Amy Thornton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Thornton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornton |
| SIGNATURE | THORNTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9322-6073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Childcare and Labor Market Trajectories by Gender During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa
This article shows that the shock in demand for at-home childcare triggered by the COVID-19 lockdowns affected women’s paid work hours more negatively than men’s in South Africa. This result is consistent across two different methods – regression and sequence analysis – using a unique panel data set collected during the pandemic. Regression analysis of paid work hours shows that co-residing with children over lockdown was associated with a declin…
Working with Students to Decolonise the Study of Crime
Recent years have seen a fluctuation in the awarding gap between white and non-white students across higher education in the UK, with the most recent numbers indicating a widening of the gap. Such statistics have ignited efforts across universities to identify possible explanations and solutions to the existing awarding gap. With research pointing to the important role of students’ sense of belonging in the positive university experiences of stud…
A Holistic Network Analysis of the Money Laundering Threat Landscape
Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995–2011
In South Africa, households were formed at about twice the rate that the population grew be-tween census 1996 and census 2011 and the number of single-person households ballooned by 150%. Reweighted household survey data shows a surge in household formation in the late 1990s was driven by prime-aged and older women and Black African men, likely connected to new freedoms afforded to these groups after the transition to democracy. Household formati…
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews
Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa
The process by which young people leave home in South Africa is central for understanding the lives of the country's young adult population, as well as, their role in the structural household change that has occurred over the post‐apartheid period. However, hardly any quantitative work has been conducted on this process and no work exists on trends. This study provides nationally representative trends of home‐leaving for young adults in South Afr…
Crime, Income, and Inequality
How might South Africa's concentrated income inequality affect the incidence of burglary? Theoretically, burglary increases with income and inequality, but the linearity of these relationships can be interrupted by investment in private security. This idea has not been thoroughly tested before, and South Africa presents an interesting context in which to do so, given its high level of income inequality and fear of crime. We find both income and i…
The Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) in London
Overseas diasporas have long been exploited by terrorist organisations seeking funding and support from areas beyond their operation. The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), active in south-eastern Turkey, is no exception and maintains a significant international presence. This paper uses 73 survey responses and 13 interviews amongst London’s Turkish and Kurdish diaspora to provide an original and comprehensive insight into the PKK’s overseas operati…
Preventing the money laundering and terrorist financing risks of emerging technologies
A systematic review of the effectiveness of the electronic monitoring of offenders
On the development and application of Emmie
The What Works Centre for Crime Reduction was established in September 2013 with the aim of increasing the use of research evidence by decision-makers in policing and crime reduction. The EMMIE framework was developed to meet this aim. It encapsulates five broad categories of research evidence that are considered relevant to crime reduction, namely Effect size, Mechanism, Moderator (or context), Implementation and Economics. In this paper, we cha…
Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology
A methodologically sound systematic review is characterized by transparency, replicability, and a clear inclusion criterion. However, little attention has been paid to reporting the details of interrater reliability (IRR) when multiple coders are used to make decisions at various points in the screening and data extraction stages of a study. Prior research has mentioned the paucity of information on IRR including number of coders involved, at wha…
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers
Research Summary Public interest and policy debates surrounding the role of the Internet in terrorist activities is increasing. Criminology has said very little on the matter. By using a unique data set of 223 convicted United Kingdom–based terrorists, this article focuses on how they used the Internet in the commission of their crimes. As most samples of terrorist offenders vary in terms of capabilities (lone‐actor vs. group offenders) and crimi…
System-wide improvement of early-grade mathematics
Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology
A methodologically sound systematic review is characterized by transparency, replicability, and a clear inclusion criterion. However, little attention has been paid to reporting the details of interrater reliability (IRR) when multiple coders are used to make decisions at various points in the screening and data extraction stages of a study. Prior research has mentioned the paucity of information on IRR including number of coders involved, at wha…
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers
Research Summary Public interest and policy debates surrounding the role of the Internet in terrorist activities is increasing. Criminology has said very little on the matter. By using a unique data set of 223 convicted United Kingdom–based terrorists, this article focuses on how they used the Internet in the commission of their crimes. As most samples of terrorist offenders vary in terms of capabilities (lone‐actor vs. group offenders) and crimi…
