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Louise Westmarland | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
| Thesis | An ethnography of gendered policing |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | criminology |
| Institutions | Open University |
Louise Westmarland is a British criminologist and Professor of Criminology at Open University,where she is also head of discipline in social policy and criminology. She has researched police conduct since the early 2000s. [1] Her research focuses on police and policing,including gender and policing,homicide investigations,and corruption,integrity and ethics. She is director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research. [2] [3] She earned her PhD at Durham University in 1998 with the thesis An ethnography of gendered policing. [4] According to Google Scholar her work has been cited over 3,000 times in academic literature. [5]
In January 2024 Westmarland's comparison of Jo Phoenix to a "racist uncle" was mentioned in the judgment of an employment tribunal case Phoenix brought against her former employer. [6]
