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Dr Roberto Catello

LECTURER IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
Criminology
0151 291 3731
catellr@hope.ac.uk

I am a Lecturer in Criminology, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and Honorary Fellow with the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia. I am a criminologist of the critical kind with an interest in critical, sociological, and historical criminologies. I am one of the Editors of the Journal of Historical Criminology

I have a BA (Hons) in Criminology and International Relations from Kingston University and a MA in Criminology from UoM. I was awarded a PhD by UoM in November 2019 and my doctoral research 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. 

I am Course Lead for LH CORE 2 (Advanced Studies in Criminology) and I teach criminological theory, critical criminology, corporate crime, Global South, the history of drug prohibition, the philosophy of law, qualitative methods, race and identity, and more. 

I joined Liverpool Hope University at the start of 2021 and good part of my work experience in HE 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 PG module 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).  



PUBLISHED WORKS

Catello, R. (2024) 'From Radzinowicz to Foucault: The Historical Turn in Criminology', Law, Crime and History, 12(1), pp.19-50. https://doi.org/10.21428/4b74e090.710752c7

Catello, R. (2024) 'COVID-19, Global Public Health Justice, and the Culture of Organized Irresponsibility', Journal of Global Faultlines, 11(1), pp.103-120. https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.11.1.0103

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

Green, P., et al. (2023) 'International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime', State Crime Journal, 12(2), pp.126-131.  https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.12.2.0126

Catello, R. (2022) 'Exposing the Crimes of the Neoliberal State in the Governance of COVID-19', State Crime Journal, 11(2), pp.285-315. https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.11.2.0285

Catello, R. (2022) 'The Historicist Objection to Historical Criminology', Law, Crime and History, 10(1), pp.25-56.  https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.207de34e



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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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0812-5540

UoM Profile: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/799549-roberto-catello

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Twitter: @DrCatello