Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR)

Description

This Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) is lead by a partnership between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Stirling and Strathclyde Universities. It also works in alliance with a wider consortium of individuals and groups in Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrew’s Universities and has worked in partnership with a range of higher education institutions and research centres.

The Centre 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.

Members undertake a wide range of projects and produce different forms publications to achieve the Centre’s core objectives. The Centre’s 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

Members intend that their research makes a difference — both in advancing their academic disciplines and in constructively contributing to public debate and policy and practice development in relation to crime and criminal justice. They have prepared a number of ‘impact case studies’ to give examples of how they have done this in some key areas.

While the Centre has a particular kind of expertise to bring to public debate, policy and practice, it also recognises the expertise of others; expertise that comes from a wide range of different engagements in the field, whether political, professional or personal. Members have learned that the impact of their work have been greatest where they have worked with others, through developing and maintaining strong relationships; and that one of their key contributions is to help people frame, analyse and respond to issues in new ways, informed by theory and research from around the world. Consequently, they are always looking for opportunities to work with others, whatever the nature of their engagement with this field.

Members of the SCCJR recognise the precarity experienced by Early Career Researchers and commit to supporting and collaborating with them in ways that facilitate their professional development as independent scholars, prioritise their well-being, and protect them from exploitation and the harms of insecure employment.

Through the SCCJR ECR Group members have developed a Statement which outlines the practical ways in which the Centre will support early career colleagues.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Glasgow
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Glasgow
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Partner Universities

Edinburgh Napier University

University of Edinburgh

University of Stirling

University of Strathclyde