Stephanie Brown

Dr Stephanie Brown is BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She is a historical criminologist, exploring change and continuity in crime, punishment, and policing from the middle ages to the modern-day. She is an expert in the law, context, and history of homicide, suicide, and abortion. Her research uncovers how society’s views of violence, gender, ethnicity, and class shape who is seen as a ‘criminal’ and how the law is applied in England and Wales. She also shines a light on contemporary issues including how the media reports crime and what the public thinks about justice. Stephanie is a co-creator of Medieval Murder Maps, an interactive website giving a unique insight into violence and justice in medieval England.