Dr Daniel Mitchell

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Lecturer in Criminology
Departmental Enhancement Officer

Contact details

Telephone: +44(0)121 415 1066
Email: d.j.mitchell@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Social Policy and Society
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Daniel is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham. He teaches across the 3 years of the undergraduate programme, as a module convenor for Violence in a Global Context and Crime and Society. Daniel also supervises a number of final year dissertations, providing advice and guidance on undergraduate research projects.

Qualifications

PhD in Criminology and War University of Lincoln
BA Criminology 1st Class Honours University of Lincoln

Biography

Daniel joined the University of Birmingham in 2016. He is the module convenor for the 1st year undergraduate modules Violence in a Global Context and Crime and Society. Daniel has been involved in higher education as a researcher, teaching associate, and lecturer, for 20 years. He taught at the University of Lincoln across all 3 years of the undergraduate Criminology BA degree for 11 years. He has also taught modules for Human Rights and War Crime and Genocide. His research is concerned with issues of accountability and agency in the context of war crimes and genocide.

Teaching

Violence in a Global Context
Crime and Society
Dissertation Supervisor

Doctoral research

PhD title: Criminology and War

Research

War Crime and Genocide
Criminology and Social Harm
State Crime

Publications

Mitchell, D. (2019). ‘War crimes, genocide and the value of a social harm approach in a post accountability world’ in Hall, T and Scalia, V (eds) A Research Agenda on Global Crime. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438676

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