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Centre for Criminological ResearchThe Centre for Criminological Research (CCR) is the focal point for criminology and criminal justice at the University of Sheffield. Its key research themes include CCTV and surveillance; citizenship; desistance; European criminal justice policy and practice; fear of crime; fraud and identity theft; gender and violence; gun crime and gangs; human rights; the information economy; internet crime; migration; offender rehabilitation; penology and sentencing; policing; the probation service; race relations; restorative justice; security and crime; social identity; victimisation; and young offenders and youth justice. |
Selected recent researchThe SPOOCS (Sheffield Pathways out of Crime) study a longitudinal study of young adult offenders from their late teens/early 20s, focusing on lifestyles, offending and desistance. Funded by the ESRC. Helen Atkinson, Tony Bottoms, Andrew Costello, Deirdre Healy, Grant Muir, Joanna Shapland.Interactions between the informal economy and organised crime (CRIMPREV) a series of European seminars, looking at all aspects of the informal economy and at links with organised crime. Joanna Shapland and Paul Ponsaers (University of Ghent), coordinators. Funded by the European Commission, as part of CRIMPREV, coordinated by Rene Levy (CESDIP/GERN, France), with some 30 universities, looking at crime, violence, insecurity and public policy. Joanna Shapland, Sam Scott, Colin Williams. The Central Criminal Court Proceedings Online created a fully searchable edition of the entire run of published accounts of trials which took place at the Old Bailey from 1834 to 1913. An extension of the successful Old Bailey Proceedings Online 1674-1834 (www.oldbaileyonline.org); the enlarged website covering the period 1674-1913 (2000,000 trials) was launched in April 2008. Funded by the AHRC. Co-directors: Robert Shoemaker, Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire), and Clive Emsley (Open University). Plebeian lives and the making of modern London, 1690-1800: Digitising administrative and charitable records for 18th-century London, in order to examine relationships between experiences of crime, poverty and illness, and to study the impact of criminal prosecutions on the evolution of judicial practices. Racialisation of crime: The ways in which crime is ascribed to particular populations and how those populations react (for example, the response to portrayals of 'Jewish criminality' during the Edwardian era). |
Find out more To learn more about the Centre for Criminological Research, including details of the academics involved and contact details, please visit the Centre's website at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/law/research/clusters/ccr |