Staff profiles

• Crime, Addiction and Risk

• Crime rates /counts /risks (Statistical analysis of)
• Crime Perceptions
• Crime and other social indicators (Democratization; Inequality)
• Cross-national Comparisons
• Delinquency and Victimisation
• Multilevel or Hierarchical Modelling
• Quantitative Criminology
• Repeat Victimisation
• Police disproportionality
• (Repeat) Victimisation
• Social Capital

Machi's research collaborations include:

• Dr Sandra Bass (US) 
• Professor Graham Farrell 
• Dr Dimitris Karlis (Greece) 
• Dr Chris Kershaw (Home Office) 
• Dr Johannes Knutson (Norway/Sweden) 
• Professor Gary LaFree (US) 
• Dr Amanda Matravers (US) 
• Dr Anna Nicolaou (Greece) 
• Dr Yiannis Ntzoufras (Greece) 
• Professor Denise R. Osborn 
• Professor Ken Pease 
• Professor Nick Tilley 
• Dr Chris Tsoukis 
• Professor Per-Olof Wikström 
• Dr Katrin Wittebrood (The Netherlands) 
• Dr Christina Zarafonitou (Greece); Anastasia Zissi (Greece)

She has received research funding  from:

• American Statistical Association, Committee on Law and Justice Statistics, US
• Humberside Police, UK
• National Institute of Justice, US
• Research and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, UK
• Ministry of Education, Greece and The European Commission
• London Metropolitan Police
• ESRC

• 2007 ESRC Grant number RES-000-22-2386. ‘Sustaining the Crime Drop in Industrialised Nations: A Crime-Specific Problem-Solving Approach’ with: Professor G. Farrell (P.I.) Professor N. Tilley and Ms Jen Mailley. In this study we outline the major hypotheses for the crime drop in the last fifteen years or so internationally, propose new ones and test the major hypotheses via a new methodology: crime analysis problem-solving approach. Results presented in ECCA 2008 conference, Izmir, Turkey and the XV World Congress on Criminology, Barcelona, Spain, 2008.
• 2005 PYTHAGORAS II Programme, Ministry of Education, Greece and The European Commission: ‘Social security reform and mental health needs in rural areas of the North Aegean region’. In this study, which has produced a couple of published papers while few more are submitted, Dr Zissi (social psychologist), Dr Skapinakis (epidemiologist) and I investigate the associations between mental health, community resources and social capital from a number of perspectives and applying a number of appropriate methodologies (see Skapinakis et al. 2007; Zissi et al. 2008).

Professional service:

• 1998 and 1999 Employment Exchange Committee Member, American Society of Criminology Meetings.
• 2000 - 2001 Committee on Law and Justice Statistics, American Statistical Association.
• 2002 Organizing Committee, European Symposium on Repeat Victimisation, Molyvos, Mytilene, Greece, 4 - 7 April.
• 2002 - to date International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Criminology.
• 2003 - to date Organiser, European Quantitative Working Group of the European Society of Criminology & European Quantitative Criminology (EQC) Panel Sessions, European Society of Criminology Meetings.
• 2005 Invited Editor, Special Issue on Repeat Victimisation and Crime Prevention, International Review of Victimology, vol. 12.
• 2006 Programme Committee, Victimology Panel Sessions, American Society of Criminology Meetings, Los Angeles, 1 - 4 November.
• 2006 Visiting SCoPiC Fellow, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
• 2007 - to date SCoPiC Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
• 2007 - to date Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
• 2007 - to date Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Peer reviews

• American Sociological Review
• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
• Crime Prevention Studies
• Criminology
• Criminology and Criminal Justice
• European Journal of Criminology
• International Criminal Justice Review
• International Review of Victimology
• Internet Journal of Criminology
• Journal of Quantitative Criminology 
• Psychology, Crime and Law
• ESRC, Small Grants Proposals
• Medical Research Council, Population Health Scientist Fellowship

Machi's past supervision includes: 

• Domestic Violence and Social Disorganisation
• Victim, Offender and Situational characteristics in Modelling Victimisation Incidents
• Crime counts modelling
• Crime perceptions and Cross-national criminal justice expenditure

Apart from single – dependent variable (preferably hierarchical) modelling of counts or risks, Machi's current interests include cross-national comparisons; multivariate hierarchical modelling of associated outcomes, such as violence and property crimes; and Poisson mixtures for counts, such as victimisation and/or offending events. These methodologies are most relevant for studying the ecology of crime as well as other socio-economic issues such as mental health, education and social services etc.

Prospective research students who are interested in studying these and related issues should aim to apply state of art methodology, which will in turn strengthen the validity of their empirical results for informing social policy and jump-starting their own research career.