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Centre for Criminology

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Welcome to the Centre for Criminology

The Centre is dedicated to pursuing an innovative programme of criminological research and to delivering high-quality graduate education in criminology at both masters and doctoral level.

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A welcome from our Director, Professor Rachel Condry

Rachel Condry

The Centre is home to a vibrant programme of inter-disciplinary research across questions of criminalisation, justice, punishment, security, and victimisation. We focus on these topics in many jurisdictions across the global north and global south. We treat criminology as a field of enquiry where questions of order, justice and control around the globe are brought into conversation with the larger concerns of the social sciences, and social and political theory, with such matters as decolonialism, gender, political economy, race, and the futures for a climate-changed planet.

We deliver high-quality graduate education in criminology to students from across the world, studying on both masters and doctoral programmes, and engage with policy-makers, practitioners, and civil society across a wide range of settings. Our community of staff, students and alumni look forward to sharing our work with you.

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Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis Discussion Group

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Police and Policing Research Discussion Group

Southernising Criminology

All Souls Seminar Series - 2024-25

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News

Professor Leila Ullrich to explore women’s labour in counterterrorism efforts

22 October 2025
Leila Ullrich
Associate Professor of Criminology

Professor Rachel Condry to co-lead new Oxford Martin Programme researching alternatives to imprisonment

14 October 2025
Rachel Condry
Professor of Criminology

Advancing the global conversation around the death penalty

08 September 2025

Upcoming Events

11

December

2025

5th International Conference on Punishment In The Global Peripheries

Event time

09:00 - 17:00

Venue

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Past Events

04

December

2025

Week 8: Juvenile Justice and Qualitative Research

Event time

14:15 - 15:15

Venue

Centre for Criminology

02

December

2025

Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method

Event time

16:15 - 17:30

Venue

Centre for Criminology Seminar Room

Speaker(s)

Dr SM Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights in the Department of Gender Studies at LSE

27

November

2025

Sanctuary, Safety, and Sacrilege

Event time

15:30 - 17:00

Venue

Wharton Room - All Souls College (and online)

Speaker(s)

Marina Warner, All Souls College, Oxford

Related blogs

Genocide- The Crime of Crimes: William Schabas on the Legacy and Limits of the Genocide Convention

22 July 2025

Theorising Domestic Abuse In India

23 May 2025

Being Watched: The Aftermath of Covert Policing

25 March 2025

Rethinking the Romanticisation of Community-Based Approaches in Anti-Carceral Feminist Theorisation

24 March 2025

A Call to Action: Future Scholars Must Provide Further Enlightenment On The Currently Shaded Notion Of The ‘Aftermath Of Covert Policing’.

21 March 2025

All Souls Blog: Contesting Racialized Policing in France: How Activists Challenge the Epistemic Power of the Police

25 February 2025

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    • 50th Anniversary
      • 50th Anniversary Campaign
      • 50th Anniversary Events
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  • Global Criminal Justice Hub
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