Dr Claire Fitzpatrick

Reader in Criminology

Research Interests

Claire has a long-standing interest in examining the link between experiences of the state child care system and later involvement in the youth and criminal justice systems, with a particular focus on challenging negative stereotypes that have traditionally linked children in care with trouble. Previous research has focused on looked after children and care leavers in prison custody, as well as the experiences of care leavers in the community supervised on an Intensive Alternative to Custody Order. Claire’s current work focuses on care-experienced girls and women in youth and criminal justice systems.

More broadly, Claire is interested in processes of criminalisation, youth justice, women’s imprisonment, desistance and resilience, gendered pathways to offending and the link between state systems of care and justice across the generations. She has a particular commitment to research that seeks to make a difference to real world policy and practice.

Invited Talk to HM Prison and Probation Service Evidence-based Practice Team
Invited talk

Invited Discussant for Author Meets Readers Expert Panel Discussion
Invited talk

Transforming Support for Care-Experienced Women in the Criminal Justice System
Invited talk

Breaking Barriers to Improving Support for Care-Experience Girls and Women
Invited talk

London Reducing Criminalisation of Children in Care Event
Invited talk

BSC Prison Network & UCLan CJP Prison Transitions Conference, Preston
Oral presentation

'The Law School Widening Participation Project: Knocking through ceilings, building ladders'
Oral presentation

Lancashire Probation and Youth Justice Development Day
Invited talk

Midlands Multi-Agency Showcase
Invited talk

The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

European Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2023
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lancaster University Education Conference: Reimagining Assessment and Feedback
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2023
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Methods North West Seminar (North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Written Evidence Submitted to the Public Accounts Select Committee on Improving Resettlement Support for Prison Leavers
Other

Interview for The Nuffield Foundation's Youth Justice Spotlight Series
Other

Youth Justice Expert Panel Discussion for The Nuffield Foundation on: Developing the Research Agenda for Policy and Practice
Invited talk

Public Policy Exchange Webinar on Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System
Invited talk

Cited and Quoted in HM Prison & Probation Service Guidance on Care Experience Matters for Prisons, Probation and Local Authorities
Other

Proposal for Thematic Priority Submitted to Health and Social Care Select Committee
Other

Presentation to the Governors of the Women's Prisons Estate
Invited talk

European Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Howard League for Penal Reform Conference: Crime, Justice and the Social Condition
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Unlocked Graduates Summer Institute
Invited talk

Commission on Young Lives Roundtable Expert Event on Violence Against Young Women & Girls at Risk of Exploitation
Other

Cited and Quoted by House of Commons Justice Committee in their Report on Women in Prison
Other

Lancaster Law School Postgraduate Student Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies Live Panel Discussion
Other

HMPPS Insights Festival Presentation
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Final Project Launch Event on Disrupting the Routes between Care and Custody for Girls and Women
Other

Presentation to Her Majesty's Prison & Probation Service Safety Learning Group
Invited talk

Cited and Quoted in Commission on Young Lives Report - Out of Harm's Way
Other

Mothers on Trial Event
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

European Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Centre for Child and Family Justice Research Seminar
Invited talk

Centre for Child and Family Justice Research Presentation to the Independent Review of Children's Social Care
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Cited and Quoted in Agenda Alliance & Alliance for Youth Justice's Report - Falling Through the Gaps.
Other

Presentation to UCLan Criminal Justice Partnership
Invited talk

Our Care, Our Say: Challenge Event
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

HMPPS Insights Festival 2020
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Invited Presentation - Ministry of Justice & Home Office Seminar
Invited talk

Invited Presentation - Department for Education (DfE) Seminar
Invited talk

HM Prison and Probation Service National Care Experience Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

HMPPS Care Leaver Leads Meeting
Invited talk

The Care Experienced Conference: Past, Present and Future
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

N8 Policing and Research Partnership Event
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

North West Care Leavers Week Event 2016 (HMP Kirkham)
Invited talk

Inside-Out Think Tank Meeting (HMP Frankland)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

British Society of Criminology Conference 2016
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Looked after Children and the Youth Justice System
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

European Society of Criminology Conference 2015
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Multi-Agency Roundtable Discussion (follow-up event) on Children in Care and Care Leavers in the Criminal Justice System
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Looked after Children and Care Leavers in the Criminal Justice System: A multi-agency roundtable discussion
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Annual Conference 2014
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2014
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Howard League for Penal Reform's What is Justice? Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2013
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  • Centre for Child and Family Justice Research