Domestic abuse and sexual offending

Examples of some of our current and recent projects include:

• Dr Charlotte Barlow (with Professor Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool), "Who is the victim? Identifying victims and perpetrators in coercive control cases", 2022, funded by the N8 Policing Research Partnership (due to start in April 2022)
• Dr Charlotte Barlow (PI with Professor Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool), Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes: Victim/ survivor experiences, 2020, funded by the British Academy
• Dr Charlotte Barlow (led by Professor Pam Davies, Northumbria University), ‘Evaluation of the multi-agency risk reduction, assessment and coordination (MARRAC), Lancashire Constabulary, 2021
• Dr Charlotte Barlow, "Building capacity in the policing of domestic abuse in rural areas", with Professor Pam Davies, funded by the N8 PRP, 2020
• Dr Charlotte Barlow, Policing Coercive Control, funded by the British Academy, 2019
• Dr Charlotte Barlow, Police Responses to Coercive Control, 2018, funded by the N8PRP
• Informed by the previous work, Dr Charlotte Barlow developed a ‘Coercive Control learning tool/ training package’, which has been used by a variety of constabularies and organisations throughout the UK.
• Deborah Powney contributed to a report on male victims of coercive control. Link to the report here.
• Dr Les Humphreys (CI with Professor Sylvia Walby, City University London) The Violence, Health and Society Consortium (VISION), 2021, Medical Research Council
• Dr Les Humphreys (Supervisor of Dr Jess Phoenix) Measuring the repetition of domestic violence and abuse in police data, 2021 ESRC funded studentship
• Dr Les Humphreys (Consultant to Dr Charlotte Barlow, Professor Sandra Walklate, and Dr Kelly Johnson) Police Officer Responses to Coercive Control, 2018, N8
• Dr Les Humphreys (Consultant) Lancashire Constabulary – review of policing of domestic violence in Lancashire
• Dr Meg Todd is co-editing a book series with Policy Press on older sexual agents and social work/care and violence.
• Dr Nathan Birdsall (PI), Dr Simon Retford (with colleagues in psychology and Criminal Justice Partnership), ‘Forming a Child-to-Parent Domestic Abuse Typology’, Home Office, 2021/22
• Dr Rebecca Fish developed a toolkit to support disabled women and girls who experience domestic abuse. See the toolkit here.
• Sarah Kingston & Dr Emily Cooper, ‘Sentencing of Fraud in Scotland’, The Scottish Sentencing Council, 2021.
• Police Research Secondment contracts with two police constabularies (Kingston, Cooper and Birdsall).
• Sarah Kingston (Co-I), ‘Commercial sex in the UK and ROI: Current knowledge and future challenges’, ERSC, 2020.
• Sarah Kingston (PI), ‘Women who buy sex’, The British Academy/Leverhulme.
• Vicky Mooney has recently completed a project in sexual violence and domestic abuse research with TONIC, commissioned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire and Cheshire and their partner agencies. See further information:
  • Taylor, M., Scott, M., Elvin, D. & Mooney, V. (2020). Pan-Lancashire Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Needs Assessment, Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire: TONIC
  • Scott, M., Taylor, M., Mooney, V., Elvin, D., & Senker, S. (2019). A needs assessment for the support needs of survivors of sexual violence in Cheshire for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire, Police Crime Commissioner for Cheshire: TONIC

• Dr Charlotte Barlow was a keynote speaker at ‘Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the Implementation of Northern Ireland’s New Domestic Abuse Offence', 16th December 2021
• Vicky Mooney has recently organised a CSE Symposium on Sexual Violence, to take place in March 2022

• Emma Mullen
• Evin Daly
• Kirsty Taylor
• Melanie Horrocks
• Paul Hargreaves
• Vicky Mooney