Daniel Briggs
I am a researcher, writer and inter-disciplinary academic who studies social problems. Over the last twenty years, I have undertaken a significant amount of mixed-methods and ethnographic research into various social issues from street drug users to terminally ill-patients; from illegal immigrants to football hooligans; from online daters to activists and rioters; and from gypsies to gangs and deviant youth behaviours. I have also been lecturing undergraduates and postgraduates across Criminology, Law, Sociology and Social Policy for the 15 years, and continue to do so part time.
In this time, I have published over 100 books, chapters, and articles and presented at over 50 conferences worldwide. I have written Deviance and Risk on holiday: An ethnography of British tourists in Ibiza (2013 Palgrave MacMillan) Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London (2012 Routledge). I am editor of La Criminología Del Hoy y Del Mañana (2016, Dykinson) and The English Riots of 2011: A Summer of Discontent (2012 Waterside Press). I am co-author of The Consequences of Mobility: Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration (2017, Palgrave MacMillan), of Riots and Political Protest (2015 Palgrave MacMilan), Culture and Immigration in Context (2014 Palgrave MacMilan) and Assessing the Use and Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (2007 Policy Press). One particular book, which is based on two year photo-ethnographic project, titled Dead End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows won the American Society of Criminology's Outstanding Book Award in 2018. Recently published is 'Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery' (Routledge, 2020) and was based on a three-year ethnographic study of the refugee crisis in Europe.
At the moment, I am concluding research on the Covid 19 pandemic and after having written 'Researching the Covid 19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences' (Bristol University Press, 2021) and 'Lockdown: Social harm in the Covid-19 era' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) and have in press 'New Futures of Exclusion and the Post-Covid era of perpetual crises' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). My most recent book is 'Hotel Puta: A hardcore ethnography of a luxury brothel' (Restorative Justice for All Publications, 2023) which is based on 18 months of covert research in a luxury brothel.
I am currently researching the UK strikes and the Ukranian refugee situation across Europe. I live and work in Madrid, am very grateful to be alive and wish academia and the social sciences could do more for the vulnerable.
Address: Universidad Europea de Madrid
C/ Tajo s/n
Villaviciosa de Odón,
28670 Madrid
In this time, I have published over 100 books, chapters, and articles and presented at over 50 conferences worldwide. I have written Deviance and Risk on holiday: An ethnography of British tourists in Ibiza (2013 Palgrave MacMillan) Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London (2012 Routledge). I am editor of La Criminología Del Hoy y Del Mañana (2016, Dykinson) and The English Riots of 2011: A Summer of Discontent (2012 Waterside Press). I am co-author of The Consequences of Mobility: Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration (2017, Palgrave MacMillan), of Riots and Political Protest (2015 Palgrave MacMilan), Culture and Immigration in Context (2014 Palgrave MacMilan) and Assessing the Use and Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (2007 Policy Press). One particular book, which is based on two year photo-ethnographic project, titled Dead End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows won the American Society of Criminology's Outstanding Book Award in 2018. Recently published is 'Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery' (Routledge, 2020) and was based on a three-year ethnographic study of the refugee crisis in Europe.
At the moment, I am concluding research on the Covid 19 pandemic and after having written 'Researching the Covid 19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences' (Bristol University Press, 2021) and 'Lockdown: Social harm in the Covid-19 era' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) and have in press 'New Futures of Exclusion and the Post-Covid era of perpetual crises' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). My most recent book is 'Hotel Puta: A hardcore ethnography of a luxury brothel' (Restorative Justice for All Publications, 2023) which is based on 18 months of covert research in a luxury brothel.
I am currently researching the UK strikes and the Ukranian refugee situation across Europe. I live and work in Madrid, am very grateful to be alive and wish academia and the social sciences could do more for the vulnerable.
Address: Universidad Europea de Madrid
C/ Tajo s/n
Villaviciosa de Odón,
28670 Madrid
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Design/methodology/approach: The article draws upon two in-depth interviews - drawn from a global mixed-methods project on the Covid-19 pandemic - with a Child Protection Officer in the North West and a Youth Offending Worker from the West Midlands.
