This project is part of a wider project exploring the relationships between politics, political ideologies, social and economic change, crime and the criminal justice system, starting around 2008. Selected publications from those projects can be found here. The projects which funded this work were:

• Economic and Social Research Council, £32,043, “Mrs Thatcher’s Criminological Legacy – A Scoping Project”, RES000222688, (with Jonathan Jackson (CI), LSE). July 2008-October 2008.
• British Academy (with Colin Hay, CI); Conference Support Grant, funding to pay for room hire and subsistence for a seminar on Exploring and Theorising the Long-term Impacts of Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies (July 2011).
• Economic and Social Research Council, £324,059, “Long-term Trajectories of Crime in the UK”, ES/K006398/1, (with Colin Hay (Sheffield, CI) and Will Jennings (Southampton, CI)). October 2013 - December 2015.
•  Economic and Social Research Council, £740,314 (FEC), £611,000 (ESRC) “How Did ‘Thatcher’s Children’ Fare?: Investigating Crime and Victimisation in the Life-Courses of Those Born in 1970”, ES/P002862/1, April 2017 – March 2020.