Jane Monckton Smith 

Professor of Public Protection

Jane Monckton Smith is Professor of Public Protection at the University of Gloucestershire. Her specialisms are in homicide, and risk and threat assessment. She has recently authored a new theoretical model for tracking escalating risk in cases of coercive control, intimate partner stalking, and domestic abuse. She trains professionals like the police in the UK and elsewhere, in tracking escalating risk of homicide in individuals. Her latest book is called In Control: dangerous relationships and how they end in murder.  In addition to research Jane works on cold and live cases with the police and families bereaved through homicide, as well as reviewing domestic homicides for statutory processes.