Criminology & Criminal Justice

Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research

The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Stirling and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding of justice.

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) aims to:

• Produce high quality, internationally recognised research in relation to crime and criminal justice;
• Advance understanding of crime and criminal justice through theoretical, empirical and applied research;
• Work with communities, policy makers and the wider public to collaboratively build just societies;
• Support the development criminological research capacity across Scotland and provide an inclusive forum for this regardless of SCCJR membership.

Our work focuses on the following core research topics:

• Evidence, statistics and trends
• Organised and White-Collar Crime
• Research methods and criminological theory
• Gender, crime and criminal justice
• Young people and youth justice
• Violence, drugs and alcohol
• Criminal justice process and institutions.
• Crime, violence and inequality
• Criminal justice and health
• Globalisation, harm and social injustice
• New media, surveillance and technology
• Punishment, citizenship and communities

Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR)

Criminology & Criminal Justice

Academic staff

Though we draw on a wide range of disciplines, our approach to criminology at Glasgow is rooted in and informed principally by sociological analyses of crime and punishment. We insist on interrogating the relationships between criminal and social justice and injustice.

In particular, our staff have expertise in:

• Young people, crime and youth justice (especially youth violence and gangs)
• Social and legal responses to gender-based violence
• Criminalisation and punishment of women
• Inequalities and intersectionality (including in relation to disability)
• Security studies, including policing and regulation
• Sentencing and the penal system, particularly imprisonment, parole and probation
• Desistance from crime, rehabilitation and reintegration
• Media, culture and representations of crime and punishment
• Criminological theory, including urban criminology, cultural criminology, critical criminology, digital criminology, sensory criminology, punishment and society studies, and feminist perspectives
• Creative and collaborative approaches to criminological research
• Illicit markets, including the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects