Sign up here for next Thursday’s seminar, 'Supply chain justice: the logistics of British border control', with Professor Mary Bosworth from the University of Oxford.

The Lent Term issue of our newsletter is now available. Our recent achievements include important new studies, new funding for ongoing studies, and work by institute alumni to improve the criminal justice system. To learn more, go here:

Sign up here for this Thursday’s seminar, ‘Filial Violence across the lifecourse’, with @rachelfc from the University of Oxford, and Caroline Miles from the University of Manchester.

Congratulations to former MSt student Iain Stevens, for winning the Best Postgraduate Paper Prize 2024 by the Carceral Geography Working Group. Stevens received the award for his paper 'Exploring the Concept of the Third Place in Prison'.

Congratulations to Dr Adrian Grounds, for receiving the @YaleMed Yochelson Visiting Professorship. As visiting professor, Dr Grounds will be present at Yale from 8-11 April, giving lectures and seminars on the psychological effects of wrongful convictions.

The Institute of Criminology’s Lent Term Seminar Series begins on 30th January. Everyone is welcome! For information and booking visit:

The @SATNAVproject by the Centre for Analytic Criminology applies Situational Action Theory (SAT) to schools. In this lecture, SATNAV Co-Principal Investigators @BethHardie and Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman discuss the project's key ideas and methods.

A new paper by Criminology PhD researcher @Andrzej_Uhl is now in the British Journal of Criminology. It examines public perceptions of justice, and whether they should be applied to punishment.

‘What Can Art Do?’ Register here for the HMP Barlinnie Special Unit event and book launch on 21 January, organised by the Institute of Criminology in association with @kettlesyard.

In a chapter of 'Global Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role', Cambridge PhD researcher @FalloneAndrew discusses Canada's refugee pathway schemes, and how even programmes aimed at supporting refugees can still exclude them.

Sign up here for this Thursday’s seminar, ‘Transnational environmental crime and green criminology’, with Dr Daan Van Uhm from Utrecht University. ..

Governments are keen to incorporate digital tools into migration management. But this comes with risks that need to be managed. Cambridge PhD researcher @FalloneAndrew has had research published in #PragueProcess, discussing this issue. Read below:

We are advertising for an Associate Professor to lead the MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology and Management. This is a part-time role on a fixed term basis for a period of 3 years. More information can be found below. The closing date is 8 December.

@BethHardie and Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman will launch the @SATNAVproject at the Centre of Analytic Criminology. They developed it from their work on SAT, moral contexts, and adolescent development, and want to discuss with academic and practitioner colleagues. More details below.

Former MSt student Stacey Rothwell won the Government Science and Engineering Innovation Award for implementing rapid video response (RVR) calls to policing. In our latest news release, she discusses how the MSt course helped her with deploying RVR.

David Farrington, scholar and friend of the Institute, died on 5 November, 2024. David worked with us from 1969 to 2012, first as a research officer and finally a professor. His contributions to criminology are unparalleled, and he will be deeply missed.

As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent, police aim to adopt it in their practice. But how can they find the most effective AI tools? PhD candidate Jacob Verrey has written for @PolicingInsight, arguing for policing to use a snake oil filter.

Systemic injustice to Aboriginal youth is common in Australia’s justice system, informed by colonial views of Aboriginal children. PhD student Mark Yin discusses this in a review of Joanne Faulkner’s ‘Representing Aboriginal Childhood’ in @JournalofCrim.

Findings by @ONS show an average of 85 suicides in UK prisons a year, with 30% of all deaths being suicides. A study by @PhilippaTomczak on suicide in UK prisons was reviewed by PhD candidate Bradley Read, himself a former prison manager. Read it here:

@joking999 If you go to the link, there is the option for registering to attend online via Zoom.