Dr Natalie Mann

Natalie is an expert in the field of sexual offending and sex offender management. 

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Background

Dr Natalie Mann joined the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER) as a Principal Investigator in 2017, having previously been a senior lecturer in ARU’s Criminology department, Cambridge. She has conducted extensive research with sexual offenders both in prison and in the community and now specialises in the management of sexual offenders.

She has worked extensively with Police and National Probation Service practitioners in the field of public protection and has very recently completed a two year national evaluation of the Active Risk Management System (ARMS), a risk management tool used with registered sexual offenders in England and Wales, by Police and the National Probation Service. This evaluation was requested by the National Police Chief’s Council lead for MOSOVO (management of sexual offenders and violent offenders) and it was fully supported by the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service.

Natalie is currently leading a two year research project which examines the effectiveness of MAPPA (Multi-agency public protection arrangements) and how the integration of academic, practitioner and offender knowledge can help to deliver excellence in the multi-agency risk management of violent and sexual offenders in the community.

Alongside front line research in public protection and sexual offender management, Natalie works extensively with criminal justice practitioners, charities, non-government agencies and technology companies to facilitate PIER’s key role in knowledge exchange, the sharing of best practice and innovation in policing practice, via the design and delivery of regular CPD sessions for police practitioners working within the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation, and the management of sexual offenders.

Research interests

• Sexual offending
• Risk assessment and the management of high risk offenders
• Policing and Public Protection
• Ageing prisoners/offenders
• Penology

Qualifications

• PhD Sociology, University of Essex
• MA Sociological Research, University of Essex

Memberships, editorial boards

• Fellow, Higher Education Academy
• Associate Member, HMPPS Correctional Services Advice and Accreditation Panel
• Member, International Forum on Gender and Sexual Diversity Research in Criminal Justice
• Member, National Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (NOTA)
• Member, academic network on child sexual abuse research (PIER)

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

Lundrigan (P-I) & Mann (Co-I) The Dawes Trust and Ministry of Justice. The integration of academic, practitioner and offender knowledge to deliver excellence in the multiagency risk management of violent and sexual offenders in the community, 2019  

Lundrigan (Project Director) & Mann (Co-I). The Dawes Trust and Ministry of Justice. An Evidence-Based Approach to the Risk Management of Registered Sexual Offenders in England and Wales: The National ARMS Evaluation.  2017 – 2019 

Selected recent publications

Mann, N., & Lundrigan, S., (2022) ‘The impact of covid19 on fieldwork with ‘hard to reach’ groups: The ups and downs of online focus group research’, SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online

Mann, N., & Lundrigan, S., (2021) ‘Dynamic assessment of registered sexual offenders: the national practitioner perspective on the use of the ‘Active risk management System’, Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1873324

Mann, N., Devendran, P., & Lundrigan, S. (2019) ‘You’re Never Really Free: Understanding the barriers to desistance for registered sexual offenders in the community, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Mann, N., Devendran, P. & Lundrigan, S. (2018). Policing in a time of austerity: Understanding the public protection paradox through qualitative interviews with police monitoring officers. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.

Danely, J., Mann, N., and Reeves, C. (forthcoming) 'Trends in the Aging Prison Population of England and Wales: A Useful Cross-National Comparison with Japan?' In Hosoi Y. and Tatsuno B. (eds). General research on crimes committed by elders: Cultural comparisons on social security, family ageing society, and other issues, Tokyo: Tuttle, pp. TBD.

Mann, N. (2016) ‘Older age, harder time: Ageing and imprisonment’ in B. Crewe, J. Bennett & Y. Jewkes (eds) The Handbook on Prisons, Willan Publishing, Devon, UK.

Lee, C., Haggith, A., Mann, N., Kuhn, I., Carter, F., Eden, B., & Van Bortel, T. (2016) ‘Older prisoners and the Care Act 2014: An examination of policy, practice and models of social care delivery’, The Prison Service Journal, 224: 35-41

Mann, N. (2015) ‘Ageing Prisoners’ in C. Reeves (eds) Experiencing Imprisonment: Research on the experience of living and working in carceral institutions, Routledge, London, UK.

Mann, N. (2012) ‘Ageing Child Sex Offenders in Prison: Denial, Manipulation and Community’, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 51, Issue 4, pp. 345-358

Mann, N. (2012) Doing Harder Time? The Experiences of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales, Ashgate, Surrey, UK