Professor Penny Green
Contact details
Email: penny.green@kcl.ac.uk
Room: SW2.07
Biography
Professor Green joined King's in September 2007 following eight years as Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Westminster. Prior to that she held posts at the University of Southampton and the LSE. Professor Green graduated from the Australian National University in 1979 with a BA (Hons), and with an MPhil and PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Professor Green is Head of Research in the Dickson Poon School of Law.
Professor Green is also Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI). ISCI is a multi-disciplinary, cross institutional and international initiative to collate, analyse and disseminate research based knowledge about criminal state practices and resistance to them. ISCI is a collaborative enterprise with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the University of Hull led by King's College London.
Research
Professor Green has published widely on state crime, state-corporate crime, natural disasters, Turkish criminal justice and politics, transnational crime and asylum and forced migration. Her current research interests include illegal logging, torture and state violence, environmental harms and looted antiquities.
She has held research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); the British Council and the Australian National Crime Prevention Fund and has been a visiting Fellow at a number of universities including the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Bosphorus University. She is a regular Consultant to the Howard League for Penal Reform and was a member of the INQUEST Board of Trustees for a number of years. She is also a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and of the Howard League Research Advisory Group.
Selection of publications
Books
Articles
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'Criminalising the Market in Illicit Antiquities: an Evaluation of the Dealing in Cultural Objects' (Offences) Act 2003' in Mackenzie S. and Penny G. Criminology and Archaeology: Studies in the Looting of Antiquities (eds) (2009) Oxford: Hart
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'State-Building and the Logic of Violence in Iraq' (2009) Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
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'The Transformation of Violence in Iraq' (with T. Ward) (2009) British Journal of Criminology 49(5): 609-627
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‘Torture and the Paradox of State Violence’ (2009) in B. Clucas, G. Johnstone and T. Ward (eds.) Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities (Baden-Baden: Nomos)
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‘Violence and the State’ (with Tony Ward) (2009) in State, Power, Crime: Readings in Critical Criminology edited by Joe Sim, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte, London: Sage
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‘Performative Regulation: A Case Study in How powerful People Avoid Criminal Labels’ (2008) ( with Simon Mackenzie) British Journal of Criminology Vol. 48, No. 2
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‘Environmental Crime, Civil Society and the State’ (2007) (with T. Ward and K McConnachie) Social Justice Vol. 34 No.2
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‘Disasters by Design: corruption, construction and catastrophe’ (2005) British Journal of Criminology, Spring 45/4, pp528-547
Reports
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Green, P (2008) Prison work and social enterprise: the story of Barbed London: Howard League
Opinion Pieces
PhD students & topics
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Rebecca Franssen, PhD: 'Peace and Unquiet - Integrating Routes of Justice in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone'.
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Thomas MacManus, PhD: 'The Role of Civil Society in the Control of Corporate and State Corporate Crime'.
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Hin-Yan Liu, PhD: 'The Private Military Company Phenomenon: Modern Mercenaries or Soldiers of the state?'
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Sanya Karakas, MPhil: 'State Crime and Impunity - a Turkish case study'.
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Henrique Carvalho, PhD: ''Dynamic Responsibility and the Ecology of Terror'.
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Marta Iljadica, PhD: 'Street Art, Graffiti and the Counter-Regulation of Public Space'. (2nd supervisor)
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Fabian Zhilla, PhD: 'Judicial Corruption in Albania'. (2nd supervisor)
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Vanja Hamzic, PhD: ' "Queer Muslims": Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law' (2nd supervisor)
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Melanie Collard, PhD: 'From Algeria to Argentina: the Transfer of the French ‘Savoir-Faire’ in the Making of Official Torturers'.
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Fabiana Di Lorenzo, PhD: 'Promoting State and Corporate Social Responsibility in diamond mining and cocoa plantations International and national forces shaping corporate social responsibility in Sierra Leone and West Africa'.
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Rachel Joyce will commence her doctoral studies at King’s in September 2010.
Teaching
Graduate
State Crime