Staff

Dr Jane Monckton-Smith
BA (Hons) PGC PCAP PhD (Cardiff) FHEA

Contact
Email: jmoncktonsmith@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1242 715425

Jane Monckton-Smith is a former police officer who gained her doctorate in Criminology from Cardiff University. She came to Gloucestershire from the University of Southampton where she lectured in Applied Social Science and Criminology.  Since coming to the University of Gloucestershire she has developed the new Forensic Investigation strand to the BSc Criminology degree. Her doctoral thesis was a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis focusing on police and media responses to homicide and serious sexual assault and her recent research explores crime narratives in cases of Homicide. She has two books forthcoming for 2010: Relating Rape and Murder: Narratives of sex, death and gender and Murder, Gender and the Media, both for Palgrave Macmillan.

Teaching

Module Tutor:       

CRI 104 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CRI 105 From Crime Scene to Court: An Introduction to Forensic Investigation
CRI 204 Forensic Criminology
CRI 206 Crime Science for Prediction
CRI 308 Exploring Homicide

                          
Team Teaching:   Policing and Quantitative Methods

Postgraduate:      MSc Criminological Psychology

Recent Publications

Monckton-Smith, J. (2006) Deconstructing the House that Jack Built: An examination of the discursive regime of sexual murder (PhD Thesis Cardiff University)

Mason, P. and Monckton-Smith, J. (2008) Conflation, Collocation and Confusion: British Press Coverage of the Sexual Murder of Women, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism  Vol 9 (4)

Monckton-Smith, J. (2010) Relating Rape and Murder: Narratives of sex, death and gender Forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan

Monckton-Smith, J. (2010) Murder, Gender and the Media forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan

Monckton-Smith, J. (2010) The Paradox of Cinematic Sexual Violence forthcoming in Jones et al Leisure and Crime Willan

Monckton-Smith, J. (2004) Deconstructing the House that Jack Built, British Society of Criminology Conference, Portsmouth

Monckton-Smith, J. (2006) Rape, Murder and the Media: Partners in Gendered Crime? British Society of Criminology Conference, 2006, Glasgow

Monckton-Smith, J. (2006) Book Review. The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction. Jeanette King, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan 2005 FWSA Newsletter n.49 November 2006

Monckton-Smith, J. (2007) Book Review.Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture David Schmid, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2006
Media, Culture and Society March 2007 Vol 29 no 2

Monckton-Smith, J. (2007) Book Review. Murder and Society Peter Morrall Chichester: Wiley 2006
British Society of Criminology news June 2007