Mags Lesiak MPhil

Mags Lesiak is a psychological criminologist and doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. Her work examines how legal, clinical and algorithmic systems interpret and govern harm through the frameworks of risk, care and code. She is the first author of The Invisible Abuser (SAGE, 2025), which introduced the concept of weaponised attachment and ranked in the top 5% of all research outputs tracked by Altmetric, shaping national and international discourse on coercive control.Mags has contributed to national policy development through the UK Government Office for Science and Technology, including behavioural-science input into COBRA and national emergency planning. She is also the lead author of Social Capital and Crime 2025, a Demos report now used by local authorities, safeguarding boards and policymakers across the UK as an evidence base for community-level crime prevention. She specialises in risk governance, policy design, data analytics, and strategic foresight. She works across qualitative, quantitative and machine-learning methods.Her research and commentary have appeared in ABC Australia, the American Bar Association, Teen Vogue, Psychology Today and Policing Insight.

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