Welcome to this web site, which is about research on homophobic crime and homophobic incidents

About this research

Peter Dunn

My name is Peter Dunn and I am a PhD student at London School of Economics. I have been researching the effects of homophobic incidents and homophobic crime on gay men (or men who have sex with men but who don’t necessarily identify as gay). My research is now finished (January 2010) and I am writing up the results.

I created this web site in 2008 to:

Why men only? – because the impact of homophobic victimisation for men and for women might be different, and there is other similar research taking place elsewhere about women’s experience of homophobia. There is very little qualitative research evidence about men’s experiences of violence and harassment.

If you would like to contact me please e-mail me at p.r.dunn@lse.ac.uk

 

About me


As well as being a PhD student at LSE I am Director of The Griffins Society, which is a charity that undertakes research on women in the criminal justice system; and I am Co-chair of Galop, London’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community safety charity. In the past I have worked as a probation officer, a policy advisor for the Youth Justice Board, and from 2002 to 2007 I was Victim Support’s Head of Research and Development.


I have spoken at numerous conferences in the UK and abroad about criminal justice processes, victims of crime, and victims of hate crime in particular. I have written several book chapters and articles:


Dunn, P (1996) Sexuality: is there a hierarchy of discrimination? Probation Journal 43(2): 64-69


Dunn, P (2004) Victimology, Research and Helping Victims in Britain International Perspectives in Victimology 1(1)


Dunn, P and Shepherd, E (2006) Oral testimony from the witness’s perspective – psychological and forensic considerations; in A Heaton-Armstrong; E Shepherd; G Gudjonsson and D Wolchover (eds) Witness Testimony: Psychological, Investigative and Evidential Perspectives; Oxford, Oxford University Press


Paterson, A; Dunn, P; Chaston, K and Malone, L (2006) In the aftermath: the support needs of people bereaved by homicide; London, Victim Support


Dunn, P (2007) Matching service delivery to need; in S Walklate (ed) Handbook of Victims and Victimology; Winchester, Willan Publishing


Malone, L and Dunn, P (2007) In the aftermath: listening to people bereaved by homicide Probation Journal 54(4): 383-93. Note: when this article was published, Probation Journal wrongly omitted my name from the item. The editors printed an apology, with the correct citation, on p84 of Probation Journal 55(1)


Dunn, P (2008) Evidence-led or cobbled together? Victim policy and victimological research Criminal Justice Matters Issue 72 Summer 2008


Dunn, P (2009) Crime and Prejudice: Needs and Support of Hate Crime Victims in B Perry and P Iganski (eds) Hate Crimes (Volume 2): The Consequences of Hate Crime Westport CT, Praeger Publishing

 

Reeves, H and Dunn, P (2010) The Status of Crime Victims and Witnesses in the 21st Century in A Bottoms and J Roberts (eds) Hearing the Victim: Adversarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State Cullompton, Willan Publishing.