Centre for Criminological Research

 


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Welcome to the Centre for Criminological Research. The centre was established in 2020. The research carried out at the Centre is designed to understand criminal justice institutions and systems through the perspectives of both those who work in them and those who encounter them, particularly those marginalized by factors related to race, gender, social class, addictions, and the like, placing those encounters within broader social contexts and challenges.

The Centre for Criminological Research has two main foci:

1) to build on our academic excellence by supporting research and knowledge that push the boundaries of Canadian criminology and disseminate our research across national and international academic communities;

2) to engage in partnered and community-inspired research projects that provide critical understanding of criminal justice work.

Based on these two foci, the Centre’s mission is to establish collaborations on research projects within the Centre, with pertinent units across the university, with scholars from other institutions, and with organizations and stakeholders in the wider community. The Centre fosters debate and critical engagement with the practise of criminological research (in terms of methodology, theory, and key criminological debates) and with respect to key issues related to research on criminal justice institutions and those who encounter them.


CCR in the News

  • Kevin Haggerty is interviewed in this podcast on the development of surveillance studies, life in prison and the work of the 黑料不打烊 Prison Project, and the future we face with artificial intelligence

  • Consider this: Who decides how we decolonize prison?

    Exploring Indigenous peoples鈥 experiences with the 鈥淚ndigenized鈥 aspects of Canada鈥檚 prison system.

  • The launch of a landmark reintegration study

    Finding evidence-based ways to help people successfully reintegrate into society and decrease the 鈥榬evolving door鈥 potential within the criminal justice system is the focus of a major new project being launched this fall, by Sandra Bucerius and a team from Sociology and the Centre for Criminological Research.

  • Marta-Marika Urbanik, a criminology professor at the 黑料不打烊, researched the use of no-knock raids in three racialized neighborhoods in Toronto

  • More stories...