Dr Tony Ward

Essential details

Position

Reader

Role

Extension

6387

Room number

418

Email

a.ward@hull.ac.uk

Qualifications

LLB, LLM (London), PhD (De Montfort), Barrister-at-Law

Profile

Tony Ward joined the Law School in September 2004 from De Montfort Law School, where he taught from 1990 to 2004. He graduated from King's College, London in 1978 and was called to the Bar in 1980. Before returning to the academic world he worked for the voluntary organizations Radical Alternatives to Prison and INQUEST. He gained a PhD in 1996 with a thesis on "Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility in England , 1843-1939".

Modules Taught

Undergraduate

Criminal Evidence
Current Issues in Evidence
Criminal Law
Jurisprudence
Legal Issues in the Headlines

Postgraduate

Foundations of Human Rights
Human Rights Violations

Research Interests

Tony Ward's main research interests are in criminology - particularly the study of crimes by governments and their officials - and the history and theory of criminal law (especially the law on homicide) and evidence (especially expert evidence).

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Books

Johnstone, G and Ward, T (2010) Law and Crime, London, Sage.
B. Clucas, G, Johnstone and Ward, T (eds.) (2009) Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities, Baden-Baden, Nomos.
Green, P and Ward, T (2004) State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption, Pluto Press, London.

Chapters in edited collections

Ward, T (2008) ‘An Honourable Regime of Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice’, Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective, H Johnston (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008, pp. 56-74.
Ward, T and Young, P (2007) ‘Elias, Organised Violence and Terrorism’ In Globalisation, Citizenship and the War on Terror, M Mullard and BA Cole (eds.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 235-254.
Ward, T (2005) ‘A Mania for Suspicion: Poisoning, Science and the Law’ In Criminal Conversations: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic and Moral Outrage, J Rowbotham and K Stevenson (eds.), Ohio State University Press, Columbus, pp. 140-156.
Ward, T (2004) ‘State Harms’ In Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously, P Hillyard, C Pantazis, S Tombs and G Gordon (eds.), Pluto Press, London, pp. 84-100.

Articles in refereed journals

Ward, T (2009) ‘Antiquities, Forests and Simmel’s Sociology of Value’ in Criminology and Archaeology: Studies in Looted Antiquities, S Mackenzie and P Green (eds.), Oxford, Hart, pp. 29-40.
Green.P and Ward.T (2009) ‘Torture and the Paradox of State Violence’ in . Clucas, G, Johnstone and T. Ward (eds.) (2009) Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities, Baden-Baden, Nomos, pp. 163-175.
Green, P and Ward, T (2009) ‘The Transformation of Violence in Iraq’ British Journal of Criminology 49(5): 609-627.
Green, P and Ward, T (2009) ‘State-Building and the Logic of Violence in Iraq’ Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology 10 (Supp. 1) 48-58.
Ward, T. (2009) ‘Is Torture Ever Permissible?’, Prison Service Journal 185: 3-7. Spanish translation (2010 ) ‘¿Es en algo caso admisible la tortura?’ El Cronista 9: 4-9
Ward, T (2009) ‘Hearsay, Psychiatric Evidence and the Interests of Justice’ Crim LR (no. 6) 415-426.Ward, T (2009) ’Usurping the Role of the Jury? Expert Evidence and Witness Credibility in English Criminal Trials’ Int. J. Evidence & Proof 13(2): 83-101
Green, P, Ward, T and McConnachie, K (2007) ‘Logging and Legality: Environmental Crime, Civil Society and the State’, Social Justice, vol. 34 (2), pp. 94-110.
Ward, T (2006) ‘English Law’s Epistemology of Expert Testimony’, Journal of Law and Society, vol. 33 (4), pp. 572-595.
Ward, T (2006) ‘Two Schools of Legal Idealism: A Positivist Introduction’, Ratio Juris, vol. 19 (2), pp. 127-140.
Ward, T (2005) ‘State Crime in the Heart of Darkness’, British Journal of Criminology, vol. 45 (4), pp. 434-445.
Ward, T (2004) ‘Experts, Juries and Witch-hunts: From Fitzjames Stephen to Angela Cannings’, Journal of Law and Society, vol. 31 (3), pp. 369-386.

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