Academic staff
- Professor Anna Carline (Co-Director, Liverpool Law School) - Criminal law and criminal justice (in particular violence against women and sexual offences); family law; feminist/gender theory.
- Dr Ellen Reeves (Co-Director, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - The effectiveness of intervention/protection orders as a response to domestic abuse; the role of police in responding to domestic abuse; the criminalisation of coercive control; the misidentification of women victim-survivors as predominant aggressors; domestic violence disclosure schemes; and LGBTQA+ victim-survivors’ experiences of using the law for domestic abuse.
- Polett Bali (Institute of Population Health) - Prisoners accessing assessment and treatment services.
- Lilly Crellin (School of Environmental Sciences) - Sentencing trends in England and Wales.
- Dr Matthew Gibson (Liverpool Law School) - Criminal law doctrine and theory.
- Professor Barry Godfrey (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Comparative criminology, particularly international crime history; desistence studies; and longitudial studies of offending.
- Dr Danielle Griffiths (Liverpool Law School) - Healthcare and ethics, and criminal law.
- Dr Antoinette Huber (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Online sexual violence and misogyny; image-based sexual abuse on women and their experiences in the criminal justice system.
- Dr Alice Ievins (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Punishment in relation to justice; prisons; experiences of imprisonment.
- Dr Carly Lightowlers (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Alcohol, crime, and violence; sentencing, punishment, and courts; violent crime.
- Dr Sarah Singh (Liverpool Law School) - Intersection of gender and the criminal law, with a particular focus on the criminalisation of women who have been subject to domestic abuse.
- Professor Helen Stalford (Liverpool Law School) - Children's rights; child friendly justice; child protection.
- Dr Shuai Wei (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Gender, law, and crime with an international and comparative perspective.
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