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Dr Michelle Addison
Dr Addison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. She is interested in the criminalisation of poverty and how this is (re)produced through structures of power, inequality and mechanisms of stigma. Her research is broadly concerned with a long-term vision of social justice for those facing the greatest social and health disadvantages in society. Dr Addison is elected to the Editorial Board for The British Journal of Criminology and she is part of the UK alliance ‘Is it a Crime to be Poor?’ which brings together voices across academia and the general public, policy and practice to discuss key issues around poverty and crime. She has been involved with various policing and health inequalities research studies related to police custody, drug use, and criminal exploitation and serious violence (CESV). Dr Addison has published widely in international journals such as Addiction; Drugs, Education, Prevention and Policy (DEPP); Journal of Public Health; Alcohol and Alcoholism; British Medical Journal Online, Sociological Research Online, and her research has been used variously by organisations such as: Home Office, Public Health England, Northumbria Police, NHS, Changing Lives. Her forthcoming edited collection is titled: Addison, M., McGovern, W., and McGovern, R., (2022) Drugs, Identity and Stigma, Palgrave Macmillan.