Dr Waqas Tufail

Senior Lecturer
Leeds School Of Social Sciences
0113 81 25787 w.tufail@leedsbeckett.ac.ukAbout Dr Waqas Tufail
Dr Waqas Tufail joined the School of Social, Psychological and Communication Sciences as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in April 2015. His research interests include policing, anti-Muslim racism and racialization. In this role, Waqas is pursuing research interests concerning the policing of marginalised communities and the criminalisation of Muslim minorities. He completed his PhD at the University of Salford and has previously been employed as a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and Lecturer in Criminology at both Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Chester.
Current Teaching
Waqas teaches on the module Race, Crime and Social Exclusion.
Research Interests
Waqas is currently engaged in a number of research projects including an ongoing collaboration with Professor Scott Poynting from the University of Auckland examining the criminalisation of Muslim minorities in the UK and Australia.
Selected Publications
Journal articles (8)
- Tufail W (2016) Book Review: Muslims in US Prisons: People, Policy, Practice N.H. Ammar (Ed.). London: Rienner (2015) 253pp. £65.00hb ISBN 978-1-62637-168-2
https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo6_12187
View Repository Record - Tufail AW (2015) Rotherham, Rochdale, and the Racialised Threat of the 'Muslim Grooming Gang'
https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i3.249
View Repository Record - Jeffery B; Tufail AW; Jackson W (2015) Policing and the Reproduction of Local Social Order: a case study of Greater Manchester
View Repository Record - Tufail AW (2015) Book review: Race Defaced: Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility by Christopher Kyriakides and Rodolfo D. Torres
https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649215569694 - Jeffery R; Tufail W (2014) "The riots were where the police were": Deconstructing the Pendelton Riot
https://doi.org/10.3167/cont.2014.020205
View Repository Record - Gilmore J; Tufail W (2013) Police corruption and community resistance
https://doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2013.865491 - Gilmore J; Tufail W (2013) Police Corruption and Community Resistance
- Tufail W; Poynting S (2013) A Common Outlawness': Criminalisation of Muslim Minorities in the UK and Australia
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Chapters (4)
- Tufail AW; Poynting S (2016) Muslim and Dangerous: 'Grooming' and the Politics of Racialisation. In: Pratt D; Woodlock R Fear of Muslims: International Perspectives on Islamophobia. : Springer, pp. .
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29698-2 - Jeffery R; Tufail W (2015) Police Deviance. In: Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm. : Routledge, pp. .
- Gilmore J; Tufail W (2015) Justice Denied: Police Accountability and the Killing of Mark Duggan. In: Whyte D How Corrupt is Britain?. : Pluto Press, pp. 94-101.
- Tufail AW (2015) Policing Muslim Communities in Partnership: 'integration', belonging and resistance. In: El-Enany N; Bruce-Jones E Justice, Resistance and Solidarity: Race and Policing in England and Wales. London: Runnymede Trust, pp. 18-20.
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