Meet the Cambridge researchers behind this groundbreaking study on Weaponised Attachment:
Mags Lesiak is a psychological criminologist and Cambridge doctoral researcher working at the intersection of critical sociology, victimology, and machine learning. Her research examines how legal, clinical, and algorithmic systems interpret violence through the intertwined frameworks of risk, care, and control. She introduced the concept of weaponised attachment to describe how love can be used as a tool of control. Her work has been published in Violence Against Women, Teen Vogue, Psychology Today, ABC, Policing Insight, and the American Bar Association, and has informed UK government policy and international media coverage.
Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College. Former Director of the Institute of Criminology, her work focuses on gender, criminal justice, social justice, sentencing, race, exclusion, youth penalties, migration, trafficking, research ethics, and methodology.Learn more about Prof. Gelsthorpe @ https://www.crim.cam.