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My doctoral research focused on the traumatic impact of prison on mothers and their families. My research interests include gendered violence, mental health, women and the criminal justice system. There is a particular focus on the links between trauma experiences, mental health and offending. I also have an interest in issues concerning vulnerabilty as relating to policing and how these needs are supported within the criminal justice system.

I am a member of a research cluster for offenders with complex needs and also the gendered violence and abuse inter-disciplinary research theme.

• Discipline-switching through a Bourdieusian lens: examining the experiences of academics moving into criminology, Cook, I., Stephens-Griffin, N., Laing, M., Barwick, D., Mitchell, S. 6 Jun 2026, In: The British Journal of Criminology
• The intergenerational impacts of maternal imprisonment, Mitchell, S. 15 Jan 2026, Women, Relationships & Criminal Justice: Recognising the Personal, Public & Professional , Bristol, Bristol University Press
• Relational trauma: the impact on family relationships of maternal imprisonment, Mitchell, S. 1 Nov 2025, In: Families, Relationships and Societies
• The gendered trauma trajectories of mothers entering prison, Mitchell, S. 1 Mar 2025, In: Probation Journal
• Victims and Criminal Justice: a history, by Pam Cox, Robert Shoemaker and Heather Shore, Oxford, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford University Press, 2023, 279 pp., £90.00/$113.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-284648-8, Mitchell, S. 2 Jul 2024, In: Social History
• Maternal Imprisonment: The Enduring Impact of Imprisonment on Mothers and their Children, Baldwin, L., Mitchell, S. 25 Oct 2022, The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice, London, Taylor & Francis
• Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child S.Minson. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2020) 279pp. £64.99hb ISBN 978–3030327378, Mitchell, S. 1 Mar 2021, In: Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
• The role of trauma in the lives of mothers who have experienced imprisonment, Mitchell, S. 8 Jul 2019, British Society of Criminology Conference 2019

• Invited talk: Maternal imprisonment: Research on the impact of intergenerational trauma 2022