School of Social and Political Sciences

Dr Susan Batchelor

  • Senior Lecturer (Sociology)

telephone: 01413306167
email: Susan.Batchelor@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

Active research interests centre on: women, crime and criminal justice (esp. women who commit violent offences); youth crime and youth justice  (esp. the Children's Hearing System in Scotland); critical and feminist criminology; poststructuralist theories of penality and social control (incl. the work of Michael Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu); cultural criminology and the sociology of risk (esp. young women's risk-seeking behaviour); young people and the media (esp. the representation of teen sexuality and youth violence); and violence and social harm (incl. youth gangs, knife crime, and domestic abuse). 

Current writing/research projects include:

  • Girls and gangs 
  • Gender and emotions 
  • Narratives of gangs in Glasgow
  • Troublesome youth groups and knife carriers 
  • Young people’s use of public space
  • Young women and the night-time economy 
  • Young women imprisoned for violent offences

List by: Type | Date

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Number of items: 30.

2011

Batchelor, S. (2011) Beyond dichotomy: Toward an explanation of young women's involvement in violent street gangs. In: Goldson, B. (ed.) Youth 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence. Willan, Cullompton. ISBN 9781843927518

2010

Fraser, A., Burman, M., Batchelor, S., and McVie, S. (2010) Youth violence in Scotland: a literature review. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Bannister, J., Pickering, J,, Batchelor, S., Burman, M., Kintrea, K., and McVie, S. (2010) Troublesome Youth Groups, Gangs and Knife Carrying in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government.

2009

Batchelor, S. (2009) Girls, gangs and violence: assessing the evidence. Probation Journal, 56 (4). pp. 399-414. ISSN 0264-5505 (doi:10.1177/0264550509346501)

Burman, M., and Batchelor, S.A. (2009) Between two stools? Responding to young women who offend. Youth Justice, 9 (3). pp. 270-285. ISSN 1473-2254 (doi:10.1177/1473225409345104)

Batchelor, S. (2009) In search of respect and respectability: young women in Scotland. In: Kreuzer, M. (ed.) Gewalt is auch Weiblich: Bd. 2. Analysen, Hintergrunde, Interventionen. Series: Schriften des Fachbereiches Sozialwesen an der Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach (46). Fachbereich Sozialwesen, Mönchengladbach, Germany. ISBN 9783933493248

Batchelor, S., and Burman, M. (2009) The children's hearing system. In: Johnstone, J. and Burman, M. (eds.) Youth Justice. Series: Policy & Practice in Health and Social Care (9). Dunedin Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781903765913

2008

McNeill, Fergus, and Batchelor, Susan (2008) Audit of Youth Crime in North Ayrshire. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2007

Batchelor, S.A. (2007) 'Getting mad wi' it': risk-seeking by young women'. In: Hannah-Moffat, K. and O'Malley, P. (eds.) Gendered Risks. Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon, pp. 205-227. ISBN 9781904385783

2006

Burnett, R., Batchelor, S., and McNeill, F. (2006) Reducing reoffending: Lessons from psychotherapy and counselling. Criminal Justice Matters, 61 (41). pp. 32-41. ISSN 0072-6435

2005

Batchelor, S., and McNeill, F. (2005) Offending. In: Smith, M., Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care, Glasgow, UK, pp. 216-221. ISBN 9781900743235

Batchelor, S. A. (2005) 'Prove me the bam!': victimization and agency in the lives of young women who commit violent offences. Probation Journal, 52 (4). pp. 358-375. ISSN 0264-5505 (doi:10.1177/0264550505058034)

Batchelor, S.A., and McNeill, F. (2005) The young person-worker relationship. In: Bateman, T. and Pitts, J. (eds.) Russell House Companion to Youth Justice. Russell House Publishing, London. ISBN 9781903855492

McNeill, F., Batchelor, S., Burnett, R., and Knox, J. (2005) 21st Century Social Work: Reducing Re-Offending: Key Practice Skills. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780755945696

2004

Batchelor, S, Burman, M, and Brown, J (2004) Discutindo a violÛncia : vamos ouvi-lo da boca das raparigas. InfÔncia e Juventude,, 2 (Abr.-J). pp. 125-143.

