Welcome
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Police Studies is situated with the School of Social Sciences on the Hamilton Campus. It has developed from Hamilton’s association of over thirty years with the Scottish Police Service in the field of police higher education. In particular, it now carries forward the work undertaken by the Scottish Centre for Police Studies, formed in 2003 to provide a basis of research and publication on various aspects of policing in Scotland.
Whilst retaining and developing its interests in policing research, the Centre is broadening the scope of its interests to other areas, including the Scottish criminal justice system, prisons, money-laundering and asset recovery, and youth justice.
The scope of activities undertaken include the following:
- The provision of an undergraduate B.A. (Honours) degree in Criminal Justice.
- Supervision of postgraduate master’s and doctoral students.
- Undertaking funded research projects.
- Continuing professional development programmes for criminal justice agencies, voluntary organisations and part-time students.
- Knowledge transfer activities such as the publication of research bulletins and papers.
- Collaborating in the activities of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.
- Providing services for consultancy, practitioner research and media information.