The difficulties associated with police assessment of risk in domestic abuse cases are well documented. Officers often focus on ‘incidents’ rather than patterns of abusive behaviour and perceive physical violence as more risky than non-physical forms of abuse. However, much of the work has focussed on the efficacy of risk assessment tools(Turner et al, 2019) and the factors deemed particularly high risk in domestic abuse cases in general (Monkton-Smith, 2020). With this in mind, this PhD project would aim to fill knowledge gaps by exploring how victim-survivors and perpetrators are risk assessed by police and partner agencies throughout the progression of a case, exploring a range of domestic abuse-related offences (including coercive control).
The project would involve collaborating with two Northern Police Constabularies, incorporating a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative aspect would explore police data and the qualitative aspect will involve interviews with police officers, victim-survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse.
The successful candidate will be supervised by a team led by Dr Charlotte. They will benefit from involvement with an active group of researchers and PhD students in the Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm and the Centre for Criminal Justice Partnerships.
Further information
Informal project related enquiries about the post can be made to Dr Charlotte Barlow at [Email Address Removed]
As part of your application, please submit a statement of no more than 300 words outlining at least one issue associated with the police risk assessment of domestic abuse and how you would examine this as part of this project.
For the application form and full details go to: https://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/studentships
Completed application forms should be returned to the Research Admissions email [Email Address Removed] quoting the studentship reference number DTC14
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