Current Research Projects
Our lecturers all have their own subject specialities and research interests. 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.
Below is a list of externally funded research projects currently being undertaken for the Institute.
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 |
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 |
The Isaac Newton Trust and the Jacobs Foundation |
|
Professor Per-Olof Wikström |
Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) |
ESRC |