Dr Carly Speed

Lecturer In Criminology

Social Policy & Criminology

carly.speed@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

Dr Carly Speed - Lecturer in Criminology

Carly.speed@open.ac.uk

PhD Criminology

Masters Criminology- Distinction

BA (Hons) Criminology - First Class

Research interests

Publications

Speed, C. (Forthcoming) Critically Examining Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, London: Palgrave Macmillian.
Speed, C. (Forthcoming) Deaths in Psychiatric Detention: What Can We Learn About the Injustice of Silencing in L. Copson, D.H. Drake, and D. McCulloch, Palgrave Handbook of Social Justice, Palgrave.
Drake, D. and Speed, C. (2023) 'Rethinking Incapacitation and Confinement' in E. Dimou, L. Downes, D. McCulloch and C.Speed, Researching Current Issues in Criminology, Milton Keynes: The Open University.
Dimou, E. Downes, L. McCulloch, D and Speed, C. (2023) Researching Current Issues in Criminology, Milton Keynes: The Open University.
Speed, C. (2022) Police-Related Deaths in the United States by David Baker (Book Review), British Journal of Criminology.
Speed, C. (2019) Unsilencing the Silence: Critically Examining Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, State Violence Research Network.
Speed, C. (2017) ‘As Little Regard in Life as in Death: A Critical Analysis of Subjugation and Accountability Following Deaths in Psychiatric Detention’, Illness, Crisis and Loss, 25, (1), 27-42.
Speed, C. (2017) 'Deafening Attempts to Silence: Critically Exploring the Deaths of Patients Detained in Psychiatric Detention' in S. Fletcher and H. White, (eds.) Emerging Voices, London: EG Press Ltd.
Speed, C. (2017) ‘Deaths in Psychiatric Detention’, in S.Morley, J.Turner, K. Corteen and P. Taylor, (eds.) Companion of State Power, Liberties and Rights, Bristol: Policy Press.
Speed, C. (2017) ‘They Cannot Speak Anymore-We Will Make Their Voices Count’: Critically Examining Deaths in Psychiatric Detention’ in K. Atkinson, A.Huber and K.Tucker, (eds.) Voices of Resistance: Subjugated Knowledge and the Challenge to the Criminal Justice System, Liverpool: Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion.
Speed, C. (2014) ‘Making the Invisible Visible: A Critical Analysis of Deaths in Psychiatric Detention’ European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Summer Newsletter II, 38-42.
Speed, C. (2014) ‘Degradation and Death: Psychiatric Detention in England and Wales’ European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Autumn Newsletter III, 17-21.

Conference presentations

Speed, C. (2025) As Though Time Stands Still, Centre for Death and Society Conference, 13th June 2025.
Speed, C. (2023) Rethinking the Deaths of Detained Patients: What Can be Learnt, Centre for Death and Society Conference, 3rd May 2023.
Speed, C. (2022) Volunteering as a Crisis Support Call Handler, Open University Staff Development Symposium. Online.
Speed, C. (2022) Critically Examining the Deaths of Detained Patients, Open Thanatology Inaugural Conference, 17th June 2022. Online.
Speed, C. (2022) Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, Centre for Death and Society, 9th June 2022.
Speed, C. (2021) The Importance of the Historical, British Crime Historians Symposium, 2^nd September 2021.
Speed, C. (2021) Critically Exploring the Injustice of Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, The British Society of Criminology Conference, 9^th July 2021.
Speed, C. (2020) A Year On Yet Time Stands Still: Critically Exploring Resistance and Repression Involving Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, State Violence Research Network Conference, 8th April 2020.
Speed, C. (2019) Lack of Regard in Life and Death, State Violence Research Network Conference, 11^th April 2019, Manchester.
Speed, C. (2018) My Journey into Higher Education, Invited Talk to Sixth Formers From Across Merseyside, 25^th October 2018, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2016) Deaths in Psychiatric Detention: What Next? Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion North West Conference, 9^th November 2016, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2016) Transferring From MPhil to PhD: My Experience, Invited Keynote Speaker, LJMU Graduate School Conference, 21^st April 2016, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2015) Critically Exploring Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, Faculty of Arts and Professional Studies Postgraduate Conference, 25^th June 2015, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2015) Deaths of Detained Patients: A Critical Exploration, Talking Minds at Talking Bodies, 1^st April 2015, Chester.
Speed, C. (2015) A Hidden World: Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, LJMU Research Café, 21^st January 2015, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2014) Degradation and Death: Psychiatric Detention in England and Wales, Sites of Confinement Seminar, 30^th October 2014, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2014) Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, Invited Keynote Speaker, 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 4^th September 2014, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2014) Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, Sixth Annual Postgraduate Criminology Conference, 27^th August 2014, Nottingham.
Speed, C. (2014) Examining the Deaths of Individuals with Mental Health Problems in Differing Forms of State Custody, British Society of Criminology Conference, 9^th July 2014, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2014) Deaths in Psychiatric detention: Key Issues, National Deviancy Conference, 26^th June 2014, Teesside.
Speed, C. (2014) Dying to be ‘Sane’, Faculty of Arts and Professional Studies Postgraduate Conference, 19^th June 2014, Liverpool.
Speed, C. (2014) Making the Invisible Visible: A Critical Analysis of Deaths in Psychiatric Detention, First Undergraduate/Postgraduate Conference for the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 7^th April 2014, Liverpool.