Doctor Ryan Thorneycroft
Senior Lecturer in Criminology,
Criminology & Policing
Biography
Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences. He is a member of the School's Sexualities and Genders Research (SaGR) group and the Institute of Culture & Society's Queer Cultures program. He received his PhD in 2018 following research exploring people with intellectual disability and their experiences of violence, which is the basis of his book, Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection, published with Routledge's Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series in 2020. Since this time, Ryan's research agenda has generally focused on disability and sexuality studies, which is often inflected with crip and queer perspectives. Recently he has also become more interested in queer criminology. Ryan has been a member of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) since 2018 and recently co-convened its Critical Disability Studies thematic group. He teaches Introduction to Criminal Justice.
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Qualifications
- PhD Western Sydney University
Professional Memberships
- TASA (2018)
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Criminology & Policing
Contact
| Email: | R.Thorneycroft@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9772 6988 |
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| Location: | 3.6.10 |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 102181 Nation, Power and Difference, 2019
- 102709 Introduction to Criminal Justice, 2020
- 102709 Introduction to Criminal Justice, 2021
- 102709 Introduction to Criminal Justice, 2022
- CULT1024 Introduction to Criminal Justice, 2023
Publications
Books
- Thorneycroft, R. (2020), 'Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection', : Routledge 9780367365547.
Chapters in Books
- Thorneycroft, R. (2022), 'Prenatal testing, Down syndrome, and selective termination : a (critical) criminology of genocide?', Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, Emerald Publishing 9781801170024.
- Thorneycroft, R. and Nicholas, L. (2021), 'Queer and crip temporalities during COVID-19 : sexual practices, risk and responsibility', The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives, Routledge 9780367628956.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2017), 'Problematising and reconceptualising 'vulnerability' in the context of disablist violence', Policing Encounters with Vulnerability, Palgrave 9783319512273.
Journal Articles
- Thorneycroft, R. (2024), '[In Press] 'Straight sex in porn is anything but just straight' : exploring queer heteroporn', Sexualities, .
- Thorneycroft, R. and Smilges, J. (2023), 'Choosing disability : bug chasing and gift giving in gay pornography', Porn Studies, vol 10, no 1 , pp 99 - 115.
- Rodgers, J., Thorneycroft, R., Cook, P., Humphrys, E., Asquith, N., Yaghi, S. and Foulstone, A. (2023), 'Ableism in higher education : the negation of crip temporalities within the neoliberal academy', Higher Education Research and Development, vol 42, no 6 , pp 1482 - 1495.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2023), '[In Press] Pornographication : exploring the 'porn' in 'inspiration porn'', Porn Studies, .
- Thorneycroft, R., Cook, P. and Asquith, N. (2023), '[In Press] Explaining the unexplainable : theorizing the starving of the disabled other', Deviant Behavior, .
- Thorneycroft, R. (2022), 'The man they called a monster : forty years on', Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol 51, no 2 , pp 1363 - 1374.
- Humphrys, E., Rodgers, J., Asquith, N., Yaghi, S., Foulstone, A., Thorneycroft, R. and Cook, P. (2022), ''To prove I'm not incapable, I overcompensate' : disability, ideal workers, the academy', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol 33, no 4 , pp 698 - 714.
- Thorneycroft, R. and Asquith, N. (2021), 'Cripping criminology', Theoretical Criminology, vol 25, no 2 , pp 187 - 208.
- Thorneycroft, R. and Asquith, N. (2021), 'Unexceptional violence in exceptional times : disablist and ableist violence during the COVID-19 pandemic', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, vol 10, no 2 , pp 140 - 155.
- McDonald, J., Graves, J., Abrahams, N., Thorneycroft, R. and Hegazi, I. (2021), 'Moral judgement development during medical student clinical training', BMC Medical Education, vol 21, no 1 .
- Thorneycroft, R. (2021), 'Cripping incest discourse(s)', Sexuality and Culture, vol 25, no 6 , pp 1910 - 1926.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2021), '[In Press] 'Facefuck Me' : exploring crip porn', Porn Studies, .
- Thorneycroft, R. (2021), 'Theorie cripet etudes de la folie : intersections et points de depart', Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol 10, no 3 , pp 225 - 267.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2020), 'Walking to the train station with Amal : dis/ability and in/visibility', Disability and Society, vol 35, no 6 , pp 861 - 875.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2020), 'Crip theory and mad studies : intersections and points of departure', Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol 9, no 1 , pp 91 - 121.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2020), 'If not a fist, then what about a stump? : ableism and heteronormativity within Australia's porn regulations', Porn Studies, vol 7, no 2 , pp 152 - 167.
- Thorneycroft, R. (2020), 'When does research end? : the emotional labour of researching abjection', Methodological Innovations, vol 13, no 2 .
- Thorneycroft, R. and Asquith, N. (2017), ''Figurehead' hate crime cases : developing a framework for understanding and exposing the 'problem' with 'disability'', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol 31, no 3 , pp 482 - 494.
- Thorneycroft, R. and Asquith, N. (2015), 'The dark figure of disablist violence', Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, vol 54, no 5 , pp 489 - 507.
Supervision
Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Police and Lebanese Australian: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Understand their Relationship and Identify Change |
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| Field of Research: | Police Studies |