On the development and application of Emmie
The What Works Centre for Crime Reduction was established in September 2013 with the aim of increasing the use of research evidence by decision-makers in policing and crime reduction. The EMMIE framework was developed to meet this aim. It encapsulates five broad categories of research evidence that are considered relevant to crime reduction, namely Effect size, Mechanism, Moderator (or context), Implementation and Economics. In this paper, we cha…
Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa
The process by which young people leave home in South Africa is central for understanding the lives of the country's young adult population, as well as, their role in the structural household change that has occurred over the post‐apartheid period. However, hardly any quantitative work has been conducted on this process and no work exists on trends. This study provides nationally representative trends of home‐leaving for young adults in South Afr…
System-wide improvement of early-grade mathematics
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers
Research Summary Public interest and policy debates surrounding the role of the Internet in terrorist activities is increasing. Criminology has said very little on the matter. By using a unique data set of 223 convicted United Kingdom–based terrorists, this article focuses on how they used the Internet in the commission of their crimes. As most samples of terrorist offenders vary in terms of capabilities (lone‐actor vs. group offenders) and crimi…
On the development and application of Emmie
The What Works Centre for Crime Reduction was established in September 2013 with the aim of increasing the use of research evidence by decision-makers in policing and crime reduction. The EMMIE framework was developed to meet this aim. It encapsulates five broad categories of research evidence that are considered relevant to crime reduction, namely Effect size, Mechanism, Moderator (or context), Implementation and Economics. In this paper, we cha…
Interrater Reliability in Systematic Review Methodology
A methodologically sound systematic review is characterized by transparency, replicability, and a clear inclusion criterion. However, little attention has been paid to reporting the details of interrater reliability (IRR) when multiple coders are used to make decisions at various points in the screening and data extraction stages of a study. Prior research has mentioned the paucity of information on IRR including number of coders involved, at wha…
A systematic review of the effectiveness of the electronic monitoring of offenders
Preventing the money laundering and terrorist financing risks of emerging technologies
Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa
The process by which young people leave home in South Africa is central for understanding the lives of the country's young adult population, as well as, their role in the structural household change that has occurred over the post‐apartheid period. However, hardly any quantitative work has been conducted on this process and no work exists on trends. This study provides nationally representative trends of home‐leaving for young adults in South Afr…
Crime, Income, and Inequality
How might South Africa's concentrated income inequality affect the incidence of burglary? Theoretically, burglary increases with income and inequality, but the linearity of these relationships can be interrupted by investment in private security. This idea has not been thoroughly tested before, and South Africa presents an interesting context in which to do so, given its high level of income inequality and fear of crime. We find both income and i…
The Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) in London
Overseas diasporas have long been exploited by terrorist organisations seeking funding and support from areas beyond their operation. The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), active in south-eastern Turkey, is no exception and maintains a significant international presence. This paper uses 73 survey responses and 13 interviews amongst London’s Turkish and Kurdish diaspora to provide an original and comprehensive insight into the PKK’s overseas operati…
Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995–2011
In South Africa, households were formed at about twice the rate that the population grew be-tween census 1996 and census 2011 and the number of single-person households ballooned by 150%. Reweighted household survey data shows a surge in household formation in the late 1990s was driven by prime-aged and older women and Black African men, likely connected to new freedoms afforded to these groups after the transition to democracy. Household formati…
Enhancing the horizon scanning utility of futures-oriented systematic and scoping reviews
Working with Students to Decolonise the Study of Crime
Recent years have seen a fluctuation in the awarding gap between white and non-white students across higher education in the UK, with the most recent numbers indicating a widening of the gap. Such statistics have ignited efforts across universities to identify possible explanations and solutions to the existing awarding gap. With research pointing to the important role of students’ sense of belonging in the positive university experiences of stud…
A Holistic Network Analysis of the Money Laundering Threat Landscape
Childcare and Labor Market Trajectories by Gender During the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa
This article shows that the shock in demand for at-home childcare triggered by the COVID-19 lockdowns affected women’s paid work hours more negatively than men’s in South Africa. This result is consistent across two different methods – regression and sequence analysis – using a unique panel data set collected during the pandemic. Regression analysis of paid work hours shows that co-residing with children over lockdown was associated with a declin…
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Terrorism (3 works) · Business (2 works)