Understanding demand use & resources
The University of Nottingham expertise
The environment in which criminal justice agencies operate is continually changing, and this raises both difficulties and opportunities for those seeking to ensure that staff and organisations have the right skills and capability to meet current, new and emerging risks, threats and harms.
The University of Nottingham is uniquely positioned to assist in the development of capacity and capability across all organisational levels. Our academics have an international reputation for intellectually rigorous and critically engaged work that enables organisations to better understand the demands placed on services and how to optimise resources to deliver coherent capabilities and improved capacity.
Key areas of expertise include:
- Organisational development and reform
- Leadership, governance and culture
- Occupational health, capacity and capability
- International collaboration
Case studies
Organisational wide evidence-based policing
The Better Policing Collaboration are currently developing an evidence-based policing programme, and a regional centre of expertise...
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Professor Eddie Kane and Dr Melanie Jordan, working as part of the Better Policing Collaboration (a network of universities, commercial and third sector partners, led by the Centre for Health and Justice at the Institute of Mental Health) are currently developing an evidence based policing programme, and a regional centre of expertise, for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies and Police and Crime Commissioners.
The three year programme includes development of a range of education opportunities to Masters level, experimental research, systematic reviews, community surveys and the development of an evidence based strategy.
The programme of delivered activities is intended to promote organisational change so that evidence based policing permeates the daily work of forces and aims to secure leadership succession through development of an increasing number of evidence based policing oriented staff at all levels.
Strengthening the capacity of criminal justice institutions to investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes
The research undertaken by Professor Olympia Bekou identifies the key challenges impeding the capacity to investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes...
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National and international criminal justice institutions gain, through ‘legal tools’, universal access to legal information and to analytical legal frameworks which facilitate the efficient and effective administration of international criminal justice.
The distinctive significance of the research is that it tackles these challenges by: providing global access to legal information; facilitating the transfer of legal knowledge, expertise and skills; and enhancing capacity in post-conflict states.
The research uses new technologies to enhance institutional capacity and improve the administration of criminal justice in response to atrocities. It involves research outputs in the form of academic publications and legal databases, such as the Legal Tools Database.
The capacity of international criminal justice institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) and state agents to investigate and prosecute the most serious international crimes has been significantly strengthened as a result of Professor Bekou’s research.