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Professor Marisa Silvestri

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology
School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Penrhyn Road

Professor of Criminology

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Professor

About

I am a Professor of Criminology and joined Kingston in 2024 as Head of the Department for Criminology and Social Sciences. Previously, I was at the University of Kent where I was Director of Studies for postgraduate Criminology and School Director of Internationalisation.

My research interests lie at the intersections of gender, crime, justice, policing and organisational cultures. Underpinned by an interest in the ways in which ‘care' and ‘control' are experienced, negotiated and enacted within the punitive context of the criminal justice system, I am interested in the gendered nature of organisational identities within criminal justice. More specifically, my work emphasises the gendered dimensions of policing, police culture and police leadership. With a strong emphasis on capturing and developing the relationship between theoretical and policy dimensions, I am committed to knowledge exchange and transfer, and I am an academic adviser to a number of organisations.

Qualifications

PhD in Criminology ( Goldsmiths College)
MA Criminology ( Brunel University)
BA Sociology & History ( University of Surrey)

Domains

Publications

Women in policing: the challenges facing equity and inclusion initiatives

Langan, Debra, Sanders, Carrie, Silvestri, Marisa, Prenzler, Tim, Fleming, Jenny and Brown, Jennifer, 2022, CRSP Talk, Published

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Book review of 'Chief police officers' stories of legitimacy' by I. Shannon

Silvestri, Marisa, 2022, Policing and Society (32), 5 pp 695-697, Published

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The role of (in)visibility in hate crime targeting transgender people

Colliver, Ben and Silvestri, Marisa, 2022, Criminology and Criminal Justice (22), 2 pp 235-253, Published

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Policewomen's perceptions of occupational culture in the changing policing environment of England and Wales: a study in liminality

Brown, Jennifer, Fleming, Jenny and Silvestri, Marisa, 2021, The Police Journal : Theory, Practice and Principles (94), 3 pp 259-281, Published

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A police service in transformation: implications for women police officers

Brown, Jennifer and Silvestri, Marisa, 2019, Police Practice and Research (21), 5 pp 459-475, Published

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Implications of police occupational culture in discriminatory experiences of senior women in police forces in England and Wales

Brown, Jennifer, Fleming, Jenny, Silvestri, Marisa, Linton, Kenisha and Gouseti, Ioanna, 2019, Policing and Society (29), 2 pp 121-136, Published

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Disrupting the ÔÇ£heroicÔÇØ male within policing: a case of direct entry

Silvestri, Marisa, 2018, Feminist Criminology (13), 3 pp 309-328, Published

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Police culture and gender: revisiting the 'cult of masculinity'

Silvestri, Marisa, 2017, Policing (11), 3 pp 289-300, Published

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'It's like another family innit': building police-youth relations through the Metropolitan Police Service Volunteer Police Cadet Programme

Pepper, Melissa and Silvestri, Marisa, 2017, Respiratory Medicine (11), 1 pp 1-13, Published

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The gendering of violent crime

Crowther-Dowey, C. and Silvestri, M., 2017, British Journal of Community Justice (4), 3, Accepted/In press

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Book review of 'Accountability of policing' edited by S. Lister and M. Rowe

Silvestri, Marisa, 2016, Policing and Society (26), 7 pp 852-855, Published

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Gender and policing: narratives of crisis, change and continuity

Silvestri, Marisa, 2016, European Police Science and Research Bulletin (S1) pp 143-153, Published

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Book review of 'The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime' edited by R. Gartner and B. McCarthy

Silvestri, Marisa, 2015, The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice (54), 5 pp 533-535, Published

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Gender diversity: two steps forward, one step back

Silvestri, Marisa, 2015, Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (9), 1 pp 56-64, Published

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Reflections on a 'depressing inevitability'

Silvestri, Marisa, 2013, Sociological Research Online (18), 4, Published

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Book review of: 'Women, crime and social harm: towards a criminology for the global era' edited by M. Cain & A. Howe

Silvestri, Marisa, 2012, The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice (51), 5 pp 544-545, Published

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"Doing" police leadership: enter the "new smart macho"

Silvestri, Marisa, 2007, Gastric Cancer (17), 1 pp 38-58, Published

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'Doing time': becoming a police leader

Silvestri, Marisa, 2006, International Journal of Police Science and Management (8), 4 pp 266-281, Published

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Visions of the future: the role of senior policewomen as agents of change

Silvestri, Marisa, 2003, International Journal of Police Science and Management (1), 2 pp 148-161, Published

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Women in police leadership: making rank as a marker of progress?

Silvestri, Marisa, Brown, Jennifer and Fleming, Jenny (2023). In: Prenzler, Tim, (eds.), New York, U.S.A.: pp 92-101 [Published]

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Women policing in the United Kingdom: transforming leadership

Brown, Jennifer and Silvestri, Marisa (2020). In: Rabe-Hemp, Cara, Garcia, Vanessa, (eds.), London, U.K.: pp 85-110 [Published]

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In search of diversity: an embodied account of police leadership

Silvestri, Marisa (2019). In: Ramshaw, Pauline, Silvestri, Marisa, Simpson, Mark, (eds.), Cham, Switzerland.: pp 99-120 [Published]

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The 'online othering' of transgender people in relation to 'gender neutral toilets'

Colliver, Ben, Coyle, Adrian and Silvestri, Marisa (2019). In: Lumsden, Karen, Harmer, Emily, (eds.), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan pp 215-237 [Published]

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Pioneering women police chiefs: a tale of conflict and collaboration

Silvestri, Marisa (2018). In: Stevenson, Kim, Cox, David J., Channing, Iain, (eds.), London, U.K.: pp 193-210 [Published]

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Women in police leadership

Silvestri, Marisa and Paul, Colette (2015). In: Fleming, Jenny, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: pp 190-210 [Published]

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Women police: potential and possibilities for police reform

Dick, Penny, Silvestri, Marisa and Westmarland, Louise (2013). In: Brown, Jennifer, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: pp 134-148 [Published]

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Gender and crime

Heidensohn, Frances and Silvestri, Marisa (2012). In: Maguire, M., Morgan, R., Reiner, R., (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: pp 336-369 [Published]

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Managerial masculinity: an insight into the twenty-first century police leader

Silvestri, Marisa (2012). In: Barrie, D.G., Broomhall, S., (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: pp 235-254 [Published]

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Gender and crime: a human rights perspective

Silvestri, Marisa (2006). In: Heidensohn, Frances, (eds.) pp 222-242 [Published]

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The conformity of criminology

Silvestri, M. and Heidensohn, F. (1995). In: Newburn, T., Vagg, J., (eds.) British Society of Criminology [Published]

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