Dr Bethan Loftus

Darllenydd Troseddeg a Chyfiawnder Troseddol

b.loftus@bangor.ac.uk

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Dr Bethan Loftus

Bethan is currently Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She joined the School of Social Sciences in January 2016, having previously been the recipient of several grants and fellowships at the School of Law, University of Manchester (2011-2015), and the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Oxford (2008-2011). Bethan holds a PhD in Criminology (Keele University), an MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (91¾«Æ·ºÚÁϳԹÏ, received with distinction) and a BA in Criminology and Criminal Justice (91¾«Æ·ºÚÁϳԹÏ, first class).

Her research interests lie in the areas of policing and security, in particular: policing cultures, covert/undercover policing and surveillance; the operation and governance of private security; border enforcement; the use of Artificial Intelligence in law enforcement, and the policing of social divisions. She has conducted two major ethnographic field studies, both of which involved conducting prolonged observations of police officers as they went about their ordinary duties. She has been awarded research grants from the ESRC and Leverhulme Trust, and won a Simon Fellowship at the University of Manchester where she conducted research on the policing of international borders. Bethan is the author of Police Culture in a Changing World (Oxford University Press) and articles in major journals. 

Recently, Bethan was Co-Investigator on an ESRC grant entitled 'Borders, Boundary Mechanisms and Migration'. This project forms part of the WISERD Civil Society Research Centre, and examined the changing role of police and civil society organisations in the making and unmaking of political borders. It explored the humanitarian response to the migration and refugee crisis in the context of a rise in hostile, authoritarian government policy towards immigration and the increased presence of non-state, far-right political activity at borders.

Bethan is also currently involved in research projects that explore misogyny, interpersonal violence and non-fatal strangulation (NFS).

Bethan is an Editor for the British Journal of Criminology, and an Associate Editor for Theoretical Criminology, having previously been the book review editor for the latter (2012-2019).

Bethan's research interests are also reflected in her undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including on the following modules: Policing, Security and the State; Serial Killers; and Comparative and International Criminal Justice. 

Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Office: 114.2 Mezzanine Floor, Main Arts Building

Phone: 01248 382183

Email: b.loftus@bangor.ac.uk

In the areas of policing and security

2024

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Feilzer, M. & Goold, B., Medi 2024, Yn: Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 63, 3, t. 245-271 35 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Feilzer, M. & Loftus, B., 1 Awst 2024, Yn: Political Quarterly .
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2023

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B. & Hodgkinson, C., 1 Meh 2023, 38 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Adroddiad Comisiwn
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Bacon , M. (Golygydd), Loftus, B. (Golygydd) & Rowe, M. (Golygydd), 3 Rhag 2023, London: Routledge. 234 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Bacon , M. & Skinns, L., Medi 2023, Yn: The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. 96, 3, t. 355–373
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2022

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., 2022, 81 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Adroddiad Comisiwn › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Goold, B. & Mac Giollabhui, S., 30 Rhag 2022, Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography . Fleming , J. & Charman, S. (gol.). 1 gol. Routledge
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2020

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Bacon , M., Loftus, B. & Rowe, M., 31 Ion 2020, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 30, 1, t. 1-10
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Bacon , M., Loftus, B. & Rowe, M., Chwef 2020, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 30, t. 117-119
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Golygyddiad › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2019

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Rhag 2019, Yn: British Journal of Sociology. 70, 5, t. 2070-2091
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2018

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Löfstrand, C. H., Loftus, B. & Loader, I., 2018, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 28, 8, t. 968-984
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2016

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Goold, B. & Mac Giollabhui, S., Gorff 2016, Yn: British Journal of Criminology. 56, 4, t. 629-645
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., 22 Gorff 2016, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 26, 6, t. 713-720 7 t., 6.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Adolygiad Llyfr/Ffilm/Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Mac Giollabhui, S., Goold, B. & Loftus, B., Rhag 2016, Yn: Qualitative Research. 16, 6, t. 630-645
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2015

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., 2015, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 25, 1, t. 115-125
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Löfstrand, C. H., Loftus, B. & Loader, I., 9 Tach 2015, Yn: European Journal of Criminology. t. 1-18
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., 24 Tach 2015, Yn: European Journal of Policing Studies. 3, 2, t. 238-254
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2013

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    O'Neill, M. & Loftus, B., Tach 2013, Yn: Theoretical Criminology. 17, 4, t. 437-454
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2012

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B. & Goold, B., Gorff 2012, Yn: Criminology and Criminal Justice. 12, 3, t. 275-289
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2010

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Chwef 2010, Oxford : Oxford University Press. (Clarendon Studies in Criminology )
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., 2010, Yn: Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. 20, 1, t. 1-20
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2008

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., Tach 2008, Yn: British Journal of Criminology. 48, 6, t. 778-797
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2007

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Loftus, B., 2007, Police Culture: New Debates and Directions. O'Neill, M., Marks, M. & Singh, A.-M. (gol.). Oxford : Elsevier Press, t. 181-204 (Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance; Cyfrol 8).
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2022

  • In collaboration with North Wales Police (NWP), this project will identify and explore with police, civic and public stakeholders the benefits, challenges and ethical concerns raised through the police use of new computational technologies in policing, notably those involving claims to detect and predict criminality through risk-modelling and those based on Intelligent Facial Recognition.

    Funding awarded through the 91¾«Æ·ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £44,239

    1 Ebr 2022 – 31 Maw 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr)

2020

  • Ethnography and the Evocative World of Policing

    Ion 2020 →

    Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd gwadd)

2019

  • 2019 →

    Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)

  • 2019 →

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)

  • Reviews Editor (since 2013)

    2019 →

    Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Golygydd)

2018

  • I took part in a series of three podcast interviews for the College of Policing, where I was discussing leadership and police culture.

    Underpinning research: Based on original ethnograhpic fieldwork which has been published as a book and numerous articles.

    Beneficiaries: The police.

    General notes: Informing about the potentials and pitfalls of the occupational culture within the police.

    10 Medi 2018

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)

  • Invited speaker, All Souls Seminar Series, University of Oxford

    2018 →

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)

  • Keynote: University of Liverpool

    2018 →

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)

  • 01/01/2023 – 17/08/2023 (Wedi gorffen)

  • 01/03/2022 – 31/03/2024 (Wedi gorffen)

  • 01/10/2019 – 31/03/2024 (Wedi gorffen)