MA (Cantab), MScEcon (Wales), CQSW

John Minkes has been a lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at UWS since January 1999.  Prior to that, he worked as a probation officer in London, Swindon and Cardiff, a social worker for people with learning difficulties in Bridgend, and a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol and the Open University.  He is currently Programme Director  for undergraduate criminology programmes and Admissions Tutor for the MA in Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology and teaches modules on criminal justice, corporate crime and prisons.

His main research interests are youth justice, corporate crime and the history of the probation service and the criminal justice system.  In recent years, he has worked on research into the history of the probation service in rural mid-Wales, with Professor Leonard Minkes on the need for interdisciplinary work in the study of corporate and white collar crime, and on comparative youth justice.

Recent and forthcoming publications:

2000: “The Criminology of the Corporation”, with A.L.Minkes, Journal of General Management, 26,2,17-33.

2001: “Mays on Corporate Crime: A Transdisciplinary Analysis”, with A.L.Minkes, Edinburgh Law Review, 5,2,237-243.

2003: “Still Children First?  Developments in Youth Justice in Wales”, with N.Cross and J.Evans, Youth Justice, 2,3,151-162. 

“Drug Courts”, Wales Law Journal, 2,2,151-158. 

2004: Drug and Alcohol Projects for Young Offenders: The Evaluation of Development Fund Projects Funded by the Youth Justice Board, Final Report to the Youth Justice Board, 57pp, London: Youth Justice Board, with R.Hammersley, M.Reid, A.Oliver, A.Genova and P.Raynor. 

 “In Town Too Often: the Probation Service in Rural Mid-Wales”, Planet, 165, 81-86. 

2005: “Partnership in Working with Young Offenders with Substance Misuse Problems”, with R.Hammersley and P.Raynor, Howard Journal, 44, 244-258. 

“Decentralisation, Responsibility and Ethical Dilemmas”, with A.L.Minkes, Social Responsibility. 1,1/2,16-20. 

Preventing Crime Among Homeless Youth, 30pp, Montreal: International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, www.crime-prevention-intl.org/publications/pub_121_1.pdf. 

“Wales and the ‘Bloody Code’: the Brecon Circuit of the Court of Great Sessions in the 1750s”, Welsh History Review, 22,4,673-704.

2006:  “Treating young offenders’ substance use problems: Systemic, methodological and conceptual issues”, with R.Hammersley & M.Reid, Journal of Educational and Child Psychology, 23,2, 41-53.

“Gender, race and the death penalty: lessons from three 1950s murder trials”, with M.T.Vanstone, Howard Journal, 45,4,403-420

Forthcoming publications:

“Change, Continuity and Public Opinion in Youth Justice”, International Criminal Justice Review

“Executions in Wales”, Encyclopaedia of Wales.

Contact Details:

Room 325, Vivian Building

Email: j.p.minkes@swansea.ac.uk