Staff profile

I joined Durham University as an Associate Professor in criminology in 2022. Prior to this, I worked as a Senior Lecturer at both Northumbria University and Sunderland University for around ten years, where I contributed to teaching on criminology and PCDA programmes. I studied criminology at both under- and post-graduate level at Northumbria University where I graduated with a BSc (1^st Class honours), and an MA (distinction). In 2019, I completed my doctoral research which explored the subjectivities of those involved in the perpetration of serious fraud.

My research focuses on various aspects of crime, criminality and harm and relates broadly to the way in which wider conditions of political economy and culture influence our propensity to harm. In seeking to understand the criminogenic potential of current social, economic and cultural contexts, my work focuses on the way in which contemporary capitalism shapes criminal motivations, subjectivities, opportunities and M.Os. As part of this broader focus, I have carried out research on investment fraud, organised crime, rural crime and neighbourhood acquisitive crime. I work extensively with a number of police forces across the UK and am currently working with the Home Office and Gwent Police on a project which relates to stolen goods markets in the UK.

• Consumerism and Crime
• Corporate and White-Collar Crime
• Criminal subjectivities
• Criminological Theory
• Illicit entrepreneurialism and criminal business models
• Organised Crime
• Political economy and crime
• Rural Crime
• Transnational Crime

• 2021: CESAR Award for Outstanding Contribution to Tackling Construction and Agricultural Crime (non-police):
• 2020: American Society of Criminology, Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime - Student Paper Award: Tudor, K. (2019) ‘Symbolic Survival and Harm: Serious Fraud and Consumer Capitalism’s Perversion of the Causa Sui Project’ British Journal of Criminology 59 (5). DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azz009
• 2018: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy:

Chapter in book

• Tudor, K. Current Policing Structures Create an Open Goal for Organised Criminals in Rural Areas. In M. Hart, J. B. Lamb, A. Lynes, J. Treadwell, & C. Kelly (Eds.), 50 Facts Everyone Should Know About the Police. Bristol University Press
• Tudor, K. (2023). Setting the conditions of competition: Repositioning the neoliberal state in the fraud debate. In D. Jasinksi, A. Phillips, & E. Johnston (Eds.), Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003020813
• Tudor, K. (2023). Online Fraud. In R. Atkinson, & T. Ayres (Eds.), Shades of Deviance: A primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm. (2nd ed.). Routledge
• Tudor, K. (2020). Toxic Sovereignty: Understanding fraud as the expression of special liberty in late-capitalism. In S. Hall, T. Kuldova, & M. Horsely (Eds.), Crime, Harm and Consumerism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429424472
• Tudor, K., & Tombs, S. (2014). After the Crisis: New directions in theorising corporate and white-collar crime?. In W. De Keseredy, & M. Dragiewicz (Eds.), Critical Criminology. Routledge
• Tudor, K., & Tombs, S. (2012). After the Crisis: New Directions in Theorising Corporate and White-Collar Crime?. In New Directions in Criminological Theory. Routledge

Journal Article

• Tudor, K. (2019). Symbolic Survival and Harm: Serious Fraud and Consumer Capitalism’s Perversion of the Causa Sui Project. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 59(5), 1237-1253. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz009
• Tudor, K. (2018). Toxic Sovereignty:Understanding Fraud as the Expression of Special Liberty within Late-Capitalism. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(2), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.6476

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Tudor, K. (online). Why Thieves Using E-Scooters are Targeting Farms to Steal £3,000 Quad Bikes, and what Farmers can do to Prevent it

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Tudor, K. (online). Illicit Entrepreneurialism in the Countryside: Preliminary findings on the impact, dynamics and policing of plant and agricultural machinery and vehicles thefts in the UK
• Tudor, K. (2023). Analysis of Stolen Goods Markets in the UK (Home Office). [https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/Luv1I8DZ4eC6K?]

Report

• Tudor, K. (2024). Rural Crime: Serious Organised and International. Who Victimises Rural Communities?. National Rural Crime Network