Criminal Justice Centre

About Us

The Criminal Justice Centre is home to an internationally renowned group of criminal justice scholars, whose expertise spans a wide variety of areas, including comparative criminal justice, criminology, criminal law theory and practice, criminalisation, the criminal process, policing, border criminologies, international criminal law, transitional and restorative justice, the sociology and the philosophy of punishment, and prison research. The Centre's members are socially and critically engaged and keen to hear from the local community, as well as media and national and international organisations.

Research at the CJC is inherently interdisciplinary. Although hosted at the School of Law, the Centre has members from many other departments in the University of Warwick, including Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Politics and International Studies, French Studies, and the Warwick Business School.

The CJC's main purpose is to foster research and collaboration among its members. Every year, it holds a series of events, workshops, conferences, and a range of impact and public engagement activities. It also hosts leading scholars and early-career researchers through its visitors' programme, and organises events for its PhD community.