ESRC Criminal Justice and Regulation Seminar Series
Overview
The study of regulatory institutions and strategies has had a major impact in recent years on research on diverse aspects of social and economic life. In the crime sphere, regulatory scholarship has come to the fore more in research on the provision of policing and security, rather than in studies of the delivery of criminal justice itself. However, strong parallels can clearly also be drawn in the latter area with the wider regulation literature on the governance of powerful institutions.The aim of the series is, through an innovative and wide-ranging inter-disciplinary approach, to work towards developing a new framework for research and policy development in criminal justice. The sustained and focused application of regulation perspectives on criminal justice will build on recent cutting-edge contributions in the fields of policing and security. A feature of the series is the involvement of practitioners who are involved in regulation and service delivery, nationally and locally. There will be four seminars in the series and they will take place over an 16 month period, running from November 2007 to February 2009.
Objectives
- To situate recent developments in criminal justice in the context of the emergence of new regulatory networks comprising state and non-state actors.
- To develop some new conceptual tools, derived from the regulation literature, for analysing the criminal justice process.
- To draw lessons for criminal justice from research on regulatory agencies in other social fields.
- To use this regulation perspective to develop a framework for future criminal justice research and policy development.