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15 August 2012: Sociology graduate wins the Criminology Book Prize 2012

Congratualtions to Dr Elisabeth Carter who has won the British Society of Criminology's Criminology Book Prize 2012 for her recently published book Analysing Police Interviews: Laughter, Confessions and the Tape (Continuum).

Elisabeth's work investigated the role laughter plays in police interviews and the interaction between suspects and officers, for example whether laughter by a suspect meant they were telling the truth or not.

After completing a BA in Psycholinguistics and MA in criminological research at Essex, Elisabeth was awarded a full Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) scholarship for her postgraduate studies in our Department and was twice awarded the David Lockwood Prize for best masters dissertation.

Elisabeth is now a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Buckinghamshire New University but remains a Visiting Fellow of our Department. She also takes on consultancy work around police and authorised officer training in investigative interviewing, language as evidence, rapport-building and body language.