Natalie Mann

Articles by: Natalie Mann

Leniency for lower level sex offenders won’t help protect children – more police funding could

15th March 2017

Dr Natalie Mann, Anglia Ruskin University

OPINION: NPCC lead for child protection, Simon Bailey, recently hit the headlines for suggesting police needed to focus limited resources on those who had physically abused children. Dr Natalie Mann of Anglia Ruskin University warns that those who view images often go on to abuse children, and what's needed is sufficient funding to treat all sex offenders equally.

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Natalie Mann
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Natalie joined Anglia Ruskin University in January 2011, having worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. She completed her PhD in Criminology at the University of Essex in 2008. It was entitled Doing Harder Time? The Experiences of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The research investigated the ways in which ageing men experience imprisonment, how they cope and the unique problems they experience. It is informed by strong structuration theory and Goffman's interactionism. Since gaining her PhD, Natalie has continued to research ageing prisoners and has made a significant contribution to the knowledge of this forgotten section of the prison population. Natalie has also published work on child sex offenders and is shortly due to conduct research with Essex Police, Essex Probation and Essex MAPPA on the monitoring and surveillance of high-risk sexual offenders.