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Harry Annison
Harry is an Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Southampton.
Dr Harry Annison is an Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminology at Southampton Law School. His primary research focus is penal policymaking, analysing the political dynamics that underpin criminal justice policy.
His research primarily centres upon penal policymaking, analysing the beliefs and practices that underpin criminal justice policy. His first monograph Dangerous Politics was published by Oxford University Press in October 2015. His work has been published in leading journals including Theoretical Criminology and The Journal of Law and Society.
Dr Annison has also conducted research on criminal justice practice, serving as co-investigator on a project researching Integrated Offender Management (IOM) for Thames Valley Police and Thames Valley Probation. He has also collaborated with the Howard League for Penal Reform on its ‘What is Justice?’ symposium, acting as consultant for the ‘One Idea for Change’ and ‘Ideas for Justice’ initiatives.
Harry read Law at the University of Southampton, obtaining First Class Honours. He completed the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) at the Centre for Criminology in 2009, receiving the Willan Publishing Prize for Criminological Research. His MSc dissertation was entitled ‘Imprisonment for Public Protection: A Consideration of the Concept of Risk in an English Context’. The recipient of an ESRC 1+3 Studentship, Harry began his DPhil in 2009 under the supervision of Professor Ian Loader. It was examined by Professors Nicola Lacey and Richard Sparks in May 2013.
Address: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Dr Harry Annison is an Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminology at Southampton Law School. His primary research focus is penal policymaking, analysing the political dynamics that underpin criminal justice policy.
His research primarily centres upon penal policymaking, analysing the beliefs and practices that underpin criminal justice policy. His first monograph Dangerous Politics was published by Oxford University Press in October 2015. His work has been published in leading journals including Theoretical Criminology and The Journal of Law and Society.
Dr Annison has also conducted research on criminal justice practice, serving as co-investigator on a project researching Integrated Offender Management (IOM) for Thames Valley Police and Thames Valley Probation. He has also collaborated with the Howard League for Penal Reform on its ‘What is Justice?’ symposium, acting as consultant for the ‘One Idea for Change’ and ‘Ideas for Justice’ initiatives.
Harry read Law at the University of Southampton, obtaining First Class Honours. He completed the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) at the Centre for Criminology in 2009, receiving the Willan Publishing Prize for Criminological Research. His MSc dissertation was entitled ‘Imprisonment for Public Protection: A Consideration of the Concept of Risk in an English Context’. The recipient of an ESRC 1+3 Studentship, Harry began his DPhil in 2009 under the supervision of Professor Ian Loader. It was examined by Professors Nicola Lacey and Richard Sparks in May 2013.
Address: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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A finalized, peer-reviewed, authoritative version of this working paper is published in Armstrong, Blaustein and Henry (eds, 2017) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Drawing on over 60 in-depth interviews with key policymakers, the research project analysed the creation, contestation, amendment and abolition of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, spanning both Labour (2001-2010) and Conservative-led (2010-2015) governments. The IPP sentence stands as one of the most striking examples of the expansion of preventive sentencing. The research sought to investigate the beliefs, traditions and political processes that underpinned these developments, and to consider the wider lessons for academic and policymaker audiences.
We suggest that interrogating extant risk logics, and taking seriously the punitive-preventive distinction, has significant implications for how the predicament of those subject to IPP sentences should be addressed. More broadly, it poses questions about how the perennial problem of dangerous offenders should be approached going forwards.
A finalized, peer-reviewed, authoritative version of this working paper is published in Armstrong, Blaustein and Henry (eds, 2017) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Drawing on over 60 in-depth interviews with key policymakers, the research project analysed the creation, contestation, amendment and abolition of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, spanning both Labour (2001-2010) and Conservative-led (2010-2015) governments. The IPP sentence stands as one of the most striking examples of the expansion of preventive sentencing. The research sought to investigate the beliefs, traditions and political processes that underpinned these developments, and to consider the wider lessons for academic and policymaker audiences.
We suggest that interrogating extant risk logics, and taking seriously the punitive-preventive distinction, has significant implications for how the predicament of those subject to IPP sentences should be addressed. More broadly, it poses questions about how the perennial problem of dangerous offenders should be approached going forwards.