Research
Research Interests
Longitudinal studies of crime and sentencing; how individual and structural factors can affect desistence from crime; comparative international studies of offending and sentencing; court culture and practice; the history of Liverpool; and convicts in America and Australia.
Research groups
Research grants
What is the nature of digital coercive control; what policing responses exist and where are improvements needed; and what training and tools do police officers need?
N8 POLICING RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP (UK)
September 2023 - December 2024
Truth-telling, film-making, and skill-building in a far northwest Australian community
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2023 - December 2024
Strategies for Disrupting High risk high harm Domestic Abuse
N8 POLICING RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP (UK)
April 2022 - May 2023
Understanding the Domestic Abuse Victim Experience in Sussex
SUSSEX POLICE (UK)
September 2021 - March 2023
Domestic Abuse: Responses to the Shadow Pandemic
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2020 - December 2021
Criminals incapable of reform”? Re-assessing the population of Cockatoo Island Prison (Sydney), 1839-69
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2018 - September 2019
Victims' access to justice through English criminal courts, 1675 to the present
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2018 - April 2021
‘Dark tourism’ in comparative perspective: sites of suffering, sites of memory
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2016 - February 2018
The costs of imprisonment: A longitudinal study
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2012 - January 2013
After Care: Youth Justice and its long term impacts, 1850-1945
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
September 2013 - September 2015
The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishment, 1780-1925
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2013 - March 2018