Research Themes
The research programme of the Centre for Criminology is organized into five clusters, or research themes, which its members are committed to building upon over the next several years, both in terms of research, writing and generating external income, and in terms of developing clusters of graduate students working in these fields. The five research themes are:
Key sub-themes
- counter-terrorism
- criminalization and criminal law theory
- human rights and criminal justice
- pluralization of policing, private security, security consumption
- risk, uncertainty and preventive justice
- security, insecurity and democracy
Centre members involved
Andrew Ashworth, Liora Lazarus, Ian Loader, Bethan Loftus, Conor O’Reilly, Angelica Thumala, Lucia Zedner
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Penal culture, policy and practice
Key sub-themes
- comparative penal cultures
- death penalty
- immigration detention and citizenship
- penal theory
- prisons
- rehabilitation, resettlement and desistance
- risk and public protection
- restorative justice
- sentencing law, theory and practice
- youth justice
Centre members involved
Andrew Ashworth, Kerry Baker, Mary Bosworth, Ros Burnett, Carolyn Hoyle, Ian Loader, Julian Roberts, Angelica Thumala, Lucia Zedner
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Public opinion, politics and crime control policy
Key sub-themes
- crime, punishment and political culture
- crime control and political ideologies
- criminology, public policy and politics
- historical sociology of crime control and criminal justice policy
- public opinion and sensibilities towards crime and justice
Centre members involved
Mary Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle, Ian Loader, Julian Roberts
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Key sub-themes
- domestic abuse
- adolescent to parent violence
- justice responses to family violence
- families of offenders and families of victims
- constructions of parental responsibility
- the gendered impact of crime on the family
Centre members involved
Rachel Condry, Jane Donoghue, Carolyn Hoyle, Caroline Miles
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Key sub-themes
- false allegations of crime/miscarriages of justice
- rights and needs of crime victims
- role of the victim in the criminal justice process
- victims and restorative justice
- victims in post-conflict settings
- victims of domestic violence
- victims of human trafficking
Centre members involved
Mary Bosworth, Ros Burnett, Carolyn Hoyle, Julian Roberts
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The Centre’s work across these substantive areas is criss-crossed and reinforced by four lateral themes that connect up the work conducted across different substantive fields of enquiry. The four themes are:
Exploring the connections between the study of crime and its control and the larger concerns of the contemporary social sciences with such ideas as late modernity, risk, globalization, networks, citizenship, governance, and culture.
The theory and practice of comparative criminological enquiry.
Bringing together sociological and critical normative analyses of crime and crime control practices.
Understanding and working upon the intersections between criminological research and public policy.
