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The Australian Institute of Criminology
https://www.aic.gov.au/
is the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information. The Institute draws on information from a wide variety of sources to provide independent policy advice.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk
encourages and facilitates debate and understanding of the complex nature of crime-related issues. They also publish Criminal Justice Matters.
The Centre for Criminology
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-criminology/centre-criminology
at the University of Oxford is engaged in a range of empirical research of central importance to criminal and penal policy.
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
https://cstpv.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
aims to investigate the roots of political violence, to develop a body of theory spanning its various disparate elements, and to study the impact of violence, and responses to it, at societal, governmental, and international levels.
The International Centre for Prison Studies
www.prisonstudies.org
in King's College, University of London, is independent of governmental and intergovernmental agencies. It aims to help develop appropriate policies on imprisonment.
The Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/organisational-structure/our-academic-structure/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/school-of-criminology-and-criminal-justice
at the University of Portsmouth is the UK's largest provider of Higher Educational course programmes for the Police and other criminal justice agencies. They are committed to quality and diversity, coupled with a value-base which prioritises human rights, good governance and professional standards in criminal justice.
The Centre of Criminology (Cape Town)
http://www.criminology.uct.ac.za/
is a research unit linked to the Department of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. The Institute's aim is to initiate, co-ordinate and develop research and extension services in the broad field of criminology.
The Institute of Criminology (Sydney)
http://sydney.edu.au/law/criminology/index.shtml
is part of the University of Sydney, Australia. It is dedicated to public education. Its primary functions are teaching, research, publications and public education on criminal justice issues.
The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
www.jdi.ucl.ac.uk/index.php
is the first in the world devoted specifically to reducing crime. It does this through teaching, research, public policy analysis and by the dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction.
The Korean Institute of Criminology
https://www.kicj.re.kr/international/
aims to scientifically analyse criminal issues to assist in developing and formulating criminal justice policies in Korea.
The Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice
https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/Mannheim
is a multidisciplinary centre incorporating staff from across the London School of Economics. The Centre is one of the largest criminological groupings in Europe. It provides teaching, research, and conferences, seminars and public events, including the Mannheim/British Society of Criminology seminar series.
The University of Leicester Department of Criminology
https://le.ac.uk/cssp
has expertise in a number of criminological areas including policing, public disorder, crime & punishment, racism & ethnicity, and crime prevention.
The University of Tuebingen's Institute of Criminology
www.ifk.jura.uni-tuebingen.de
has a superb, wide-ranging list of international criminal justice links on its web site. Well worth a visit.
The University of Bedfordshire Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime
https://www.humanities.org.uk/infrastructures/1052
undertakes applied criminological research in the areas of youth crime, youth justice, policing and community safety.