Evaluation of the Family Court Reporting Pilot and transparency in the family courts
Joe Calouri
Director of Crime, Justice and Security
Joe is the Director of Crime, Justice and Security at NatCen and heads a team working on a range of complex mixed-methods research projects. NatCen’s Crime, Justice and Security team specialise in drugs policy, child criminal exploitation and youth violence, violence against women and girls (VAWG), and counter extremism.
Before joining NatCen, Joe was Head of Research at Crest Advisory, running their in-house think tank, publishing influential research on county lines, youth violence and the response of the justice system to COVID, amongst other topics. Joe is an acknowledged national expert on Child Criminal Exploitation and is the originator of the ‘Franchise Model’ as a description of the evolution of county lines.
Joe has held a range of political roles, including Special Adviser to the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and eleven years as an elected councillor in the London Borough of Islington, which included six years as Cabinet Member for Children, Families and Young People. Joe is currently writing a book about county lines drug networks with a co-author for Routledge.
To learn more or get in touch, contact: joe.caluori@natcen.ac.uk.
