Prof. A.K. Gill CBE on Clubhouse

Bio

Professor Aisha K. Gill, Ph.D. CBE is Professor of Criminology at University of Roehampton, UK. Her main areas of interest and research focus on health and criminal justice responses to violence against black, minority ethnic and refugee women in the UK, Georgia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Libya, India, Pakistan and Yemen. She has been involved in addressing the problem of violence against women and girls/, 'honour' crimes and forced marriage at the grassroots/activist level for the past 21 years. Her recent publications include articles on crimes related to the murder of women/femicide, ‘honour’ killings, coercion and forced marriage, child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in South Asian/Kurdish and Somali communities, female genital mutilation, sex selective abortions, intersectionality and women who kill. Her research has been published in leading international journals, including Feminist Criminology, Violence against Women Journal, British Journal of Criminology, and Criminal Justice Policy Review. She is editorial member of the British Journal of Criminology.
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/Aisha-Gill/