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Dr Karen Harrison

Karen Harrison

Essential details

Position

Senior Lecturer

Role
Extension
6345
Room number
Wilberforce 405
Email
Karen.Harrison@hull.ac.uk
Qualifications

LLB Hons (Wales), Diploma in Bar Vocational Studies (Cardiff), PhD (Wales) PGCHE (Coventry)

Profile

Dr Karen Harrison is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Hull. Previously she has taught at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England – Bristol and Coventry University.  Her teaching and research interests focus on criminal law, criminal justice and penology in general and dangerous offenders, especially sex offenders, in particular. She supervises both Law and Criminology students at PhD level.

Modules Taught

Undergraduate

  • Sexuality, Law and Gender
  • Criminal Law
  • Legal System
  • Tort Law 
  • Penology

 

Research Interests

Karen has research interests in all areas of penology and criminal justice, but particularly in sentencing, the death penalty, dangerous offenders and sex offenders. Her current research is focused on sex offenders, with several articles published on the use of pharmacotherapy (chemical castration) with high-risk sex offenders and the legal and ethical issues involved in sex offender treatment. Her first monograph, Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offender, was published by Routledge in 2011. She is currently working on the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of legal and ethical aspects of sex offender treatment and management and on a co-authored book, The Law Relating to Financial Crime.

Karen is an Associate Editor of Sexual Offender Treatment and an editorial board member of both the Journal of Sexual Aggression and The Prison Service Journal.

Research News and Events

  • Dr Karen Harrison received £150 funding grant from SPRET
  • On 15th March 2010, Dr Karen Harrison was interviewed on BBC Radio Humberside about re-offending rates of short-term prisoners.

Selected Publications

Books

  •  Harrison, K. (2011) Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders. Abingdon: Routledge. 

Edited Books

  • K. Harrison (2010) Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community: risk management, treatment and social responsibility. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

Chapters in edited collections

  • Harrison, K. and Rainey, B. (2011) ‘Morality and Legality in the use of anti-androgenic pharmacotherapy with sex offenders’ in D. Boer et al. (eds) International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders. Theory, Practice and Research. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Harrison, K. (2011) ‘Sentencing Financial Crime in England and Wales’ in N. Ryder (ed) Financial Crime in the 21st Century – Law and Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Harrison, K., McCartan, K. and Manning, R. (2010) ‘Paedophilia: Definitions and Aetiology’ in K. Harrison (ed) Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community: risk management, treatment and social responsibility. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.
  • Harrison, K. (2010) ‘The Use of Pharmacotherapy with High-Risk Sex Offenders’ in K. Harrison (ed) Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community: risk management, treatment and social responsibility. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

Articles in refereed journals

  • Harrison, K. (2010) ‘Legal Aspects of Surgical Castration’. Sexual Offender Treatment, Volume 5, Issue 2, available at http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/89.html
  • Harrison, K. (2010) ‘Dangerous Offenders, indeterminate sentencing, and the rehabilitation revolution’, Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law, 32(4): 423-433.
  • Harrison, K. and Tanomy, A. (2010) ‘Solitary confinement and death row phenomenon: has the death penalty finally had its day?’ The Internet Journal of Criminology, available at: http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Harrison_Tamony_%20Death_Row_Syndrome%20_IJC_Nov_2010.pdf
  • Harrison, K., Manning, R. and McCartan, K. (2010) ‘Multidisciplinary definitions and understanding of paedophilia’, Social & Legal Studies,19(4) 481-496.
  • Harrison, K. and Rainey, B. (2009) ‘Suppressing human rights? A rights-based approach to the use of pharmacotherapy with sex offenders’, Legal Studies, Vol 29, No 1, 47-74.
  • Harrison, K. (2008) ‘Legal and Ethical issues when using Antiandrogenic Pharmacotherapy with Sex Offenders’, Sexual Offender Treatment, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 2, available at http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/2-2008_01.html.
  • Rainey, B. and Harrison, K. (2008) ‘Pharmacotherapy and Human Rights: best of friends or unlikely bedfellows?’, Sexual Offender Treatment, Volume 3 (2008), Issue 2, available at http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/2-2008_02.html.
  • Harrison, K. and Moore, H. (2008) ‘Race and the Death Penalty in the U.S.: Equal Justice Under Law?’, 19 Amicus Journal, 12-23.
  • Harrison, K. and Melville, C. (2007) ‘The Death Penalty by Lethal Injection and Hill v McDonough: is the US starting to see sense?’, Journal of Criminal Law, 71.2, 169-182.
  • Harrison, K. (2007) ‘The High Risk Sex Offender Strategy in England and Wales: Is chemical castration an option?’, The Howard Journal, 46(1), 16-31.
  • Harrison, K. (2006) ‘The Respect Action Plan: Something new or more of the same?’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 28(2), 191-200.
  • Harrison, K. (2006) ‘Community Punishment or Community Rehabilitation: which is the highest in the sentencing tariff?’, The Howard Journal, 45(2), 141-158.

