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Centre for Criminology

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Welcome to the Centre for Criminology

The Centre is dedicated to pursuing an innovative programme of criminological research and to delivering high-quality graduate education in criminology at both masters and doctoral level.

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Welcome to the Centre for Criminology 

The Centre is home to a vibrant programme of inter-disciplinary research across questions of criminalisation, security, criminal justice and punishment. Our research focuses on these topics internationally and in many jurisdictions across the global north and global south.  

 We engage with policy-makers, practitioners and civil society across these settings with a view to producing criminological research that contributes to a better politics of order, crime and justice.  

 We deliver high-quality graduate education in criminology to students from across the world, studying on both masters and doctoral programmes. Our degrees are open to full-time and part-time students. 

 Ian Loader, Centre Director 

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Blogs at the Centre for Criminology

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Discussion Groups

Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis Discussion Group

Criminology DPhil Discussion Group

Police and Policing Research Discussion Group

Southernising Criminology

All Souls Seminar Series - 2024-25

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News

03 April 2025

Shona Minson Explores Maternal Sentencing in BBC Radio 3 Essay for New Generation Thinkers

25 March 2025

Border Criminologies Project Highly Commended in Social Sciences Impact Awards 2025

21 March 2025

Multi-university study into the protection of public facing professionals wins Home Office Academic Innovation Award for Security and Policing

Upcoming Events

11

December

2025

5th International Conference on Punishment In The Global Peripheries

Event time

09:00 - 17:00

Venue

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Past Events

24

June

2025

Permanent Suspicion: Reframing Criminal Law Through Postcolonial Thought

Event time

17:15 - 18:30

Venue

Centre for Criminology Seminar Room

Speaker(s)

Kalika Mehta is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her work examines (international) criminal law and human rights through the lens of critical legal theory. She is the author of Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis (Routledge, 2024).

17

June

2025

Anti-carceral feminisms in Ecuador: toward a non-penal feminist justice

Event time

16:15 - 17:30

Venue

Centre for Criminology Seminar Room

Speaker(s)

Lorena Burbano (Mujeres de Frente, Ecuador) Silvana Tapia Tapia (University of Birmingham)

05

June

2025

Shopping Under Suspicion: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Profiling in American and Canadian Retailers

Event time

15:00 - 16:30

Venue

Wharton Room - All Souls College (and online)

Speaker(s)

Shaun L. Gabbidon, School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg

Related blogs

Theorising Domestic Abuse In India

23 May 2025

Being Watched: The Aftermath of Covert Policing

25 March 2025

Rethinking the Romanticisation of Community-Based Approaches in Anti-Carceral Feminist Theorisation

24 March 2025

A Call to Action: Future Scholars Must Provide Further Enlightenment On The Currently Shaded Notion Of The ‘Aftermath Of Covert Policing’.

21 March 2025

All Souls Blog: Contesting Racialized Policing in France: How Activists Challenge the Epistemic Power of the Police

25 February 2025

The Death Penalty Project: Fighting for every person facing the death penalty

11 September 2024

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