About

Suzanne is a research assistant with SCCJR at the University of Glasgow. She recently submitted her PhD entitled “Gender, Power and Policing: Examining Police Officers Perceptions of and Responses to Young Women Depicted as Violent”. The thesis was supervised by Dr Margaret Malloch and Dr Samantha Punch at the University of Stirling.

Research

Currently working on The governance of security and the analysis of risk for sporting mega-events: security planning for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2010-12 (with Michele Burman, Simon Mackenzie, Nick Fyfe, Niall Hamilton-Smith, Chris Johnson, Allan McConnell and Katrina Morrison).  Further details

Research interests include: policing and surveillance; social control; gender, crime and punishment; young people; violent crime; the media; critical criminology; deviancy and the criminal justice system.

Conference Papers

Young, S. (2011) Policing and Institutional Control: The Impact on Young Women Depicted as Violent. Paper presented at the York Deviancy Conference, June 2011.

Young, S. (2011) Policing Young Women: Gender, Power and Social Control. Poster presented at the Stirling Graduate Research School Conference, May 2011.

Young, S. (2010) Gendered Violence: Police Perceptions of Young Women. Paper presented at  YOUTH 2010: Identities, Transitions, Cultures, University of Surrey, July 2010.

Publications

Gender, Policing and Social Control: Examining Police Officers' Perceptions of and Responses to Young Women Depicted as Violent(Briefing Paper)