Findings: The two case studies demonstrate that already-austerity hit Children’s and Young People’s services moved almost all their service delivery online, preventing frontline child practitioners and youth offending workers from properly assessing, monitoring, and supporting vulnerable children and young people. In both case studies, the participants claim that repeated lockdowns have done irreversible damage to their client relationships; jeopardised potential progress out of vulnerable situations; and heightened risks for many of their client group. Notwithstanding these two workers faced pressure to adhere to both the Covid-19 regulations and health and safety protocols. While our participants felt this affected the quality of their engagement with young people, they aired frustrations at other colleagues who, they suggested, appeared ‘content’ to have minimal contact with their client group. Nevertheless, the two workers demonstrated admirable resilience as they strove to deliver essential support to their clients. In a climate of local authority debt, school closures and further challenges to information sharing because of the pandemic, these two workers doubt support systems will return to pre-Covid standards and expect online working to continue, to the detriment of vulnerable children and young people. Essentially, these two examples indicate how Covid-19 measures close the door on protecting vulnerable children and young people. Originality: The article builds upon the emerging empirical evidence on how lockdowns have impacted children and young people’s services.
Practical implications: The limited yet detailed findings potentially highlight important deficits in the social care sector in general.
Social implications:Though ungeneralizable, we suggest our participants’ experiences might be replicated in some other child protection and youth offending services across the UK.
Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people's stories and situations in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control.
This discussion will be of interest to those working within Europe’s mobility infrastructure, as well as policymakers in the mobility field and students and scholars from across the social sciences.
In this groundbreaking new study, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell push past the unworldly optimism of the liberal left to offer an illuminating account of the enclosure and vacuity of contemporary politics. Focusing on the English riots of 2011, the ongoing crisis in Greece, the Indignados, 15M and Podemos in Spain, the Occupy movement in New York and London and the English Defence League in northern England, this book uses original empirical data to inform a strident theoretical critique of our post-political present. It asks: what are these protest groups fighting for, and what are the chances of success?
Written by leading criminological theorists and researchers, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary debates on social order, politics and cultural capitalism. It illuminates the epochal problems we face today. Riots and Political Protest is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of political sociology, criminological theory, political theory, sociological theory and the sociology of deviance.
Culture and Immigration in Context acts as a critique to the dominant, economic-modelled field of migrant studies by offering an ethnographic lens which is social, political and subjective in its vista to reveal the lived experience of Romanian migrant workers in Britain who have left the debt and corruption of their home life in the hope of finding something better in Britain.
In contrast to existing knowledge and populist depictions, Briggs argues that the root of these behaviours is not pathological but rather it is more about how this social group have come to self validate what is expected of them in their leisure time and, as a consequence, how their attitudes are subtly guided and endorsed by the commodified social context of resorts which are only interested in making money at their expense.
Exploring issues of youth culture, political economy, tourism and identity, this book will appeal to scholars in sociology, criminology, cultural studies, tourism and youth studies.
Further highlights include: the role of new social media in terms of recruitment, resistance, and surveillance; the role of the urban street gang; gender, racialization, resentment, post-riot rhetoric and the profiling the 2011 rioters. It looks at how the riots spread to other cities in the UK including Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham - as well as examining events and attitudes in places such as Spain, Greece, and those of the Arab Spring. Asks Who, When and Why?; Includes first-hand accounts from 2011 rioters, victims and the public; Applies historical, cultural, structural and social perspectives to the English Riots of 2011; Considers the aftermath of the riots and the wider picture of global social unrest.
This book is about their addictions and the realities of their lives. Based on ethnographic research (observation and interviewing) conducted in south London, it aims to highlight their day-to-day struggles as they attempt to survive in a violent and intimidating street drug scene while trying to make changes to their lives. The book unpacks the myths and stigma of their drug use, highlighting their fragile position in society in an effort to better understand them. With the help of several key characters, the book uses their words and experiences to take the reader on a journey through their crack addiction from a life in and out of crack houses, their experiences with law enforcement and welfare agencies to their life aspirations.
The findings have important policy implications, and are relevant and accessible to academics and students in the field of criminology, sociology, psychology, and research methods. The research is equally relevant for central and local government policymakers, and frontline healthcare and drug agency staff.
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Papers by Daniel Briggs
Design/methodology/approach: The article draws upon two in-depth interviews - drawn from a global mixed-methods project on the Covid-19 pandemic - with a Child Protection Officer in the North West and a Youth Offending Worker from the West Midlands.