 

Professional journal papers

  • Harrison, K. (2011) ‘Interview: Rachel Halford’, Prison Service Journal, 193, 43-47.
  • Harrison, K. (2008) ‘The Castration Cure’, Prison Service Journal, 175, 13-18.
  • Harrison, K. and Ryder, N. (2007) ‘Getting Tough on Fraud?’, New Law Journal, 157(7299) 1684.
  • Harrison, K. (2006) ‘The Lifers Inc., Public Safety Initiative’, Prison Service Journal, 166, 37-41.

Book reviews

  • Harrison, K. (2011) Book Review: Female Sexual Offenders. Theory, Assessment and Treatment, Edited by Theresa A. Gannon and Franca Cortoni, Prison Service Journal, 194: 45-47.
  • Harrison, K. (2010) Book Review: Release from Prison. European policy and practice, Edited by Nicola Padfield, Dirk van Zyl Smith and Frieder Dunkel, Prison Service Journal, 192: 61-62.
  • Harrison, K. (2010) Book Review: Thinking about punishment. Penal policy across space, time and discipline, Michael Tonry, Prison Service Journal, 191: 39-40.
  • Harrison, K. (2009) Book Review: Sex as Crime?, Edited by Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch and Maureen Cain, Prison Service Journal, accepted for March edition.
  • Harrison, K. (2008) Book Review: The social costs of dangerousness: prison and the dangerous classes, Jamie Bennett, Prison Service Journal, 178, 62-63.
  • Harrison, K. (2008) Book Review: The Shaming of Sexual Offenders: Risk, Retribution and Reintegration, Anne-Marie McAlinden, Legal Studies, Vol 28, No 1, 153-157.

 

Papers and lectures

  • Legal and Ethical Issues in Sex Offender Treatment, IATSO Conference 2010, Oslo with Dr. B. Rainey.
  • The development of sentencing 'dangerous offenders', SLSA Conference 2010
  • The development of dangerousness in penological discourse, SLSA Conference 2009.
  • Castrating the problem: the use of drug treatment with high-risk sex offenders, Managing High-Risk Sex Offenders in the Community, UWE – Bristol, September 2008.
  • Castrating Human Rights: A Rights Based Approach to the Use of Anti-Libidinal Suppressants with High-Risk Sex Offenders, IATSO Conference 2008, Cape Town.
  • The Use of Pharmacotherapy with High Risk Sex Offenders. IATSO Conference 2008, Cape Town.
  • Castrating Human Rights: A Rights Based Approach to the Use of Chemical Castration on Sex Offenders – SLSA Conference 2008, Manchester, with Dr. B. Rainey.
  • Imprisonment for public protection: a good idea gone bad?  - SLSA Conference 2008, Manchester.
  • Chemical Castration: a credible option for high-risk sex offenders?, British Criminology Conference 2007, LSE.
  • Partnerships, Contestability and Commissioning in the Probation Service: The ultimate insult or the light at the end of the tunnel? –SLSA Conference 2007, Kent.
  • Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: should the sex offender strategy in the UK also include the option of chemical castration? – ICC conference 2005, Philadelphia.