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The Centre for Prison Studies was launched in November 2008 as part of Salford University’s Centre for Social Research. SUCPS is the only Centre of its kind outside of London.
Under the Directorship of Dr. Elaine Crawley, the Centre aims to provide a forum in which academics and prison practitioners can meet via conferences, seminars and informal workshops and to begin to close the apparent ‘gap’ between the knowledge of prisons held by academics (often thought by practitioners to be irrelevant to ‘real’ prison life) and the ‘sharp end’ knowledge of prisons held by those who work in them (knowledge that has for far too long been undervalued and/or ignored).
The membership of the SUCPS aims to be multi-disciplinary, and already includes individuals from a variety of academic disciplines and professions, including the Prison Service, Criminology, European Studies, Sociology, Intelligence Studies, Social Care; Mental Health, Social Work and Probation.