Staff within the department of Law and Criminal Justice Studies strongly believe that high quality teaching must be underpinned and enriched by ongoing research and knowledge exchange work. All departmental staff are engaged in one or more of these activities and consider this continuing professional development to be an essential part of their role, both within the university and within the wider arena of their disciplinary area.

Research

Research is an essential part of the development of any discipline. Members of departmental staff engage in, and have experience of, a wide range of research from small-scale local criminal justice initiatives to government funded national evaluation research. Current research includes work into restorative justice, community safety in post-conflict communities, domestic violence in immigrant communities, sexual violence, miscarriages of justice, corporate social responsibility and international relations.

The department currently has six PhD students engaged in doctoral research focusing upon psychological dynamics of police identity parades, perceptions of legitimacy amongst public protestors, the impact of drug policy on drug users and practitioners, the role of national and organisational cultures on voluntarism in police contexts, democratic policing and firearms training.

Selected Staff Publications|

Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge transfer partnerships are currently developed in all areas of the department via the Criminal Justice Practice| (CJP) which offers applied research, evaluation, consultancy and training to the criminal justice sector. We have performed knowledge exchange work with Europol, Thanet Council and the NPIA amongst others. More details of this work are available here|.