- Room 112, 19 Portland Villas, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- +44 1752 585872
- oliver.smith@plymouth.ac.uk

Profiles
Dr Oliver Smith
Associate Professor (Reader) in Criminology
School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
- Crime statistics
- Alcohol and the night time economy
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Biography
Biography
Associate Head of School (Research)
Qualifications
Oliver is a criminologist and ethnographer with an interest in leisure, harm, consumerism and culture.
He is the author of ‘Contemporary adulthood and the night-time economy’, which uses the night time economy (NTE) as a lens through which to examine the relationship between global consumer culture and harms associated with the erosion of traditional forms of adult identity. He is a founding member of the Deviant Leisure group as well as the Critical Criminology sub-group of the British Society of Criminology.
BA Hons (1st Class) Sociology, University of York
MSc Criminology, Edinburgh
PhD, Sociology, University of York
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
I teach across a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
Research
Research
Research interests
Publications
Publications
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