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Latest news

Criminology is lagging behind

Published in the Issue 2025/3 of the ESC Newsletter

Dr Sandy Schumann, Winner of the First ENOC Open Criminology Award

Recognised for advancing transparency, collaboration, and open science in criminology

Public ideas for crime and criminal justice research – an open dataset from Ireland

Publishing a new dataset on public attitudes (to crime and criminal justice research in Ireland)

Open Criminology at the British Society of Criminology Postgraduate Event

Prof Iain Brennan delivers ‘open criminology’ workshop

Activities of the European Network for Open Criminology for EUROCRIM2024

Advancing open research at the 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology

Workshop: Open Science and Open Data in European Criminological Research

Event organised at the University of Cologne

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