2018 – Birmingham- July 3-6, 2018
The 2018 British Society of Criminology annual conference will be held in Birmingham, hosted by Birmingham City University – Transforming Criminology: Rethinking Crime in a Changing World.
See the conference website for full information on registration, calls for abstracts and much more.
Keynotes and Spotlighted Participants
As always, our Conference features a range of speakers, lots of time for Q&A, and participation from academics, authors, publishers and practitioners. Below is a list of keynote speakers and partial list of registered participants and their submitted presentation titles to whet your appetite. Please note that the streams have not been decided yet, so please do not email for further details but please report any transcription errors to info@britsoccrim.org:
Edmond Clark, artist-in-residence (2014-2018) at HMP Grendon.
Dr Ben Crewe, Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre and Reader in Penology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
Professor Jeff Ferrell, Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University, USA, and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK.
Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent.
Professor Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University.
Dr Thomas Raymen, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law, Criminology and Government at Plymouth University.
Professor David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Birmingham City University.
| David Wilkin | University of Leicester | Transforming Victim Engagement: Overcoming ethical, practical and interactive constraints to facilitate participation of disability hate crime victims. |
| Camilla De Camargo | Kingston University | Revisiting the Arguments Surrounding Insider/ Outsider Status: The Effects of Being an ‘Outsider’ |
| David Belsham | Griffith University | Yarning with Indigenous Australians about Driver Licensing in Rural and Remote Queensland: Can Driving Simulators Assist in Situational Crime Prevention? |
| David Belsham | University of the Sunshine Coast | Parents Partnering Police to Improve Traffic Law Adherence in Non-compliant Novice Drivers in Sydney, Australia. |
| Robert McLean | University West of Scotland | An Altered State? Emergent Changes To Illicit Drug Markets And Distribution Networks In Scotland |
| Robert McLean | University West of Scotland | Putting the ‘Street’ in Gang: Place and Space in the Organisation of Scotland’s Drug Selling Gangs |
| Robert McLean | University West of Scotland | Assault as a Socially Acceptable and even Encouraged Practice amongst Subcultural Gangs in Scotland |
| Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour | University of Otago | Experiential Learning by Criminology Students in a Prison Setting |
| Jose Pina-Sanchez | University of Leeds | Have the Guidelines Increased Sentencing Severity? New Evidence Based on all Disposal Types and a Random Sample of Twenty Major Offences |
| Jane Monckton Smith | University of Gloucestershire | Intimate Partner Homicide: An eight stage temporal sequence |
| Anastasia Powell | Associate Professor, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University | Crime and Justice in Digital Society |
| Victoria Canning | The Open University | Exoborders and Endoborders: the Harms of Bureaucratic Controls in British, Danish and Swedish Asylum Systems |
| Xavier L’Hoiry | University of Sheffield | ‘Playing nicely together’ – The opportunities and challenges of cross-force police collaborations |
| Rafe McGregor | Leeds Trinity University | Narrative Counter-Terror: Demystification, Deliverance, and Debilitation |
| David J. Cox and Mr Joseph Hale | University of Wolvehampton | “It’s the man that can gammon the chaplain best – he gets the ticket of leave”: Public perceptions of early release licensing systems in England 1853-2018 |
| Lauren Hall | Sheffield Hallam University | The Social Components of Recovery and Desistance |
| Lauren Hall | Sheffield Hallam University | Prisons – The Kirkham Family Connectors (KFC) Prisoner Resettlement Programme |
| Hannah Bows and Pamela Davies | Teesside University | Gendered Violence in Old Age: Is a life-course approach to crime and victimisation the answer? |
| Louise Ridley and Paul Biddle | Northumbria University | Rethinking imprisonment for older male prisoners |
| Andy Williams | Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth | Digilante Disclosures: An Exploratory Online Ethnography of Paedophile Hunters |
| Eleanor Peters | Edge Hill University | The construction of ‘deviant’ music and its role in crime and harms |
| Alesha L. Cameron | University of Central Florida, U.S.A | Understanding the complexities of campus protection: A meta-analysis of self-defense programming. |
| Mateja Vuk | University of West Georgia | The Link between Subjective Perceptions of Time in Prison and Objective Measures of Time Utilization |
| Courtney Marsh | Trinity College Dublin | An Garda Síochána: Culture, challenges, and change |
| Ebobo Urowoli Christiana | National Open University of Nigeria | Dynamics of Shifting Boundaries of Females in the Family: A Drift in the Sphere of Female Criminality in Nigeria |
| Emeritus Professor Sandy McGunigall-Smith and Elizabeth Snyder | Utah Valley University | Re-interviewing death row prisoners twenty years on. |
| David Baker | Coventry University | I didn’t realise how bad it was until it actually happened to us: Families experiences of deaths after police contact in the United States. |
| David Honeywell | University of York | Betwixt and between: Liminalities within desistance |
| Clare Gunby | Department of Criminology, University of Leicester | ‘And occasionally you can be reduced to tears’: Exploring how emotional taint impacts the work of rape barristers |
| Kelly Stockdale | York St. John University | Exploring Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and Police Custody |
| Mwenda Kailemia | Keele University | Africa’s last cigarette: Environmental crimes and the invisible apparatus of transnational ideology that sustains it. |
| Claire Vilarrubi | Leeds Trinity University | Identification, development and maintenance of personal agency in young women and girls at risk of offending |
