Dr Janet Foster

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Department: Department of Sociology; Mannheim Centre for Criminology
Contact details: tel. +44 (0)20 7955 7302; fax +44 (0)20 7955 6578; j.a.foster@lse.ac.uk
LSE Experts: Dr Janet Foster

Background

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Janet Foster has conducted extensive research on crime, community and policing issues. She has worked with a range of government departments and police forces across Britain and in Europe. Between 1997 and 2000, she directed a bespoke Diploma and Masters programme for some of Britain's most senior police officers. Dr Foster has just completed (with Tim Newburn and Anna Souhami) a major Home Office-funded evaluation of the impact of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry on policing (2005) and is currently writing a book on murder investigation.

Experience keywords:

Communities; Crime Prevention; Policing; Qualitative Methods; Social Exclusion; Urban Conflict & Change; Urban Regeneration; the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

Selected publications

'Two stations: an ethnographic study of policing in the inner city' in Downes, D (ed) (1989) Crime and the City London: Macmillan
Villains: crime and community in the inner city (1990) London: Routledge (shortlisted for the British Sociological Association Phillip Abrams Prize)
(With Hope, T) 'Conflicting forces changing the dynamics of crime and community on "problem estates"', British Journal of Criminology Vol 32 (4), (1992) 488-503
(With Hope, T) Housing, Community and Crime: the impact of the Priority Estates Project Home Office Research Study No 131 (1993) London: HMSO.
'Informal social control and community crime prevention', British Journal of Criminology (1995) Vol 34 (4) 563-84
'"Island homes for island people": competition, conflict and racism in the battle over public housing on the Isle of Dogs', in Samson, C and South, N (eds) (1996) The Social Construction of Social Policy: methodologies, racism, citizenship and the environment London: Macmillan pp 148-68
'Challenging perceptions: "community" and neighbourliness on a difficult to let estate', in Jewson, J and Macgregor, S (eds) (1997) Transforming Cities: contested governance and new spatial divisions London: Routledge
Docklands: cultures in conflict, worlds in collision London: UCL Press (1999) pp384
'"Memorandum" on police recruitment and training' (1999), in the Home Affairs Select Committee evidence to the Inquiry into Police Training and Recruitment, London: HMSO pp205-15
'Crime and policing in 2010 and beyond', essay for Gilt Edged Diaries millennium edition
'Social exclusion and crime' in special issue on 'Drugs, crime and disorder' (edited by Susanne MacGregor), Drugs: education, prevention and policy (2000)
'"People Pieces": the neglected but essential elements of community crime prevention', in Hughes, G and Edwards, A (eds) Community Crime Prevention Willan Publishing (2002)
(With Bowling, B) 'Policing and the police' in Maguire, M, Morgan, R and Reiner, R (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology Oxford University Press (2002)
'Police cultures' in Newburn, T (ed) The Handbook of Policing Willan Publishing (2003)