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)