Dr. Maria Ttofi
- University Associate Professor in Psychological Criminology
- BA 2000, BA 2005, MPhil 2006, PhD 2009
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Dr Maria M. Ttofi moved to the UK from Lefkosia, Cyprus. She is a Life Member of Clare Hall College. She also served as a Junior Research Fellow (2011-12) and a Title C Official Fellow (2012-17) at Wolfson College. She is interested in the development of antisocial behaviour, crime, and violence through the life course as well as factors that confer resilience against adversity. Earlier research has focused on highly aggressive and victimized children; the long-term impact of negative childhood experiences on mental health and offending behavior in adult life; and early prevention and intervention research against youth aggression, antisocial behaviour and victimization. Current research looks at the interplay between mental health and crime and in effective strategies for healthy reintegration of antisocial individuals in society.
For her contributions to psychological criminology and intervention research, she was awarded the 2009 Nigel Walker Prize (Cambridge University), 2012 Young Scholar Award of the European Association of Psychology and Law as well as the 2012 Early Career Award of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Previous post-doctoral fellowships and research projects have been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Newton Trust, the British Academy, the US National Institute of Justice, the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, and the Jacobs Foundation.
Maria is part of the Violence Research Centre.
Research
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Youth crime
- Juvenile Justice
- Violence/Antisocial Behaviour
- Victimisation
- Mental Health and Crime
Teaching and supervision
- Research Methods
- Criminological and Legal Psychology
- Programme Evaluation and Crime Prevention
- Victims and Injustice
- Crime and Criminal Justice (undergraduate)
- Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
Ph.D. Supervision
Maria would be keen to supervise PhD students interested in the interplay between psychology and crime, including issues of family, school and social factors related to juvenile delinquency and youth offending; youth aggression and victimization; criminal careers; crime and health. Students wishing to get in contact informally in order to discuss potential research ideas are welcome to email her, with a brief CV and a short research proposal. I mainly supervise doctoral theses that use a quantitative approach and a mixed-methods approach.
Current PhD Students- Rebecca Raffan-Gowar
Cost-benefit analyses of crime prevention programmes - Hannah Gaffney
What works in Cyber Bullying Intervention and Prevention? Exploring effective intervention/prevention strategies and neglected risk factors. - Kim Reising
Crime and Health: Long-term bidirectional and intergenerational effects between mental/physical health and offending behavior - Bomin Lee
Grandparenting and grandchild antisocial behaviour: Intergenerational transmission of family factors and problem behaviour - Guy Skinner
Mental Health and Offending: Inter-Generational Relationships and Comparability between GP-reported and Self-Reported Data in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development