Professor Victoria Canning

Professor in Criminology/ Criminal Justice

Research Overview

Victoria Canning researches border harms and zemiology, torture, and sexualised violence. She is Professor of Criminology, Head of the Harm, Crime and Criminalisation Research Centre, Associate Director of Border Criminologies at Oxford University, Co-Chair of Statewatch, Consultant Editor at Justice, Power and Resistance, and co-editor of the Emerald Activist Criminology series. Victoria has written /edited 7 books. She is co-creator of the Right to Remain Asylum Navigation Board (with Lisa Matthews); winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book Prize, and was consultant for the BAFTA award winning series Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (KEO/BBC).