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Dr Simon Flacks

Senior Lecturer

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I joined Westminster Law School in 2014, having spent two years as a lecturer at the University of Reading. Prior to this, I completed a PhD at the University of Vienna, Austria, which involved social research into adolescent drug treatment in England, and analysis of UK drug law and policy. I graduated in 2013 and continue to undertake research in the areas of youth justice, criminology, drug use/policy, human rights and discrimination. Before entering academia, I worked as a newspaper journalist, mental health support worker and in the voluntary sector as a child rights officer.

* Family Law

* Criminology/criminal justice

Research interests

Youth justice
Drug laws and policy
Criminology
Legal and social theory
Human rights
Discrimination

Supervision interests

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

Drug law and policy
Youth justice
Children’s/family law
Law, gender and sexuality
Mental health/disability law
Crime/criminology in general.

Article

2018

Dangerous drugs, dangerous mothers: Gender, responsibility and the problematisation of parental substance use (2018)

Flacks, S. 2018. Dangerous drugs, dangerous mothers: Gender, responsibility and the problematisation of parental substance use. Critical Social Policy.

Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people (2018)

Flacks, S. 2018. Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people. Theoretical Criminology.

Making drug harms: Punishments for drugs offenders who pose risks to children (2018)

Flacks, S. 2018. Making drug harms: Punishments for drugs offenders who pose risks to children. European Journal of Criminology.

Drug law reform, performativity and the politics of childhood (2018)

Flacks, S. 2018. Drug law reform, performativity and the politics of childhood. International Journal of Drug Policy. 51, pp. 56-66.

The stop and search of minors: A 'vital police tool'? (2018)

Flacks, S. 2018. The stop and search of minors: A 'vital police tool'? Criminology and Criminal Justice. 18 (3), pp. 364-384.

2016

Book review: Children Behind Bars: Why the Abuse of Child Imprisonment Must End, by Carolyne Willow (2016)

Flacks, S. 2016. Book review: Children Behind Bars: Why the Abuse of Child Imprisonment Must End, by Carolyne Willow. British Journal of Criminology. 56 (5), pp. 1039-1042.

2015

Book review: Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture by David Gurnham (2015)

Flacks, S. 2015. Book review: Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture by David Gurnham. International Journal of Law in Context. 11 (3), pp. 379-380.

2014

Risk, welfare and the treatment of adolescent cannabis users in England (2014)

Flacks, S. 2014. Risk, welfare and the treatment of adolescent cannabis users in England. British Journal of Criminology. 54 (2), pp. 281-297.

Is childhood a 'disability'? Exploring the exclusion of children from age discrimination provisions in the Equality Act 2010 (2014)

Flacks, S. 2014. Is childhood a 'disability'? Exploring the exclusion of children from age discrimination provisions in the Equality Act 2010. Child and Family Law Quarterly. 26 (4), pp. 421-438.

2013

Book review: Tough choices: risk, security and the criminalization of drug policy (2013)

Flacks, S. 2013. Book review: Tough choices: risk, security and the criminalization of drug policy. Criminology and Criminal Justice. 13 (1), pp. 127-129.

2012

Deviant disabilities: the exclusion of drug and alcohol addiction from the Equality Act 2010 (2012)

Flacks, S. 2012. Deviant disabilities: the exclusion of drug and alcohol addiction from the Equality Act 2010. Social and Legal Studies. 21 (3), pp. 395-412.

Youth justice reform: redressing age discrimination against children? (2012)

Flacks, S. 2012. Youth justice reform: redressing age discrimination against children? Youth Justice. 12 (1), pp. 19-35.

2011

Drug control, human rights, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health: a reply to Saul Takahashi (2011)

Flacks, S. 2011. Drug control, human rights, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health: a reply to Saul Takahashi. Human Rights Quarterly. 33 (3), pp. 856-877.

Report

2018

Aspects Of London’s Evening And Night Time Economy: A Report for the Mayor of London/ GLA (2018)

Roberts, M., Osborn, G., Eldridge, A., Robinson, J. and Flacks, S. 2018. Aspects Of London’s Evening And Night Time Economy: A Report for the Mayor of London/ GLA. London MusicTank.