Dr Kathy Hampson

PhD (Law - Leeds), M.Ed (Social Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties - Birmingham), FD (Youth Justice, Open University); SFHEA (Aberystwyth)

Dr Kathy Hampson

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Department of Law & Criminology

Contact Details

Director of Assessments

Chair of Examination Boards

Semester 1 office hours (generally):

 

Current research projects:

Legal education for children in primary school - (assisted by Aberystwyth University Boost funding). This project is looking at what (if anything) children in primary schools in Wales are taught about the law and their rights in legal spaces before they become criminally responsible (at the age of 10). This project has benefited from the research assistance of Akrivi Roumpou and Ashleigh Edwards. The project is waiting for a cessation of the current teachers' strike in order to progress further!

Child First? Examining children’s perspectives of their ‘effective’ collaboration in youth justice decision-making - funded by Nuffield
This project (PI Professor Stephen Case) looks at of children’s perceptions of their capacity for meaningful collaboration in youth justice decision-making processes and understandings of effectiveness.
Project length - 2 years (October 2022 to September 2024)

Research interests:

Children and young people who offend

Youth justice

Youth resettlement

Child First youth justice, 

Child First Collaboration: Reconceptualising the Child-Adult Relationship in Youth Justice Contexts. / Hampson, Kathy; Case, Stephen.
In: Children and Society, 22.06.2026.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties are Children Too! Looking at ‘Child First’ as an Equaliser in Education. / Hampson, Kathy.
The Palgrave Handbook on the Education of Children in Criminal Justice Settings. ed. / Adeela ahmed Shafi; Hope Kent; Neal Hazel; Stephen Case. Vol. 1 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2026. p. 131-154.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

The Long Shadow of ‘Populist Punitiveness’: Why Public Opinion May Not Preclude Increasing the Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales. / Pierpoint, Harriet; Hampson, Kathy.
In: Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Vol. 65, No. 3, 08.09.2026, p. 284–296.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Harmful, Expensive and Criminogenic: The Case for Abolishing Detention and Training Orders in England and Wales. / Hampson, Kathy; Day, Anne-Marie.
In: British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 65, No. 5, azae097, 20.09.2025, p. 1035-1052.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Participation in youth justice research: Involving children in the telling of their own stories. / Hampson, Kathy; Case, Stephen.
Research Handbook on Youth Criminology. ed. / Greg Martin; Estrella Pearce. 1st. ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. p. 75-93.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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