Anne-Marie_Day

Biography

Dr Anne-Marie Day was appointed as Criminology Lecturer in December 2019. Immediately prior to this Anne-Marie completed a research study funded by the Nuffield Foundation on the pathways into and out of custody for children in care. Anne-Marie completed her PhD at the end of 2018 which considered the pathways into offending for children in care. In addition to this Anne-Marie gained several years’ experience teaching a range of criminology and criminal justice modules in a number of different higher education institutions. Anne-Marie also has many years’ experience as a practitioner and policy maker in a range of criminal justice roles. She is a qualified Probation Officer, and has worked in the community, courts and prison. Anne-Marie has also worked as a youth justice manager and for the Youth Justice Board as a Senior Policy Adviser in the areas of Prevent, Looked After Children, Domestic Abuse and Anti-Social Behaviour. Currently, Anne-Marie is a board member on the Alliance for Youth Justice and is an expert adviser to the Howard League for Penal Reform, the Youth Justice Board, Cheshire Youth Justice Service, and the Home Office on various youth justice issues.

Research and scholarship

Title: ‘Exploring Racial Disparity in Diversion from the Youth Justice System’ (2022 – 25)

Nuffield Funded Project with research team comprising Dr Anne-Marie Day, Dr Tim Bateman, Prof John Pitts, Dr Isabelle Brodie and Dr Tim Osidipe exploring the issue of racial disparity in diversion from the youth justice system. Methods are likely to include (after consultation with an advisory panel of young people) face to face interviews with children; face to face interviews with professionals; case file analysis, and quantitative analysis of a national questionnaire of youth justice practitioners. Fieldwork will be based at four sites including Staffordshire.

Title: ‘Vulnerable Adolescent Support Programme (VASP) Evaluation’ (2022 – 23)
Keele University has been funded by Staffordshire County Council to evaluate The VASP Programme, which aims to work with older teenage children to prevent those identified as at risk of going into local authority care. The evaluation aims to identify whether the project has achieved its primary aim of preventing/reducing the children from going into the care of the local authority; the elements of the programme that have worked well; and to make recommendations to local practitioners and policy makers regarding its future implementation.

Title: ‘Sapling Project Evaluation’ (2022 – 23)
Keele University has been funded by Staffordshire County Council to evaluate The Sapling Project, which aims to work with children aged 7-11 at risk of school exclusion. The evaluation aims to identify whether the project has achieved its primary aim of preventing/reducing school exclusions; the elements of the programme that have worked well; and to make recommendations to local practitioners and policy makers regarding its future implementation.

Title: 'Constructive Resettlement Pathfinder Evaluation' (2020-2022)
Keele University has been funded by the South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Consortium to conduct an evaluation into the Youth Justice Board’s Constructive Resettlement Pathfinder. The project aims to explore, from the perspectives of practitioners, policy makers, and children, whether the Constructive Resettlement pathfinder has improved resettlement outcomes for children on release from custody.

Title: The Pathways of Incarcerated Children in Care (2018 – 2020)
Project Overview – Nuffield Funded Project with research team comprising Dr Anne-Marie Day, Dr Tim Bateman and Prof John Pitts examining the pathways of children in care into and out of custody. Methods included face to face interviews with children; face to face interviews with professionals; case file analysis, and quantitative analysis of South and West Yorkshire Resettlement Consortia Tracker Data.

Title: The Pathways into Offending of Children in Care (2014 – 2018)
Project Overview - PhD research study considering the perspectives of children in care about their pathways into offending. Findings are based on 19 face to face interviews with children in care who were also subject to youth justice supervision.

Teaching

Anne-Marie is the module leader for Youth Justice and Crime (L6) Contemporary Challenges in Criminology and Criminal Justice (L7), and Probation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Desistance (L5) module. Anne-Marie is also part of the teaching team for Policing and the Police, Working for Justice, Research Methods, and Prisons and Imprisonment.

Supervision

Anne-Marie is interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of youth justice, probation practice, imprisonment, neurodivergence and the justice system and disproportionality in youth justice.