Staff profile

Dr John Walliss


Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Academic unit

College of Health and Humanities

Department

School of Humanities and Creative Arts

ORCiD ID

0000-0002-3192-4834

Email

j.walliss@derby.ac.uk

About

I took up an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Derby in September 2024. Before that I held the same position at Liverpool Hope University. I also lead the BSc. Criminology degree programme.

Teaching responsibilities

I lead four undergraduate modules:

Research interests

I research at the intersection of Green Criminology and crime history. I am currently researching dog theft in the UK and have a book on the XL Bully 'ban' forthcoming (Emerald, 2026).

In my research I am interested in the ways in which dogs can be understood as victims of crime and harms as well as how they are sometimes framed as offenders, particularly in the case of 'dangerous' dogs legislation.

I am also interested in crime, criminality and the administration of justice in the long eighteenth century. In 2018 I published The Bloody Code in England and Wales: 1760–1830 (Palgrave). I have also written on nineteenth-century execution culture in England and Wales and its representations.

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Recent publications