International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU)
Description
The International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU) is a research cluster located in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology (SSPC) at a prominent university. It was officially ratified by the School Research and Impact Committee in October 2014. The research cluster consists of a team of academic researchers in criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, and criminal law. It includes senior internationally-recognised leaders in their respective fields, mid-career and early career researchers, and a thriving community of post-graduate research students. The academic and post-graduate research members of ICRU work alongside affiliated academic staff members, supported by an International Reference Group (IRG) and a National Consultative Group (NCG).
The core mission of ICRU is to develop, promote and support high-quality research and postgraduate training on issues related to criminology, criminal justice, and harm. It aims to advance cutting-edge theoretical and empirical knowledge, research methodologies, and work across a wide range of academic, policy and practice communities. This ensures reciprocal knowledge exchange and impactful evidence-based criminal justice and social justice interventions. ICRU aims to communicate clearly and disseminate widely to extend public understanding on issues related to criminology, criminal justice, and harm.
ICRU aims to host visiting researchers, coordinate a range of events, seminars, symposia, and conferences, forge partnerships, exchanges, and research collaborations locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. It also facilitates collaborative writing/publishing projects and grant applications/capture, including interdisciplinary research. ICRU provides, promotes, and supports a ‘home’ for a lively community of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers.
ICRU’s areas of research expertise include criminal law and criminal justice, critical criminology, comparative criminal justice regimes, and international criminology, corporate crime, and the crimes of the powerful. Other areas of research expertise include gender, crime, and criminal justice, histories of criminal justice and historical criminology, human rights, juvenile/youth crime, juvenile/youth justice, and youth criminology, policing, risk discourses, criminal justice, and criminology, security, and victimology.
ICRU welcomes visiting researchers, co-ordinates a range of events, seminars, symposia, and conferences, and fosters partnerships, exchanges, and research collaborations locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
ICRU members from within SSPC are entitled to bid for funds to deliver a cluster event that aligns with ICRU’s objectives, using a recently designed application process. A committee consisting of the SSPC Research Lead, ICRU Co-Leads, Publics and Practices Co-Leads, PGT Lead, and PGR Lead will evaluate applications and make decisions about the allocation of funds in relation to such bids.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Contact details
PO Box 147
Liverpool
L69 3BX
United Kingdom
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University of Liverpool
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Liverpool
L69 3BX
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2023-09-20 15:00:19