CRiS is made up out of four research lines. These research lines are thematically clustered into four different categories. We undertake critical and multidisciplinary research in Youth Criminology, Penology, Urban Criminology, and Policing and Surveillance. CRiS scholarship focuses on the experiences and perceptions of crime control actors and of those subjected to crime control.
We study penal practices and cultures in prison and in community sanctions, focusing on the experiences of different actors.
We focus on how policing practices and cultures are experienced, including surveillance technologies to monitor public spaces.
We study responses to deviant acts committed by young people, including their experience of the judicial system.
We explore how urban spaces influence crime, its incidence, prevention, control and punishment.