The Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCCJ)
The Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCCJ) brings together leading criminologists and socio-legal scholars interested in the study of crime and criminal justice. Members apply the insights and methods of sociology, psychology, law, social anthropology, economics and political science to criminological problems. With respect to research methods, CCCJ members have particular expertise in the practice of biographical and narrative approaches to interviewing, ethnography, qualitative longitudinal research, questionnaire design, longitudinal survey design, programme evaluation and policy analysis. CCCJ has strong international academic links and ongoing collaborations with scholars in the USA, Canada, Australia, China and Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Estonia, Poland and Finland. Members of CCCJ research and teach across the spectrum of criminological and criminal justice fields. CCCJ members offer supervision for Research Students in the following areas and under the ESRC NW Doctoral Training Centre Pathway 'Security, Conflict and Justice'. Particular areas of strength in CCCJ include research on:
- Crime, Criminals and Victimization. CCCJ members have conducted major studies in the fields of drug use, drug sales and drug markets, gang crime, hate crime perpetration, domestic abuse perpetration, young people and homelessness, migration and human trafficking, and women’s experiences as victims and offenders. CCCJ members also have expertise and interests in social ecological, psychological, psychoanalytic and psychosocial criminology.
- Crime Policy and Comparative Criminal Justice Studies CCCJ members have conducted policy-related work in a number of pressing policy areas, including the use of criminal records for employment purposes, the management of sexual offenders in the community, reintegration practice and policies, human rights training for judges, the criminalization and decriminalization of drug use and scaling of sentencing guidelines. Comparative research conducted by CCCJ members includes: studies of criminal justice in China, Taiwan and the greater China region; studies of attitudes to punishment, crime politics, legal reform and crime prevention in Spain; analysis of innocence projects in the USA, and research on the development of ‘criminology’ as a discipline in different national contexts.
- Policing and Enforcement CCCJ members have undertaken research on developments in European policing, police complaints mechanisms and accountability, prisons, international law enforcement assistance programs, regulatory enforcement issues associated with judicial penalties, regulatory risk management of dangerous offenders.
- Criminal Law. CCCJ members have undertaken research on miscarriages of justice, the dynamics of plea-bargaining, the effects of curtailing the right of silence in England and Wales, disclosure of unused material in criminal trials, comparative-historical studies of the role of law in processes of social class formation, the relationship between regulation and criminal justice, interdisciplinary and critical approaches to the criminal law on consent and HIV, and (in collaboration with the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy) the role of the criminal law in punishing the transmission of disease.
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