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Photographs of Dr Sarika Dewan, including a portrait photo (left), receiving her PhD (centre), and conducting fieldwork in Uganda (right).

PhD graduate’s research provides insights into how gender-based violence operates and its effects

20 January 2026

Dr Sarika Dewan, a former PhD student at the Institute of Criminology, recently contributed to international efforts to measure technology-facilitated violence linked to femicide. Her work as a consultant contributes to a global statistical framework developed by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (...

A photograph of Sidharth Luthra standing behind his desk.

MPhil student and senior advocate appointed to criminal law position at India’s National Law University

19 January 2026

Sidharth Luthra, senior advocate and former MPhil student at the Institute of Criminology, accepted the K L Arora Chair at the National Law University in Delhi in July 2025. This chair was created to promote teaching, research and advocacy of criminal law in India. It is named in honour of the renowned Senior Advocate Shri...

A photograph of Professor Leo Zaibert conducting a workshop on punishment methods.

Leo Zaibert, Alison Liebling, and Ben Crewe host international workshop on punishment in theory and practice

14 January 2026

Professor Leo Zaibert, the Andreas Von Hirsch Professor of Penal Theory and Ethics, together with Professor Alison Liebling and Professor Ben Crewe, hosted a workshop on 2-3 October 2025 titled ‘Punishment Theory Meets Punishment Practice’. The workshop centred around the contributions to a forthcoming volume with Hart...

Professor Trevor Bennett 1946 - 2025

12 January 2026

It is with great sadness that I share the news that Professor Trevor Bennett, Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales and a long-standing member of the Institute of Criminology, passed away on 29 December, age 79. Trevor Bennett joined the Institute of Criminology in the early 1980s. He began his career in...

Paolo Campana’s work on organised crime informs the UN 2025 World Drug Report

18 December 2025

A framework for characterising the nature of organised crime groups, developed by Paolo Campana, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Violence Research Centre, and his long-term collaborator Federico Varese, has been widely referenced by the 2025 World Drug Report , from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

MPhil graduate involved in major US Supreme Court case rethinking restitution in law

4 December 2025

atticus_deprospo_1.png Atticus DeProspo, lawyer and a Gates Cambridge Scholar who earned his MPhil from the Institute of Criminology in 2018, is currently serving as merits counsel in Ellingburg v United States before the US Supreme Court. This legal case is challenging the retroactive application of the restitution...

Visiting Scholar's research changes Ghana's criminal justice laws

1 December 2025

Visiting scholar and Associate Professor of Criminology Kofi Boakye has recently published important research into crime and policing in Ghana. These findings have already reformed Ghana’s justice system. This research consists of several publications. Together, they provide a comprehensive overview of criminal justice in...

PhD student's award-winning research explores risk-taking behind organised drug trafficking in Chinese society

26 November 2025

shujing_shi_590_x_288_px.png Shujing Shi, a PhD student at the Violence Research Centre,has been awarded First Place in the Graduate Student Paper Award by the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology, for a chapter in her thesis. Drug trafficking in China Shujing decided to study the Chinese...

Zora Hauser publishes new research revealing the extent of mafia presence in Germany

9 October 2025

zh_bild_3.jpg Zora Hauser, recipient of the Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship, has recently published her book ‘ Mafia Expansion: The ‘Ndrangheta in Established Democracies’ . In it, she explores how the Calabrian mafia has managed to establish itself in stable, well-governed democracies such as Germany – and...

New edited volumes by Kate Herrity expand on sensory criminology and its potential applications

29 September 2025

Kate Herrity, visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology, has recently completed two co-edited texts, one on sound and music in detention, in collaboration with colleagues in musicology and the other on sensory criminology. They represent the culmination of extensive research on the subject, partially carried out...

PhD graduate’s research provides insights into how gender-based violence operates and its effects

MPhil student and senior advocate appointed to criminal law position at India’s National Law University

Leo Zaibert, Alison Liebling, and Ben Crewe host international workshop on punishment in theory and practice

Professor Trevor Bennett 1946 - 2025

Paolo Campana’s work on organised crime informs the UN 2025 World Drug Report

MPhil graduate involved in major US Supreme Court case rethinking restitution in law

Visiting Scholar's research changes Ghana's criminal justice laws

PhD student's award-winning research explores risk-taking behind organised drug trafficking in Chinese society

Zora Hauser publishes new research revealing the extent of mafia presence in Germany

New edited volumes by Kate Herrity expand on sensory criminology and its potential applications

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