The University of Sheffield
Department of Sociological Studies

Dr Xavier L’Hoiry

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

(LLB Law, MA in Criminology, PhD in Criminology)

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Email:x.lhoiry@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: Elmfield, 110 | Telephone: 0114 222 6482 (external), 26482 (internal)

Academic Profile

I joined the department as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in December 2012. Previous to this, I completed my undergraduate law degree at Durham University in 2006. During these studies, my interests moved away from ‘black letter’ law and towards the sociology of deviance and the criminal justice system. As a result, following my undergraduate studies I undertook an MA in Criminology at the University of Leeds. I subsequently completed a PhD in Criminology at Teesside University. My doctoral thesis concerned law enforcement and government definitions of organised crime and the impact upon contemporary police measures. As part of this research, I carried out an ethnographic case study of an active tobacco smuggling enterprise.

Research

I currently work alongside Professor Clive Norris on an FP7 project entitled Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies (IRISS). The project concerns several aspects of the ongoing development surveillance technologies and the subsequent impact upon democracy with a particular focus on the democratic right of access to personal data (http://irissproject.eu/). The research methods are varied and include, in part, auto-ethnographic data collection.

I also retain an ongoing interest in all aspects of organised crime research, the policing of this type of criminality and specifically tobacco smuggling. I have previously reviewed and continue to review academic articles in this area of research.

Publications

L’Hoiry, X. D. (2013) ‘“Shifting the stuff wasn’t any bother”: Illicit enterprise, tobacco bootlegging and deconstructing the British government’s cigarette smuggling discourse’, Trends in Organized Crime, available online at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12117-013-9188-2

L’Hoiry X. D. (2013) ‘Tobacco Smuggling: A review of the Literature’, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 20: 415-444