22 Jan
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The Copenhagen Centre for Criminology (CCC) unites researchers with a wide range of approaches to studying crime and criminal justice. It stimulates research across disciplines that include law, anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, history, and others. Based on a commitment to diversity – also with respect to theory and empirics – CCC researchers study the connectedness of local and global crime trend. CCC investigates how criminal justice systems work and develop in Scandinavia and across the world as they aim to curb crime and serve other societal functions.
To achieve this, the CCC conducts comprehensive studies of deviant behaviour and criminal justice systems – from policing and court practices to punishment and post-release dynamics.
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What makes CCC unique is that it combines legal and social science expertise in new ways. This enables us to generate new knowledge about crime, punishment, and justice that is both scientifically sound and practically applicable.
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Research projects
The new centre already has several research projects connected to it that will follow the researchers to the centre:
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Anger, legitimised: Amplified anger and its rhetorics of legitimation in the 21st century (ANGLE)
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Developing Environmental Criminal Law – a Sociolegal Study (DE-CLaSS)
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Exceptional Prisoners in Exceptional Prisons (EXCEL)
EXCEL uses order in prisons as a central analytical junction to examine how order is locally understood, negotiated, lost and gained. We examine order and disorder by investigating three different groups of prisoners who pose challenges to order, thereby putting pressure on and making the borders of the welfare state visible. -
Human Traffickers: The social circuits of human trafficking and transnational, organised crime (TRAFFICKER)
- LOCKED. Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands are expanding existing as well as constructing new prison facilities. LOCKED investigates – through participant observation and interviews – what effect prison architecture has on resocialization, safety in prisons and staff’s working environment, including how employees and prisoners use and experience the possibilities and limitations of prison architecture.