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.
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
Researcher
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
Researcher
Knowledge Cluster
SOCIAL
EXCLUSION
We focus on the relation between the new ‘precarity-crime-control-complex’, including experience of “members” of the new precariat.
Leaders
Jenneke Christiaens, Els Enhus
and Sofie De Kimpe
Researcher
Knowledge Cluster
METHODOLOGY, ETHICS
AND THEORY
We focus on the impact of our work and how we should work, including visual/creative methods in voicing vulnerable groups.
Leaders
Researcher
Management Commitee
Lucas Melgaço, Programme Coordinator
Advisory Board
Prof. Jan Terpstra, Radboud Universiteit (NL)
Prof. Barry Goldson, University of Liverpool (UK)
Prof. Elena Larrauri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
Prof. Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge (UK)