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.
- Dr Folashade Adeyemo (Liverpool Law School) - Banking regulation, whistleblower protection, financial and economic crime.
- Dr Gemma Ahearne (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - The sex industry, women in prison, vulnerability/exploitation-nexus, women's centres.
- Polett Bali (Institute of Population Health) - Prisoners accessing assessment and treatment services.
- Dr Roger Baxter (Heseltine Institute) - Historical and contemporary crime and policing research.
- Dr Áine Clancy (Liverpool Law School) - Illicitly acquired assets, grand corruption, money laundering, white-collar crime.
- Lilly Crellin (School of Environmental Sciences) - Sentencing trends in England and Wales.
- Professor Rudi Fortson (Liverpool Law School) - Serious crime, including fraud, confiscation, asset-recovery, money-laundering, and drug law.
- Professor Barry Godfrey (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Comparative criminology, particularly international crime history; desistence studies; and longitudinal studies of offending.
- Dr Danielle Griffiths (Liverpool Law School) - Healthcare and ethics, and criminal law.
- Professor Deana Heath (Department of History) - Policing and violence in colonial and post-colonial India.
- Dr Daniel Hill (Department of Philosophy) - Discrimination law, human-rights law, constitutional law, and criminal law - state entrapment, looking at how to define the concept, when (if ever) it is permissible, and how the courts should deal with cases of state entrapment.
- 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.
- Professor Shadd Maruna (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Crime and justice in a life course perspective.
- Dr Anna McKay (Department of History) - The lives and experiences of prisoners across the British maritime world.
- Dr Stephen McLeod (Department of Philosophy) - Philosophy of law; state entrapment, looking at how to define the concept, when (if ever) it is permissible, and how the courts should deal with cases of state entrapment.
- Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas (School of Law and Social Justice) - European criminal law; European and global law and their impact on human rights, justice, and the rule of law.
- Dr Carmen Rios Garcia (Department of Languages, Cultures, and Film) - Interactional linguistics in gender-based violence, including coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship, with Spanish-speaking suspects, defendants, victims and witnesses from different geographical areas.
- Dr Mike Rowe (Management School) - Policing, public services.
- 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.
- Professor Rob Stokes (Liverpool Law School) - The relationship between corporates and financial crime, including in the context of anti-money laundering and anti-bribery laws.
- Professor Sandra Walklate (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Gender and security, criminology and war, risk and security.
- Dr Shuai Wei (Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology) - Gender, law, and crime with an international and comparative perspective.
- Dr Tarek Yusari Khaliliyeh (Department of Philosophy) - State entrapment, looking at how to define the concept, when (if ever) it is permissible, and how the courts should deal with cases of state entrapment.
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