Ms Sarah Pemberton
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Job title: Lecturer in Criminology
Email: s.pemberton@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591560
Room: E820
Recent publications
Blagden, N; Pemberton, S; & Collier, C.J. (2011) Adult Rapists. In: B. Winder and P.Banyard, eds., A Psychologist's Casebook of Crime: From Arson to Voyeurism. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Blagden, N. and Pemberton, S. (2010). The challenge in conducting qualitative research with convicted sex offenders Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49(3), 269-281.
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: School of Law and Criminology
Subject Area: Criminology
I am a lecturer in the School of Law and Criminology. I deliver various modules on the Crime and Justice and Criminology degrees.
Teaching responsibilities
I teach on the following modules:
- Victims and Witnesses
- Investigating Crime and Justice
- Justice and Diversity
- Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Research interests
My research interest areas include:
Criminal Justice
- Sexual Offending
- Sexual consent, refusal and coercion
- Policing of ethnic minorities - the formation of suspect communities
- Domestic Violence
Research Methodology
- Qualitative Research
Mental Health
- Ethnic inequalities
Recent Conferences
Pemberton, S. and Hansen, S. (2010). Accounting for Rape: The Talk of Convicted Adult Rapists. Presented at the Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, Manchester, December 2010.
Pemberton, S. (2010). "...they kind of used words that I would never have used like... 'self gratification' and ...'pre cognitive' and all this stuff...": the impact of treatment upon convicted adult rapists' talk. Presented at the British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leicester, July 2010.
Pemberton, S. and Blagden, N. (2010). The Double Edged Sword: Dilemmas and Controversies in Doing Research with Incarcerated Sexual Offenders. Presented at the at British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leicester, July 2010.
Pemberton, S. and Blagden, N. (2009) The Challenge in Conducting Qualitative Research with Convicted Sex Offenders. Paper presented at the 24th Annual PsyPAG Conference, Cardiff, July 2009 (*paper won commendation).
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Hons) Social Policy and Administration, University of Brighton
Postgraduate qualifications
- MA in Criminal Justice Studies, Sussex University
Research qualifications
- PhD on narratives of rape (currently writing up), Nottingham Trent University
