice Matters, Issue 72: June. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
Burke, L. (2007) Restructuring Probation to Reduce Re-Offending: Modernisation through Marketisation? in Prison Service Journal HMPS No 169: 50-54.
Burke, L, Mair, G & Ragonese E (2006) An evaluation of service provision for short-term and remand prisoners with drug problems in Probation Service Journal Vol. 53, No 2 p109-123.
Mair, G, Burke, L & Taylor, S (2006) 'The worst tax form I've ever seen' Probation Officers views of OASyS in Probation Service Journal Vol. 53, No 1 p7-23.
Burke, L. (2005) From Probation to the National Offender Management Service: Issues of Contestability, Culture and Community Involvement NAPO.
Conference Papers
Burke, L ‘Probation training and education: Towards a culture of utility? (Paper presented to European Society of Criminology, Sept, Leige, 2010)
Burke, L ‘Developments in Probation Education and Training’ (Paper presented to the European Society of Criminology working group, Barcelona, May 2010)
Burke, L ‘Looking back, Looking forwards’ (Paper presented to Cheshire Probation Area Trust in September 2009).
Burke, L ‘A century of probation in England and Wales: What have we learnt and not learnt?’ (Paper presented at the European Society of Criminology, Edinburgh, September 2008)
Burke, L 'Putting the community back into order(s): The relaionship between the probation service and local communities in England and Wales' Paper presented at the 2008 International Society of Criminology Conference, Barcelona.
Burke, L 'Issues of diversity in using risk assessment tools' Paper given at the 2006 American Society of Criminology Conference, Los Angeles.
Burke, L 'Restructuring prisons and probation: The prospects of a more cohesive system for the management of offenders' Paper given at the 2006 British Society of Criminology, Glasgow.
Mair, G, Burke, L & Taylor, S 'Probation Officers views of OASyS' Paper given at the 2005 American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto 15-19 November.
Mair G & Burke, L & Taylor S '‘The worst Tax Form you’ve ever seen’: Probation Officers views on OASyS' Paper given at the 2005 at British Society of Criminology Conference, Leeds 12-14 July.
Burke, L 'The National offender Management Service in the UK: Issues of contestability and culture' Paper given at the 2004 American society of Criminology, Nashville.
Burke, L 'Drug Services for short-term and remand prisoners with drug problems' Paper given at the 2004 British society of Criminology, Bangor.
Burke, L 'The changing nature of probation practice in the UK: The need to understand complexity' Paper given at the 2003 American Society of Criminology, Denver.
Burke, L 'Community Justice: Living up to he ideal' Paper given at the 2002 American society of Criminology, Chicago.
Burke, L 'Changes to probation education in the UK' Paper given at the 2002 European Society of Criminology, Toledo, Spain.
Burke, L 'Induction programmes for probationers: A case study from the UK' Paper given at the 2000 American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
Burke, L 'The development of learning strategies in criminal justice education in the UK' Paper given at the 1999 American Society of Criminology, Toronto.
