Dr Roberto Catello
LECTURER IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
Criminology
0151 291 3731
catellr@hope.ac.uk
I am a Lecturer in Criminology. I co-teach a 24-week course on Race, Crime, and Identity at Level H. I also teach an Advanced Research Course (ARC) on 'Understanding Prison Abolition' and I contribute to teaching and tutoring in criminology at level C and I (topics include criminological theory, philosophy of law, critical criminology, history of drug prohibition, Global South, qualitative methods, and more).
I am a criminologist of the critical kind with an interest in critical, sociological, and historical criminologies and I am a Honorary Fellow with the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia.
I joined Liverpool Hope University at the start of 2021 and good part of my work experience in higher education comes from UoM. I taught introductory criminology subjects at UoM from 2017 to 2020 and, between 2019 and 2020, I was also a member of the criminology teaching teams at La Trobe University and Deakin University. In 2020, I coordinated a postgraduate subject on Drugs and Justice at UoM while also teaching a number of undergraduate subjects such as From Graffiti to Terrorism (UoM), Law in Society (UoM), Criminology Skills (La Trobe) and Introducing Crime and Criminology (Deakin).
I have a BA (Hons) in Criminology and International Relations from Kingston University and a MA in Criminology from UoM. I completed a PhD at UoM in November 2019 and my doctoral interests include crime history, historical criminology, historical social science, the historiography of crime and criminal justice, and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of history and criminology.
PUBLISHED WORKS
Catello, R. (2023) 'Critiques of Presentism in Criminology: Challenges and Paradoxes', Law, Crime and History, 11(1), pp.1-29.
Catello, R. (2023) 'For a Critical Historical Criminology of the Antipodean and Global South: Unthinking and De-Disciplining History and Criminology', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12(1), pp.30-41. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2742
Catello, R. (2023) 'From Historical Social Science to the Historical Study of Crime', Crime, History & Societies, 27(1), pp.33-58. https://doi.org/10.4000/chs.3413
Catello, R. (2023) 'History as Activism: Critical Uses of History at the Berkeley School of Criminology in the 1970s', Justice, Power and Resistance, 6(2), pp.229-245. https://doi.org/10.1332/YDXV1897
Catello, R. (2023) 'Who Gave Historical Criminology a Name? A History of 20th-century Historical Criminology', Journal of Criminal Justice, 85, 101954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101954
Catello, R. (2022) 'Exposing the Crimes of the Neoliberal State in the Governance of COVID-19', State Crime Journal, 11(2), pp.285-315.
Catello, R. (2022) 'The Historicist Objection to Historical Criminology', Law, Crime and History, 10(1), pp.25-56.
Catello, R. (forthcoming) 'COVID-19, Global Public Health Justice, and the Culture of Organised Irresponsibility', Global Faultlines.
BOOK REVIEWS
Catello, R. (2023) 'Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation', Carceral Geography Working Group, 11 December. Available here
Catello, R. (2022) 'David Churchill, Henry Yeomans, and Iain Channing, Historical Criminology', Law, Crime and History, 10(1), pp.132-140.
Catello, R. (2022) ‘Francesca Giofrè and Pisana Posocco, Women in Prison: Research and Projects for Rebibbia’, Carceral Geography Working Group, 23 June. Available here
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Twitter: @DrCatello
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