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Professor Barry Godfrey BA MA PhD FRHist.A FAcSS. JP

Professor of Social Justice Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology

    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 Group Membership

    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 - June 2024

    Truth-telling, film-making, and skill-building in a far northwest Australian community

    ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

    August 2023 - July 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