Batchelor, S.A. (2004) 'I slept with 40 boys in three months' teenage sexuality in the media: too much too young? In: Burtney, E. and Duffy, M. (eds.) Young People and Sexual Health: Individual, Social and Policy Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333993576PB

Batchelor, S.A., and Burman, M.J. (2004) Working with girls and young women. In: McIvor, G. (ed.) Women who offend. Jessica Kingsley, London. ISBN 9781843101543

Batchelor, S.A., Kitzinger, J., and Burtney, E. (2004) Representing young people's sexuality in the 'youth' media. Health Education Research, 19 (6). pp. 669-676. ISSN 0268-1153 (doi:10.1093/her/cyg082 )

Burman, M., Batchelor, S., and Brown, J. (2004) Challenging Violence: Girls, Gender and Violent Encounters. Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9781403902825

McNeill, F., and Batchelor, S. (2004) Persistent Offending by Young People: Developing Practice. Series: Issues in community and criminal justice (3). National Association of Probation Officers, London, UK. ISBN 9780901617187

Smith, M., McNeill, F., and Batchelor, S. (2004) Risk assessment. In: Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care, Glasgow, pp. 1-7. ISBN 190074323X

2003

Burman, M.J., Brown, J.A., and Batchelor, S.A. (2003) 'Taking it to heart': girls and the meanings of violence. In: Stanko, E. (ed.) The Meanings of Violence. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 71-89. ISBN 9780415301305

Hill, M, Lockyer, A, Morton, P, Batchelor, S, and Scott, J (2003) Safeguarding children's interests in welfare proceedings: the Scottish experience. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 25 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0964-9069 (doi:10.1080/0964906032000086223)

2002

Batchelor, S. (2002) The myth of girl gangs. In: Jewkes, Y. and Letherby, G. (eds.) Criminology: A Reader. SAGE, London, UK, pp. 247-250. ISBN 9780761947103

Hill, M, Lockyer, A, Morton, P, Batchelor, S, and Scott, J (2002) Safeguarding Children in Scotland: the Perspectives of Children, Parents and Safeguarders. Representing Children, 13 (3). pp. 169-183. ISSN 1359-463X

McNeill, F., and Batchelor, S.A. (2002) Chaos, containment and change: responding to persistent offending by young people. Youth Justice, 2 (1). pp. 27-43. ISSN 1473-2254 (doi:10.1177/147322540200200104)

2001

Batchelor, S. A. (2001) The myth of girl gangs. Criminal Justice Matters, 43 (1). pp. 26-27. ISSN 0962-7251

Batchelor, S.A., Burman, M.J., and Brown, J.A. (2001) Discussing violence: let's hear it from the girls. Probation Journal, 48 (2). pp. 125-134. ISSN 0264-5505 (doi:10.1177/026455050104800208)

Burman, M.J., Batchelor, S.A., and Brown, J.A. (2001) Researching girls and violence: facing the dilemmas of fieldwork. British Journal of Criminology, 41 (3). pp. 443-459. ISSN 0007-0955 (doi:10.1093/bjc/41.3.443)

McNeill, Fergus, and Batchelor, Susan (2001) Chaos, Containment and Change: Undertaking a Local Analysis of the Problems of Persistent Offending by Young People. In: Villains and Victims: Children and the Penal System. The Howard League Annual Conference, 11-12 September, 2001, New College, Oxford.

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Number of items: 30.

