Building Sustainable Societies

Security and Justice

The Security and Justice research group brings together scholars from a variety of social sciences disciplines to explore the experiences, perceptions and challenges of (in)security and (in)justice, their causes and consequences.

Incorporating insights from political science, international relations, law, business studies, sociology and criminology, the group is developing an agenda of research that provides novel inter-disciplinary concepts and theoretically-informed understandings of these and allied issues, underpinned by empirical research studies.

The group’s research priorities are organised within the overarching theme of how security and justice contribute to building sustainable societies.

Specific research questions include:

• What is the nature of contemporary security threats and challenges?

• How are threats to security prevented and governed?

• What are the changing meanings and practices of justice that are informed by security concerns?

• What is the nature of the unfolding relationship between security and justice?

The group is exploring these and related priority themes and allied research questions at different scales of analysis – in local, regional, national, transnational and international contexts.

Where possible, the group’s research seeks to provide comparative insights to facilitate contemporary comprehension of the complex and shifting dynamics, interactions and practices of security and justice in the modern world.