United Kingdom - Research institutions

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Institutes under police forces or ministries or justice

• Scottish Institute for Policing Research
• National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) – with a research unit
• Home Office:

  • Home Office Science, Research and Statistics
  • Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB)

Independent institutes and non-police universities

• Applied Criminology Centre - University of Huddersfield
• Centre for Crime and Justice Studies - King's College London
• Centre for Criminal Justice Studies - University of Leeds
• Crime & Justice Research Group (CJRG) - Cardiff University
• Department of Criminology - University of Leicester
• Department of Law Research Group - University of Wolverhampton
• Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS) - University of Portsmouth
• Institute of Criminology - University of Cambridge
• International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) - The Open University
• International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG) - Teesside University
• International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology (IRCIP) - University of Huddersfield
• Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology - University of Cambridge
• Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science - University College London
• The John Grieve Centre for Policing & Community Safety - London Metropolitan University
• Mannheim Centre for Criminology - The London School of Economics and Political Science
• Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice - Loughborough University

Jointly managed/funded police and non-police organisations

Universities´ Police Science Institute (UPSI)