Professor Elizabeth Yardley

• Homicide
• Domestic abuse and coercive control
• Technology in violence
• Media portrayals of violence

• BSc (Hons) Politics and Sociology – First Class
• PhD Management (Aston Business School) 

• American Society of Criminology
• British Society of Criminology 

• Gender and Crime (Level 6 Undergraduate Criminology)
• Contemporary Criminological Thought (MA Criminology)
• Criminology Dissertation
• Homicide and Multiple Homicide (Level 6 Undergraduate Criminology) 

• The Harms of Omnipresence. This interdisciplinary research explores the use of GPS trackers and spyware in cases of homicide, domestic abuse, coercive control and stalking. It will inform a campaign to change law and policy around the harmful use of monitoring technologies.
• Reporting Domestic Homicide. This project, in collaboration with the organization Level-Up, tracks the impact of new media guidelines on the reporting of fatal domestic abuse. This outcomes-focused research considers the extent to which reporting is becoming more accurate and sensitive and the challenges and opportunities in changing reporting practices.  
• The True Crime Phenomenon: This multi-strand project considers a range of true crime outputs, from true crime magazines to podcasts, and identifies the ways in which the genre is helping or hindering contemporary understandings of crime. 

• Dan Rusu – Life after Life, Beyond the Gate: The construction and ceconstruction of identify amongst homicide offenders.
• Melindy Brown – An evaluation of the support in the community for released offenders in Staffordshire and the West Midlands, with a particular focus on alcohol-related offending.
• Sophie Rowe – Does befriending have an impact on reconviction?
• Shona Robinson-Edwards - Faith after Murder: Religion in the lives of offenders convicted of homicide offences.
• Liam Brolan - Making Sense of Holiday Homicide:  A study of the nature, extent and law enforcement implications of Britons killed abroad. 

• Yardley, E., Kennedy, M. and Brolan, L. (2018). Footballer, rich man, celebrity, consumer: Media blindness and the denial of domestic abuse in the Stephanie Ward and Danny Simpson case, Crime Media Culture, Online ahead of print DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659018797987
• Yardley, E.,Kelly, E. and Robinson-Edwards, S. (2018). Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber. Crime Media Culture, Online ahead of print DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659018799375
• Yardley, E. and Rusu, D. (2018). Edmund Clark’s Artistic Residency at HMP Grendon: Exploring the impact upon residents. Prison Service Journal, 239, pp. 50-57.
• Yardley, E. (2017). Social Media Homicide Confessions: Stories of killers and their victims. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Wilson, D., Yardley, E., & Pemberton, S. (2017). The ‘Dunblane massacre’ as a ‘photosensitive plate’. Crime, Media, Culture, 13(1), 55-68.
• Yardley, E., Wilson, D., & Kennedy, M. (2017). “TO ME ITS [SIC] REAL LIFE”: Secondary Victims of Homicide in Newer Media. Victims & Offenders, 12(3), 467-496. 2014-2017 2013-2014
• Yardley, E., Lynes, A. G. T., Wilson, D. & Kelly, E. (2016). What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces, Crime Media Culture, Online ahead of print, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659016674045
• Brolan, L., Wilson, D., & Yardley, E. (2016). Hitmen and the Spaces of Contract Killing: The Doorstep Hitman, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 13(3), 220-238.
• Yardley, E., & Wilson, D. (2016). In Search of the ‘Angels of Death’: Conceptualising the Contemporary Nurse Healthcare Serial Killer, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 13(1), 39-55.
• Wilson, D., Yardley, E. & Lynes, A. (2015). Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder. Hook: Waterside Press.
• Yardley, E. & Wilson, D. (2015). Female Serial Killers in Social Context: Criminological institutionalism and the case of Mary Ann Cotton. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Yardley, E., & Wilson, D. (2015). Making Sense of ‘Facebook Murder'? Social Networking Sites and Contemporary Homicide. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(2), 109-134.
• Brookes, M., Wilson, D., Yardley, E., Rahman, M., & Rowe, S. (2015). Faceless: High-profile murders and public recognition. Crime, Media, Culture, 11(1), 61-76.
• Yardley, E., Wilson, D., Kemp, D., & Brookes, M. (2015). Narrative Beyond Prison Gates Contradiction, Complexity, and Reconciliation. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 59(2), 159-179.
• MacIntyre, D., Wilson, D., Yardley, E., & Brolan, L. (2014). The British hitman: 1974–2013, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53(4), 325-340.
• Yardley, E. (2014). Counterblast: Putting serious case reviews in their place–What we really need to understand about child homicide. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53(3), 309-313.
• Yardley, E. (2014). The value of audit tools in children's services: Reflections upon a common assessment framework audit. British Journal of Social Work, 44(4), 937-954.
• Yardley, E., Wilson, D., & Lynes, A. (2014). A taxonomy of male British family annihilators, 1980–2012. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53(2), 117-140

Elizabeth's Podcast - Crime Bites

Twitter: @ProfLizYardley