Project Partners

Coordinator: Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Bikrbeck College London (ICPR) – London, UK

The Institute for Criminal Policy Research is part of the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. The School of Law is a leading international centre for world-class legal research and scholarship. renowned law school, offering students the opportunity to study a wide range of subjects under the supervision of nationally and internationally recognised scholars. The Institute for Criminal Policy Research will lead for Birkbeck on the CREATE project. The Institute specialises in empirical research on criminal policy. It has mounted an extensive programme of research on public trust in justice and is acting as coordinating institution for the FP7 EuroJustis project. It has a track-record in managing large-scale evaluations and survey-based work. Until November 2010 it was based at King's College London.

ICPR will coordinate the EUROJUSTIS consortium and manage the EUROJUSTIS project. It will also contribute to all the other WPs. The personnel involved in the project will be:

Mike Hough, Professor of Criminal Policy and Co-Director of ICPR, is a leading British criminologist. He has published extensively on the management and governance of criminal justice, on public trust in justice, on sentencing, policing and on public knowledge of, and attitudes towards, criminal justice. His research has been funded by government, research councils and by charitable trusts. He is currently president of the British Society of Criminology.

Gillian Hunter is a Senior Research Fellow at ICPR. She is a highly experienced qualitative researcher and has extensive experience of evaluative research in criminal justice. Her current research interests include: the treatment of women in the criminal justice system; public perceptions of the legitimacy of court processes; and the role of peer-mentors in work with offenders.

Dr Jessica Jacobson is a Senior Research Fellow at ICPR. Her PhD was on ethnicity and identity and she retains a strong interest in the subject of race and ethnicity. She has undertaken a wide range of studies on topics such as anti-social behaviour, alcohol-related violence, prisoners' experiences, sentencing and public perceptions of justice.

Dr Mai Sato is a Research Fellow at ICPR. Her recently completed PhD research examined attitudes to the death penalty in Japan; in parallel with her PhD research, she worked as research administrator on the Euro-Justis project. She has both quantitative and qualitative research expertise.

Contact: Prof. Mike Hough, m.hough@bbk.ac.uk

Websites: www.bbk.ac.uk/law www.kcl.ac.uk/icpr