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Dr Carly Lightowlers PhD, PGCertTLHE, MSc, BAHons, FHEA

Reader - Criminology Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology

Research

Research Overview

https://www.adruk.org/news-publications/news-blogs/enforced-alcohol-abstinence-does-it-reduce-reoffending-new6408ad2638bba843605288/

Current research interests

My expertise is in the analysis of secondary and administrative data with which to study contentious issues of alcohol, crime and justice. To date my work has mainly focused on alcohol-related violence; the relationship between the two and the processing of such cases through the criminal justice system. Although I have also examined other forms of violence, including Modern Slavery and online hate, and the sentencing of those involved in the 2011 English 'riots'.

Research Grants

Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership evaluation and research work programme

JMU SERVICES LIMITED (UK)

August 2022 - March 2025

Enforced alcohol abstinence: does it reduce reoffending?

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA RESEARCH UK- ADR UK (UK)

January 2023 - June 2024

The Cultural Politics of Intoxication and Sentencing

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

January 2024 - December 2024

Deprivation, alcohol availability, and violence: examining trends in alcohol-related violence during the pandemic

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

April 2022 - March 2023

Evaluation of the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership work programme (2021/22)

JMU SERVICES LIMITED (UK)

July 2021 - June 2022

The impact of Covid-19 and associated lockdowns on trends in NTE and alcohol-related violence in Merseyside

OFFICE OF THE POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER FOR MERSEYSIDE (UK)

August 2021 - March 2022

The Perpetrators of Modern Slavery Offences: Motivations, Networks and Backgrounds

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2018 - May 2022