Professor Marisa Silvestri
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Criminology and Social Sciences
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
School Head of Department
- Email:
- m.silvestri@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a Professor of Criminology and joined Kingston in 2024 as Head of the Department for Criminology and Social Sciences. Previously, I was at the University of Kent where I was Director of Studies for postgraduate Criminology and School Director of Internationalisation.
My research interests lie at the intersections of gender, crime, justice, policing and organisational cultures. Underpinned by an interest in the ways in which ‘care' and ‘control' are experienced, negotiated and enacted within the punitive context of the criminal justice system, I am interested in the gendered nature of organisational identities within criminal justice. More specifically, my work emphasises the gendered dimensions of policing, police culture and police leadership. With a strong emphasis on capturing and developing the relationship between theoretical and policy dimensions, I am committed to knowledge exchange and transfer, and I am an academic adviser to a number of organisations.
Qualifications
- PhD in Criminology ( Goldsmiths College)
- MA Criminology ( Brunel University)
- BA Sociology & History ( University of Surrey)
Domains
I teach CM5006 Policing and Punishment and make contributions to other criminological modules.
Courses taught
My main research interests lie at the intersections of gender, crime, justice, policing and organisational cultures. Underpinned by an interest in the ways in which ‘care' and ‘control' are experienced, negotiated and enacted within the punitive context of the criminal justice system, I am interested in the gendered nature of organisational identities within criminal justice. More specifically, my work emphasises the gendered dimensions of policing, police culture and police leadership. With a strong emphasis on capturing and developing the relationship between theoretical and policy dimensions, I am committed to knowledge exchange and transfer, and have been an academic adviser to a number of organisations, including the British Society of Criminology, Ministry of Justice, Griffin Society; Independent Police Commission on the Future of Policing, Home Office Affairs Select Committee and British, European and International Associations of Women Police.
I sit on the editorial board of'Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy - Policing & Society' and am Series Editor (with Megan O'Neil & Steve Tong) for 'Key Themes in Policing' with Policy Press.
I have engaged in teaching, course design and development in an international sphere; most notably, I was Co-Director for MSc Advanced Research in Criminology ( with Erasmus University Rotterdam & University of Ghent). I also engage in international research activities, attending international conferences and acting as special advisor to a range of European police training colleges. I have delivered a number of keynote lectures; most recently, I participated in the International Symposium on the Women Police in Canada and the National Institute of Justice Research Summit on Women and Policing in Washington, US.
I am committed to knowledge exchange and transfer, and have been an academic adviser to a number of organisations, including the British Society of Criminology, Ministry of Justice, Griffin Society; Independent Police Commission on the Future of Policing, Home Office Affairs Select Committee and British, European and International Associations of Women Police.
I am an active member of the British Society of Criminology. I am currently senior academic adviser to the Policing Network ( BSC) and am former Chair of the Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network (BSC).
I am Head of Department for Criminology, Politics & Sociology.
Publications
Critical perspectives on police leadership
Davis, Claire and Silvestri, Marisa (2020). Bristol: (Policy Press)
Police leadership : changing landscapes
Ramshaw, Pauline, Silvestri, Marisa and Simpson, Mark (2019). Cham, Switzerland.: (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gender and crime : a human rights approach
Silvestri, Marisa and Crowther-Dowey, Christopher (2016). London, U.K.: (Sage)
Gender and crime
Silvestri, Marisa and Crowther-Dowey, Christopher (2008). London, U.K.: (Sage)
Book review of 'Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy' by I. Shannon
Silvestri, Marisa, 2022, Policing and Society (32), 5, pp 695-697
The role of (in)visibility in hate crime targeting transgender people
Colliver, Ben and Silvestri, Marisa, 2022, (22), 2, pp 235-253
Policewomen’s perceptions of occupational culture in the changing policing environment of England and Wales : a study in liminality
Brown, Jennifer, Fleming, Jenny and Silvestri, Marisa, 2021, Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles (94), 3, pp 259-281
A police service in transformation : implications for women police officers
Brown, Jennifer and Silvestri, Marisa, 2019, Police Practice and Research (21), 5, pp 459-475
Implications of police occupational culture in discriminatory experiences of senior women in police forces in England and Wales
Brown, Jennifer, Fleming, Jenny, Silvestri, Marisa, Linton, Kenisha and Gouseti, Ioanna, 2019, Policing and Society (29), 2, pp 121-136
Disrupting the “heroic” male within policing : a case of direct entry
Silvestri, Marisa, 2018, Feminist Criminology (13), 3, pp 309-328
Police culture and gender : revisiting the 'cult of masculinity'
Silvestri, Marisa, 2017, Policing (11), 3, pp 289-300
'It's like another family innit' : building police-youth relations through the Metropolitan Police Service Volunteer Police Cadet Programme
Pepper, Melissa and Silvestri, Marisa, 2017, (11), 1, pp 1-13
The gendering of violent crime
Crowther-Dowey, C. and Silvestri, M., 2017, British Journal of Community Justice (4), 3
Book review of 'Accountability of policing' edited by S. Lister and M. Rowe
Silvestri, Marisa, 2016, Policing and Society (26), 7, pp 852-855
Gender and policing : narratives of crisis, change and continuity
Silvestri, Marisa, 2016, European Police Science and Research Bulletin (S1), pp 143-153
Book review of 'The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime' edited by R. Gartner and B. McCarthy
Silvestri, Marisa, 2015, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (54), 5, pp 533-535
Gender diversity: two steps forward, one step back
Silvestri, Marisa, 2015, (9), 1, pp 56-64
Reflections on a 'depressing inevitability'
Silvestri, Marisa, 2013, Sociological Research Online (18), 4
Gender and police leadership : time for a paradigm shift?
