Dr Amy Cullen is a criminologist and Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, whose work sits at the intersection of punishment, justice, and financial penalties.
Trained across the arts and social sciences, her research takes a critical approach to fines and financial punishment, exploring their place within the landscape of non-custodial punishment.
Her PhD, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), drew on qualitative interviews with community justice practitioners in Scotland to explore how fines enforcement operates in practice, finding that for those unable to pay, it can produce prolonged entanglement with the criminal legal system, actively obstructing and undermining rehabilitation and reintegration.
Alongside this, Amy has contributed to major research programmes including Operation Soteria, the national study of police responses to rape in England and Wales, as well as a landmark SCCJR project producing the first independent evidence base on sexual harassment and violence in the Scottish folk music scene.
She is currently working on RaRiE (Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe), a major research project funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.
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University of Glasgow
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Courts and Sentencing
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
