Biography

Daniel is currently Lecturer in Criminology having joined the Department of Sociology at Surrey in August 2010.  

In 2004 Daniel graduated from the University of Southampton in Social Sciences, majoring in Criminology (with First Class honors). From 2004 to 2005 he worked as a crime analyst/researcher for a Crime and Disorder Partnership, engaging in mostly statistical research with the police and other community agencies.

Daniel received a scholarship from the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey to complete his MSc in Social Research Methods (with distinction), followed by an Economic and Social Research Council studentship to conduct PhD research into the broader area of anti-social behaviour and social control. His PhD thesis was the product of unique access granted to observe case conference panels which consisted of multi-agency discussions relating to referrals for persons involved in complex criminal and social problems. The research consisted of analysing decision-making aspects of the case conferences, including the ways through which classifications and judgements of individual clients affected the use of specific social control orders, namely the use of contractual injunctions. His thesis was entitled Therapeutic Policing: Early intervention, Anti-Social Behaviour and Social Control.

Following a temporary post at Kingston University lecturing in criminology and sociology (2009/10), Daniel took up his current post at Surrey.  Here he teaches courses in criminological theory, youth and social control, and areas of social research methodology relating specifically to social theory and epistemology.

Research Interests

My research to date has consisted of mostly ethnographic research in areas of policing and youth justice. This began from my PhD thesis entitled Therapeutic Policing: Early Intervention, Anti-Social Behaviour and Social Control (completed in 2010) which explored the collaborative networks of different criminal justice and community agencies tackling low-level disorder. These enquiries have also connected with theoretical frameworks including symbolic interactionism and post-structuralism. The project led to a series of sub-themes including research into:

 The nature of group dynamics in multi-agency decision forums and how decisions were made regarding children and young people being referred to different social control networks.  
 The process structures of multi-agency working and the changing political terrains of partnership working through Neighbourhood Policing.
 The role of female police officers in early intervention working and their creative strategies employed to gain status for their work in the wake of the police’s traditional low regard for ‘soft policing’.
 The form and content of early intervention programmes, in particular the ways gender and social class judgements are enacted toward certain classifications of ‘client’.

Currently I am developing a large-scale project exploring the collateral consequences of anti-social behavioural powers on families and young people. Beyond this I am also working on a side project exploring psychoanalytic theories of punishment and social control, namely the gendered and class embodiments of vengeance in penal politics.

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Publications

McCarthy, D, J (2009) Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life (Review), Policing and Society, 19 (4), 493-4

McCarthy, D, J (2010) Self-Governance or Professionalized Paternalism? The Police, Contractual Injunctions, and the Management of Deviant Populations, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol 50, 896-913

McCarthy, D, J (2011) Classing Early Intervention: Social Class, Occupational Moralities and Criminalization, Critical Social Policy, 31 (4), 495-516

McCarthy, D, J (2012) Gendering ‘Soft’ Policing: Female Cops, Multi-Agency Working, and the Fragilities of Police Culture/s’, Policing and Society, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10439463.2012.703199

O’Neill, M, McCarthy, D, J (2012) ‘(Re) Negotiating Police Culture through Partnership Working: Trust, Compromise and the ‘New’ Pragmatism’, Criminology and Criminal Justice (in press)  

Teaching

From 2010-2012

Criminological Theory (Level 1)
Applied Criminological Theories (Level 2)
Youth, Crime, Control (Level 3)
Theory and Methodology (Masters Level)
Criminological Theories (Masters Level)

Conference/Seminar Papers

McCarthy, D, J (2012) ‘Best Friends or Cunning Foes? Theorising Group Dynamics in Multi-Agency Early Intervention Programmes’, British Society of Criminology, Portsmouth, UK, July 2012

McCarthy, D, J (2011) ‘Dealing with the Irredeemable: Social Control Professionals and Orientations of ‘Failure’ in Diversionary Programs’, British Society of Criminology Conference, Newcastle, UK, July 2011

McCarthy, D, J (2011) 'Gendering ‘Soft’ Policing: Multi-Agency Working and the Fragilities of Police Culture/s', Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, San Francisco, USA, June 2011

McCarthy, D, J (2009) ‘Order, Rationality and the Chaotic Client’, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Spring PhD Research Conference, March 2009

McCarthy, D, J (2009) What does it Mean to Punish? On Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, University of Surrey, Social Theory Colloquium, January 2009

McCarthy, D, J (2008) Policing through the (Anti) Social: The Nexus of Welfare and the Juridical, Invited presentation to Center for Law, Societies and Justice, University of Washington, Seattle, Dec 2008

McCarthy, D, J (2008) Early Intervention as Criminalisation? Paper presented to the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Liverpool, July 2008

McCarthy, D, J (2007) The Antisocial Subject and the Nexus of Culpability, Paper presented at British Society of Criminology Conference, LSE, Sept 2007

McCarthy, D, J (2007) What’s that thing called Modernity? Paper presented to the Department of Sociology Theory Colloquium, Jan 2007   

Funding

2009 $500 bursary from Law and Society Association for attendance to Law and Society Association Conference, Denver, Colarado as invited graduate student discussant/participant

2008 Economic and Social Research Council Overseas Institutional Bursary ‒ £3,500

2007 £500 bursary award from The British Society of Criminology

2007 Economic and Social Research Council Studentship Award – (2006-2009) £42,000

2006 £1,700 from Safer Rushmoor Crime and Disorder Partnership for research evaluation of Neighbourhood Warden Scheme

2005 £500 from Department of Sociology Scholarship - Award for MSc research