Dr Anthony Gunter
- Contact details
- Activities and responsibilities
- Interests and Expertise
- Teaching: Programmes
- Teaching: Modules
- Current research and publications
Contact details
Position: Senior Lecturer
Location: DH005, Duncan House
Telephone: 020 8223 2500
Email: a.gunter@uel.ac.uk
Contact address:
School of Law and Social Sciences (LSS)University of East London
Duncan House
High Street
Stratford
London E15 2JB
Brief biography
Dr. Gunter is a senior lecturer in criminology and Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Applied Criminology. Prior to embarking upon a career in academia Anthony worked for over 10 years in East London within a variety of community settings as a detached community and youth worker and Project / Area Manager.
Activities and responsibilities
Teaching and administering modules on the BA Criminology and Criminal Justice and FdA in Applied Criminology Programmes. Anthony is also Programme Leader for the FdA in Applied Criminology and has lead responsibility for Professional Development and employer engagement within the Criminology Field.
Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise
Young people and crime; race/ethnicity, crime and criminal justice; urban crime; cultural criminology; ethnography.
Teaching: Programmes
- BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Foundation Degree (FdA) in Applied Criminology
Teaching: Modules
- Developing Criminological Skills
- Race/Ethnicity, Crime & Justice
- Youth, Crime & Subculture
- Work-Based Learning
Also contributes to the following modules:
- Applied Criminology & Professional Practice
- Criminal Justice Process
- Aim Higher Programme
Current research and publications
Using ethnographic research methods to explore contemporary urban youth subculture(s) particularly around the realities of ‘road life’ and the impact of ‘badness’. Alternative Youth Transitions / Subcultures, Race/Ethnicity and Crime in the Black Atlantic.
Most recent publication is:
- Gunter, A. (2003), ‘The Trouble With Black (Male) Youth’, Criminal justice Matters No 54.
- Gunter, A. (2008) ‘Growing up bad: black youth, road culture and badness in an East London neighbourhood’, Crime Media Culture, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 349-365.
- Gunter , A., & Watt, P. (2009) Goin’ College, Goin’ Work and Goin’ Road: Youth Cultures and Transitions in East London, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 515-529 (Special Issue: YOUNG PEOPLE, CLASS AND PLACE)
- Gunter, A. (2010) ‘Growing Up Bad? Road Culture, Badness and Black Youth Transitions in an East London Neighbourhood’ , London: Tufnell Press
- Gunter , A., & Watt, P. (2010) Goin’ College, Goin’ Work and Goin’ Road: Youth Cultures and Transitions in East London in R. MacDonald, T. Shildrick, and S. Blackman (eds), Young People, Class and Place, London: Routledge
