Dr Giuseppe Serrantino

Lecturer in Policing

Giuseppe Serrantino
  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Centre for Policing

  • Location London

Research activities

Publications

Book review:

·       Published: Serrantino, G. (2021) Ustica. Una ricostruzione storica, by Cora Ranci, Bari-Rome, Editore Laterza, 2020, ix 212 pp, Modern Italy, 26(2), 237-238 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2020.74

·       Published: Serrantino, G. (2022) Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean by Megan, A. Carneys, California University Press 2021 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies

Book chapter:

·       Published: Serrantino, G. (2023) Southern European Clientelism. A Case Study, Catania (Sicily): from Mass Party to Leader-Centered Clientelism in Summerfield, G. and Pollicino R. (editors) Brill Publisher

Website

Serrantino G. (since 2022) Evaluating the refugee crisis response in Greece and Italy, https://refugee-crisis.squarespace.com/, Created as part of Impact and Knowledge Dissemination outcome from the Higher Education Initiative Fund (HEIF project), Evaluating the refugee crisis response in Greece and Italy: a roundtable with governmental, NGO and academic representatives. Co-led with Dr Myrna Papadouka Dr Herminder Kaur and Research Assistant: Maria Ntyli

Research Activities

Following the 2022 Research Facilitation Funding (RFF), I along with Dr Nicola Montagna and Dr Myrna Papadouka have been developing a project titled “The smuggling industry in the Mediterranean: a comparison of countries and across periods”. The project, by interviewing Italian and Greek practitioners and authorities’ representatives, aims to examine their approaches, understanding, experiences and discourse in relation to the smuggling industry in the Mediterranean.  Outputs from this project have been presented in the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology in Florence (Italy), September 2023 and the Common Session in Athens (Greece), November 2023.

·       Additionally, one of the planned three (3) research papers produced from this project (titled: “Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of boat drivers carrying migrants in the Mediterranean Sea”) is currently under review on the Trends in Organised Crime journal (impact factor 1.7 (2022))

·       The 2nd one titled: “Unpacking Policy Effects on Mediterranean Smuggling: A Qualitative Post-Functionalist Examination” is currently in progress to be submitted in the Migration policies and migration industry Special Issue of the Mondi Migranti Journal

·       The 3rd one titled “The iatrogenesis effect of anti-smuggling policies: from human smuggling to human trafficking” is currently in progress to be submitted in Trends in Organised Crime journal

Since December 2023, me and two other colleagues from the Policing Centre at Middlesex University (Mr Stewart Frost, Senior Lecturer in Policing – PL DHEP/D-DHEP and Mr Jack Moss, Associate Lecturer in Policing) are planning to develop a research project attempting to carry out a comparative analysis of Police culture in the UK and Italy.  The plan is to conduct meaning comparative research between police forces in the U.K and Italian police. The comparisons proposed were agreed to need to be like-for-like circumstances, such as all being metropolitan forces, rural forces or similar. The exact factors to be determined by access and methodological reasoning. We have identified collaborators who can gain access in the respective countries’ police forces and the hope is that this will be sufficient to generate the tangible data.

Methodology

Interview practitioners

Thematic analysis Narrative analysis

Considering some ethnographic approaches 


Current Teaching

CRIMINOLOGY

Undergraduate TaughtModules:

First year:

·      Skills and Debate in Criminology (module leader)

·      Crime in Social Context (module leader)

·      QuantitativeInvestigation of Crime (co-module leader)

 Second year:

·       Inclusion and Diversity in Policing (module leader)

 Third year:

·       Transnational Crime (module leader)

·       Understanding Corruption:Policing, Policies and Practice

 Postgraduate Taught Modules:

·      Advance Research Strategies(invited lecturer)

·      Research Strategies inSocial Science (invites lecturer)

 Activities

Since 2020 - ongoing Developed/ Co-organised andchaired Monthly Research Methods Studios for the Criminology and Sociologypostgraduate students and staff members, School of Law, Middlesex University

 

Supervision

UG:

20 Criminology Dissertationssince 2020

Masters:

12 Criminology Dissertations2023

 

POLICING

PCDA (Police ConstableDegree Apprentice)

Leader of one Cohort

DHEP (Degree Holder EntryProgramme)

Leader of two Cohorts 


Biography

Lecturer in Criminology and Policing at MiddlesexUniversity has acquired extensive lecturing experience in a variety ofcriminological subjects such as white collar and organised crime, mediarepresentation of crime and crime control as well as criminological theoriesand crime related to ethnicity, social class and human rights. With a Ph.D.investigating Politics, Society and Organised Crime in Italy and a MSc in Mediaand Communication at Brunel University (London) has obtained internationalresearch practice in both quantitative and qualitative research design, datacollection and analysis. With a specific research focus on white collar andorganised crime, he is currently part of a research team investigating thesmuggling industry in the Mediterranean. The project, by interviewing Italianand Greek practitioners and authorities’ representatives, aims to examine theirapproaches, understanding, experiences and discourse in relation to thesmuggling industry in the Mediterranean. Outputs from this project have been presented in the 23rd AnnualConference of the European Society of Criminology in Florence (Italy),September 2023 and the Common Session in Athens (Greece), November 2023. 

Publications