Dr Anthony Charles

Research Highlights

1. Haines, K. & Charles, A. (2019). Responding to Harm: The Challenge of Children’s Perspectives. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 2(1), 90-108.

   https://doi.org/10.1177/2516606918819282, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45407
2. Charles, A. & Haines, K. (2019). Engaging young people as partners for change: The UR Community project. International Journal of Children's Rights, 27, 140-175.

   https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02701007, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45091
3. Charles, A. (2017). Generating Authentic Understandings of Participation: Working with Young People. Intersections, 3(1)

   https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v3i1.306, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34109

   http://intersections.tk.mta.hu/index.php/intersections/article/view/306
4. Charles, A. & Haines, K. (2014). Measuring Young People’s Participation in Decision Making. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 22(3), 641-659.

   https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-55680022, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17771
5. Charles, A. (2012). Using research to enhance and embed policy and practice which promotes children's participation in decision making

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19820

All Research

• A Zemiological Examination of Child Focussed Policy: Unintended Consequences, Hidden Harms and the Failure of Structures Developed to Support Welsh Children. (Draft Form as yet unconfirmed) (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Tracey Sagar

• Reconceptualising youth justice in areas of Devolved Administration: Mapping the potential for children’s human rights based approaches in Wales and Scotland (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Jane Williams

• ‘Hurt people, hurt people’? An exploration of the transition from victims of childhood trauma, to perpetrators of trauma (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Phatsimo Mabophiwa

• An exploratory study of the challenges that arise when adults with autism spectrum disorder encounter the police and criminal justice system. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Suzanne Edwards

• This has not yet been decided as it will need to reflect what can be achieved through the fieldwork (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Simon Hoffman

• Youth Justice in Wales: The Role and Influence of Welsh Youth Offending Teams in the Context of Pre-devolution Youth Justice. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Simon Hoffman

  Other supervisor: Prof Rick Lines

• Examining the multiple impacts of 'Welsh Town' Bureaux (awarded 2019)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Jon Burnett

• To what extent does the Rights and Responsibilities debate raise tensions for practices with children and young people (awarded 2021)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Simon Hoffman

• ASC110 Law, Criminal Justice and Human Rights

  This module will introduce students to basic legal concepts such as the Rule of Law and due process and provides an understanding of the powers of the state, the UK legal framework and the law making process in England and Wales. In particular, the module will consider the UK constitution, the supremacy of Parliament, the impact of the European legal framework on the UK, the components and operation of the criminal justice, and civil liberties and human rights. The module also aims to help students understand the components, functions and key actors in the criminal justice system in England and Wales and will explore the relationship between the state and the citizen and the nature of human rights and civil liberties.

• ASC303 Critical Challenges in Justice for Children

  This module critically explores law, policy, theory and practice that relates to the way that children who are in conflict with the law are treated by the 'youth justice system'. Key foci within the module are: the development of youth justice approaches; the relationship between children's rights and youth justice; challenges to notions of childhood; the impact of devolution; and the influence of global perspectives concerning justice for children on the youth justice system in England and Wales.

• ASC319 Social and Environmental Harms

  Capitalism is the dominant economic system of the globalised world we live in and within this world neo-liberalism (the free market) is a defining characteristic that is increasingly understood to play a significant and controversial role in generating harm. This module moves away from traditional Criminological perspectives on crime to consider serious harms ¿ social and environmental ¿ generated through political, economic and social structures/systems and which negatively impact on groups, communities, human beings generally and other species which inhabit the planet. The module examines manifestations of social harms and environmental harms in a range of areas including: 'Gun violence'; 'Human trafficking'; `Ecological additions and Ecological Extractions' .

• ASC324 Dissertation

  This module will equip students with the skills needed to produce a dissertation of between 8,000 and 10,000 words. A series of 3 compulsory meetings with an allocated dissertation supervisors assists the students to complete this task. The completion of a dissertation is an independent learning activity. This means that there isn¿t a taught aspect to it. However, each student will be allocated a supervisor. Supervision meetings will take the form of four compulsory individual face-to-face meetings between the student and supervisor. Supervisors will also review drafts of elements of the dissertation to a maximum of 4,000 words, which are to be submitted to supervisors at specific points in the academic year. Supervisors will only provide feedback on drafts that are submitted on time. Staff will provide feedback to students within seven working days.

• ASCM17 Understanding Criminological Theory

  This module aims to introduce students to the main explanatory approaches used in criminology, with an appraisal of the aspirations, scope and limitations of each. The focus is on how criminologists have used different paradigms of explanation, what insights these have generated, how they have informed research, debate and policies concerning crime, and the extent to which they have received empirical support.

• ASCM19 Youth Justice and Children's Rights

  This module will provide students with a critical and thorough knowledge of youth justice and critical issues that are facing the youth justice system and those who come into contact with it. Through the module, the ways that law, policy and practice have evolved to enable forms of 'youth justice' will be explored, with a focus upon providing not just theoretical perspectives, but understandings of the way that 'youth justice' operates in an applied context.

• ASCM43 Dissertation ( Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology)

  Students will write a dissertation on a criminological topic of their own choice.