Author, Historian, Speaker, Researcher.
Stephanie explores crime through time. She works on the history of crime, punishment, and policing – from the medieval to the modern.
Stephanie is an expert in the law, context, and history of homicide, suicide, and abortion. Her work tackles the question of how prosecution is shaped by social ideas about violence, gender, ethnicity, and class. She is interested in changes and continuities in the law, punishment, and the wider criminal justice system.
Stephanie’s wider research interests include legal and social conceptions of violence, the socio-economic backgrounds of criminals and victims, the construction (and deconstruction) of criminality, media narratives on crime, public perceptions on crime and criminal justice, and critical criminology.
Her first trade book Murder in the Middle Ages: A New History of Old Crimes will be published by WH Allen (UK) and Penguin Random House (US) in 2028.
Current Projects
- Medieval Murder Maps
- Criminal Justice to Public Heath: Suicide, Coroners, and Community
- Capturing the Criminal: Police Photobooks and the Criminal Class
- Murder and Mercy in Victorian Wales
- More than ‘Mad’, ‘Bad’, or ‘Sad’: Women who Kill
The Conversation
Our medieval murder maps reveal the surprising geography of violence in 14th-century English cities
The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave
Latest Blog
From Coroners’ Rolls to the Classroom: Engaging Students with the Medieval Murder Map
Latest Publication
Spatial dynamics of homicide in medieval English cities: the Medieval Murder Map project. Criminal Law Forum
Contact
For public talks, presenting work, or any other projects contact Matt Turner, RCW
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