Claire Corbett

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Qualifications

BSc (Hons) (NELP)
MPhil (Cantab)
PhD (Lond)

Claire Corbett’s research interests are largely specialised in the field of road crime and traffic enforcement where she has conducted several empirical studies into aspects of speeding, speed cameras and drink-driving for which research grants from the Transport Research Laboratory, the Department for Transport, and TfL were received.  Earlier research studies commissioned by the Home Office carried out at Brunel and when at the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University focused on prison training, ordered and directed acquittals, Victim Support and the police complaints system.  In total, research grants in excess of £650,000 have been awarded.  She has recently been an invited member of various government scientific advisory groups related to road safety improvement.  She is Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Research Centre at Brunel.

Teaching

Criminology
English Legal Institutions and Method

Research Interests

Unlawful driving behaviour especially speeding; Speed cameras; Car crime; Penalty points demerit system, Traffic law enforcement, Psychological aspects of the criminal justice system.

Research Areas

Criminal justice
Legal practice

Research Groups

CJRC Criminal Justice Research Centre

PhD Supervision

Claire Corbett is willing to supervise PhD candidates in any of her areas of research and academic interests as well as in more general areas of criminological research, eg responses to crime victims and aspects of policing.

External Activities

Was an invited participant at an Oxford Policing Policy Forum at All Souls College, University of Oxford hosted by the Police Foundation and Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology, December 2012, on the topic ‘Is roads policing taken seriously enough?’

Presented invited paper to the Metropolitan Police Service in April 2012 at Empress House in London on her research on disqualifying ‘totter’ drivers in their absence at London traffic courts and the implications of this practice for police. This will be available on the College of Policing’s public depository for research papers.

Attended PACTS conference, October 2012, where findings aired from collaborative research with Kris Beuret and Heather Ward on the impact of women’s drinking on their pedestrian and driving activities. The literature review is available to download: http://www.reesjeffreys.co.uk/transport-reports/

Member of the Governance Board of the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme, which scheme won the overall prize at the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards presentations, December 2012.

Involved in external research collaboration (with K. Beuret of SRA Ltd and H. Ward of UCL) to explore women’s drinking and its impact on their driving and pedestrian activities for the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund and RBS. Empirical study currently in progress.

Member of the Metropolitan Police’s Strategic Traffic Consultative Forum.

Presented invited paper on 'Vehicle (and Driver) Surveillance: Should we care?' to ESRC-funded seminar 'Everyday Life of Surveillance', ICOSS, Sheffield University, February 2010

Produced short report on 'Fear of crime' for the Metropolitan Police Authority, January 2010.

Presenting an invited paper on ‘The Penalty Points Demerit System in the UK and Ireland ’ at 4th International Fit-to-Drive Congress in Tallinn , Estonia on 5 June 2009.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Corbett, CL., Efficient, effective and fair? Disqualifying drivers in their absence at London traffic courts, Contemporary Issues in Law 11 (4) : 249- 276

(2010) Corbett, C. and Grayson, G., Speed limit enforcement as perceived by offenders: Implications for roads policing, Policing: A Journal of Police and Practice 4 (4) : 364- 372 Download publication

(2008) Corbett, C., Techno-surveillance of the roads: High impact and low interest', Crime Prevention and Community Safety 10 (1) : 1- 18 Download publication

(2008) Corbett, C., Roads policing: Current context and imminent dangers, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 2 (1) : 131- 142 Download publication

(2000) Corbett, C., A typology of drivers' responses to speed cameras: Implications for speed limit enforcement and road safety, Psychology, Crime and Law 6 (4) : 305- 330

(2000) Corbett, C., The social construction of speeding as not 'real' crime, Crime Prevention and Community Sasfety 2 (4) : 33- 46

Book Chapters

(2010) Corbett, C., Driving offences. In: Brookman, F., Maguire, M., Pierpoint, H. and Bennett, T. eds. Handbook on Crime. Cullompton : Willan Publishing 904- 929 Download publication

Books

(2003) Corbett, C., Car crime. Willan