Research Projects

'A good life in prison?’ Everyday ethics in a prison holding young men

• Dr Alice Ievins

Civic Dignity (A public dialogue about prisoner voting rights)

• Dr Bethany Schmidt

Covid-19 and the Psychological Wellbeing of Police Officers and Health Workers in Ghana

• Dr Justice Tankebe

Crime & Networks Group

• Dr Paolo Campana

Crime During the Covid-19 Crisis: A Global Analysis

Deaths under Community Supervision

• Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe

With colleagues Jake Phillips (Reader, Sheffield Hallam University, and former PhD student at the Institute) and Professor Nicky Padfield (Faculty of Law), Loraine Gelsthorpe continues to investigate deaths under community supervision.  Deaths in police custody and deaths in prison custody have received a lot of attention over the years, but deaths under community supervision much less so.  Their publications include:

• ‘Reducing, not displacing risk’: Report from a seminar on working together to prevent non-natural deaths after custody
• Non-natural deaths following prison and police custody. Data and practice issues (Equality and Human Rights Commission Research report 106)
• Non-custodial deaths: Missing, ignored or unimportant? Criminology & Criminal Justice, 19, 2, pp160-178. 

Ethical Failures in Policing

• Dr Justice Tankebe

Evidence for Better Lives Study (EBLS)

• Professor Manuel Eisner

Exploring the Quality of Prison Life in Tunisia

• Dr Bethany Schmidt

FAIR: The Families and Imprisonment Research Study

• Dr Caroline Lanskey
• Professor Friedrich Lösel

Inspiring Futures

• Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe
• Dr Caroline Lanskey

Legitimacy and Counter-terrorism Policing

• Dr Justice Tankebe

Life imprisonment from young adulthood: a longitudinal follow-up study

• Professor Ben Crewe
• Dr Susie Hulley

London Medieval Murder Map

Mental Health Challenges and Compromised Quality of Life among Offenders

• Dr Maria Ttofi
• Professor David Farrington

Moral rules, social science and forms of order in prison

• Professor Alison Liebling

Neurogenetics and Differential Susceptibility to Criminogenic Social Environments

• Dr Kyle Treiber

Situational Action Theory (Its development and refinement)

• Professor Per-Olof Wikström

The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD)

The CSDD has followed up 411 London males who were aged 8-9 in 1961-62. Nine personal interviews with the males have been completed. It is planned to carry out a tenth interview directed by Prof Darrick Jolliffe.

• Professor David Farrington

• Professor Darrick Jolliffe (University of Greenwich)

• Professor Manuel Eisner

The i-Gov Project: Illegal Governance of Markets and Communities

• Dr Paolo Campana

The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adulthood Development Study (PADS+)

• Professor Per-Olof Wikström
• Dr Kyle Treiber

The São Paulo Project on the Social Development of Children

• Professor Manuel Eisner (co-investigator)

Women Working to Support Women in the Welfare Sphere: Psychosocial Challenges

This is joint project with Glasgow University

Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood

• Professor Manuel Eisner