Research Topics in Criminology

The Institute is highly productive in terms of its academic research. It houses five active research centres: the Prisons Research Centre, the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+, previously part of SCoPiC), the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics, the Violence Research Centre and the Centre for Community, gender and Social Justice.

In addition to the research centres and projects, our lecturers all have their own subject specialities and research interests. These combine to bring teaching to life and to keep the Institute of Criminology at the forefront of much world research. Staff research topics include the development of criminal careers, sentencing, intermediate sanctions, mentally disordered offenders, the psychological effects of wrongful imprisonment, race and gender issues in criminal justice, the reintegration of ex-prisoners, youth justice systems, suicide in prisons, sex offenders, legal decision making, the effects of social and urban change on crime, and paternalism in criminal law. Full details can be found on members' individual pages.

Current Research Projects

Principal Investigator	Research Project	Sponsor
Dr Ben Crewe	Experiencing very long term imprisonment from young adulthood: identity, adaptation and penal legitimacy.	ESRC
Professor Manuel Eisner	The Zurich Project on the social development of children and youth.	The Jacobs Foundation
Professor David Farrington	Cambridge study in delinquent development: Third generation follow-up.	The Barrow Cadbury Trust and the Rayne Foundation
	Leverhulme Emeritus Professorship	Leverhulme Trust
Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe	The Criminalisation of Migrant Women	ESRC
	Reunite follow-up and analysis.	Commonweal Housing Trust
Professor Alison Liebling	Prisons Research Centre	National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
Dr. Maria Ttofi	Why do children at risk not become offenders?	The Leverhulme Trust & The Isaac Newton trust
	Protective Factors that Interrupt the Continuity from School Bullying to Anti-Social Behaviour and Offending later in Life: Implications for Prevention and Treatment	The Isaac Newton Trust and the Jacobs Foundation
Professor Per-Olof Wikström	Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+)	ESRC