Tiggey May is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, School of Law, University of London. Tiggey has a BA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (Hull University) and a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics. She is currently studying for a PhD at Kingston University examining digital evidence in rape and serious sexual offence investigations. Tiggey is a qualitative criminologist whose research focuses on policing.
Tiggey has conducted research and published widely on the use of evidence within policing; the police educational qualifications framework; the policing of organised fraud; policing drug markets; the relationship between sex and drug markets; pimps; the police complaints system; misconduct by senior police officers; neighbourhood policing across Europe; police informants; and the differential treatment of young people in the criminal justice system.
Tiggey is the Digital Evidence Pillar Lead for Operation Soteria Bluestone and Operation Bright Light, the national programmes transforming the police and CPS response to rape and serious sexual offences. Her current research forms part of End-to-End Soteria, examining how digital evidence is handled at CPS and judicial level.
Teaching Responsibilities
Tiggey convenes the MSc Module Research Methods in Criminology and supervises both Masters and PhD students.
A full list of Tiggey’s publications is available here.