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Professor Emeritus Per-Olof H Wikström has been awarded the Beccaria Medal for “exceptionally outstanding contributions to criminology as a discipline” by the Criminological Society of German speaking countries (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland). The award will be presented to Professor Wikström at the Society’s conference in Tübingen in September…

Wolfson Fellow Dr Peter Neyroud – Associate Professor in Evidenced-based policing at the Institute of Criminology – has become the 2023 Robert Boruch award winner. The Robert Boruch award is made annually by the Campbell Collaboration for distinctive contributions to research that informs global public policy.The Campbell Collaboration (https://www…

On behalf of colleagues, students and visitors Professor Manuel Eisner, Director of the Institute of Criminology extended heartfelt congratulations to Loraine for receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award 2023for her extensive and wide-ranging research on criminological  topics, enhancing the discipline’s interests on the national and internation…

The members of the selection committee for the annual Nigel Walker Prize, have awarded this year’s prize to: Dr Eleanor Brown, for her PhD: ‘Prison segregation: The limits of law and legal reform".  The Nigel Walker Prize is awarded for an outstanding written contribution in a PhD, in the field of Criminology, by a member of the University of Cambr…

We note, with great sadness, the passing of Pam Paige who worked in the Institute as the Director’s Secretary from 1973, firstly with the late Professor Nigel Walker, and then with Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms.        Pam died peacefully on 22nd February.  She gave many years of dedicated care and support in the Institute to successive Directors, …

Thursday 23rd February 2023The Institute of Criminology gave a dinner to recognise the significant contributions made to the Institute of Criminology by Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Professor Larry Sherman & Professor P-O Wikström.The event provided the opportunity to capture five of the Institutes Director's together, as pictured here.Read Direc…

We are delighted that one of the students on our MSt in Applied Criminology and Police Management course, Detective Inspector Tina Wallace from Thames Valley Police, has been awarded the King’s Police Medal (KPM) in the New Year Honours 2023. You can read more here.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Sara Valdebenito Munoz has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Applied Criminology and Police Management and will become a member of the MSt team. Sara brings an impressive portfolio of policing, crime, and prevention research to her role, including current work on patterns of misconduct and will play an esse…

We are delighted at the recent appointment of Emeritus Professor Lawrence Sherman as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) to the Metropolitan Police and advisor to the Board. 

We are pleased to announce the following new academic appointments:Dr Charles Lanfear (currently a Research Fellow at Nuffield College) will be joining the Institute on 1 September 2022 as a University Assistant Professor.Dr Arushi Garg (currently a lecturer at Sheffiled University Law School) will be joining the Institute on 1 October 2022, as a U…

The Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology are pleased to announce the results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, which are published today.Reflecting our collective size and outstanding research strength across all fields of legal and criminological inquiry, 225 individual pieces of scholarship – submitted by over 100 colleagues…

Professor David Weisburd of George Mason University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem has been selected by the Cambridge University Police Executive Program as the tenth winner of the Sir Robert Peel Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Evidence-Based Policing. As the first university professor to receive the award, he will deliver his Medal Lecture …

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 for an outstanding written contri…

A delegation of the Swiss Police Institute visited the Institute of Criminology on 26 April to gain insight into the Institute's Police MSt programmes: MSt in Applied Criminology and Police (Police Executive Programme) and MSt in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Degree Apprenticeship).  Professor Manuel Eisner, Dr Peter Neyroud, Dr Eleano…

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 University PressThe event was atten…