Emily Gray

Emily is Assistant Professor of Criminology and joined the University of Warwick in early 2023, having held posts at the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, Keele, Sheffield, and Derby. Her background is in British social policy, and she has a special interest in the intersection of politics, crime and justice. Emily is on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology, an academic advisor on the Youth Justice Board Network, and a member of The European Society of Criminology, The Royal Statistical Society, and the British Society of Criminology.

Much of Emily’s research focuses on the relationship between crime, politics, and inequality. Specifically, how long-term macro processes (such as political socialisation) affect these dynamics. Her work has examined how New Right socio-economic polices under Margaret Thatcher impacted the life-courses of those who grew up during this period in the UK, with respect to crime and criminalisation.

She has recently commenced a new ESRC-funded study (as PI) in association with colleagues at the Universities of Nottingham (Professor Stephen Farrall) and Nottingham Trent (Professor Andromachi Tseloni). This study will examine homicide trends in England and Wales over the last four decades, disaggregating homicide subtypes and using several datasets including the Home Office’s Homicide Index and the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

Previous research conducted by Emily comprises youth justice under New Labour (with the ESRC and the Youth Justice Board); persistent youth offending (the Youth Justice Board); fear of crime (ESRC) and restorative policing (College of Policing).

Emily is a mixed-methods researcher, with expertise in quantitative and qualitative longitudinal analysis, secondary data analysis, time-series modelling, survey development and in-depth narrative analysis.