Susie Balderston

Specialises in tackling violence against women, criminal justice involved women who have offended, disablist hate crime, deaths in detention and institutional abuse against disabled people.

Disciplines: Victimology, criminology (victims and offenders, ethics and jurisprudence - hate crime, interventions, rape and community reintegration), sociology, disability studies (health and social care).

 

Research Fellow: Anawim Project - testing community interventions for women who have offended - England, West Midlands.

 

2016 - Anti-Trafficking victim-centred services and assistance (as part of two European Commission studies led by Sylvia Walby). Included gender-specific services for women trafficked for sexual exploitation, justice, compensation, prevention and reintegration into society. Evaluating the impact of two voluntary sector, three year projects (a women's drug and sex work intervention service and advice work after gendered violence). 

 

Ongoing research: tackling rape and preventable deaths in detention and institutions, disablist hate crime and assisted suicide.