Project Partners

The Security and Cohesion Department–Research Unit PACTE of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – Grenoble, France

The Security and Cohesion Department (formerly known as “Security and Society”) belongs to the research unit PACTE (a joint CNRS and Institut d’Etudes Politiques research unit, located at the University of Grenoble). The Department is a national leader in research studies and undergraduate teaching in criminology (at present, taught courses are offered in “policing”, “sentencing”, “governance of security”, “self reported delinquency surveys”, “victimization surveys”, etc.). The Department hosts a Ph.D. programme designed for comparative studies in criminology. Research at the Department focuses on key themes spamming from criminal justice and ethnic minorities to xenophobia. The PACTE research unit of CNRS counts 107 permanent academic members of staff (82 professors and 25 full-time researchers) and a number of research and teaching associates. The Security and Cohesion Department has 5 academic personnel (3 professors and 2 full-time researchers) and hosts in its library a rich collection of books on criminology. The Department organizes on a regular basis conferences and seminars open to criminologists/sociologists from France and all over Europe.

The Security and Cohesion Department will contribute extensively to both the conceptualization of new and improved indicators of public confidence in justice (WP3) and the development of survey-based attitudinal indicators (WP4), with special attention for the attitudes of marginalized groups and ethnic minorities. It will also assist in the dissemination of the project results to the scientific community of sociologists. The personnel involved in the project will be:

Prof. Sebastian Roché (Ph.D.), director of the Security and Cohesion Department, is a leading French scholar in criminology. He has authored ten books, edited two others and published dozens of articles in international journals (e.g. the Revue Française de Science Politique, European Journal of Criminology, the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, the Canadian Journal of Criminology, Crime and Justice).

Guillaume Roux (Ph.D. Grenoble) is an expert on ethnic prejudice, political attitudes and ethnicity in a cross-national perspective. He has published several articles and reports, including (with Nonna Mayer, leading French researcher in the field) Racism and Xenophobia in Europe, Note for the Georges Marshall Fund, 2006 and (forthcoming) “Ethnic Prejudice and Social Capital”, in Heitmeyer W. dir., Prejudice in Europe, Springer International.

Sandrine Astor, statistician and methodologist, has worked on the collection and analysis of numerous official data (court proceedings, police data etc..) as well as surveys (victim, self-reported delinquency) within PACTE and with other organizations. She is associated to the Security and Cohesion Department as an independent consultant.

Contacts: Prof. Sebastian Roché, sroche@upmf-grenoble.fr

Website: http://www.pacte.cnrs.fr/PSS/index.htm