Article

Batchelor, S. (2009) Girls, gangs and violence: assessing the evidence. Probation Journal, 56 (4). pp. 399-414. ISSN 0264-5505 (doi:10.1177/0264550509346501)

Burman, M., and Batchelor, S.A. (2009) Between two stools? Responding to young women who offend. Youth Justice, 9 (3). pp. 270-285. ISSN 1473-2254 (doi:10.1177/1473225409345104)

Burnett, R., Batchelor, S., and McNeill, F. (2006) Reducing reoffending: Lessons from psychotherapy and counselling. Criminal Justice Matters, 61 (41). pp. 32-41. ISSN 0072-6435

Batchelor, S. A. (2005) 'Prove me the bam!': victimization and agency in the lives of young women who commit violent offences. Probation Journal, 52 (4). pp. 358-375. ISSN 0264-5505 (doi:10.1177/0264550505058034)

Batchelor, S, Burman, M, and Brown, J (2004) Discutindo a violÛncia : vamos ouvi-lo da boca das raparigas. InfÔncia e Juventude,, 2 (Abr.-J). pp. 125-143.

Batchelor, S.A., Kitzinger, J., and Burtney, E. (2004) Representing young people's sexuality in the 'youth' media. Health Education Research, 19 (6). pp. 669-676. ISSN 0268-1153 (doi:10.1093/her/cyg082 )

Hill, M, Lockyer, A, Morton, P, Batchelor, S, and Scott, J (2003) Safeguarding children's interests in welfare proceedings: the Scottish experience. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 25 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0964-9069 (doi:10.1080/0964906032000086223)

Hill, M, Lockyer, A, Morton, P, Batchelor, S, and Scott, J (2002) Safeguarding Children in Scotland: the Perspectives of Children, Parents and Safeguarders. Representing Children, 13 (3). pp. 169-183. ISSN 1359-463X

McNeill, F., and Batchelor, S.A. (2002) Chaos, containment and change: responding to persistent offending by young people. Youth Justice, 2 (1). pp. 27-43. ISSN 1473-2254 (doi:10.1177/147322540200200104)

Batchelor, S. A. (2001) The myth of girl gangs. Criminal Justice Matters, 43 (1). pp. 26-27. ISSN 0962-7251

Batchelor, S.A., Burman, M.J., and Brown, J.A. (2001) Discussing violence: let's hear it from the girls. Probation Journal, 48 (2). pp. 125-134. ISSN 0264-5505 (doi:10.1177/026455050104800208)

Burman, M.J., Batchelor, S.A., and Brown, J.A. (2001) Researching girls and violence: facing the dilemmas of fieldwork. British Journal of Criminology, 41 (3). pp. 443-459. ISSN 0007-0955 (doi:10.1093/bjc/41.3.443)

Book

McNeill, F., Batchelor, S., Burnett, R., and Knox, J. (2005) 21st Century Social Work: Reducing Re-Offending: Key Practice Skills. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780755945696

Burman, M., Batchelor, S., and Brown, J. (2004) Challenging Violence: Girls, Gender and Violent Encounters. Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9781403902825

McNeill, F., and Batchelor, S. (2004) Persistent Offending by Young People: Developing Practice. Series: Issues in community and criminal justice (3). National Association of Probation Officers, London, UK. ISBN 9780901617187

Book Section

Batchelor, S. (2011) Beyond dichotomy: Toward an explanation of young women's involvement in violent street gangs. In: Goldson, B. (ed.) Youth 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence. Willan, Cullompton. ISBN 9781843927518

Batchelor, S. (2009) In search of respect and respectability: young women in Scotland. In: Kreuzer, M. (ed.) Gewalt is auch Weiblich: Bd. 2. Analysen, Hintergrunde, Interventionen. Series: Schriften des Fachbereiches Sozialwesen an der Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach (46). Fachbereich Sozialwesen, Mönchengladbach, Germany. ISBN 9783933493248

Batchelor, S., and Burman, M. (2009) The children's hearing system. In: Johnstone, J. and Burman, M. (eds.) Youth Justice. Series: Policy & Practice in Health and Social Care (9). Dunedin Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781903765913

Batchelor, S.A. (2007) 'Getting mad wi' it': risk-seeking by young women'. In: Hannah-Moffat, K. and O'Malley, P. (eds.) Gendered Risks. Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon, pp. 205-227. ISBN 9781904385783

Batchelor, S., and McNeill, F. (2005) Offending. In: Smith, M., Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care, Glasgow, UK, pp. 216-221. ISBN 9781900743235

