Research projects include: NEW-ADAM programme of interviewing and drug-testing arrestees; racially-aggravated offences: qualitative evaluation of legislation; Cambridge study in delinquent development: long term follow-up; evaluating high-intensity regimes at Thorn Cross and Colchester; Pittsburgh youth survey; study group on very young offenders; detention of asylum seekers: examination of decision to detain; longitudinal reconviction studies of offenders supervised by medium-secure care; pathfinder community service projects: research of Home Office under crime reduction programme; pathways into medium secure care; measuring quality of prison life and locating energy for change; recent developments in criminal law and sentencing; evaluation of closed-circuit television in Cambridge car parks; cost-benefit analysis of street lighting and crime in Dudley, Stoke on Trent and Redbridge; problem-oriented policing, evaluation and best value; pro-social modelling and legitimacy: contribution to effective probation practice; longitudinal reconviction studies of offenders supervised by Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire probation services; role of communication in community penalties in theory and practice; criminal histories of serious traffic offenders.