Mr Nick Howe
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Job title: Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Email: n.howe@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 593689 07786998894(m)
Room: E820
I'm a media friendly expert
Recent publications
Howe, N., Wilson, D., and Kemp, D. (2010) Police Disclosures: A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Police Autobiographies. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol49 No3. pp203-214. Wiley-Blackwell
Wilson, D., Howe, N., Kemp, D and Tolputt, H (2010) When Serial Killers go Unseeen: The Case of Trevor Hardy. Crime, Media, Culture - An International Journal. Vol6 No2, pp153-168. Sage Publications
Wilson, D., Howe, N., Kemp, D and Tolputt, H (2010) Servicing the Media's Needs at Arms Length: Police Media Relations during High-Profile Murder Investigations. Policing: A Journal Of Policy And Practice, Manuscript: PAR046
Wilson, D., Kemp, D., Howe, N and Harriet, T.(2011), Long Arms'-Length of the Law, British Journalism Review, Volume 22, Number 4, pps. 64-72.
Experience in Industry
Nick Howe was formerly a police Chief Superintendent with Staffordshire Police with whom her served for 30 years. He performed a range of policing functions throughout his service including working with the force Criminal Investigation Department, Head of Training and Development, Firearms and Public Order Command and a range of other specialist functions. He led the review into the way Staffordshire Police undertook murder and more complex crime investigations and subsequently implemented structural change, forming the forces Major Crime Unit. He served as Police Commander for one of the largest Basic Command Units (BCU) in the country and was heavily involved in local police partnerships. Whilst Commander his BCU were a national pilot for drugs testing orders, Work Force Modernisation, Management of the Prolific Offenders Scheme and other developmental projects. Under his leadership the BCU won the National Tilley Award for problem solving policing in 2005 and were runners up in 2007. During 2008 he was seconded to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) where he worked as a Staff Officer inspecting policing services throughout England and Wales against the backdrop of the Governments Reform Agenda. He retired from the police service in January 2009 to work as an academic.
Department: Law and Criminology
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: School of Law and Criminology
Subject Area: Criminology
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Teaching responsibilities
Applied Research in Criminology (4CJ501)
Supporting a variety modules on the BSc Applied Criminology degree programme
Research interests
Recently he organised a series of high profile murder investigation seminars where the country's leading Senior Investigating Officers presented. The seminar series sought to examine the relationship between the police and the media. A number of academic publications were produced.
He is currently exploring the notion of partnership policing as part of his doctoral research and he is working closely with a number of local police forces in this regard.
Other research interests include:
Policing
Police Reform
Community Policing
Community safety and crime prevention
Contemporary policing issues
Strategic management of the police
Criminal Investigation
Murder Investigation
Serious and organised crime
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Centre for Applied Criminology University of Derby
Member of the British Criminology Society
Media experience
Substantial media and press experience, including national and regional television and radio for the BBC, ITV and also local radio.
Postgraduate qualifications
- Master of Arts (Criminology), Keele University
- PGCE, BirimimghamCity University
Research qualifications
- PhD Student (ongoing) , Nottingham Trent University
