Dr Sam Hanks

Lecturer in Criminology

Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

s.j.hanks@swansea.ac.uk

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9240-2952

About

Sam teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules on criminological theory and research methods, as well as a postgraduate module on penal abolitionism.

His research explores the governance and regulation of sex work, with a particular focus on the Welsh context. At present he is interested in the malleability and symbolic power of concepts such as safeguarding and vulnerability, and how these are utilised as forms of social control.

Sam runs a reading group on prison abolitionism, and is a co-director of the Centre for Social Change in the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy.

Areas Of Expertise

Social Control
Policing
Carceral Abolition
Socio-criminological theory
Sex work

Publications

Research Highlights

Hanks, S. (2024). Sex work, multi-agency governance and industries of protection: towards an increased recognition and resistance of the carceral. Justice, Power and Resistance, 7(1), 60-73.
https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338y2024d000000005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65406
Hanks, S. (2022). The safeguarding delusion: sex work and policing in Wales. Justice, Power and Resistance, 5(1-2)
https://doi.org/10.1332/VYJF2519, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59002
Hanks, S. (2021). Increased Vulnerabilities: Considering the Effects of Xeno-Racist Ordering for Romanian Migrant Sex Workers in the United Kingdom. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(4)
https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1661, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55648
Hanks, S. (2020). Embodying masculinity in female dominated research settings: A male reflection of ‘doing research’ in massage parlours. Sexualities, 23(5-6), 757-774.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719847096, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719847096
Robinson , A., Clancy , A., & Hanks, S. (2014). Prevalence and Characteristics of Serial Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: Multi-Agency Evidence from Wales
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48045

All Research

Journal Articles

Hanks, S. (2024). Sex work, multi-agency governance and industries of protection: towards an increased recognition and resistance of the carceral. Justice, Power and Resistance, 7(1), 60-73.
https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338y2024d000000005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65406
Hanks, S. (2022). The safeguarding delusion: sex work and policing in Wales. Justice, Power and Resistance, 5(1-2)
https://doi.org/10.1332/VYJF2519, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59002
Hanks, S. (2021). Increased Vulnerabilities: Considering the Effects of Xeno-Racist Ordering for Romanian Migrant Sex Workers in the United Kingdom. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(4)
https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1661, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55648
Hanks, S. (2020). Embodying masculinity in female dominated research settings: A male reflection of ‘doing research’ in massage parlours. Sexualities, 23(5-6), 757-774.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719847096, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719847096
Hanks, S. & Hanks, S. (2017). Book Review: Julie Ham, Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference. Theoretical Criminology, 21(4), 561-563.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617699102, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48044

Other Research Outputs

Robinson , A., Clancy , A., & Hanks, S. (2014). Prevalence and Characteristics of Serial Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: Multi-Agency Evidence from Wales
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48045
Robinson , A., Clancy, A., & Hanks, S. (2014). Defining and Profiling Serial Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: An All-Wales Feasibility Review
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48046

Supervision

Intersectionality and sex work (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Charlotte Jones
Immigration Control as Revenue Regime: Mapping the Contours and Consequences. (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Amaha Senu
Criminal Justice Cultures and Female Sexual Deviance: An Exploration of Female Sexual Offending through Practitioner Identities (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Victoria Silverwood

Taught Modules

ASC222 Developing and Planning a Research Project

Developing and Planning a Research Project is available as an optional 10 credits module to all Criminology and Criminal Justice Single Honours students, Joint Honours Social Policy and Criminology students and Joint Honours Criminology and Sociology students. It is important to note that Developing and Planning a Research Project is a pre-requisite to ASC324 Dissertation; therefore if you want to take the Dissertation in your final year then you must select this module. Students need to achieve a 2.1 or above in the assessment of this module in order to be eligible to undertake an empirical research project in their third year dissertation. The module builds on the knowledge and skills gained form the ASC208 Research Methods module and introduces students to the research skills required to develop a rigorous research project. A mixture of lecturer-led and independent learning methods will be used to prepare students for the task of completing their dissertation. All teaching materials will be available through Canvas. Other relevant material will also be made available through Canvas.
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.
ASCM21 Prisons: Past, Present and Future

In the modern period the prison has held a central symbolic position in the criminal justice system and in the treatment of offenders. This module will examine the history of prisons and imprisonment, and current issues in prison policy and research. This course focuses on prisons, exploring their hegemonic function in past, present and future criminal justice practices and plans. It draws on a range of penal abolitionist perspectives to critically question the existence, composition and function of a carceral state. In doing so the course examines the theoretical and practical implications of carceral abolitionism for understanding shifts in criminal justice policy and practice

Dr Sam Hanks

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Areas Of Expertise

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Other Research Outputs

Supervision

Intersectionality and sex work (current)

Immigration Control as Revenue Regime: Mapping the Contours and Consequences. (current)

Criminal Justice Cultures and Female Sexual Deviance: An Exploration of Female Sexual Offending through Practitioner Identities (current)

Taught Modules

ASC222 Developing and Planning a Research Project

ASCM17 Understanding Criminological Theory

ASCM21 Prisons: Past, Present and Future