Dr Hope Kent

My research aims to evidence and change the way that people with neurodisabilities are over-represented in our criminal justice system. I am interested in how people are marginalised across our education, health, and social care systems, and how this leads to criminal justice contact. My work examines public health approaches to crime and justice, and I am interested in how the social determinants of health translate as social determinants of criminalisation. 

I work mainly with large administrative datasets to draw population-level inferences about how people interact with systems.

I am an (incoming) British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aston University, and an honorary associate at the University of Exeter. 

Research Keywords:

• Neurodevelopmental 
• Neurodisability
• Criminal Justice System
• School Exclusion
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Social Models of Disability 

Research Group Webpage: 

https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/neurodisabilitycriminaljustice/