Findings: The two case studies demonstrate that already-austerity hit Children’s and Young People’s services moved almost all their service delivery online, preventing frontline child practitioners and youth offending workers from properly assessing, monitoring, and supporting vulnerable children and young people. In both case studies, the participants claim that repeated lockdowns have done irreversible damage to their client relationships; jeopardised potential progress out of vulnerable situations; and heightened risks for many of their client group. Notwithstanding these two workers faced pressure to adhere to both the Covid-19 regulations and health and safety protocols. While our participants felt this affected the quality of their engagement with young people, they aired frustrations at other colleagues who, they suggested, appeared ‘content’ to have minimal contact with their client group. Nevertheless, the two workers demonstrated admirable resilience as they strove to deliver essential support to their clients. In a climate of local authority debt, school closures and further challenges to information sharing because of the pandemic, these two workers doubt support systems will return to pre-Covid standards and expect online working to continue, to the detriment of vulnerable children and young people. Essentially, these two examples indicate how Covid-19 measures close the door on protecting vulnerable children and young people. Originality: The article builds upon the emerging empirical evidence on how lockdowns have impacted children and young people’s services.
Practical implications: The limited yet detailed findings potentially highlight important deficits in the social care sector in general.
Social implications:Though ungeneralizable, we suggest our participants’ experiences might be replicated in some other child protection and youth offending services across the UK.
Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people's stories and situations in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control.
This discussion will be of interest to those working within Europe’s mobility infrastructure, as well as policymakers in the mobility field and students and scholars from across the social sciences.
In this groundbreaking new study, Winlow, Hall, Briggs and Treadwell push past the unworldly optimism of the liberal left to offer an illuminating account of the enclosure and vacuity of contemporary politics. Focusing on the English riots of 2011, the ongoing crisis in Greece, the Indignados, 15M and Podemos in Spain, the Occupy movement in New York and London and the English Defence League in northern England, this book uses original empirical data to inform a strident theoretical critique of our post-political present. It asks: what are these protest groups fighting for, and what are the chances of success?
Written by leading criminological theorists and researchers, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary debates on social order, politics and cultural capitalism. It illuminates the epochal problems we face today. Riots and Political Protest is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of political sociology, criminological theory, political theory, sociological theory and the sociology of deviance.
Culture and Immigration in Context acts as a critique to the dominant, economic-modelled field of migrant studies by offering an ethnographic lens which is social, political and subjective in its vista to reveal the lived experience of Romanian migrant workers in Britain who have left the debt and corruption of their home life in the hope of finding something better in Britain.
In contrast to existing knowledge and populist depictions, Briggs argues that the root of these behaviours is not pathological but rather it is more about how this social group have come to self validate what is expected of them in their leisure time and, as a consequence, how their attitudes are subtly guided and endorsed by the commodified social context of resorts which are only interested in making money at their expense.
Exploring issues of youth culture, political economy, tourism and identity, this book will appeal to scholars in sociology, criminology, cultural studies, tourism and youth studies.
Further highlights include: the role of new social media in terms of recruitment, resistance, and surveillance; the role of the urban street gang; gender, racialization, resentment, post-riot rhetoric and the profiling the 2011 rioters. It looks at how the riots spread to other cities in the UK including Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham - as well as examining events and attitudes in places such as Spain, Greece, and those of the Arab Spring. Asks Who, When and Why?; Includes first-hand accounts from 2011 rioters, victims and the public; Applies historical, cultural, structural and social perspectives to the English Riots of 2011; Considers the aftermath of the riots and the wider picture of global social unrest.
This book is about their addictions and the realities of their lives. Based on ethnographic research (observation and interviewing) conducted in south London, it aims to highlight their day-to-day struggles as they attempt to survive in a violent and intimidating street drug scene while trying to make changes to their lives. The book unpacks the myths and stigma of their drug use, highlighting their fragile position in society in an effort to better understand them. With the help of several key characters, the book uses their words and experiences to take the reader on a journey through their crack addiction from a life in and out of crack houses, their experiences with law enforcement and welfare agencies to their life aspirations.
The findings have important policy implications, and are relevant and accessible to academics and students in the field of criminology, sociology, psychology, and research methods. The research is equally relevant for central and local government policymakers, and frontline healthcare and drug agency staff.
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structural inequalities.