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Welcome to the website of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (ICCJ) at Queen’s University Belfast. The Institute was established in 1995 to develop and promote criminological and criminal justice research aimed at informing policy and practice in Northern Ireland and beyond.
About Us
At its core, the ICCJ has a commitment to the interdisciplinary study of criminology and criminal justice from a range of perspectives including those of law, sociology and psychology among others.
Upcoming Event
ICCJ Annual Lecture 2023 - Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Reuben Miller, University of Chicago
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Each year, nearly 600,000 Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Incarcerated people in the U.S. are met by nearly 45,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions upon release, a supervised society that Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.” In his lecture, Professor Miller will examine the afterlife of mass incarceration, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of cities and altered the contours of American democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago, Detroit, and New York—he will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Audience Q&A will follow.
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