Professor Pam Davies

Head Of Department

Department: Social Sciences

I joined Northumbria University in a full-time capacity in 1993 having moved north to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to begin work in a research post with Northumbria Police in 1989. In 1991 I spent a year on secondment on a project entitled 'Police Co-operation in Europe' funded by Commission for the European Communities. My current research interests filter into my teaching in criminology and victimology where I adopt a gendered lens to exlore the crimes, victimisations and harms of the powerful.

My research interests coalesce around gender, crime, harm, victimization and justice. I combine my interest in victimology and social harm with a critical/feminist infused approach and in adopting this perspective I have explored a range of contemporary social problems – both visible and hidden. My early research explored female offending and the inter-play between women’s offending patterns and experiences of victimization. More recently I have developed this perspective and used it to examine tensions around social and environmental justice adopting a case study approach. I have lead a number of research projects and evaluations of multi-agency innovations that tackle gendered forms of harm including interpersonal violence, domestic abuse, the policing of serial perpetrators and support for victims. The ways in which gender mediates our life experiences continues to provoke new areas of inquiry and I am currently working with colleagues on ‘gendering green criminology’.

My publications show I have published widely on the subject of victimization and social harm and on how gender connects to matters of community safety, public protection and well-being. I am the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan ‘Victims and Victimology’ book series (with Associate Professor Tyrone Kirchengast, University of New South Wales, Sydney).

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests coalesce around gender, crime, harm, victimization and justice. I combine my interest in victimology and social harm with a critical/feminist infused approach and in adopting this perspective I have explored a range of contemporary social problems – both visible and hidden. My early research explored female offending and the inter-play between women’s offending patterns and experiences of victimization. More recently I have developed this perspective and used it to examine tensions around social and environmental justice adopting a case study approach. I have lead a number of research projects and evaluations of multi-agency innovations that tackle gendered forms of harm including interpersonal violence, domestic abuse, the policing of serial perpetrators and support for victims. The ways in which gender mediates our life experiences continues to provoke new areas of inquiry and I am currently working with colleagues on ‘gendering green criminology’.

My publications show I have published widely on the subject of victimization and social harm and on how gender connects to matters of community safety and security. I am the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan ‘Victims and Victimology’ book series (with Associate Professor Tyrone Kirchengast, University of New South Wales, Syndney).

Key Publications

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‘It was a challenge to look at things from a perpetrator perspective’. The problem of holding domestically abusive men to account in multi-agency partnership work, Davies, P., Barlow, C., Fish, R. 4 Mar 2024, In: Criminology and Criminal Justice
Policing Domestic Abuse: The onus on first responders, Davies, P., Barlow, C. 8 Aug 2024, In: Policing and Society
A criminology of the domestic, Davies, P., Rowe, M. 29 Jun 2023, Criminology of the Domestic, London, Taylor & Francis
"He hits me and that’s just how it is here”: Responding to domestic abuse in rural communities, Barlow, C., Davies, P., Ewin, R. 1 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Gender-Based Violence
The hard and complex work of implementing new multi agency risk assessment approaches to policing domestic abuse, Davies, P., Barlow, C., Fish, R. 1 Jun 2023, In: Crime Prevention and Community Safety
How far has multi-agency policing travelled in 30 years? Reflecting on progress in the context of ‘policing’ domestic abuse in England and Wales, Davies, P. 1 Dec 2022, In: Crime Prevention and Community Safety
Work, Money and Duality. Trading Sex as a Side Hustle, By Raven Bowen (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 194pp, £26.99pbk), Davies, P. 10 Sep 2022, In: British Journal of Criminology
Crime and Power, Davies, P., Wyatt, T. 31 Jan 2021
Practicing co-produced research: tackling domestic abuse through innovative multi-agency partnership working, Davies, P. 1 Sep 2021, In: Crime Prevention and Community Safety
Understanding the status of evidence in policing research: reflections from a study of policing domestic abuse, Davies, P., Rowe, M., Brown, D., Biddle, P. 3 Jul 2021, In: Policing and Society

PGR Supervision

Joanna Young Start Date: 01/03/2019 End Date: 01/04/2020
Emma Finnegan The experiences, needs of, and support for older women survivors, and how services respond to them. Start Date: 25/11/2019 End Date: 23/06/2023
James Pickles Bridging Communities: Exploring experiences of ‘hate’ within community, voluntary, and criminal justice sectors Start Date: 07/10/2014 End Date: 11/06/2018
Joanna Young Start Date: 01/03/2019 End Date: 18/10/2019
Zoe Mitchell Professionalisation of the Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Start Date: 01/10/2023
Alexandria Bradley Trauma-Informed Practice: Exploring the role of adverse life experiences on the behaviour of offenders and the effectiveness of associated criminal justice strategies Start Date: 07/10/2014 End Date: 01/06/2018
Jacklyn Laws The Reliability of Evidence Given by Victims of Domestic Abuse who are Under the Influence of Alcohol; An Ethnographic Account of Decision Making by Police Officers Start Date: 13/10/2010 End Date: 12/12/2013

Qualifications

Criminology PhD August 31 2005
Teacher Training PGCert August 31 1994
Criminology MSc September 01 1993
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2009
Full Member British Society of Criminology (BSC) 2004

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