Batchelor, S.A., and McNeill, F. (2005) The young person-worker relationship. In: Bateman, T. and Pitts, J. (eds.) Russell House Companion to Youth Justice. Russell House Publishing, London. ISBN 9781903855492

Batchelor, S.A. (2004) 'I slept with 40 boys in three months' teenage sexuality in the media: too much too young? In: Burtney, E. and Duffy, M. (eds.) Young People and Sexual Health: Individual, Social and Policy Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333993576PB

Batchelor, S.A., and Burman, M.J. (2004) Working with girls and young women. In: McIvor, G. (ed.) Women who offend. Jessica Kingsley, London. ISBN 9781843101543

Smith, M., McNeill, F., and Batchelor, S. (2004) Risk assessment. In: Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care, Glasgow, pp. 1-7. ISBN 190074323X

Burman, M.J., Brown, J.A., and Batchelor, S.A. (2003) 'Taking it to heart': girls and the meanings of violence. In: Stanko, E. (ed.) The Meanings of Violence. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 71-89. ISBN 9780415301305

Batchelor, S. (2002) The myth of girl gangs. In: Jewkes, Y. and Letherby, G. (eds.) Criminology: A Reader. SAGE, London, UK, pp. 247-250. ISBN 9780761947103

Research Report or Paper

Fraser, A., Burman, M., Batchelor, S., and McVie, S. (2010) Youth violence in Scotland: a literature review. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Bannister, J., Pickering, J,, Batchelor, S., Burman, M., Kintrea, K., and McVie, S. (2010) Troublesome Youth Groups, Gangs and Knife Carrying in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government.

McNeill, Fergus, and Batchelor, Susan (2008) Audit of Youth Crime in North Ayrshire. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Conference Proceedings

McNeill, Fergus, and Batchelor, Susan (2001) Chaos, Containment and Change: Undertaking a Local Analysis of the Problems of Persistent Offending by Young People. In: Villains and Victims: Children and the Penal System. The Howard League Annual Conference, 11-12 September, 2001, New College, Oxford.

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  • Research project: Evaluation of Up-to-us Young Women's Project, April 2010-March 2011 (Up-to-us: £38,000) - as principal investigator.
  • Pilot project: 'Narratives of Glasgow: Oral histories of gangs in 1960s Easterhouse', April-November 2010 (ASRF: £1,200) – with Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser. 
  • Pilot project: ‘Visual methods: Exploring young people’s use of public space in Royston', April-November 2010 (ASRF: £1,995) – with Jon Pickering.
  • Literature review: 'Youth violence in Scotland' (Scottish Government) – with Michele Burman and Alistair Fraser.
  • Seminar series: 'Confronting Danger, Feeling Fear: Gender and emotions in research fieldwork', June-September 2009 (ASRF £1, 283) - with Michele Burman and Mo Hume.
  • Research project: 'Youth Gangs and Knife Carrying in Scotland', July 2008 -October 2009: (Scottish Government: £155,266) - with Michele Burman, Jon Bannister, Keith Kintrea, Susan McVie and Jon Pickering.  Jon Bannister and Prof. Burman drafted this proposal and managed the award.
  • Research project: 'Alcohol and Domestic Abuse in Inverclyde', August-November 2007 (Inverclyde Council: £15,374) - as principal investigator
  • Research consultancy: 'Audit of Youth Crime and Youth Justice in North Ayrshire: Profiling Young Offenders', March-August 2007: (North Ayrshire: £6,200) - as principal investigator
  • Research project: 'Risk Assessment and Management of Children and Young People', January-May 2007 (Risk Management Authority: £26,183) - with Michele Burman, Fergus McNeill, Sarah Armstrong and Jan Nicholson.  Prof. Burman drafted this proposal and managed the award.
  • Research consultancy: '21st Century Social Work Review: Literature Review on Key Practice Skills', December 2004-February 2005 (Social Work Services Inspectorate, Scottish Executive: £8,750) - with Fergus McNeill, Ros Burnett and Jo Knox.  Prof. McNeill drafted this proposal and managed the award.
  • Research consultancy: February 2003-January 2005: Consultancy Support for Audit of Youth Crime and Youth Justice in Dumfries and Galloway (with Fergus McNeill and Robin Tuddenham), East Ayrshire (with Fergus McNeill and Kathryn Dutton), East Renfrewshire (with Fergus McNeill and Kathryn Dutton), North Ayrshire (with Fergus McNeill) and South Lanarkshire (with Fergus McNeill) (Total award £110,333).  Prof. McNeill drafted these proposals and managed the awards.

