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Elizabeth Stokes

Position: Senior Lecturer

Location: DH019, Duncan House

Telephone: 020 8223 2195

Contact address:

School of Law
University of East London
Duncan House
Stratford High Street
London E15 2JB

Brief biography:

Elizabeth Stokes joined UEL School of Law in 1995 to contribute to the teaching and development of criminal law, criminal justice and criminology modules across the curriculum.  She was involved in the introduction and design of the BA (Hons) in Criminology & Criminal Justice in 1997 and co-ordinated this subject area from 2000-2003.  Elizabeth has a long standing interest in interdisciplinary studies and the challenges of teaching law to non-law students and to learners with diverse educational backgrounds.  After a two year secondment to the Open University, Faculty of Health & Social Care in 2005 developing law materials for health, social work and youth justice practitioners, she returned to UEL in September 2007.  Elizabeth is now Programme Leader of the Graduate Diploma in Law at UEL, which had its first intake in September 2008.

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Activities/responsible for:

  • Programme Leader, Graduate Diploma in Law

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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:

  • Criminalisation
  • Penal policy
  • Mental health law
  • Social work law and
  • Human rights

Teaching:

Programmes:

  • Short Course: Introduction to Law & Criminology
  • LLB (Hons)
  • BA (Hons) Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • Graduate Diploma in Law

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Modules:

  • LA2300/LA3330/LA2309 Criminal Law
  • LA2470/LA3460 Human Rights
  • LA1750 The Legal System
  • LA1100 Legal Methods & Skills (Forensic Science)
  • CR2150/CR3150 Prison Studies
  • CR2620/CR3620 Mentally Disordered Suspects, Defendants & Offenders
  • Supervision of law and criminology projects and postgraduate dissertations

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Research / Publications:

Current research:

  • Member of School of Law Learning & Teaching Research Group.
  • Research interests (subject based): penal policy, criminalisation, mental health, disciplinary interstices and civil responses to crime.
  • Research interests (learning and teaching): teaching law to non-lawyers.

Recent publications:

  • (2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Block 1 'The Law and Social Work: An Introduction'. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
  • (2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Block3 'Criminal Justice'. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
  • (with Jeremy Roche) (2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Block 5'Housing, Welfare Rights, Asylum & Immigration'. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
  • (with Nick Balneaves)(2007) K207 The Law and Social Work in Scotland, Audio CD. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

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Research archive:

  • (2000) "The Abolition of Doli Incapax: Reflections on the Death of a Doctrine" In Pickford, J (Ed) "Youth Justice: Theory & Practice". London , Cavendish.

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Other scholarly activities:

  • External consultant for Open University courses in Social work law and Youth justice.
  • Book proposal referee (various publishers), member of the British Society of Criminology, Centre for Crime & Justice Studies, and Socio-Legal Studies Association.

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Last updated: September 2008

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