Dr Thomas Raymen

I am a critical criminologist with over 10 years of experience in academic research and higher education. My research interests pivot around social harm, political economy and crimes of the powerful, leisure and consumer culture, and moral philosophy. Specifically, I have done empirical research on topics such as greenwashing, fraud, money laundering, corruption, gambling, leisure and consumer culture, and theoretical and philosophical work on the concept of social harm. I am the author of four books, including Luxury and Corruption: Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus (Bristol University Press, 2024); The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism (Routledge, 2023); Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm (Palgrave, 2019); and Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City: An Ethnography (Emerald, 2018). 

I am open to all interdisciplinary collaborations, and PhD students on a variety of criminological and zemiological topics. 

I have been working at Northumbria University since 2019, and have held a variety of roles in my time here, including Deputy Head of Department Social Sciences, Head of Subject for Criminology and Sociology, and the Dept of Social Sciences Head of Degree Apprenticeships. Prior to Northumbria, I worked at the University of Plymouth as a Lecturer in Criminology. I received my PhD in Sociology from Durham University and a BSc Criminology and Legal Studies from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2012.

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• Ethics Without Agents Corruption, Financial Crime, and the Interpassive ‘Ethics’ of Compliance, Raymen, T. 1 Aug 2024, Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
• Luxury and Corruption: Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus, Østbø Kuldova, T., Østbø, J., Raymen, T. 30 Jan 2024
• Editorial: Corruption and the Moral Economy of Fraud, Kuldova, T., Raymen, T., Østbø, J. 6 Apr 2022, In: Journal of Extreme Anthropology
• The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism, Raymen, T. 2 Nov 2022
• Clarifying Ultra-Realism: A Response to Wood et. al, Raymen, T., Kuldova, T. Jan 2021, In: Continental Thought & Theory
• Editorial: The Longest Year, Raymen, T. 3 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics
• “It’s the Attraction of Winning That Draws You In”—A Qualitative Investigation of Reasons and Facilitators for Videogame Loot Box Engagement in UK Gamers, Nicklin, L., Gordon Spicer, S., Close, J., Parke, J., Smith, O., Raymen, T., Lloyd, H.,  Lloyd, J. 13 May 2021, In: Journal of Clinical Medicine
• The Assumption of Harmlessness, Raymen, T. 10 Sep 2021, The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
• The Post-Covid Future of the Environmental Crisis Industry and its Implications for Criminology and Zemiolgy, Raymen, T., Smith, O. 3 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics
• Gambling and harm in 24/7 capitalism: Reflections from the post-disciplinary present, Raymen, T., Smith, O. 23 Jan 2020, Crime, Harm and Consumerism, London, Taylor & Francis

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• Invited talk: What is Social Harm? Criminological Futures and the Return to Ethics 2018

• Sociology PhD January 11 2018
• Research Methods MA September 16 2013