Dr Fraser, Alistair David
Dr Fraser, Alistair David
Alistair is an early-career criminologist with broad-ranging interests spanning sociology, law, social policy, anthropology, social theory and cultural studies.
Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Alistair worked as a Research Assistant at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, carrying out a variety of funded research projects on youth violence, community policing, female offending, and oral history.
His interests lie particularly in the study of youth crime and justice in a global and comparative context, with specialist expertise in the field of youth gangs. He is an experienced ethnographer and qualitative researcher, having carried out fieldwork in Glasgow, Chicago and Hong Kong, as well as a number of evaluations of youth justice interventions.
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| University of Glasgow | PhD | |
| University of Oxford | MSc | |
| University of Glasgow | LLB (Hons) |
Alistair is an early-career criminologist with broad-ranging interests spanning sociology, law, social policy, anthropology, social theory and cultural studies. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Alistair worked as a Research Assistant at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, carrying out a variety of funded research projects on youth violence, community policing, female offending, and oral history. His interests lie particularly in the study of youth crime and justice in a global and comparative context, with specialist expertise in the field of youth gangs. He is an experienced ethnographer and qualitative researcher, having carried out fieldwork in Glasgow, Chicago and Hong Kong, as well as a number of evaluations of youth justice interventions. He is currently engaged in two research projects - one, an oral history of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, was recently used to inform a documentary and interactive website for the Wall Street Journal; the other, an ambitious comparative study of youth leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong, can be found here:http://reimaginingyouth.wordpress.com/
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 02/2014 - present | Member | British Sociological Association |
| 06/2005 - present | Member | British Society of Criminology |
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