Dr Noel Cross

I am programme leader for the BA Criminal Justice and LLB Law and Criminal Justice programmes in the School of Justice Studies at LJMU. I have worked at LJMU for 18 years now, having joined as a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice in September 2002, before becoming Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader in Criminal Justice in April 2011, and then Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in November 2019. Prior to joining LJMU, I worked as a research assistant and assistant lecturer at the University of Wales Swansea (now Swansea University) during my doctoral studies in the field of bail support services for young people involved in the youth justice process. Drawing on my previous academic experience of studying criminal law as part of my undergraduate degree, I have taught a module comparing criminal law and criminal justice to students on Criminal Justice programmes for 14 years now, and have also published two textbooks on this subject as an extension of the themes which form part of the teaching on this module. I have also taught a variety of other modules while at LJMU, often focusing on what I see as being particular challenges to the criminal law in terms of how it is applied in criminal justice practice (for example, youth justice and the special treatment which young people accused of crime are and should be entitled to by the law; and crimes of the powerful, which often involve internationally-orientated group criminal activity of various kinds and/or crime which can be hidden by social power, rather than isolated and publicly visible individual wrongdoing). I remain very interested, in both teaching and research terms, in how the criminal law is applied in criminal justice practice, and in philosophical debates on the form and functions of criminal law.

Degrees

2005, Swansea University, United Kingdom, PhD Applied Social Studies
2000, Swansea University, United Kingdom, MA Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology
1998, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, BA Jurisprudence

Certifications

2014, Higher Education Academy, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader in Criminal Justice, School of Justice Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, School of Justice Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Programme Leader/Principal Lecturer in Criminal Justice, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University, 2011 - 2019
Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University, 2002 - 2011