Rachel Condry
Faculty officer role(s):
Assistant Director of the Centre for Criminology
Director of Examinations
Biography
Rachel Condry is Professor of Criminology in the Centre for Criminology and Fellow of St Hilda's College. She has previously been a lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and a lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey. Her work focuses broadly on the intersections between crime and the family, which has included research projects on the families of serious offenders, prisoners’ families, parenting in youth justice, and filial violence. Rachel currently directs the Filial Violence Project and the Global Prisoners Families Group.
Rachel edits the book series Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family. She is an editor of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice and editorial board member of the Journal of Criminology.
She teaches courses on the MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice on Criminological Theories, Crime and the Family, and Youth Justice. She supervises DPhil, MPhil, and MSc students on her main areas of research, and is particularly keen to work with students who wish to conduct research on families of prisoners and the impact of punishment on families, filial violence and parricide, motherhood, and state responses to young people in conflict with the law. She would especially welcome applications from those interested in using critical theories, creative methodologies, and in global contexts.
Publications
Miles C and others, ‘‘Now there is no escape’: the impact of the COVID-19 social restrictions on parents experiencing violence and abuse from their children’ [2024] Journal of Gender-Based Violence 1
Miles C, Condry R and Windsor E, ‘Parricide, Mental Illness, and Parental Proximity: The Gendered Contexts of Parricide in England and Wales.’ (2023) 29(2) Violence Against Women 87
Condry R and Miles C, ‘Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide’ (2023) 71(1) Current Sociology 43
Mackenzie K and others, ‘The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection’ [2023] Criminology &Amp; Criminal Justice 174889582311743
Annison H and Condry R, ‘The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens’ (2022) 62(5) The British Journal of Criminology 1252
Arnez J and Condry R, ‘Criminological perspectives on school exclusion and youth offending’ [2021] Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
CONDRY R and MINSON S, ‘Conceptualizing the effects of imprisonment on families: Collateral consequences, secondary punishment, or symbiotic harms?’ [2020] Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal
Annison H and Condry R, ‘The pains of indeterminate imprisonment for family members’ [2019] (241) Prison Service Journal 43770
Miles C and Condry R, ‘Adolescent to parent violence: the police response to parents reporting violence from their children’ (2016) 26(7) Policing & Society 804
Miles C and Condry R, ‘Responding to Adolescent to Parent Violence: Challenges for Policy and Practice’ (2015) 55(6) The British Journal of Criminology 1076
Condry R and Miles C, ‘Adolescent to parent violence: Framing and mapping a hidden problem’ (2014) 14(3) CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE 257
Bullock K and Condry R, ‘Responding to denial, minimization and blame in correctional settings: The ‘real world’ implications of offender neutralizations’ (2013) 10(5) European Journal of Criminology 572
Condry R and Miles C, ‘Adolescent to Parent Violence and Youth Justice in England and Wales’ (2012) 11(2) Social Policy and Society 241
Condry R, ‘Families Outside: The Difficulties Faced by Relatives of Serious Offenders’ [2007] Prison Service Journal
Condry R, ‘My World as I Knew it - Gone: The Impact of Crime on Relatives of Serious Offenders’ (2007) 33 Safer Society: The Journal of Crime Reduction and Community Safety
Gueta K and Condry R, ‘Centering Mothers in Feminist Criminology: A Critical Review of Literature on Mothers of Victims and Offenders’ Feminist Criminology
Condry R and Miles C, Uncovering Filial Violence (Palgrave 2025)
Minson S, ‘The sins and traumas of fathers and mothers should not be visited on their children’ (Oxford University Press 2018)
Condry R, Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders (Willan Publishing 2007)
Heidensohn F (ed.), Gender and Justice (Willan)
Condry R, Miles C and Trafford L, ‘Juvenile Homicide in England and Wales’, The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide (Taylor & Francis 2023)
Condry R and Miles C, ‘Children Who Perpetrate Family Violence Are Still Children: Understanding and Responding to Adolescent to Parent Violence’ in K Fitz-Gibbon, H Douglas and J Maher (eds.), Young People Using Family Violence (Springer 2021)
Condry R and Smith P, ‘A Holistic Approach to Prisoners’ Families—From Arrest to Release’, The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family (Springer Nature 2019)
MINSON S, ‘‘The sins and traumas of fathers and mothers should not be visited on their children’ The Rights of Children When a Primary Carer is Sentenced to Imprisonment in the Criminal Courts’ in R CONDRY and P Scharff Smith (eds.), Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? (Oxford University Press 2018)
CONDRY R, ‘Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment’, Prisons, Punishment, and the Family Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? (Oxford University Press, USA 2018)
Condry R and Smith P, ‘The Sociology of Punishment and the Effects of Imprisonment on Families’ in R Condry and P Smith (eds.), Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? (Oxford University Press 2018)
Condry R, ‘Prisoners’ Families and Social Justice’ in R Condry and P Smith (eds.), Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? (Oxford University Press 2018)
Ryan M and Sim J, ‘Campaigning for and campaigning against prisons’, Handbook on Prisons (Routledge 2016)
Condry R, Kotova A and Minson S, ‘Social injustice and collateral damage’, Handbook on Prisons (Routledge 2016)
Condry R and Miles C, ‘Adolescent to Parent Violence and the Challenge for Youth Justice’ in M Bosworth, C Hoyle and L Zedner (eds.), Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (OUP 2016)
Condry R, Kotova A and Minson S, ‘Social Injustice and Collateral Damage: The Families and Children of Prisoners’ in Y Jewkes, J Benmett and B Crewe (eds.), The Handbook on Prisons (Routledge 2016)
Condry R, ‘The Parent as Paradoxical Victim: Adolescent to Parent Violence and Contested Victimization’ in D Spencer and S Walklate (eds.), Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology: Interventions and possibilities (Lexington Books 2016)
Condry R, ‘Appreciating the Broad Reach of Serious Crime and the Interpretive Power of Claims to Secondary Victimization’, The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honour of Paul Rock (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2010)
Condry R, ‘Secondary Victims and Secondary Victimization’ in S Giora Shoham, P Knepper and M Kett (eds.), International Handbook of Victimology (Taylor and Francis 2010)
Condry R, ‘Stigmatised Women: Relatives of Serious Offenders and the Broader Impact of Crime’ in F Heidensohn (ed.), Gender and Justice: New Concepts and Approaches (Willan Publishing 2006)
Condry R, Kotova A and Minson S, ‘Social injustice and collateral damage’, Handbook on Prisons (Taylor & Francis)
Condry R, Kotova A and Minson S, ‘Doing gendered time’, Handbook on Prisons (Taylor & Francis)
CONDRY R and Scharff Smith P (eds.), Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? (Oxford University Press 2018)
Condry R and others, ‘Experiences of Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence in the Covid-19 Pandemic’ (University of Oxford 2020)