Criminology and criminal justice

The Department of Sociology hosts a thriving community of scholars working in the field of criminology. Members of the Department of Sociology conduct empirical research, together with theoretically-oriented work, on the nature of crime and social control and the operation of the principal institutions of the criminal justice system in contemporary society.

Members are part of the Centre for Criminology, where you can see more details about our work in the areas of crime and justice, our publications, news and information about forthcoming events.

Research areas

Asset recovery, organised and syndicated crime
Community, neighbourhood and intelligence led policing
Cyber and criminal justice system (incorporating the police service, courts and sentencing, prisons and probation)
Criminal statistics
Early intervention, anti-social behaviour and social control
Ethnicity, community and identity
Hate crime
Human rights
Interventions with offenders
Meta-analysis and realist evaluation techniques
Methods for researching crime especially survey methodology, advanced quantitative methods, spatial modelling, public opinion research and mixed methods
Prison effects
Racism and crime
Technology and surveillance, securitization and biometrics
The deployment of female and ethnic minority group police officers impact on community engagement and crime reduction
Victims of crime, victimization
Youth justice.