University of Glamorgan

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Law–Jurisprudence (Class-A)


MA Sociology


Certificate ‘Deprivation of Liberty and Human Rights’


PhD Criminology

Duties & Responsibilities

Main Teaching Areas:

Comparative criminology; Criminological Theory; Power, Social Exclusion and Crime.

Research

Research Interests

Cross-national Crime and Justice; Race, Ethnicity and Crime; Conflict Resolution.

Current Research Activity

Integrated theory in criminology

Selected Publications

Wardak, A. (Saba, D. and Kazem, H.) (2007) Bridging Modernity and Tradition: the Rule of Law and the Search for Justice, Afghanistan National Human Development Report, UNDP/CPHD, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Wardak, A. (with Lewis et al) (2006) Race and Probation, London: Willan Publishers.

Wardak, A. and Cole (2006) ‘Black and Asian Men on Probation: Social Exclusion, Discrimination and Experiences of Criminal Justice’, in Race and Probation edited by Wardak, A. (with Lewis et al), London: Willan Publishers.

Wardak, A. and Sheptycki, J. and A (2005) Transnational and Comparative Criminology, London: Cavendish.

Wardak, A. (2006) ‘Structures of Authority and Local Dispute Settlement in Afghanistan’ in Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Middle Eastern Societies: Between Tradition and Modernity, Edited by Hans-Jörg Albrecht et al, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Wardak, A. (2005) ‘Crime and Social Control in Saudi Arabia’ in Transnational and Comparative Criminology, Edited by J. Sheptycki and A. Wardak, London: Cavendish.

Wardak, A. (with Calverly, C. et al), (2004) Black and Asian Offenders on Probation, London: Home Office Study No 277, London: The Home Office

Wardak, A. (2004) ‘Building a Post-War justice System in Afghanistan’, Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 41.

Wardak, A. (with Johnson, C. et al) (2003) Afghanistan’s Political and Constitutional Development, Humanitarian Policy Group, Report (January), London: ODI/DFID.

Wardak, A. (2002) ‘The Mosque and Social Control in Edinburgh’s Muslim Community’ in Journal of Culture and Religion Vol. 3: No 2.

Wardak, A. (2000) Social Control and Deviance: A South Asian Community in Scotland, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Academic Board, Institute for Afghan Studies, USA.

British Society of Criminology

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD), King’s College, London University, London

Consultancy

2003 – Present Afghan Legal History Project, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

2003 – 2003 Independent Review of the Persian and Pashto Translations of Published reports, The Department of International Development (DFID), London, UK.

2002 – 2003 A Field study of ‘Afghanistan’s Political and Constitutional Development’, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, UK.

2000 – 2001 A Field study of ‘The Experiences of Ethnic Minority Children in South Wales Valleys’, Barnardo’s funded Research project, Department of Sociology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.