Paul Johnson
Lecturer

BA (Dunelm), MA (Dunelm), PhD (Newcastle)

Program Director for MSc Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research

Department of Sociology,
University of Surrey,
Guildford,
Surrey,
GU2 7XH,
UK

Tel: +44 (1483) 686982
Fax: +44 (1483) 689551
email: p.johnson@surrey.ac.uk
Room: 14 AD 03

I graduated from the University of Durham in 1997 with a degree in Sociology and Social Policy. I stayed in Durham to complete my MA and then obtained my PHD from the University of Newcastle in 2002. I moved to Surrey in 2006.

Research
My research interests focus on the interrelationship between identity and social control which I have explored through a number of substantive areas, including: policing, identification and crime control; technology and surveillance; securitization and biometrics; gender and sexuality; and social class.

I am currently working on socio-legal issues around morality, law and sexuality.

Teaching
I currently convene and teach the following modules:

re:presenting difference (with Jo Moran-Ellis) (1st Year UG, Media Studies)
Crime, Gender and Sexuality (2nd Year UG, Criminology and Sociology)
Deviance and Social Control (Final Year UG, Sociology)
Law, Society and Social Control (MSc, Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research).

Publications

Monographs
Williams, R. & Johnson, P. (2008) Genetic Policing: The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

Johnson, P (2005) Love, Heterosexuality and Society. London: Routledge.

Articles in refereed journals
Johnson, P. (2010) ‘“An essentially private manifestation of human personality”: constructions of homosexuality in the European Court of Human Rights’. Human Rights Law Review. 10(1). (in press).

Johnson, P. (2010) ‘Law, morality and disgust: the regulation of “extreme pornography” in England and Wales’. Social and Legal Studies. (in press)

Johnson, P. (2010) ‘What is love without mourning? Male intimacies and cultures of loss’. Journal for Cultural Research. (in press)

Johnson, P. & Vanderbeck, R.M. (2009) ‘A response to "Islamic Marital Order & the Threats of Homosexuality in Nigeria"'. Journal for Faith, Spirituality and Social Change. 2(1). http://www.fsscconference.org.uk/journal/2-1.htm

Johnson, P. (2008) ‘“Crimes against morality”: law and public sex in Australia. Alternative Law Journal, 33(3) http://www.altlj.org/

Johnson, P. (2008) '"Rude boys": the homosexual eroticization of class'. Sociology Vol. 42, No. 1, 65-82.

Johnson, P. (2007) 'Ordinary Folk and Cottaging: Law, Morality and Public Sex'. Journal of Law and Society. Vol.34(4) pp. 520-543.

Johnson, P. & Williams, R. (2007) 'Internationalising New Technologies of Crime Control: Forensic DNA Databasing and Datasharing in the European Union'. Policing and Society. Vol.17, No.2, pp. 103-118.

Johnson, P. & Williams, R. (2007) 'European securitization and biometric identification: the uses of genetic profiling'. Ann Ist Super Sanità . Vol. 43, No. 1: 36-43.

Williams, R. & Johnson, P. (2005) 'Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations'. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (the official journal of the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics) 33(3) pp. 545-558.

Johnson, P. & Lawler, S. (2005) 'Coming home to love and class'. Sociological Research Online 10(3).

Johnson, P. (2004) 'Haunting Heterosexuality: The Homo/Het Binary and Intimate Love'. Sexualities 7(2).

Johnson, P. & Williams, R. (2004) 'Post-conviction testing: the UK 's first "exoneration" case?' Science and Justice 44(2).

Johnson, P. & Williams, R. (2004) 'DNA and Crime Investigation: Scotland and the " UK National DNA Database"'. Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, 10.

Williams, R. & Johnson, P. (2004) 'Circuits of Surveillance'. Surveillance and Society 2(1).

Williams, R. & Johnson, P. (2004) '"Wonderment and Dread": Representations of DNA in Ethical Disputes about Forensic DNA Databases'. New Genetics and Society 23(2).

Johnson, P., Martin, P. & Williams, R. (2003) 'Genetics and Forensics: Making the National DNA Database'. Science Studies 16(2).

Book Chapters
Williams, R. & Johnson, P. (2007) 'Captured Identities: Bodies, Biometrics and Criminal Investigations'. In Newburn, T. et al (ed.) The Handbook of Criminal Investigations . Willan Press.

Johnson, P (2006) 'Subjectivity and sociality in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky'. In Through the Mirror: Reflections on the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky . Gunnlaugur A. Jonsson & Thorkell A. Ottarsson (eds) Cambridge Scholars Press Ltd.

Reports
Williams, R & Johnson, P (2005). Forensic DNA Databasing: A European Perspective.

Williams, R., Johnson, P. & Martin, P. (2004). Genetic Information & Crime Investigation.

Review articles
Johnson, P 2005. 'Improvisation and Constraint: New Work by Judith Butler'. Sociology 39(4).

Johnson, P 2001. 'The histories of sexuality: the future of debate'. Social Epistemology 15(2).