Dr Alexandra Neag
Lecturer
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
- School:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Location:
- Cambridge
- Areas of Expertise:
- Criminology , Policing , Environmental Issues , Research methodology
- Research Supervision:
- Yes
- Criminology (Undergraduate)
- Criminology and Sociology (Undergraduate)
- Criminology and Policing (Undergraduate)
- Policing and Criminology (Undergraduate)
- Criminology (Postgraduate)
Alex is a criminologist who specialises in environmental crime, organised crime and policing. Her current research interests focus on illegal logging and criminalisation in Romania, and the relationship between communities and the police in the UK.
- Background
Alex joined ARU in 2022 after completing her PhD on ‘The socio-legal construction of organised crime in Romania’ at the University of Essex. Growing up in Transylvania, Romania, social science subjects became a quick favourite at school, so Criminology became a logical choice for further study due to its interdisciplinarity.
Alex has been interested in researching organised crime since her undergraduate studies, and over time her focus has particularly shifted towards environmental crime and its links to corruption, financial crime and policing. In her time at ARU, Alex has received funding to research the practice of illegal logging and its policing in Romania, leading to her contribution to a roundtable on forest crime at the ESC Eurocrim Conference, 2024, in Bucharest.
Alex is also currently working on a cross-faculty project examining the relationship between communities and the police in the UK, focused on embedding ethical behaviour in policing practice.
- Spoken Languages
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- Romanian
- English
- Research interests
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- Environmental crime/green crime
- Organised crime
- Global policing/comparative policing
- Police culture and diversity
- Areas of research supervision
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Alex is happy to supervise research students in the research areas below:
- Environmental crime/green crime
- Organised crime
- Global policing/comparative policing
- Police culture
- Policing diversity
- Crimes of the powerful
- Corruption
- Teaching
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Alex currently teaches on the following modules:
- Making a Difference
- Organised crime
- Postgraduate Major Project
- Globalisation, organised crime and crime control
- Qualifications
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- PhD in Criminology, University of Essex
- PG Cert Learning and Teaching (Higher Education), ARU
- MSC Socio-Legal Studies
- BA Criminology with Social Psychology
- Memberships, editorial boards
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- Co-Chair of the British Society of Criminology Policing Network
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of the European Society of Criminology
- Selected recent publications
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Neag A. (2020) Organised crime legislation in Romania: A case of policy transference? In Criminal Defiance in Europe and Beyond From Organised Crime to Crime-terror Nexus. van Duyne P, Siegel D, Antonopoulos G, Harvey J, von Lampe K. 21-50. Eleven International Publishing, The Hague 2020.
- Recent presentations and conferences
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Neag, A. (2024) The ‘Timber Mafia’ in Romania: comparing the public discourse and law-enforcement perspective. 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Bucharest, Romania.
Neag, A. (2024) Roundtable - Forest Crime in Romania: Policing, Criminalisation and Ecojustice. 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Bucharest, Romania.
Neag, A. (2023) The hierarchy of seriousness of organised crime in Romania: a law-enforcement perspective. 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Florence, Italy.
Neag, A. (2019) Organised crime legislation in Romania: A case of policy transference? The 20th Cross-border Crime Colloquium. Utrecht, Netherlands.