Silvestri, Marisa, Tong, Steve and Brown, Jennfier, 2013, International Journal of Police Science and Management (15), 1, pp 61-73
Silvestri, Marisa, 2012, The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice (51), 5, pp 544-545
"Doing" police leadership : enter the "new smart macho"
Silvestri, Marisa, 2007, (17), 1, pp 38-58
Visions of the future: the role of senior policewomen as agents of change
Silvestri, Marisa, 2003, International Journal of Police Science and Management (1), 2, pp 148-161
Women in police leadership : making rank as a marker of progress?
Silvestri, Marisa, Brown, Jennifer and Fleming, Jenny (2023). In: Prenzler, Tim, (ed.), Gender inclusive policing : challenges and achievements. New York, U.S.A.: Routledge, pp 92-101
Women policing in the United Kingdom : transforming leadership
Brown, Jennifer and Silvestri, Marisa (2020). In: Rabe-Hemp, Cara, (eds.) and Garcia, Vanessa, (eds.), Women policing across the globe : shared challenges and successes in the integration of women police worldwide. London, U.K.: Rowman and Littlefield, pp 85-110
In search of diversity : an embodied account of police leadership
Silvestri, Marisa (2019). In: Ramshaw, Pauline, (eds.), Silvestri, Marisa, (eds.) and Simpson, Mark, (eds.), Police leadership : changing landscapes. Cham, Switzerland.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 99-120
Pioneering women police chiefs : a tale of conflict and collaboration
Silvestri, Marisa (2018). In: Stevenson, Kim, (eds.), Cox, David J., (eds.) and Channing, Iain, (eds.), Leading the police : a history of Chief Constables 1835-2017. London, U.K.: Routledge, pp 193-210
Women police: potential and possibilities for police reform
Dick, Penny, Silvestri, Marisa and Westmarland, Louise (2013). In: Brown, Jennifer, (ed.), The future of policing. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 134-148
Gender and crime
Heidensohn, Frances and Silvestri, Marisa (2012). In: Maguire, M., (eds.), Morgan, R., (eds.) and Reiner, R., (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp 336-369
Managerial masculinity: an insight into the twenty-first century police leader
Silvestri, Marisa (2012). In: Barrie, D.G., (eds.) and Broomhall, S., (eds.), A history of police and masculinities, 1700-2010. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 235-254
Gender and crime: a human rights perspective
Silvestri, Marisa (2006). In: Heidensohn, Frances, (ed.), Gender and justice: new concepts and approaches. Willan Publishing, pp 222-242
Conditional cautions: evaluation of the women specific condition pilot
Easton, H., Silvestri, M., Evans, K., Matthews, R. and Walklate, S. (2010). (Ministry of Justice)
Women in policing - a review of time, place and space
Silvestri, Marisa(2014). In: British Society of Criminology Conference, 9-12 Jul 2014 :Liverpool, U.K.
Gender and policing: narratives of crisis, change and continuity
Silvestri, Marisa(2013). In: CEPOL European Police Research and Science Conference, 11-13 Sep 2013 :Munster, Germany
Silvestri, Marisa(2013). In: Critical Diversities @ the Intersection: Policies, Practices, Perspectives. Seminar 2: Divisive Realities: Lived Experiences, Diversity Dis-junctures, 7 June 2013 :London, UK.
Why gender matters in policing: radical transformation(s) or business as usual?
Silvestri, Marisa(2013). In: Invited Annual Lecture, Canterbury Christ Church University, April 2013 :Canterbury, U.K.
Women, policing and representation
Silvestri, Marisa(2012). In: Independent Police Commision into the Future of Policing Workshop, 4 Oct 2012 :London, U.K.
The conformity of criminology
Heidensohn, F. and Silvestri, M.(1995). In: British Criminology Conference, 18-21 Jul 1995 :Loughborough, U.K.