Young Women and Violence
Members of SCCJR are involved in ongoing scholarship on young women and violence. Funded projects have included:
'A View from the Girls: Exploring Violence and Violent Behaviour' (Michele Burman, Kay Tisdall, Jane Brown & Susan Batchelor, ESRC Violence Research Programme)
'Pathways Through Violence: Young Women Incarcerated for Violent Offences' (Susan Batchelor, ESRC Postgraduate Studentship)
Project Documents
- Batchelor, S. (2005) ‘Prove me the bam!' Victimisation and agency in the lives of young women who commit violent offences. Probation Journal 52(4): 358-375.
This article reviews the evidence regarding young women’s involvement in violent crime and, drawing on recent research carried out in HMPYOI Cornton Vale in Scotland, provides an overview of the characteristics, needs and deeds of young women sentenced to imprisonment for violent offending. Through the use of direct quotations, the article suggests that young women’s anger and aggression is often related to their experiences of family violence and abuse, andthe acquisition of a negative worldview in which other people are considered as being ‘out to get you’ or ready to ‘put one over on you’. The young women survived in these circumstances, not by adopting discourses that cast them as exploited victims, but by drawing on (sub)cultural norms and values which promote pre-emptive violence and the defence of respect. The implications of these findings for those who work with such young women are also discussed. - Batchelor, S., Burman, M. and Brown, J. (2001) Discussing violence: let’s hear it for the girls. Probation Journal 48(2): 125-134
Susan Batchelor, Michele Burman and Jane Brown present some key findings from an exploratory Scottish study of teenage girls’ views and experiences of violence. They discuss girls’ perceptions of violence and the nature and extent of the many forms of violence in their lives, particularly the pervasiveness of verbal conflicts. They also outline the characteristics of those girls who describe themselves as violent, concluding with a brief discussion of practice and policy implications.
Project Contacts
All Projects
- A Comparative Analysis of Community Service in Belgium, Holland, Scotland and Spain
- Policing organised crime: effectively measuring performance
- 'Holistic' interventions with women involved in the criminal justice system.
- A profile of female offenders within the Lothian and Borders
- A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Drivers of Perception of Anti-Social Behaviour
- Alcohol Misuse and Domestic Abuse
- All Change
- An investigation into the environmental impact of off-license premises on residential neighbourhoods
- Analysing the Scottish Crime Survey Over Time
- Analysis of Supervision Skills by Juvenile Justice Workers
- AQMeN
- Assessing Dynamic Risk in Intimate Partner Offenders
- Assessing Risk in Intimate Partner Offenders
- Audit of a sample of alcohol outlets in Glasgow
- Building Safer Communities: ESRC Engaging with Scottish Local Authorities initiaitve
- Circles of Support and Accountability
- Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS)
- Community Policing in Scotland
- Comparing Crime Surveys Across the UK
- Compliance with Community Penalties
- Consensus / Consenso
- Crime and Justice Research Training and Development
- Cultural Change in Community Justice
- Desistance and Reducing Reoffending
- Different Systems, Similar Outcomes? Tracking Attrition in Reported Rape Cases
- Diversion from Prosecution to Social Work
- Drinking and Drug Use in the Community: A Survey of Young Offenders, 2007
- Economics of Crime
- Ethnography of Penal Policy
- Ethnography Reading Group
- European Postgraduate and Early Stage Researchers Working Group
- European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Home Detention Curfew (HDC) and the Prison's Open Estate
- Evaluation of the Grampian Return Home Welfare Interview (RHWI) pilot
- Evaluation of the National Parenting Development Project Project (NPDP, Aberlour Child Care Trust).
- Evaluation of the Women in Focus Programme
- Evaluation of Up-to-us Young Women’s Project
- Families of Nations and Criminal Justice Outcomes
- Football Banning Orders in Scotland: Evaluating their operation
- Gender Equality Duty and Scottish Criminal Justice - EOC Guidance
- Implicit Thinking in Intimate Partner violence
- Incarceration, social control and human rights.
- Juvenile Justice in New South Wales
- Learning about alcohol: Influences of family context
- Metaphors in Policy
- Organised Crime Mapping Project
- Pathways into organise crime
- Pathways to Recovery Seminar Series
- Policy Responses to Gender Based Crime in Scotland
- Prison Privatisation
- Probation Histories
- Public procurement processes and resillience against infiltration of organized crime
- Punishing Spaces, Working Spaces: Artist in Residence at SCCJR
- Quality of Engagement in Probation Practice
- Racism and social marginalisation research study
- Reconviction among Drug Court participants
- Reconviction among young people sentenced in the pilot Youth Courts
- SCJS User Guide
- Scoping Study into Quantitative Methods Capacity Building in Scotland
- Scottish Prisons Commission Report
- Services for Young Runaways: A Scoping Study
- Social Enquiry and Sentencing in the Sheriff Courts
- The Governance of Security and the Analysis of Risk for Sporting Mega-events: Security Planning for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
- The International Market in Illicit Antiquities
- Understanding the drivers of the female prison population in Scotland
- User Views of Punishment
- Using the Scottish Offenders Index for Research
- Women, Punishment and Community Sanctions - Human Rights and Social Justice
- Working Lunches at Ivy Lodge
- Young Women and Violence
- Youth Gangs and Knife Carrying
- Youth Violence in Scotland
