Rachel Condry

Rachel Condry is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology and a Fellow of St Hilda’s College. Her work focuses on crime-family intersections, including prisoners’ families, filial violence, and youth justice. She leads the Filial Violence Project and Global Prisoners Families Group, and edits academic series like Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family.

Previously, she held roles at the London School of Economics and the University of Surrey. Her research emphasizes mothers’ roles in criminology, pandemic impacts on family violence, and systemic responses to adolescent-parent violence. She teaches courses on criminological theories and supervises graduate students exploring familial crime dynamics.

Key projects include investigating parricide, maternal imprisonment effects, and juvenile homicide patterns. She advocates for holistic approaches to supporting prisoners’ families and improving youth justice policies.

Her publications span over two decades, addressing topics like secondary victimization, collateral punishment, and gendered violence. She collaborates with policymakers to develop guides for practitioners responding to adolescent-parent violence, as seen in the Home Office’s 2020 information guide launch.