Crime and criminal justice

The Centre's research in Crime and Criminal Justice has focused on crime prevention, police-community relations, work with particular groups of offenders, and the criminal justice process.

Our work in this area includes the Salford University Centre for Prison Studies – the only Centre of its kind outside of London, with more than 150 members and policy partners.

Specialist issues:

• Professor Tim Hope - Crime prevention; 2011 riots
• Professor Neal Hazel - Youth crime; Youth justice; Custodial aftercare; 2011 riots; family violence; community policing
• Dr Muzammil Quraishi - Muslim offenders and prisoners; race and terrorism; comparative criminology
• Dr Elaine Crawley - Prisons and foreign nationals; elderly prisoners; prison staff; prison management
• Dr Tina Patel - Racist violence; race and the criminal justice system
• Dr Jane Kilby - Politics and theory of violence; trauma and testimony of victims
• Dr Michelle Grundy - Domestic violence and the criminal justice system
• Dr Megan O’Neill - Policing studies; Social control and deviance; Surveillance; Community policing and public sector partnership (inter-agency) working
• Ian Cummins - Mental health and the criminal justice system
• Professor Chris Birkbeck - Moral panics and the social construction of crime

Recent projects:

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Recent publications:

• Patel, T. (2010) Policing Racist Incidents in Northern Ireland: Attitudes and Experiences of the PSNI. Journal of Criminal Justice Research
• O’Neill, M. (2010). ‘The police response to crime’. In The International Handbook of Criminology, eds S.G. Shoham, P. Knepper and M. Kett. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
• Patel, T.G. and Tyrer, D. (2011) Race, Crime and Resistance. London, Sage
• Birkbeck C (2011) "Imprisonment and Internment: Comparing Penal Facilities in the Americas". Punishment and Society 13(2)
• Cummins I (2010) Blue Remembered Skills: Mental Health Awareness Training for Police Officers, Journal of Adult Protection. (8/2010)
• Hazel N, Liddle M and Gordon F (2010) Key lessons from the RESET programme – Executive Briefing London: Catch 22.

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