BRITISH SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY

ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012

University of Portsmouth
Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
4–6 July 2012

The conference will be themed around ‘Criminology at the borders’.  A postgraduate conference will be held prior to the main conference (3–4 July).

The conference coincides with the twentieth anniversary of ICJS and will look to bring together academics and practitioners operating at the cutting edge of thinking on crime and justice.

Conference streams will focus on: Criminology at the Edge – challenging disciplinary boundaries within criminological discourses. Borderless Crime and Boundless Insecurities – cyber crime, international and organised crime; policing and law enforcement across national boundaries. Comparative and Global Criminology – criminology between and across national borders. Criminal Justice at the Edge – working across sector and organisational boundaries. Crimes of the Powerful – Crimes of the Powerless. Crime Cultures – fictional meets factional imageries of crime and justice. Teaching Criminology: ‘Blended Learning’? – new developments in teaching and learning in undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral criminological programmes.

The programme includes keynote talks from:

• Katja Franko Aas, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo. Her research interests include globalisation, borders, security and the surveillance of everyday life. She is currently working on a project about the impact of immigration on criminal justice.
• David Garland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the American Society of Criminology, and a Fellow-Designate of the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral
  Sciences in Stanford, CA. He has held visiting positions at universities in Belgium and the US, and was a Davis Fellow in Princeton University’s history department. In 2006 he was awarded a JS Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on capital punishment and American society.
• Roger Hood, recognised internationally as one of the leading scholars on capital punishment. From 1987–89 he was President of the British Society of Criminology. He is a
  member of the Foreign Secretary’s Death Penalty Panel, is consultant on the death penalty to the Great Britain-China Centre, and a Trustee of the Grendon Friends Trust and The
  Death Penalty Project.
• Sharon Shalev, Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies. Dr Shalev’s
  main research interest is the use of solitary confinement in prisons and other places of detention, and she has authored various publications on the subject. Her latest book,
  Supermax: controlling risk through solitary confinement was awarded the British Society of Criminology’s Book Prize for 2010.
  

Features of the 2012 conference include:

• Special workshops on ‘marine crime and marine law enforcement’ and ‘military crimes and military justice’.
• A gala dinner, hosted on board the nineteenth-century ship HMS Warrior.
• Readings from local crime writers to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.
• Access to the Portsmouth City Museum Sherlock Holmes collection.
  

The call for papers will be open January 2012.

For more information or to book a place on the conference, please visit www.port.ac.uk/bsc2012.

T: 023 9284 3986
E: bsc2012@port.ac.uk