Strategic Research Programme (SRP): Crime& Society: New challenges

The Strategic Research Programme (SRP) "Crime& Society: New challenges" will build on the increasing cooperation between our four research lines (Penality and Society, Policing and Surveillance, Youth Justice studies, Crime and the City) to approach cutting-edge areas in criminology and society in an integrated manner.

The programme focuses on the experiences of both clients and crime control/public order professionals with human rights, technology and social exclusion, and on how these experiences shape their practices. In doing so, we will reflect in-depth on the methodological, ethical and theoretical implications of our approach.

OrG Knowledge Cluster

Empirical

Human Rights

We focus on how human rights are experienced, used or resisted by those subject to, as well as those who exercise, crime control and public order.

Leaders

Sonja Snacken

Els Dumortier

Researcher

Diete Humblet

OrG Knowledge Cluster

Experiencing

Technology

We focus on the role of technology in the lived experiences of those subjected to crime control and public order, and the practices of professional actors who enforce it.

Leaders

Kristel Beyens

Lucas Melgaço

Researcher

Lior Volinz

OrG Knowledge Cluster