Trafford, Lucy

Academic background

Lucy studied Law as an undergraduate and Moritz-Heyman Scholar at the University of Oxford, Christ Church college. She then completed a Master’s of Philosophy in Criminological Research at the University of Cambridge, St John’s College. Lucy returned to Oxford to commence her Doctorate of Philosophy in Criminology at Balliol College, before moving to St Anne’s College to take up a position as a Graduate Development Scholar. During her PhD Lucy was a Leatherseller’s Scholar, received the G-research grant and had her research was partially funded by the Oxford Law Faculty and Centre for Criminology. She has also qualified as an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is studying the Barrister Training Course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy, having received Gray’s Inn most prestigious award, the Baroness Hale of Richmond Scholarship.

Teaching

Undergraduate: Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Introduction to English Law

Graduate: — MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Research interests

Lucy enjoys researching the topics of Criminology, Family and Criminal Law, especially family violence and the wider implications of domestic abuse. She is also interested in the fields of Jurisprudence, Trusts and Land Law, and their ramifications on Family Law.

Sentencing is an interesting area of research for Lucy and she is currently a member of the newly founded Empirical Research on Sentencing council. She is also intrigued by debates concerning feminist theories and has completed a research project and chapter about how feminist research has changed and impacted Criminology over

the past 30 years with Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.

Recent Publications

Trafford, L., Le, B. L., Firtala, S., & Williams, B., (2024, October). Lizzy – Building an AI-powered Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment Tool Based on Nationally Representative Online Survey Data. OSF

Trafford, L., & Le, B. L. (2024, September). Victim-Help Seeking Patterns and How They Can Inform Future Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). OSF

2024 – L. Trafford, ‘Shifts in Variants: How did the First English Lockdown Impact Reports, Responses and Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence?’ in S.K Ivkovich, Policing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Perspective

2023 – R. Condry, C. Miles and L. Trafford, ‘Juvenile Homicide in England and Wales’ in K. Heide, The International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide

2022 – L. Trafford, Policing a Pandemic: Changes in Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) During the First Lockdown in England. Journal of Gender-Based Violence

2021 – L. Gelsthorpe and L. Trafford, ‘Feminist Criminologies’ in P. Davies and M. Rowe (eds), An Introduction to Criminology

2021 – L. Trafford, Uncovering Hidden Harms, Oxford Law Blog: Centre for Criminology

2021 – L. Trafford, The Importance of Combating Domestic Abuse During A Pandemic, Oxford Law Blog