Kathy Hampson

I worked for a large city Youth Offending Team for several years as a case manager, and while there, completed my PhD looking at the emotional intelligence of children who have offended. Subsequently relocating to a tiny village in Wales, I worked on a Welsh Government/Youth Justice Board Cymru project looking into the resettlement practice of YOTs across North Wales (the ‘Resettlement Broker’ project), before moving into academia, lecturing in Criminology at Aberystwyth University. My writing and research covers a variety of areas within youth justice, such as systems/processes, resettlement policy and practice, the voice of the child/collaboration, Child First justice, and the effects of Covid-19 on justice-involved children.