Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) is a charity based in the United Kingdom focusing on crime and the criminal justice system. It seeks to bring together people involved in criminal justice through various means, including publications, conferences, and courses.

The Centre was established in 1931 and is based in Vauxhall, London. It publishes The British Journal of Criminology and the quarterly magazine Criminal Justice Matters. The Centre also runs the annual Una Padel Award scheme in the memory of former director Una Padel. It was hosted by King's College London until 2010, and is now affiliated to the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University.

The organisation was established in July 1931 by Grace Pailthorpe (who was a surgeon during the First World War, a Freudian psychotherapist, and later a surrealist artist) as the Association for the Scientific Treatment of Criminals. It was renamed in July 1932 to the Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency, and to the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency (ISTD) in 1951, adopting its current name in 1999.

The ISTD initially had an psychoanalytical approach to crime and criminal justice, and its early members included Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Otto Rank, and Edward Glover. In 1950 the organisation published the first issue of The British Journal of Delinquency, renamed in 1960 The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society which reflected, in Glover's view, "the long distance policy of the ISTD to effect the extension of research into various non-criminal fields of observation". The organisation had an influential role in the development of criminology in the UK following the Second World War.

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