Criminal Justice Research
Research activity in the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies is broadly clustered around the following four thematic areas.
Security governance and regulation
- Policing, counter-terrorism, urban governance
- The night-time economy and the regulation of public space/housing
- Community safety and anti-social behaviour
- Public/private partnerships and the distribution of security providers
Criminal behaviour and desistance
- Youth prevention and the onset of offending
- Rehabilitation, resettlement and desistance from crime
- The aetiology of crime including ...
- Corporate; white collar and middle-class crime
- Violence
- Alcohol, drugs and crime
- Gender, ethnicity and crime
Criminal justice processes, compliance and the management of victims and offenders
- Legal decision-making; jury deliberations and legal compliance
- Criminal evidence and procedure
- Forensic evidence
- Human rights and miscarriages of justice
- Treatment of victims and restorative justice
- Youth justice
- Bail, electronic monitoring, prisons and probation
- Evaluation of effectiveness and impact of criminal justice reforms
- Legitimacy and trust in justice
International and comparative crime and justice
- Global and transnational crime and policing
- Cyber-crime
- State crimes and atrocities
- Genocide prevention
- Responsibility and collective victimisation
- The death penalty
- Comparative policy transfer
- International criminal justice and global governance
More information
If you have any questions regarding research carried out in the School of Law, please email Lindsey Hill.