About

Susan is a Professor of Quantitative Criminology within the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh and leader of the Edinburgh based SCCJR team who specialise in conducting and facilitating high quality quantitative criminological research in Scotland, and developing statistical analysis and data modelling. In addition to SCCJR, Susan is co-director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, a prospective longitudinal study of youth offending based at the University of Edinburgh since 1998. She has responsibility for strategic management of the research programme and plays a key role in advancing statistical analysis of the data and producing publications. Susan is also Director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN), which is a collaborative initiative across eight Scottish Universities, which aims to build capacity in quantitative methods amongst the Scottish social science community.

Susan's research interests focus mainly on the study of offending patterns and criminal careers.  She has conducted studies into youth crime, deviance and substance use; patterns of and trends in crime through the life-course; systems of justice, including transitions from juvenile to adult criminal justice systems; neighbourhood effects on offending; and the application of quantitative methods in the field of criminology. Her current work involves modelling trajectories of offending and other forms of behaviour across adolescence and early adulthood; using multi-level modelling to establish the impact of neighbourhood-level effects and dynamics over and above individual-level effects on individual delinquency; and investigating the impact of both juvenile and adult criminal justice systems on the behaviour of and outcomes for those labelled as offenders.

Subjects

• Research Methods and Criminological Theory
• Evidence, Statistics and Trends

Publications

	Youth Crime and Justice: Key messages from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime(Journal Article)
	Youth justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending(Book Chapter)
	Gang Membership and Knife Carrying: Findings from The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Research Report)
	Troublesome Youth Groups, Gangs and Knife Carrying in Scotland(Research Report)
	Experience of discrimination, social marginalisation and violence: A comparative study of Muslim and non-Muslim youth in three EU Member States (Research Report)
	Youth Crime and Justice in Scotland(Book Chapter)
	Self-report delinquency surveys in European Countries: Britain and Ireland(Book Chapter)
	Enquetes de criminalite et de delinquance autoreportees en Grande-Bretagne et en Irlande(Book Chapter)
	A review of the 2006 Scottish crime and victimisation survey: VIictim file and victimisation rates(Research Report)
	Youth justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending (Journal Article)
	No Way Out? (Journal Article)
	ESRC/SFC Scoping Study into Quantitative Methods Capacity Building in Scotland: Policy Report (Policy Report)
	Animal abuse amongst young people aged 13 to 17: Trends, trajectories and theoretical explanations (Policy Report)
	Sample Safeguarding Exercise: The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Technical Report No. 4. (Technical Report)
	ESRC/SFC Scoping Study into Quantitative Methods Capacity Building in Scotland: Research Report to ESRC and SFC. (Research Report)
	Criminal Justice Transitions: Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, Research Digest No. 14. (Bulletin)

Projects

• Crime and Justice Research Training and Development
• Scoping Study into Quantitative Methods Capacity Building in Scotland
• Youth Gangs and Knife Carrying
• Racism and social marginalisation research study
• AQMeN
• Youth Violence in Scotland