Dr Alpa Parmar
- University Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
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Research
Research centres: Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice (CCCJ)
Publications
Selected publications
Problems of Whiteness and the Criminological Imagination
Chapter
1 February 2026
In The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance (eds Thalia Anthony, Monish Bhatia, Kathryn Pillay, Jason M Williams), Springer
Alpa Parmar, Rod Earle, Coretta Phillips
Race, Ethnicities and Crime
Chapter
1 September 2023
In Oxford Handbook of Criminology (eds Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna & Lesley McAra), Oxford University Press
Alpa Parmar, Bowling, B., Phillips, C.
Criminal Questions, Colonial Hinterlands, Personal Experience: A Symptomatic Reading
Chapter
1 June 2023
In Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial legacies, contemporary problems (eds A. Aliverti, H. Carvalho, A. Chamberlen and M. Sozzo), Oxford University Press
Alpa Parmar, Earle, R., Phillips, C.
Feeling race: mapping emotions in policing Britain’s borders
Journal article
1 February 2023
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 31, 2024
Alpa Parmar
'People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research
Journal article
1 August 2022
British Journal of Criminology, 63(4) 811-827
Alpa Parmar, Rod Earle, Coretta Phillips
Seeing is Believing: How the Layering of Race is Obscured by ‘White Epistemologies’ in the Criminal Justice Field
Journal article
1 December 2021
Journal of Criminal Justice Education Volume 33, 2022
Alpa Parmar
Crossing Boundaries: Race and Gender in the Modern and Genomic Era
Chapter
1 November 2021
In A Cultural History of Race (eds T. Golash-Boza and M.Turda), Bloomsbury
Alpa Parmar
The Power of Racialized Discretion in Policing Migration
Journal article
1 September 2021
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10(3)
Alpa Parmar
Stop and Search
Chapter
1 June 2021
In Criminal Justice (eds A. Sanders, L. Skinns and L. Welsh), Oxford University Press
Alpa Parmar
Arrest
Chapter
1 June 2021
In Criminal Law (eds A. Sanders, L. Skinns and L. Welsh), Oxford University Press
Alpa Parmar