Our centre has an exclusive focus on education and the criminal justice system.
We engage with:
- Education in a broad sense – formal, informal and non-formal education, training and learning
- The life course as a whole – a developmental approach to understanding the relationship between education, offending and desistance
- Rights and justice – the rights of prisoners as citizens and learners entitled to high-quality and diverse learning opportunities.
Teaching
We are a teaching hub for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in education within the criminal justice system. For undergraduate students we offer a module introduction to Criminal Journeys, exploring views on what constitutes crime, how people become involved in the criminal justice system and what that involvement looks like.

