Vicky Kemp is a principal researcher in the Legal Services Research Centre, Legal Services Commission, where she has responsibility for research into crime and the criminal justice system.
She has a PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include youth justice and examining the multi-agency processing of cases within the courts system.
Recent publications include:
- A Scoping Study Adopting a ‘Whole Systems’ Approach to Inefficiency and Delay in the Youth Courts (forthcoming, 2007, LSRC);
- ‘The relationship between youth justice and child welfare in England and Wales’ (with Bottoms, A., in Hill, A. et al (eds.), 2006, Youth Justice and Child Protection, Jessica Kingsley);
- ‘Youth justice: discretion in pre-court decision-making’, (with Gelsthorpe L., in Gelsthorpe, L. and Padfield, N. (eds.), 2003, Exercising Discretion: Decision-making in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond, Willan); and
- Assessing Responses to Youth Offending in Northamptonshire (2002, NACRO Briefing).
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