Staff Profile:Dr Paul Almond

Name:

Dr Paul Almond

Job Title:

Senior Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Dr Paul Almond currently teaches the following courses on the LL.B and LL.M programmes:

• Criminal Law
• Criminology
• General Principles of Law
• Criminal Justice
• Research Methods (LL.M) 

He is also currently acting as module convenor for Criminology and Criminal Law.  He is the School of Law's LLB Programme Director. 

Paul is interested in finding ways to use innovative assessment methods to enhance his teaching, and has published academic articles on this topic. He also currently holds (joint, with Dr Martha-Marie Kleinhans, School of Law) a CETL-AURS Project Fund (value £31,350) to explore the use of Enquiry-Based Learning in the LLB curriculum.

Areas of Interest:

Paul's doctorate was entitled ‘The Enforcement of Work-Related Fatality Cases: An Investigation into the Implementation of the Corporate Killing Offence’.

His current research interests focus on:

• Criminal Law
• Regulation
• Health and safety law and its enforcement
• Criminology

His 2007 paper "Regulation Crisis: Evaluating the Potential Legitimising Effects of 'Corporate Manslaughter' Cases" was selected for inclusion in the 2008 special edition of Law and Policy, entitled ‘Thirty years of key contributions to debates on law and policy’.

Paul Almond was the holder and Principal Investigator of an ESRC Small Grant (£99,862) for a project entitled 'Understanding public perceptions of the social significance of work-related fatality cases'. This involved a 12-month qualitative investigation into public attitudes and concerns in this area of contemporary legal significance.

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Publications:

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Number of items: 9.

2010

• Almond, P. J. (2010) Corporate crime and the ‘crippled epistemology’ of punitiveness. In: Kury , H. and Shea, E. (eds.) Punitivity international developments: vol. 1: punitiveness – a global phenomenon? Universitatsverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum, pp. 53-72. ISBN 9783819607776
• Almond, P. J. and Colover, S. (2010) Mediating punitiveness: understanding public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases. European Journal of Criminology, 7 (5). pp. 323-338. ISSN 1741-2609 doi: 1177/1477370810373728

2009

• Almond, P. (2009) Understanding the seriousness of corporate crime: Some lessons for the new 'corporate manslaughter' offence. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 9 (2). pp. 145-164. ISSN 1748-8958 doi: 10.1177/1748895809102550
• Almond, P. (2009) The dangers of hanging baskets: 'Regulatory myths' and media representations of health and safety regulation. Journal of Law and Society, 36 (3). pp. 352-375. ISSN 0263-323X doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2009.00471.x

2008

• Almond, P. (2008) Investigating health and safety regulation: Finding room for small-scale projects. Journal of Law and Society, 35 (1). pp. 108-125. ISSN 0263-323X doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2008.00428.x
• Almond, P. (2008) Public perceptions of work-related fatality cases: Reaching the outer limits of 'populist punitiveness'? British Journal of Criminology, 48 (4). pp. 448-467. ISSN 0007-0955 doi: 10.1093/bjc/azn018

2007

• Almond, P. (2007) 'Corporate manslaughter': Changing the relationship between criminal law and the corporation? Prison Service Journal, 169. pp. 14-20. ISSN 0300-3558
• Almond, P. (2007) Regulation crisis: Evaluating the potential legitimising effects of 'corporate manslaughter' cases'. Law and Policy, 29 (3). pp. 285-310. ISSN 0265-8240 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9930.2007.00256.x

2006

• Almond, P. (2006) An inspector's-eye view - The prospective enforcement of work-related fatality cases. British Journal of Criminology, 46 (5). pp. 893-916. ISSN 0007-0955 doi: 10.1093/bjc/azl004

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Further Publications: 

• Almond, P. (2009), 'The Dangers of Hanging Baskets: Regulatory Myths' and Media Representations of Health and Safety Regulation', Journal of Law and Society, 36/3: 352-375
• Almond, P. (2009), 'Using an Enquiry-Based Learning Project to Develop Criminological Understanding', Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 3 (available at )
• Almond, P. (2009), 'Understanding the Seriousness of Corporate Crime: Some Lessons for the 'Corporate Manslaughter' Reform Project', Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9/2: 145-164
• Almond, P. (2008b) "Public Perceptions of Work-Related Fatality Cases: Research the Outer Limits of 'Populist Punitiveness'?", British Journal of Criminology, 48/4: 448-467
• Almond, P. (2008a) "Investigating Health and Safety Regulation: Finding Room for Small-scale Projects", Journal of Law and Society, 35 (s1), 108-125 
• Almond, P. (2007) "Corporate Manslaughter: Changing the Relationship Between Criminal Law and the Corporation?", Prison Service Journal, 169: 14-20
• Almond, P. (2007) "Regulation Crisis: Evaluating the Potential Legitimising Effects of 'Corporate Manslaughter' Cases", Law and Policy, 29/3: 285-310
• Almond, P. (2006) "An Inspector’s-Eye View: The Prospective Enforcement of Work-Related Fatality Cases", British Journal of Criminology, 46/5: 892-916

Recent Conference Papers:

• "Mediating Punitiveness: Understanding Public Attitudes Towards Work-Related Fatality Cases", presented at the SLSA Annual Conference, UWE Bristol, 31 March 2010.
• "Mediating Punitiveness: Understanding Public Attitudes Towards Work-Related Fatality Cases", presented with Sarah Colover at the European Society of Criminology Conference, Ljubljana, 10 September 2009.
• "Corporate Manslaughter and the Culture of Control", presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Denver, USA, 28-31 May 2009.
• "The Dangers of Hanging Baskets: The Delegitimatory Effects of Regulatory Myths", presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Montreal, 31 May 2008.
• "Regulatory Myths' as Normative Challenges to Regulatory Legitimacy", presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, University of Manchester, 19 March 2008.
• "Investigating Public Perceptions of Legal Responses in Work-Related Fatality Cases", presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 2007.
• "Understanding the Seriousness of White-Collar and Corporate Crime: Some Lessons for the ’Corporate Manslaughter’ Reform Project" presented at the British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Glasgow, 6 July 2006.
• "An Inspector’s-Eye View: The Prospective Enforcement of Work-Related Fatality Cases" presented at the W.G. Hart Legal Workshop on Understanding Law and Legal Process: The Approaches, Value and Outcomes of Empirical Research, IALS, June 2005.

Qualifications:

LL.B (Birmingham)
PhD (Birmingham)