Dr Will Hughes started working at London Met in 2012 after working for the probation service. He qualified as a probation officer in 2004, specialising in working with perpetrators of domestic abuse, and from 2007 he was employed to teach trainee probation officers. He is the course leader for Criminology and Youth Studies BSc (Hons), Criminology MSc, and Organised Crime and Global Security MA.
Will Hughes
Will has been a member of the criminology team since 2012. He was previously a probation officer, specialising in work with perpetrators of domestic abuse, and staff training. His qualifications include a BSc in Sociology from Cardiff University, an M.Phil in Criminology from Cambridge University, a BA in Community and Criminal Justice from De Montfort University, and PhD from London Metropolitan University.
Will's research areas have included domestic abuse perpetrator programmes, the management of people with histories of stalking, and youth justice.
Will teaches across all of our post graduate and undergraduate criminology programmes, specialising in criminological theory, probation, and domestic abuse perpetrator programmes.
He is the course leader for our Masters programmes in Criminology, and Organised Crime and Global Security.
Will teaches on postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. His key teaching areas are criminological theory, domestic abuse, and probation. His research interests include domestic abuse interventions, gendered violence, and probation practice.
Authored
- Holmes, F; Renehan, R; and Hughes, W (2025) Understanding and utilising ‘rapport’ in work with men who use violence in intimate relationships: The challenge of creating a ‘safe space’ that holds men to account. Probation Journal
- Hughes, W (2025) (En)gendering change: Understanding the gendered dynamics of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes. Criminology and Criminal Justice. 25(3) 812-831
- Hughes, W (2024) Working with violent men: from resistance to change talk in probation domestic abuse programmes. Abingdon, Routledge.
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Hughes, W (2023) (En)gendering change:Understanding the gendered dynamics of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes. Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Hughes, W (2022) Community sentences for the rehabilitation of offenders and preventing reoffending' United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of crime and treatment of offenders resource material 114: 43-52
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Hughes, W (2022) Multi stakeholder approaches for effective supervision and support of offenders United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of crime and treatment of offenders resource material 114: 56-62
- Hughes, W. and Jenner, A. (2018) Strategies for the Prevention of Domestic Violence In Tenca, M. J. and Ortiz, E. P. M. (eds) Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Didot.
- Hughes, W (2017) Lessons from the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme for the implementation of the Building Better Relationships, Probation Journal 64 (2) 129-145
- Hughes, W. (2014) Service user engagement - what’s the big deal, Eurovista, 3 (2). 97–104.
- Hughes, W. (2012) Promoting offender engagement and compliance in sentence planning: practitioner and service user perspectives in Hertfordshire, Probation Journal, 59(1), 49- 65
- Hughes, W. (2011) Promoting Offender Engagement in Sentence Planning, Offender Engagement Research Bulletin, Issue 7; MOJ