Shona Robinson-Edwards

PhD Researcher

• Masculinity
• Race
• Religion
• Desistance
• Mediatisation
• Homicide

• MA Criminology
• BSc Honors Criminal Investigation (1st class)

Centre for Applied Criminology

• Vilification, Amplification and Socialisation: Crime, Media and Popular Culture enables students to critically explore the connections between socialisation, criminalisation and mediatization. It facilitates an understanding of the construction, amplification and vilification of criminal identities in the context of ‘mediatized’ social realities. The module develops students’ abilities to examine the relevance of media representations for contemporary understandings of and criminal justice responses to criminality and deviance.
• Youth Crime suggest that Young people are often ‘demonised’ and ‘criminalised’ based on a history of flawed youth justice policies. This module suggests that there needs to be more ‘principled’ and fairer system of ‘youth justice’ and a wider critical analysis of contemporary understandings of both ‘youth crime and youth justice’.

Robinson-Edwards, S and Pinkney, C. (2018). "Black men, religiosity and desistance: exploring Islam, desistance and identity", Safer Communities, Vol. 17 Issue: 1, pp.47-67,

Robinson – Edwards, S. (2017). Religious Conversions Behind Bars. Available at Birmingham City University,

Robinson – Edwards, S. (2017). O.J. Simpson: ‘I’ve done my time’ – Religion, Remorse and Responsibility? Available at Birmingham City University,