Dr Susan Roberts

Research Highlights

1. Roberts, S. (2020). Untold Stories: Male Child Sexual Abusers’ Accounts of Telling and Not Telling about Sexual Abuse Experienced in Childhood. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 29(8), 965-983.

   https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2020.1841351, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55348
2. Roberts, S. (2020). Responding to child sexual abuse: Learning from children’s services in Wales. Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse: Ilford, Essex

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55330

   https://www.csacentre.org.uk/documents/responding-to-csa-childrens-services-wales/
3. Roberts, S. (2019). Learning from Adult Survivors of Sexual Violence and their Experiences of Counselling

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51620
4. HUGHES-JONES, L. & Roberts, S. (2015). Closing the Gap: Confronting the Problem of Hotels as Venues for Child Sexual Exploitation. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(4), 336-351.

   https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12130, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34518
5. Roberts, S. & Vanstone, M. (2014). A Child Sexual Abuse Research Project: A Brief Endnote. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23(6), 745-754.

   https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2014.934416, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34517

All Research

• Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation - A Focus on Offender-to-Offender Communication. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

• Exploring Female Sexual Offenders from a Criminal Justice Perspective (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Sam Hanks

• Sexual abuse against boys in China: A life course perspective exploring how do social, cultural and policy matters influence survivors’ coping strategies following sexual abuse (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Caroline Jones

• "A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Youth Justice Services in Wales (awarded 2020)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Peter Raynor

• Evaluation on probation: Developing gender-responsive and jurisdictionally appropriate evaluation systems for offender services in the British Isles. (awarded 2019)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Peter Raynor

• ASC112 An Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

  The module focuses on the historical development of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in England & Wales from the 18th century to the present day. It explains the agencies and services that make up the CJS and considers how criminal justice policy is formulated. It brings together the links between the study of criminology, law and social policy and presents definitions and patterns of crime, how it is recorded and reported. It introduces students to the use and shortcomings of official statistics and other sources and considers the response of the CJS to victims of crime.

• ASC321 Sexual Crimes

  This module provides an introduction to a highly controversial and sensitive social problem, namely 'sexual' crime. The topics explored include: how definitions, explanations and responses to 'sexual' crime vary over time and across cultures; current major, and competing, explanations of 'sexual' crime; the social construction of 'sexual' crime, including the role of the media; the nature, types and prevalence of 'sexual' crime; the consequences of such crime for victims and the treatment of offenders; and the possible links between victimisation and offending. This module also provides an introduction to an important social problem: children as victims of sexual crime. Topics explored will include the following: the response to sexual crimes against children over time and across cultures and the factors that shape how such crimes are dealt with; current major, and competing, explanations of such crimes; the incidence and prevalence of sexual crimes against children; consequences of such crimes for victims;the inter- relationships between intra- and extra-familial abuse (including institutional abuse); AND CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION. It is important to emphasise that whilst the module will highlight the historical and cultural relativity of discourse and knowledge about 'sexual' crime it rejects the sort of moral relativism which in any way appears to condone or tolerate sexual crimes such as rape and child sexual abuse and denies or minimises the adverse effects of such crimes on victims.

• ASC324 Dissertation

  This module will equip students with the skills needed to produce a dissertation of between 8,000 and 10,000 words. A series of 3 compulsory meetings with an allocated dissertation supervisors assists the students to complete this task. The completion of a dissertation is an independent learning activity. This means that there isn¿t a taught aspect to it. However, each student will be allocated a supervisor. Supervision meetings will take the form of four compulsory individual face-to-face meetings between the student and supervisor. Supervisors will also review drafts of elements of the dissertation to a maximum of 4,000 words, which are to be submitted to supervisors at specific points in the academic year. Supervisors will only provide feedback on drafts that are submitted on time. Staff will provide feedback to students within seven working days.

• ASCM78 Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children

  This module will explore issues relating to the sexual abuse and exploitation of children. The module first considers the historical context to the problem; definitions and cross-cultural comparisons. Other topics include: the social construction of childhood, sexuality and innocence; forms of child sexual abuse, including intra and extra-familial abuse, institutional abuse, sexual exploitation in gangs and groups, child sexual abuse and the Internet; child abuse images and the consequences of abuse for victims.

• Senior Research Assistant/Tutor, Swansea University

  1993 - 2005

• Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Swansea University

  2005 - 2013

• Senior Lecturer, Department of Criminology, Swansea University

  2013 - Present

• Deputy Chair of the School Ethics Committee, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law

  2017 - Present

• Safeguarding Officer , Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law

  2016 - Present

• Disability Link Tutor, Department of Criminology - Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law

  2010 - Present