University of Birmingham student (alumni) papers: Papers of Tony Jefferson

Papers relating to the activities of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during the period Tony Jefferson was a graduate student and member of the Centre.The collection is divided into three series - teaching and research material from the 'sub-groups' Jefferson was active in; material from various political organisations and activities; and general administrative material. The latter forms the largest part of the collection, and includes Centre discussion documents, material from the Centre General Meetings, and memos and weekly agendas of various events and activities. These documents often include the names and research interests of members of the Centre during this period.

Tony Jefferson was born on 6 March 1946. He attended Loughborough College of Education between 1966 and 1969 and was awarded a Cert Ed from Nottingham University in 1968 and a BEd from the same institution in 1969. Between 1969 and 1971 he taught in schools and was involved in youth work in Essex and Hertfordshire. He was a member of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham between 1972 and 1977, and was awarded an MA by the Centre in 1974. He was a part-time lecturer in Liberal, Complementary, Related and Extra-Mural Studies, in a variety of colleges, polytechnics and universities in the West Midlands between 1973 and 1977, including Birmingham and Aston Universities, and Birmingham and Wolverhampton Polytechnics. In 1977 he was appointed lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield University, and was successively promoted to senior lecturer, reader, and Professor of Criminology at the same university. He was appointed Professor of Criminology at Keele University in 1997, a post he held until 2007. He was also a part-time tutor in Educational Studies and the Social Sciences with the Open University between 1978 and 1984.

Tony Jefferson has also held Visiting Professorships in Sweden, Denmark, Australia and the USA, where he was Visiting Presidential Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 2007-2008. He has researched and published widely on questions to do with youth subcultures, the media, policing, race and crime, masculinity, fear of crime and, most recently, racial violence. His published works include: Psychosocial Criminology, 2007, with Dave Gadd; Doing Qualitative Research Differently, 2000/2013, with Wendy Hollway; The Case Against Paramilitary Policing, 1990; Interpreting Policework, 1987 and Controlling the Constable, 1984, both with Roger Grimshaw; Policing the Crisis, 1978/2013, with Stuart Hall et al; and Resistance through Rituals, 1976/2006, edited with Stuart Hall. Between 1999 and 2002 he was the British Editor for the journal Theoretical Criminology.

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Presented by Tony Jefferson per Matthew Hilton, March 2011

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Catalogued by Kieran Connell, May 2013, as part of AHRC funded project 'The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies: connected collaboration, connected communities and connected impact'. Description prepared in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director, Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections (email: special-collections@contacts.bham.ac.uk). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. The Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.

Special Collections holds research papers of other former members of staff of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as well as a small departmental archive of the Centre. Please contact Special Collections for further information