Projects
The VCJN facilitates and coordinates interdisciplinary projects that critically examine the transformation of criminal justice in an increasingly digital environment. By connecting researchers and practitioners across disciplines and jurisdictions, the Network fosters collaborative research on virtual criminal proceedings, procedural fairness, vulnerability, and the future of courtroom technologies. The VCJN serves as a platform for sustained international cooperation, knowledge exchange, and the development of innovative research agendas.
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Beam me up, Scotty! Effective participation to virtual criminal proceedings
NWO funded, Open Competition XS, File number. 406.XS.24.03.041, Grant ID https://doi.org/10.61686/WEGVN2944 The frequent use of video-links in criminal hearings has changed courtroom dynamics, replacing physical presence with virtual…
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E-ViVi. Enhancing Videorecorded Interviews and Virtual Hearings in Europe
This project is co-funded by the European Union.The E-ViVi project aims to improve the ways in which people are heard digitally in criminal proceedings through creating best practice recommendations and strengthening the capacity of criminal…
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The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject (DE210100586)
Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)Digital technologies, specifically audiovisual links and remote communication technologies, are transforming the essential work of criminal…
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VIRTUTRIALS : The elusive role of physicality in virtual trials: Towards a new understanding of legal participation
ERC-ProjectVideo links are widely used in courtrooms across the globe but there is a mounting apprehension that the legitimacy and fairness of trials are threatened by the diminishment of physical interactions this format entails. The problem…
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