The Department of Criminology have joined the GERN (Groupement européen de recherche sur les normativités - European  Research Group on norms) network. This is a scientific network that brings together about 40 organisations and researchers from 10 European countries, from a variety of fields. This multidisciplinary group mainly brings together researchers in the areas of sociology, history, political sciences and law and criminology.

Research by the group covers all forms of deviance and social control, particularly delinquency, penal institutions, public policy, security and the place of criminal issues in society. These criminal issues include amongst others:

• Justice
• Policing
• Violence
• Security and prevention public policies
• Criminal law
• Youth justice
• Private security
• Economic and financial delinquency

GERN has developed a range of research seminars, conferences and working groups to enable the members of the group to work together and foster a culture of cooperation and so share knowledge.

The website is mainly in French, but there are some interesting downloadable articles in English.

• Visit the GERN website