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School of Social Sciences

Preet Nijhar - Research

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Research Interests

Preet Nijhar’s primary research interests are in developing criminological understanding of justice and ethnic issues in a comparative context – specifically in postcolonial societies, with particular reference to India. Her work engages with a range of critical approaches to law and crime. To this end, it includes postcolonial theory, socio-legal studies and a historically-informed criminal justice perspective, especially as they relate to law’s violence, crimes and empire. Her research crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and challenges distinctions between private and public transgressions, crimes of empire, genocidal massacres, violence and abuses in its new global forms.

 

Research Grants

2006 - £700 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, to present a paper at the Critical Legal Conference, NLASAR, University of Law, Hyderabad, India

2003 - £35.000 shared grant from Office of the First Minister, Northern Ireland, into ‘Spousal abuse’.

2003- £10,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Office for research into: ‘Criminal justice co-operation across shared land borders’.

2002- £15,000 grant from Leverhulme Trust for research on ‘Secondary Victimisation.’