Research

Research themes tackled by the Centre include the following:

  • Evidence based policy and practice
  • Critical approaches to the analysis of “crime”, “justice” and “policing”
  • Social Harm
  • Academic-practitioner partnerships
  • Social and political influences on criminal justice policy
  • The public health burden of crime
  • Crime and technology
  •  Public perception, understanding and experience of crime 
  • Legislation and the criminal justice system
  • Sense making and decision-making within the CJS and military
  • Early intervention

Epistemologies

  • Critical criminology
  • Experimental criminology
  • Realist evaluation

Methodologies

  • Statistical analysis
  • Qualitative analyses (including ethnography)
  • Strategic analysis (e.g., game theory)
  • Survey design
  • Neuro-imaging
  • Cost-benefit analysis and resource allocation

Current research domains

  • Guns and knife crime
  • Performance and gaming
  • Youth Crime and Justice
  • Serious and organised crime
  • Interpersonal aggression and violence (victims and perpetrators)
  • Sexual offending (groups and individuals)
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Child sexual abuse and maltreatment
  • Human Rights and the Implementation of Law
  • Public understanding of crime and law (Rape myths and stereotypes, consent)
  • Economic evaluations
  • Cybercrime and cybersecurity
  • Offender management (Treatment and assessment, Sequencing of interventions, Prison design, Rehabilitation, Monitoring e.g. geo-tagging, EMS)
  • Predictive analytics and risk modelling
  • Social media and digital technologies (Big data analysis, Data mining, Visualisation, Pattern recognition, Text analysis, Victimisation and crime)
  • Culture and identity in organisations
  • Ethics and CJS/military research
  • Crime and resilience
  • Crime and punishment
  • Crime during conflict
  • Crime mapping/spatial analysis
  • Supporting victims of crime
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • Assessing the utility and value of evidence-based approaches
  • Child abuse and non accidental injury
  • Online child sexual exploitation and abuse