Current PhD Students

Alistair Fraser, Violent street gangs in Glasgow (Recipient of Adam Smith Research Fellowship and MacRobertson Travelling Scholarship, due to submit September 2010)

Nadine Imlah, Conceptions and constructions of female criminality (Recipient of ESRC studentship, due to submit September 2011)

Poppy Kohner, Performing violent identities: challenging the script of victims and perpetrators of violence (Recipient of Glasgow University Scholarship, due to submit September 2013)

Lubaba Sadaf, Marital violence amongst Pakistani women in cross-cultural context (Recipient of FfWG grant, due to submit September 2011)

  • Advanced Qualitative Methods (MSc Social Science Research, Lecturer)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (UG Hons, Lecturer)
  • Sociology 1B: Crime and Control (UG Level 1, Class coordinator)
  • Understanding and Explaining Crime (UG Hons, Lecturer)
  • Understanding and Explaining Crime and Social Control (MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice, Class coordinator)
  • Violence and Social Harm (UG Hons, Class coordinator)

Institutional affiliations

Membership of professional bodies

Other service

Recent invited presentations

  • Batchelor, S. (2010) ‘Beyond dichotomy: Victimization and agency in the lives of young women who offend’. Presentation given to Institute for Advanced Studies Women and Community Sanctions event, June 2010.
  • Batchelor, S. (2009) 'Girls, gangs and violence: challenging dichotomies'.  Lecture delivered to Scottish Association for the Study of Offending, Edinburgh, November 2009. 
  • Batchelor, S. (2009) 'Sensitive subjects: researching girls and violence'.  Plenary presented at the joint Social Research Association/British Society of Criminology Event: Research methods in the field of crime and justice, Edinburgh, October 2009. 
  • Batchelor, S. (2009) 'Girls, gangs and violence: assessing the evidence'.  Plenary presented at the British Society of Criminology Youth Criminology conference: Youth in Crisis? Gangs, territorality and violence, Liverpool, April 2009. 
  • Batchelor, S. (2009) 'Understanding young women's violence'.  Plenary presented at the Hannah Mackay Breaking the Cycle of Female Offending conference, Stirling, April 2009. 
  • Batchelor, S. (2009) 'Offending young women: the myth of equal opportunity violence'. Plenary presented at International Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Challenging gender-based violence conference, Glasgow, January 2009.

Editorial duties

  • Referee of journal articles for Journal of Youth Studies (2002 onwards); Gender Issues (2008 onwards); Feminist Criminology (2010)
  • Referee of book proposals/books for Open University Press (2007 onwards); Routledge Publications (2005 onwards); Sage Publications (2005 onwards)
  •  Referee of research grant applications/end of award reports for Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (2010); Economic and Social Research Council First Grant Scheme (2008 onwards); Economic and Social Research Council Large Grant Competition (2008 onwards); Economic and Social Research Council Standard Grants (Open call) (2004 onwards); Scottish Executive/Government (2007 onwards)

Other roles

  • Sociology Ethics Officer (from 2007)
  • Member of Senate (from 2007)
  • Hons Dissertation Coordinator (from 2008)
  • Senate Assessor for Discipline (from 2008)
  • Undergraduate Adviser of Studies (from 2009)
  • MSc CCJ dissertation coordinator (from 2009)

Positions Held

Prior to joining the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2005, Susan was a Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Strathclyde and held a series of research posts at The Scottish Office, Brunel University, and the University of Glasgow.