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Many Women, Many Feminisms: Varied Responses to Violence against Women

28 March 2024

On 8 March 2024, the Justice and Society Research Centre at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge organised a hybrid research seminar to mark International Women’s Day 2024. The seminar invited reflections from leading experts in the field of violence against women including Zeynep Kaya (University of...

Inequality in Youth Justice Decision-Making Research Symposium

12 February 2024

Earlier this month, Caroline Lanskey and Yannick van den Brink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) organized an online symposium for over 100 youth justice practitioners on ‘Inequality in youth justice decision making: A comparative study of underlying mechanisms and possible solutions’. During the symposium, they presented...

Exciting things ahead!

15 August 2023

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Justice & Society Research Centre, an exciting new research centre at the Institute of Criminology. The Centre has its roots in the previous Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice, which has been rebranded and relaunched to recognise the work and focus of the...

Remote Supervision: Getting the Balance Right New research report

21 December 2020

The CCGSJ jointly with the Research Unit of the Kent Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company has published a timely report examining probation supervision practice in response to the Covid-19 panedemic. You can read more about this work and download the report here

Families and Imprisonment Research Conference - new speakers announced

28 May 2019

The Families and Imprisonment Research Study is holding a conference on 25 June 2019. Recently announced and additional speakers include: Dr. Daniel McCarthy and Dr. Maria Adams, University of Surrey; Professor Peter Scharff-Smith, University of Oslo; Dr. Susie Hulley, University of Cambridge; Dr. Shona Minson, University...

Invitation to the 22nd Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture

29 January 2019

The twenty-second annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture will be hosted by the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge on Friday 22 March 2019 at 12.30pm Probation Vision and Values: Looking to the Future There will be presentations from a distinguished panel of leading probation researchers and practitioners...

Welcome to the Learning Together Summer Newsletter

4 July 2018

The Learning Together team has produced a summer newsletter. Click here to read about celebrations, new projects, get togethers and creativity. Oh - and the opportunity to join them at the Great South Run in October.

Why Punish? The Twenty-first Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture by Prof Rob Canton Watch and listen again

11 April 2018

Why Punish? The 2018 Bill McWilliams Lecture. Watch or Listen Again The video and audio recording of Prof Rob Canton's lecture 'Why Punish?' are now available here

Human smugglers operate as 'independent traders'

2 February 2018

Dr Paolo Campana's recently published research shows no “Mafia-like” monopoly of routes from Africa into Europe via the Mediterranean. Instead, myriad independent smugglers compete in open markets that have emerged at every stage of the journey. You can read more about this research here. Dr Campana's article is published...

Prof Gelsthorpe contributes to the debate about women and sentencing

21 December 2017

Loraine Gelsthorpe has a recent article entitled ‘Equal and Different’ in the ‘Scottish Justice Matters Journal: Women and Justice, Are We Making Progress?’ As noted by the Thematic Editor for this edition, Anne Pinkman, ‘collectively these articles have provided evidence of the substantial progress made over the past 5...