{{Short description|Sociologist}} '''Heather Hamill''' is a sociologist who is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford, St Cross College. She specializes in the study of crime and extralegal governance. Her book, ''The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast'', about paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland, won the James Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books in History and Social Sciences, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. According to the award committee: {{Quote|Hamill's ethnographically-informed analysis of extra-legal punishment in Belfast is social science at its best. She exposes the ways that Catholic and Protestant paramilitary police and punish youth in their own communities and interrogates why such violent social sanctions do not deter "the Hoods." In this way, Hamill's book opens up new terrain in Irish Studies while grounding her conclusions in the cultural and political circumstances of Northern Ireland. It is an extremely well-written academic book that is truly difficult to put down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Heather Hamill |url=https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/heather-hamill.html |publisher=Department of Sociology, Oxford University |accessdate=7 January 2020 |language=en-gb}}</ref>}}

In September 2023 Hamill was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Sociology by the University of Oxford.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Recognition of Distinction |journal=University of Oxford Gazette |date=12 October 2023 |volume=154 |issue=5397 |pages=60-61 |url=https://gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/gazette/documents/media/12_october_2023_-_no_5397_redacted.pdf |access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref>

==Works== *{{cite book |last1=Gambetta |first1=Diego |last2=Hamill |first2=Heather |title=Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness |date=2005 |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn=978-1-61044-235-0 |language=en}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fararo |first1=Thomas J. |title=Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness (review) |journal=Social Forces |date=3 October 2007 |volume=86 |issue=1 |pages=363–364 |doi=10.1353/sof.2007.0097 |s2cid=201762763 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/221729/summary |language=en |issn=1534-7605|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Uslaner |first1=Eric M. |title=Book Review: Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness |journal=Work and Occupations |date=1 February 2007 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=104–106 |doi=10.1177/0730888406296934 |s2cid=153319299 |language=en |issn=0730-8884}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=RG |title=Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness |journal=Personnel Psychology |date=2006 |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=274–275 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/57a425c503883454b92ebe000cf9e118/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=36693 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sztompka |first1=Piotr |title=Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness – Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill |journal=International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |date=2006 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=978–979 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00704_7.x |language=en |issn=1468-2427|doi-access=free }}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Hamill |first1=Heather |title=The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast |date=2011 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-18068-7 |language=en}}<ref>{{cite news |title=The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=415410&sectioncode=26 |accessdate=7 January 2020 |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |date=10 March 2011 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stout |first1=Brian |title=Hamill, H. (2011).The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast |journal=Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice |date=1 December 2011 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=380–381 |doi=10.1093/police/par041 |url=https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/5/4/380/1612125 |language=en |issn=1752-4512|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McDonald |first1=Henry |title=Beyond the pale: a city underclass bent on anarchy |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/beyond-the-pale-a-city-underclass-bent-on-anarchy-28707993.html |accessdate=7 January 2020 |work=Belfast Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jolicoeur |first1=Jason R. |title=The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast |url=http://www.lpbr.net/2012/01/hoods-crime-and-punishment-in-belfast.html |website=Law and Politics Book Review |publisher=American Political Science Association |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref>

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