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The members of the selection committee for the annual Nigel Walker Prize , have awarded this year’s prize to: Dr Bethany Schmidt , a member of the Prisons Research Centre for her PhD: ‘ Democratising Democracy: Reimagining Prisoners as Active Citizens Through Participatory Governance ’. The Nigel Walker Prize is awarded...

On Thursday 10 March the Institute hosted a book launch to celebrate the work of Professor Anthony Edward Bottoms and the publication of: Liebling, A., Shapland, J. Sparks, R. & Tankebe, J. (eds.) (2022) Crime Justice and Social Order. Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms . Clarendon Studies in Criminology. Oxford...

The Institute is pleased to announce the Manuel López-Rey Graduate Prize 2020-21 has been awarded to Jessica Krüger . The following students have been named ' proxime accesserunt ': Lotta Van der Meulen, Nicholas Goldrosen and Sophie Philip. This prize is awarded annually for the best performance on the MPhil programme. We...

Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Director of the Institute of Criminology and also the Director of the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice (based in the Institute), has recently been awarded the 2021 ESC European Criminology Award , by the European Society of Criminology in recognition of her outstanding lifetime...