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