MICS - Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences

Over MICS - Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences

The Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences (MICS) is a bridge, connecting criminal law and procedure with criminology, (legal) psychology, and forensic sciences, and providing an intellectual home for researchers working across these fields. This pluralistic composition is central to MICS’s understanding of crime as a complex social, legal, and epistemic phenomenon that cannot be captured from a single disciplinary perspective. In addition to studying the law in the books and the law in action, research at MICS critically examines the normative, cognitive, and operational assumptions that underlie criminal policy, law-making, and legal practice. A defining feature of this work is its context-sensitive orientation: legal rules, institutions, and decision-making processes are analysed in relation to their social, technological, and institutional environments, as well as the lived realities of those subject to criminal justice interventions.

Reflecting this pluralistic concept of criminal justice, research at MICS encompasses both foundational and doctrinal legal scholarship and work that engages with comparative, empirical, and creative methodologies. Rather than prescribing a single research mode, MICS brings together researchers working from different methodological and disciplinary positions within a shared scholarly community. It is through this community-based exchange that critical spirit is cultivated, allowing researchers to take a step back from doctrinal detail or practical urgency and engage in deeper, reflective, and critical analysis of criminal justice systems across contexts.

Adres

• Hoofdkantoor

  Bouillonstraat6211LH MaastrichtLimburg, Nederland

Team per functiegebied

Gebaseerd op 2 openbare functieprofielen, stand van 4 september 2026.

• Education / Training1
• Other / Unclassifiable1