Research Assistant in Youth Justice

I was appointed as a Research Assistant in June 2018 to work on a project funded by the Nuffield Institute on the pathways into and out of custody for children in care. I am currently completing my PhD on the criminalisation of children in care. Prior to this, I worked in Associate Lecturer roles at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester College, and as a Knowledge Exchange Officer at the University of Oxford.

Before my academic career commenced, I worked for many years in the criminal justice system as a Senior Policy Adviser for the Youth Justice Board, Team Manager in a Youth Offending Team, and as a Probation Officer in both custody and the community.

Qualifications

• Due to complete PhD on the criminalisation of children in care summer 2018, University of Salford.
• BA (Hons) Criminal Justice (1st Class) 2004, University of Manchester.
• LLB (Hons) Law (2:1) 2001, University of Leeds.

Teaching Expertise

• Criminal Justice System
• Youth Justice
• Children in Care

Research Interests

• The voices and experiences of children in trouble with the law
• Youth Justice
• Youth Crime
• Children in care

Projects

• The pathways of children in care into and out of custody (current)
• The pathways into offending for children in care (2014 – 2018)

External Roles

• Member of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice (from 2017)
• Member of the British Society of Criminology (from 2014)
• Member of the British Sociological Association (from 2015)

Publications

• Anne-Marie Day, (2017) "Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending", Safer Communities, Vol. 16 Issue: 3, 122-133.
• Anne-Marie Day, (2017) "Guest editorial", Safer Communities, Vol. 16 Issue: 3, 89-91.

Conference Papers

• 2015 Costs of Youth Justice Convention, University of Liverpool ‘Ensuring a research informed approach to working with looked after children in the youth justice system.’
• 2016 North East Crime Research Network Conference ‘Pathways into offending for children in care: early findings.’
• 2016 Celebrating Research Day, University of Salford ‘What are the perceptions of children in care about their pathways into offending?’
• 2016 University of Bristol conference on looked after children and research ‘Looked after children and the youth justice system.’
• 2016 British Society of Criminology Conference ‘Hearing the voices of children in care: some early findings and analysis of their perceptions
  of why they get into trouble with the law.’
• 2017 Thinking Differently About Youth Justice, University of Leicester ‘Children in care and youth justice: why hearing the voice of the child suggests that we need to think differently.’
• 2017 Child Friendly Youth Justice?, University of Cambridge ‘Child friendly youth justice for children in care? Why the voice of the child suggests that this is not the case.’

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1234 400400
E: anne-marie.day@beds.ac.uk