Dr Amanda Holt
@amandaholt.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology; Researching families, young people and harm - youth justice, family violence & homicide, victim's families, violence in schools. University of Roehampton, London.
New article - free to download: "How do you even speak about it?": Understanding Harmful Sexual Behaviour towards Parents (2026) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"How Do you Even Speak About it?": Understanding Harmful Sexual Behavior Towards Parents | Journal of Family Violence | Springer Nature Link
Purpose Despite the huge growth in research over the past decade on physical, psychological and financial abuse towards parents, harmful sexual behavior (HSB) remains largely unrecognized in policy, r...
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Summer Sale! Policy Press are offering 50% off my recent (2025) second edition of 'Adolescent to Parent Abuse' book with code BUP07. Now only £12.50 policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/adolescent-t...
Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse
Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse - Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice; Since publication of the first edition, awareness of, and interest in, adolescent-to-parent abuse has risen consid...
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New PDRA role at Aston - come work with me for 9 months on a project working with the police to improve their approach to LGBT hate crime. Info here : jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
And they've arrived!! Thank you @routledgebooks.bsky.social Check out the Routledge site: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... or the blog: sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/01/i... for previews and info for #Teaching and #Research. #AcademicSky #Criminology #CrimSky
Pleased to see our chapter (with @sianlewiscrim.bsky.social) out now in the wonderful 'Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology'
Excellent thread here about domestic homicide 👇
Matt Ashby@mattashby.com · 7mo agoSo there is a depressing symmetry in homicide: just as protecting very-young children is almost always a question of protecting them from their own parents, protecting older people is often a question of protecting then from being killed by their own adult children.
The number of people dying in prisons in England and Wales has risen to the highest level on record, official data reveal. Prisons recorded 394 deaths in 2025 – a 15% increase on the previous year. https://howardleague.org/news/revealed-the-rising-death-toll-in-prisons-in-england-and-wales/
📊 Just launched: An interactive dashboard for visualising UK university finance data published by HESA. Compare universities. Explore key financial indicators, trends and correlations. 🔗 shiny.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/lpzjd/uni-fi... #UKHE #OpenData #rstats #AcademicSky
If anyone wants to buy it DM me for a 50% discount code valid until end of November (and on all BUP titles!)
Prof | Dr Anna Sergi@annasergi.bsky.social · 10mo agoMy new book | How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad, critical notes on ‘ndrangheta mobility @brisunipress.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/how-to-recog...
Publication Day! The second edition of 'Adolescent to Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy & Practice' is out now. Fully updated to reflect the huge amount of research & practice that has taken place over the past decade. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/adolescent-t...
Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse
Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse - Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice; Since publication of the first edition, awareness of, and interest in, adolescent-to-parent abuse has risen consid...
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
Online presentation - Dr. David Burke: Experiences of adolescent to mother violence in the context of intimate partner abuse
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Hollyoaks to tackle tricky issue of child-to-parent abuse - Prolific North
Channel 4’s flagship continuing drama Hollyoaks is to highlight a common but under-recognised form of domestic abuse, in a storyline focusing on the changing dynamic of father and son, Ste Hay and Luc...
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University of Derby definitely wins best merch prize at the University Spring Fair today
Delighted to share our new Adult-Child to Parent Research with Practice Toolkit and Needs Assessment Tool, commissioned by MOPAC. All downloadable here: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
Adult-Child to Parent Abuse (ACPA) Research and Toolkit
As part of the Mayor’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2022-2025, MOPAC commissioned Equality Collabs to undertake research and provide recommendations for London on understanding and...
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Really interesting research here by @iainbrennan.bsky.social & Rosie Cornish on the links between school exclusion and engagement in serious crime www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence
Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within year
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Good to see research by me and others highlighted in this article about mothers killed by their children. A sobering read. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘A real injustice’: mothers killed by their children is still a hidden issue in UK
Research shows that mothers are seen as a ‘safe space’ for their offspring – nearly all of them sons – to use violence
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Substance-involved child to parent violence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Substance‐involved child‐to‐parent violence
Introduction Child-to-parent violence (CPV) is associated with youth substance problems; however, CPV which is substance-involved (SU-CPV) is specifically excluded from the consensus definition of C...
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Mate crime: how friendship is being used as a weapon to steal and control
Mate crime: how friendship is being used as a weapon to steal and control
A little-recognised form of abuse, it can lead to years of misery In the beginning, Mandy Davis* thought she was helping out a friend. Paying his rent in their flatshare was an obvious move after he told her he was about to lose his job. But what…
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Job opportunity at Aston - we are looking for a new Professor in Criminology to join us. Research specialism in environmental or digital crime especially welcome, but exceptional candidates across all areas welcome. Happy to discuss with potential applicants: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM863/p...
Professor of Criminology at Aston University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Professor of Criminology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Grandmother kinship carers: negotiating conflicts in identity, blame, loss and love in the context of 'mother blame'. Our new article is out today! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interested in a PhD scholarship within Sociology (eg, gender, popular culture, human rights) or Criminology (eg, families & crime, policing and inequality)? Have a look at the SENSS scheme below and get in touch! www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academ...
Graduate School: SeNSS
The University of Roehampton is pleased to be part of the South-east Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS), a consortium of 10 universities working as a Doctoral Training Partnership to offer Economic a...
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Now out in the British Journal of Criminology: "Im his safe space": Mothers experiences of physical violence from their neurodivergent children - Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Ch...
Abstract. Drawing on recent criminological scholarship on child to parent violence (CPV), this article applies a feminist ‘ethics of care’ framework to understa
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What a lovely review of my book 'Family Criminology' in the latest issue of the British Journal of Criminology. In the book, I explore youth justice and parenting, the families of those incarcerated, Mafia families, family violence/homicide, victims families & so much more!
