Peter Sproat
DR PETER A SPROAT, BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, PhD
Lecturer in Policing
Telephone: 01698 283100 extn. 8615
E-mail: peter.sproat@uws.ac.uk
Location: Room A820A (Hamilton Campus)
Teaching
Module Co-ordinator, Security in a Global Age (Honours)
Supervision Team, Criminal Justice Honours Dissertation
Research Interests
Financial and Transnational Crime
International Terrorism
Transnational Policing.
Recent Research Activities
(2008) ‘Counter Terrorist Finance Policies in the UK: An Evaluation’ in
J. Moran and M. Phythian (eds) In The Shadow Of 9/11: Intelligence, Security And Policing In The UK’s War On Terror (London: Macmillan)
(2007)‘The new policing of assets and the new assets of policing: A tentative financial cost-benefit analysis of the UK's anti-money laundering and asset recovery regime’, Journal of Money Laundering Control Vol.10 No.3 2007 pp277-299
(2007) ‘An evaluation of the UK’s anti-money laundering and asset recovery regime’, Crime Law and Social Change Vol. 47 No. 3 2007 pp169-184
(2007) ‘The Impact of Anti-Money Laundering and Asset Recovery on Organised Crime and the War on Drugs in the UK: An evidence-based evaluation’ European Society of Criminology, University of Bologna 26–29 September 2007
(2006) ‘The Social Impact of Counter Terrorist Finance Policies in the UK’
Crime Law and Social Change Vol. 44. No.4-5. 2006. pp441-446
(2005) ‘How valid are the criticisms of the work of the civil asset recovery work of ARA in Northern Ireland?'. British Society of Criminology, University of Leeds 12-14 July 2005
(2005) 'Counter-Terrorism across the EU. Anti-Terrorism and the EU': Current and Future Development of Counter-Terrorism Law and Policies Conference. University of Newcastle. 7 September 2005. Session 1
Other Activities
Member, Network 3 (Police Organisation) Steering Group, Scottish Institute of Policing Research.