Interview #41 | Decoding Crime: Criminology Insights from Dr Honor Doro Townshend

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I welcome Dr Honor Doro Townshend to the show in this interview episode to discuss all things true crime and criminology.

Dr Townshend (BA (Hons), MSc, PhD) is a presenter, researcher and lecturer whose recent research projects have looked into illicit substance use, gender identities and crime, the dark web, and deviant subcultures.

She has a background in studying all elements of criminology, from theory to criminal justice, and has multiple papers and book chapters published across various topic areas.

She has also been a presenter and expert criminologist for programmes across Channel 4, Channel 5, Discovery, Crime + Investigation, Vice World News and Amazon Prime.

Dr Townshend can be reached at her website:

honordorotownshend.co.uk

***This interview was recorded on June 30, 2023.

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0:00.0	This podcast contains elements that may be alarming to some listeners.
0:04.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:06.4	You are now listening to British Brothers.
0:09.8	This will cry podcast. Right, on a town's end, welcome to the show.
0:27.8	We are live, we are recording.
0:29.2	You've got your coffee.
0:30.7	You've got your health, I hope.
0:34.5	Yeah, pretty much.
0:36.3	Pretty much.
0:37.4	So thanks for coming on. Before we get into a chat about all things criminal, forensic, true crime, how do you describe yourself? Do you describe yourself as a criminologist or these days you're more of a TV personality, right?
0:53.4	Well, criminologist is one of those weird ones as well, though,
0:56.7	where I don't know at what point you officially become a criminologist. Do you know what I mean?
1:02.3	So I think that's a title that I use. But I don't know at what point in my career that became official,
1:10.0	you know, is that something that you get after a
1:12.5	master's, after a PhD? I don't really know, but I think criminologist. What does that mean?
1:17.7	Because we've all seen the word and it looks nice and it sounds great. If you had to pin me down
1:24.2	and ask me what it meant, I probably couldn't tell you. Can you explain for the layman
1:28.2	what being a criminologist means? Yeah, so criminologist is related to the study of criminology,
1:35.8	which in a lot of ways is an offshoot of sociology. So it's really quite like a theoretical
1:42.0	discipline, looking at social issues, crime, as well as the criminal justice system or the criminal justice processes, affiliated institutions, so prisons, probation, that kind of thing.
1:56.0	And really, it's just the study of all of those.
1:58.6	So I guess as a criminologist, you are someone researching,
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