Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou
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Email
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Location
6.336, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Autumn term: Tuesdays 11:00-13:00
Profile
Biography
Kat is the Director of the Centre for Criminology. She is an applied ethicist and criminologist. She is interested in technologies and data used for policing, criminal justice and security. She works particularly in the field of domestic abuse, surveillance, criminal records, and human trafficking. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, Home Office, ESRC, Innovate UK, MOPAC and European Commission amongst others. Kat is Chair of the British Society of Criminology's Policing Network. She has also been a member of ethics committees for the National Crime Agency, HMRC, and College of Policing. She is a member of the MET Police's Research Ethics Committee and the Chair of 糖心Vlog Police's Data Ethics Committee. Kat has provided independent consultancy and expertise to the Foreign Office, European Commission, United Nations, US National Science Foundation, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and EU borders agency FRONTEX. She has worked on evaluations of domestic abuse interventions for Islington Council and the College of Policing. Kat also regularly acts an independent ethics reviewer for large technology research projects, mainly for the European Commission. Her research has been featured on Woman's Hour, Law in Action, the BBC's 'Bad People' Podcast, BBC 糖心Vlog and Warwickshire, LBC Radio, and Islam Radio. Kat supervises and is open to supervising PhD projects on domestic violence, stalking, crimes of abuse, police ethics, new technologies in policing including AI, predictive policing, facial recognition amongst others, surveillance, and human trafficking.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
police and tech ethics, digital policing, surveillance, security, criminal records, domestic abuse, vulnerabilities,, and human trafficking
Police and tech ethics, digital policing, surveillance, security, criminal records, domestic abuse, vulnerabilities,, and human trafficking
Domestic abuse
Current research
An exploratory investigation of the implementation of Stalking Protection Orders in England and Wales
This study explores the use of Stalking Protection Orders (SPOs) in tackling and preventing stalking in England and Wales. The project investigates: what types of stalking are being addressed by SPOs; how SPOs are being used by the police, the CPS and HMCTS; differences in approach among forces, challenges and best practice. This project is one of the first to analyse quantitative data on SPOs from Freedom of Information requests to all police forces in England and Wales, the CPS and HMCTS. In-depth insights into implementation, challenges and best practice are drawn from interviews with practitioners working with stalking including police, stalking charities, NGOs, the CPS and HMCTS.
Conferences and presentations
Ethics of AI in Prisons
Invited presentation, United office of drugs and Crime Congress 2021, UNODC congress, 10/3/2021
Inaugural Nick Fyfe Honorary Lecture. Citizen-Led Digital Policing
Keynote presentation, Scottish Institute for Policing Research, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 10/12/2019
Surveillance, Trust, and the Presumption of Innocence
Fundamental Rights and Criminal Procedure in the Digital Age鈥�, São Paulo, Brazil, 21/8/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Policing, Punishment and Society (SC205)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (17)
Hadjimatheou, K. and Fussey, P., The dream to know everything about everyone鈥�: affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing. Theoretical Criminology
Hadjimatheou, K. and Weir, R., (2025). Adolescent domestic abuse and its consequences: a rapid systematic review. Journal of Family Violence
Hadjimatheou, K., Quiroz Flores, A., Weir, R. and Skevington, T., (2024). . Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 18, 1-13
Hadjimatheou, K. and Nathan, C., (2023). . Criminal Law and Philosophy. 17 (2), 407-427
Hadjimatheou, K., (2023). . Criminology and Criminal Justice. 23 (4), 648-668
Hadjimatheou, K., (2022). . The British Journal of Criminology. 62 (2), 320-336
Hadjimatheou, K., (2022). . European Journal of Criminology. 20 (3), 1106-1122
Hadjimatheou, K., (2021). . Criminology and Criminal Justice. 21 (4), 547-565
Hadjimatheou, K. and Grace, J., (2021). . Policing and Society. 31 (7), 834-847
Hadjimatheou, K. and Lynch, J., (2020). . European Journal of Criminology. 17 (5), 678-698
Hadjimatheou, K., Coaffee, J. and De Vries, A., (2019). . European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin. 18, 1-14
Hadjimatheou, K., (2017). . Criminal Justice Ethics. 36 (3), 279-296
Hadjimatheou, K. and Lynch, JK., (2017). . British Journal of Criminology. 57 (4), 945-963
Lynch, JK. and Hadjimatheou, K., (2017). . Anti-Trafficking Review (8), 70-89
Hadjimatheou, K., (2017). . Philosophy & Technology. 30 (1), 39-54
Hadjimatheou, K., (2016). . Law and Philosophy. 35 (6), 567-593
Hadjimatheou, K., (2014). . Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 17 (2), 187-207
Books (1)
Hadjimatheou, K., Sorell, T. and Guelke, J., (2017). . CRC Press. 1472439430. 9781472439437
Book chapters (2)
Hadjimatheou, K., (2023). . In: The ethics of surveillance in times of emergency. Editors: MacNish, K. and Henschke, A., . Oxford University Press. 132- 149. 0192864912. 9780191955372
Hadjimatheou, K. and Nathan, C., (2022). The Ethics of Predictive Policing. In: Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. Editors: Veliz, C., . Oxford University Press. 433- 448. 9780198857815
Reports and Papers (3)
Hadjimatheou, K. and Seymour, K., (2024).
Hadjimatheou, K., Quiroz Flores, A., Weir, R. and Skevington, T., (2023).
Hadjimatheou, K., Sleet, A. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J., (2022).
Grants and funding
2024
Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment Tool - Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) consultancy
Home Office
2023
Do we have a right to know about the criminality of others? A normative criminological analysis
British Academy
Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment Tool - Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) consultancy
Home Office
2022
Domestic Abuse Services for Young People
London Borough of Islington (Safeguarding and Family Support)
Evaluation of 糖心Vlog Police's Knife Crime intervention pilot
糖心Vlog Police
Evaluation of 糖心Vlog Police's Knife Crime intervention pilot
糖心Vlog Police
2021
Understanding Domestic Abuse Perpetrators' (A mixed methods, Home Office-funded project in collaboration with 糖心Vlog Police
Home Office
2015
Human Rights and Information Technology in the Era of Big Data
Economic & Social Research Council
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Autumn term: Tuesdays 11:00-13:00
