Dr Ioanna Gouseti

PhD, MA (Hons), BA (Hons)

Lecturer in Criminology

School of Law and Social Sciences

p0096557@brookes.ac.uk

Role

Dr Ioanna Gouseti joined Oxford Brookes as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2024. Before this, she completed her PhD in Social Research Methods (Criminology) at the LSE Department of Methodology in 2016 and was a Leverhulme Fellow and course tutor at the LSE Department of Sociology between 2016 and 2024.

Ioanna holds expertise and interests in:
• Gender and crime
• Gendered harassment and violence
• Culture and crime
• Fear of crime
• Criminological research methods

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Criminology (BSc (Hons))

Modules taught

Understanding Crime and Society
Crime and Intersectionality
Researching Crime: Methods, Approaches and Ethics
The Carnival and Pleasures of Crime

Ioanna welcomes PhD applications in the areas of gender and crime as well as cultural representations and experiences of crime. She is especially interested in projects on gendered violence and public attitudes to crime (e.g., fear of crime).

Research

Ioanna conducts interdisciplinary research on gender and crime, public attitudes to crime and justice, and experiences of primary and secondary victimisation, focusing on gendered harassment. Since 2022, Ioanna has been conducting quantitative research on gendered harassment in public spaces in the UK (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship). She has also been conducting experimental research on the impact of crime information on fear of crime (LSE STICERD).

Research impact

Ioanna's research has been published in peer reviewed journals (e.g., Legal and Criminological Psychology, Policing and Society, Journal of Interpersonal Violence) and collective volumes (e.g., International Handbook of Fear of Crime, Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology).

Publications

Other

Gouseti, I., (2018). “Worry about victimization, crime information processing and social categorization biases”, Legal and Criminological Psychology, doi:10.1111/lcrp.12130

Brown, J., Fleming, J., Silvestri, M., Linton, K., Gouseti, I., (2018). “Implications of police occupational culture in discriminatory experiences of senior women in police forces in England and Wales”, Policing & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2018.1540618.

Gouseti, I., (2018). “A construal-level approach to the fear of crime”, In: Lee, M. & Mythen, G. (eds.). International Handbook of Fear of Crime, Routledge.

Brown, J., Gouseti, I., and Fife-Schaw, C., (2017). “Sexual harassment experienced by police staff serving in England, Wales and Scotland: A descriptive exploration of prevalence and antecedents.”, The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles,
https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X17750325

Gouseti, I. & Jackson, J. (2016). Psychological Distance and the Fear of Crime. In Chadee, D. Psychology of Fear, Crime and the Media. International Perspectives. Routledge. Also available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545350 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2545350

Jackson, J. & Gouseti, I. (2015). “Threatened by Violence: Affective and Cognitive Reactions to Violent Victimization”, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, doi: 10.1177/0886260515584336

Jackson, J., & Gouseti, I. (2015). Psychological proximity and the construal of crime: A commentary on ‘Mapping fear of crime as a context-dependent everyday experience that varies in space and time’. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 20(2), 212-214.

Worth, P., Smith, M., Gavrielides, T., Ntziadima, A., & Gouseti, I., (2015). The Psychology of Restorative Justice: Creating the Inner and Outer space for change. An inter-disciplinary observation of restorative justice meetings. In Gavrielides, T. The Psychology of Restorative Justice: Managing the Power Within. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.

Jackson, J. & Gouseti, I. (2014), ‘Fear of Crime and the Psychology of Risk’. In Bruinsma, G. & Weisburd, D., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer-Verlag. Also available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2141537

Jackson, J. & Gouseti, I., (2013), ‘Fear of Crime: An Entry to the Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology’. In: Miller, M.J. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology, Wiley-Blackwell. Also available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2118663

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

British Society of Criminology
European Society of Criminology
American Society of Criminology

Conferences

Since 2017

‘Gendered harassment in public spaces in the UK. Findings from an inclusive survey’, 09-12 July 2024, Glasgow, UK.
‘Gendered harassment in public: introducing the concept and an inclusive approach to its empirical exploration’, ESC Conference, 6-9 September 2023, Florence, Italy.
‘Developing inclusive approaches to the exploration of gendered harassment in public’, BSC Conference, 28-30 June 2023, Preston, Lancashire, UK.
‘Fear free crime info? An alternative approach to the fear of crime’, Keynote, Greek Centre for the Study of Crime, 5 November 2019, Athens, Greece.
‘Knowledge about crime and its impact on public attitudes to the crime-risk’, 19th Annual ESC Conference, 18-21 September 2019, Ghent, Belgium
‘Fear of Crime, Information Processing and Crime-risk Communication’, 17th Annual ESC Conference, 13-16 September 2017, Cardiff, UK.

Further details

https://www.ioannagouseti.com/