Susan has worked over four decades to improve the criminal justice systems response to domestic abuse victims/survivors having completed a Ph.D on Rape in 1979. She has trained police, was consultant on the Mets first Domestic Violence Working Party 1984 and a later working party in 1992, was consultant to Standing Together’s seminal work on implementing the Duluth Model in the UK, and recently has contributed to the CPS’s programme of 16 days of activism for the past five years up to the present.
Susan has written over 150 peer reviewed articles and several books including Female Sexuality and the Law 1981 reissued 2026, Women On Trial 1984, Policing ‘Domestic’ Violence 1989 reissued 2025, Sex and Gender in the Legal Process 1996, Family Law 4th edition 2013, The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body, Islamophobia Counter-Terrorism law and Gender 2021 (The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body: Islamophobia, Counter-terrorism Law and Gender | Contemporary Family Law 2025, Contemporary Family Law: Principles and Practice – 1st Edition) and is editor of Blackstone’s Guide to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 – Susan Edwards, David Malone, Gillian Jones KC – Oxford University Press.
She is a Member of the Bar Human Rights Committee and the Criminal Bar Association and was active in the campaign to introduce s 70 non-fatal strangulation into the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the ‘rough sex’ amendment. She is a regular contributor to Counsel, the Magazine of the Bar of England and Wales latest A festival of cruelty | COUNSEL | The Magazine of the Bar of England and Wales and is currently writing a book on Women who kill men who abuse them.
