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Links to academic institutions conducting research in criminology
The Australian Institute of Criminology
www.aic.gov.au
is the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in
Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information.
The Institute draws on information from a wide variety of sources to
provide independent policy advice.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/ccjs/home.htm
encourages and facilitates debate and understanding of the complex
nature of crime-related issues. They also publish Criminal Justice
Matters.
The Centre for Criminology
www.crim.ox.ac.uk/index.html
at the University of Oxford is engaged in a range of empirical research of central importance to criminal and penal policy.
The Community Safety Research Unit
online.northumbria.ac.uk/csru/index.htm
is based at Northumbria University. The multi-disciplinary research
Unit promotes research, development and learning in community safety
and criminology. It aims to inform policy and debate, and to contribute
to good practice in community safety and crime reduction.
The Criminology and Socio-Legal Research Unit
www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sociology/units/crime.htm
at Glasgow University has research strengths in the areas of gender,
crime and criminal justice, violence against women, young people and
crime, female offenders and violence.
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/index.html
aims to investigate the roots of political violence, to develop a body
of theory spanning its various disparate elements, and to study the
impact of violence, and responses to it, at societal, governmental, and
international levels.
The International Centre for Prison Studies
www.prisonstudies.org
in King's College, University of London, is independent of governmental
and intergovernmental agencies. It aims to help develop appropriate
policies on imprisonment.
The Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/icjs
at the University of Portsmouth is the UK's largest provider of Higher
Educational course programmes for the Police and other criminal justice
agencies. They are committed to quality and diversity, coupled with a
value-base which prioritises human rights, good governance and
professional standards in criminal justice.
The Institute of Criminology ( Cape Town)
web.uct.ac.za/depts/criminology/index.htm
is a research unit linked to the Department of Criminal Justice,
Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. The Institute's aim is to
initiate, co-ordinate and develop research and extension services in
the broad field of criminology.
The Institute of Criminology ( Sydney)
www.law.usyd.edu.au/~criminology
is part of the University of Sydney, Australia. It is dedicated to
public education. Its primary functions are teaching, research,
publications and public education on criminal justice issues.
The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
www.jdi.ucl.ac.uk/index.php
is the first in the world devoted specifically to reducing crime. It
does this through teaching, research, public policy analysis and by the
dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction.
The Kent Crime and Justice Centre
www.kent.ac.uk/kcjc
is based at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The Centre aims to
support research and teaching in criminology and criminal justice and
work collaboratively with national and regional criminal justice
agencies to advance knowledge and understanding of crime and criminal
justice and their impact on individuals and communities.
The Korean Institute of Criminology
www.kic.re.kr/english/index.asp
aims to scientifically analyse criminal issues to assist in developing and formulating criminal justice policies in Korea.
The Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice
www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/mannheim/default.htm
is a multidisciplinary centre incorporating staff from across the
London School of Economics. The Centre is one of the largest
criminological groupings in Europe. It provides teaching, research, and
conferences, seminars and public events, including the Mannheim/British
Society of Criminology seminar series.
The University of Leicester's Scarman Centre
www.le.ac.uk/cp/cp.html
has expertise in a number of criminological areas including policing,
public disorder, crime & punishment, racism & ethnicity, and
crime prevention. From January 2004, the Centre was renamed the
Department of Criminology.
The University of Tuebingen's Institute of Criminology
www.ifk.jura.uni-tuebingen.de
has a superb, wide-ranging list of international criminal justice links on its web site. Well worth a visit.
The University of Luton's Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime
www.luton.ac.uk/vauxhall
undertakes applied criminological research in the areas of youth crime, youth justice, policing and community safety.
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