Dr Matthew Millings
Lecturer in Criminal Justice
Contact Details:Address: John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3932
Email: M.N.Millings@ljmu.ac.uk
Roles and Responsibilities
Matthew is the current Course Leader for the MA in Criminal Justice Programme. On that course he leads the following core and optional modules; Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice; Researching Crime and Criminal Justice; Contemporary Issues in International Criminal Justice; and Policing, Race and Ethnicity. On our undergraduate programmes Matthew is module leader for Researching Criminal Justice (Level 5) and Policing: Policy, Practice and Future Challenges (Level 6)
Biography
Matthew graduated from Humberside University (now named the University of Lincoln) with a BA Social Policy and Criminology (with first class honours) and then obtained an MA in Criminology from Hull University. His first involvement with Liverpool John Moores University then followed with his appointment as a Home Office funded Research Officer evaluating the effectiveness of the Merseyside Arrest Referral Scheme. On completion of the research Matthew then moved to Keele University to study for a Staffordshire Police funded PhD studentship which he was successfully awarded in February 2009. Prior to submitting the thesis Matthew was employed as a temporary lecturer in Criminology at Keele and then returned to LJMU to take up his current position in the Criminal Justice team.
Research Interests
Policing issues in general but more specifically;
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policing diversity and developing a more complete understanding of the difficulties and challenges of policing culturally diverse, ethnically mixed and plural polities
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contributing to the ongoing development of the cultural sociology of policing recognising the real and imagined role the organisation plays in informing popular sensitivities towards nation, identity and criminal justice
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examining the organisation’s real and imagined role in the construction and on-going negotiation of notions of belonging and identity within multicultural society exploring
All three of the above interests are being explored through a British Academy Small Research Grants project entitled ‘The enduring role of the police in young British Asian men’s situated negotiation of identity and belonging’;
Innovations in the delivery of criminal justice, specifically;
- the workings and operation of the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre as an example of innovative community justice working
- exploring the working cultures of those charged with the delivery of community justice
- community engagement with the criminal justice system and its actors
All three of the above aspects of Community Justice are being explored through on-going research and dissemination activity funded to date by the Centre for Crime and Justice (with Professor George Mair) and an LJMU Emerging Researcher Fellowship
The policy, process and practice of drug interventions within the criminal justice system
In addition to previous Home Office funded research evaluating the Merseyside Drug Arrest Referral Scheme this research interest is in part being developed through co-supervision (with Professor George Mair) of PhD candidate Helena Gosling (from January 2011) and her study ‘Therapeutic Communities: An Invitation to Change’.
Publications
Mair, G. and Millings, M. (2011) Doing Justice Locally: The North Liverpool Community Justice Centre London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Mair, G. and Millings, M. (2010) ‘Arrest Referral and Drug Testing’ in Hucklesby, A. and Wincup, W. (eds.)(2010) Drug Interventions in Criminal Justice Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill (Open University Press)
Millings, M (2009) Policing British Asian Identities: policing and the situated negotiation of belonging and ethnicity among young British Asian men in Staffordshire Keele University: Unpublished PhD thesis
Millings, M. (2004) ‘A Report into the experience and attitudes of young people from black and Asian communities in Burton-upon-Trent towards the police’ Report prepared for Staffordshire Police Cultures Research Group Department of Criminology: Keele University
Millings, M. (2003) ‘A Report into the experience and attitudes of young people from black and Asian communities in Cobridge towards the police’ Report prepared for Staffordshire Police Cultures Research Group Department of Criminology: Keele University
Millings, M. and Loader, I. (2002) ‘The Stoke-on-Trent Detached Youth Work Project: Lessons from the First Six Months’ Report prepared for Stoke-on-Trent City Council and North Staffordshire Racial Equality Council Department of Criminology: Keele University
Mair, G., Millings, M. and Palmer, C. (2002) ‘Process and Delivery’ in Sondhi, A., O’Shea, J. and Williams, T. (eds.)(2002) Arrest Referral: Emerging Findings from the National Monitoring and Evaluation Programme Drug Prevention Advisory Service (DPAS) Paper 18 London: Home Office
Mair, G., Millings, M. and Palmer, C. (2002) Arrest Referral on Merseyside: An Evaluation Centre for Criminal Justice: Liverpool John Moores University
