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Paul Norris joined the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in Social Policy in August 2009, after several years as a Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, awarded in 2009 for his thesis titled "Policing Priorities in London: Do Borough Characteristics Make a Difference?" His research interests center on the complex relationship between social context and the political economy of crime and justice. Norris is particularly focused on people's attitudes toward the criminal justice system and how such attitudes are influenced by the wider social and political environment. He primarily conducts quantitative research, employing advanced methods such as latent variable models, event history analysis, and multilevel modeling. In addition to his research, Norris teaches various methodology courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Core Quantitative Data Analysis and Comparative Analysis of Social Policy.
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