Dr. Gunter is a Principal  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.

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.

Young people and crime;  race/ethnicity, crime and criminal justice; urban crime; cultural criminology; ethnography.

• BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Foundation Degree (FdA) in Applied Criminology

• Applied Criminology & Professional Practice
• 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

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
• Joseph, I., & Gunter, A. (2011) Whatﾒs A Gang and Whatﾒs Race Got to Do with It? Politics  and Policy into  practice, London: Runnymede Trust   http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/GangsRevisited%28online%29-2011.pdf

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Gunter A. (2011) The Governance of  Troublesome Youth Groups  in Spaces of Urban Marginality:  An East London Case Study,  XVI World Congress -  International Society for Criminology, Kobe - Japan

Gunter, A. (2011) Road Cultures, Transitions & Young Black Males, Gender, Youth and Urban Neighbourhoods  Symposium, Institute of Education, University of London

Gunter, A. (2010 ) Youth Transitions, Road Culture  & Badness:  An Ethnographic Study of a Black East London Neighbourhood', Birkbeck Urban Studies Group Seminar Series, Birkbeck College, University of London

Gunter, A (2010) Youth Transitions in East Londonﾒs Multi-Ethnic Poor Neighbourhoods: Continuities, Legacy (and Change?)  in Londonﾒs 2012 Olympic host boroughs, BSA Youth 2010 Conference, University of Surrey

Gunter, A ( 2010) Youth Exclusion and Urban Crime: ﾑProblemﾒ Youth, Urban Policy and Crime Prevention Practice in the UK,  Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm - Sweden 

Gunter , A., & Watt, P. (2008) Goinﾒ College, Goinﾒ Work and Goinﾒ Road: Youth Transitions, Culture and Local Opportunity Structures in an East London Neighbourhood, Young People, Class and Place Conference, British Sociological Association  Youth Study Group, University of Teesside

Gunter, A (2007) Race(ism), crime & justice: the perennial problem with black British male youth discoursesﾒ, British Society of Criminology Conference , London School of Economics