Cambridge Institute of Criminology
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The [[Cambridge]] Institute of [[Criminology]] was founded in [[1959]], with the support of a benefaction from the Wolfson Foundation and the [[Howard League for Penal Reform]]. It is part of the [[University of Cambridge]]'s Faculty of Law, but its multidisciplinary teaching and research staff are also recruited from [[Sociology]], [[Psychiatry]] and [[Psychology]]. The Institute has a very active programme of funded research on a wide variety of topics - recent projects have included work on criminal careers, community policing, the effectiveness of community penalties, mentally disordered offenders, and incentives-based prison regimes. The Institute's Library, named after Sir [[Leon Radzinowicz]], has one of the world's largest collections relating to crime, criminal justice and related topics.
The Institute offers a number of different courses, including a nine-month taught course in Criminology for the MPhil Degree (the largest full-time postgraduate Criminology course in the UK); a PhD programme; various courses for undergraduate degrees; a MSt/Diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Management (part-time) open to potential chief police officers and personnel working in senior positions within police forces; and a MSt/Diploma in Applied Criminology, Penology and Management (Prison Studies) (part-time) open to senior prison officers; and a Cropwood Fellowship Programme to enable four practitioners a year to participate in a 12 week period of intensive research.
==External links==
* [http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk Cambridge Institute of Criminology]
[[Category:Departments of the University of Cambridge]]