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Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

The Criminal Law and Criminal Justice RDT functions to support faculty members whose research interests and outputs lie in the fields of criminal law theory and doctrine, criminal procedure, criminal justice studies, criminology and victimology. The group focuses its work in the following areas:

1. REF preparation: A key focus for the group is to support faculty members’ preparation for REF 2020. Please send any draft work that you would like the group to read and feedback on to Lucy Welsh. Submitted work is then allocated amongst group members to review. Before submitting work please note the following:
   1. A preliminary REF star rating of work will be given only upon request.
   2. Mentors may also act as formal REF reviewers for their mentee’s work – a decision as to whether mentors should provide informal feedback on early drafts or more formal feedback as part of the REF Review process would be a matter for mentees and mentors to determine.
   3. Reading of non-REF related work will not be a key role for the RDT – of course informal assistance between colleagues in this regard is fine.  
   4. RDT group meetings: The RDT for crime will aim to meet biannually. The Team aims to meet just after the Easter break and after the Summer vacation (September) and. The main purpose of these meetings is to share progress on research and to discuss any issues, problems, good/bad experiences that we may have accounted.
   5. Impact and research income: The RDT Lead is happy to meet individuals on a one-to-one basis to discuss ideas and strategies for enhancing impact-related work and to help members prepare for grant applications. Please just drop by G03 or send an email to arrange a meeting.

Presenting work in progress: The purpose of the Crime Research Development Team is to focus on REF preparations and to have a Law-based group that supports impact and grant-related activities. The group does not host work in progress presentations, invite outside speakers or act as an external Network for research collaboration.  Work-in progress seminars and an external seminars series are run by the Sussex Crime Research Centre.