(Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Kent)

General Interests

• The relationship and connections between youth, crime, and culture, and more generally the development of a Cultural Criminology and its qualitative methodologies.
• The criminalisation of youth and youth cultures and young people violence and anti-social behaviour.

Current Research Projects

At the present time I am writing a book with Prof John Muncie for Sage Publications entitled 'The Story of Crime' investigating the voices and narratives of crime, by examining autobiography/life stories and photographic images that contain within them the 'story' of crime. Research Supervision I am happy to supervise students interested in any of the above topics as well as any investigation into culture/crime/deviance generally, especially those with a European or international dimension. I am also interested in any investigations into so called anti-social behaviour and violence.

Recent Publications

• Ferrell, Hayward, Morrison and Presdee (eds.), (2004) Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London : Cavendish.
• Presdee, M. (2005) 'Burning Issues: Fire Carnival and Crime' in Soothill, K. and Peelo, M. (2005) Controversies about Crime. London : Willan.
• Presdee, M. (2005) 'Working it Out' in Muzzatti, P Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Class Identity and the Working Class Experience in Academe.
• Presdee, M. (2005) 'Volume Crime and Consumption.' in Hale, Hayward , Wahidin, and Wincup. Introducing Crime and Criminology. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
• Presdee, M. (2004) 'Cultural Criminology: The Long and Winding Road .' Special Edition, Theoretical Criminology . Vol 8:3.
• Presdee, M. (2004) ' The Story of Crime : Biography and the excavation of transgression.' in Ferrell, Hayward, Morrison and Presdee (eds.), Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: Cavendish.