| Shuping Tzeng | Department of Criminology, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan | Applying DEMATEL to Investigate the Relationship between Factors Affecting Counsels’ Decision-Making in Taiwan |
| Craig Collie | University of Portsmouth | Enhancing our understanding “capable” guardianship via child abduction prevention research |
| Mary Iliadis | Deakin University | Providing a check on prosecutorial decision-making: an analysis of the Victims’ Right to Review Reform |
| Ngina Chiteji | New York University (USA) | How will ex-offenders cope with old age? |
| Julie Parsons | University of Plymouth | Visualising desistance dialogues through social media platforms and the benefits of imagined social capital for ‘offenders’ working at a resettlement scheme (RS). |
| Nicoletta Policek | University of Cumbria | Statelessness as a site of fear |
| Alex Antwi | Mountcrest University College | Inmate Subculture and Criminal Recidivism in Ghana |
| Sylvia Walby, Jude Towers and Brian Francis | Lancaster University | Data and the transformation of criminology |
| Karen Heimer and Janet Lauritsen | University of Iowa | |
| Min Xie | University of Maryland | |
| Jinney Smith and James Lynch | University of Maryland | |
| Alexandra M Uibariu | University of Portsmouth | The Case for a Critical Criminology of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) |
| Andrew Kelly | University of New South Wales | The non-transformative qualities of the police use of Facebook for community policing |
| Katherine Doolin | Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand | ‘Going Inside’: the potentialities and pitfalls of restorative justice encounters in prison from the perspective of victims-survivors |
| Nontyatyambo Pearl Dastile | University of South Africa | Unveiling the mask beyond the General 28 and Twelve Koenie gang’s persona: a black criminologist journey with two prison gangs in a maximum South African correctional centre |
| Michael Osei | Surrey University | Against the odds: why do some young men resist joining gangs? |
| Ruth Mckie | De Montfort University | Where are all the Songbirds ? A Green Criminological Examination of the Songbird Poaching Epidemic and Pathways to Conservation in Cyprus. |
| James Heydon | University of Lincoln | Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice |
| James Heydon | University of Lincoln | Greening the Concept of State Crime |
| Clement Ahuruonye Chukwunka | Criminology and Security Studies Department, National Open University of Nigeria, Plot 91 Cadastral Zone, Jabi, Abuja | The Emerging Issues in Tramadol Substance Abuse among the Youths in Abuja, Nigeria |
| Tully O’Neill | RMIT University, Melbourne | Sexual violence and digital ethics: the implications of researching online disclosures in the post- #MeToo era |
| Harshil Daivagnabhai Mehta | Pandit Deendayalpetroleum University | Revamping India’s Counter Terrorism Approach with special reference to National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) |
| Zhang Xiaoye | City University of Hong Kong | Mobilizing the ‘Perfect’ Legitimacy: Offender Reform as Social Control in Chinese Prison |
| Mia Scally | Middlesex University | Women’s experiences of child custody in the context of intimate partner violence and abuse |
| Lena Y. Zhong | City university of Hong Kong | The politics of wrongful conviction in China |
| Kevin Hoffin | Birmingham City University | The ‘From Villain to Hero Initiative’- Transforming Criminology teaching through the medium of comic books. |
| Susie Atherton | University of Northampton | Examining the transformation of ‘community’ through criminal justice processes: Voices from practitioners |
| Nicola Henry | RMIT University | Image-based Abuse: Perpetrators, Victims and Criminal Justice |
| Jennifer Sloan Rainbow and Jaime Waters | Sheffield Hallam University | Emotional Awareness in Criminological Research |
| Jennifer Sloan Rainbow and Jaime Waters | Sheffield Hallam University | The Challenges of Prison Researching |
| Macpherson Uchenna Nnam and Mary Sorochi Out | Department of Criminology and Security Studies, Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (FUNAI), PMB 1010, Ebonyi State, Nigeria | Does the Drug-Recidivism Nexus Exists in Nigeria: A Sociological Criminology Perspective |
| Nick Gibbs | Formally Birmingham City University, soon to be Northumbria University (starting PhD 1st October 2018) | Working Out Gender: Masculinity in Post-modern Gym Culture |
| Brenda Midson | University of Waikato | Defending young killers: developmental immaturity |
| Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal | Stonehill College | Globalization and forced eviction: An exploration of an obscured crime of the powerful |
| Charlotte Barlow, Dr Kelly Johnson, Prof Sandra Walklate | Lancaster University | The Coercive Control Offence and Implications for the Policing of Domestic Abuse |
| Sandra Walkate and Dr Kate Fitzgibbon | University of Liverpool | Coercive Control: A clinical or a legal concept? Problems and possibilities. |
| Julia Wire and Andy Myhill | College of Policing | Pilot of revised risk assessment tool for frontline police officers |
| Tom Daems and Danique Gudders | Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven | Penal policy transfer in a small country: understanding the introduction and development of electronic monitoring in Belgium |
| Tom Daems | Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven | Victims and solidarity: a functionalist approach |
| Razia Anjum, Zaqia Bano and Asif Hussain | Government College Women University, Sialkot, Pakistan | Temperament as Predictor of Delinquent Behaviors among Prisoners |
| Beth Collinson | Sheffield Hallam University | Promoting Recovery through Engagement with Community Assets |
| Lauren Stevens | University of Portsmouth | In the shadow of prison’: A critical ethnography into the implications of incarceration on prisoners’ families within the prison Visits Centre. |
| Nicola Harding | Leeds Trinity University | Co-constructing Feminist Research: understanding the experiences of criminalised women |
| David Pritchard | Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth | ‘Welcome to Hell’ – Protest events in contemporary democracies |
| Kabiru Abubakar Garba, Dr. Dalhatu A. Saidu, Abdulwahab Sani, Hussaini A. Hussain | Federal Ploytechnic Bauchi, Nigeria | The causes and effect of drug and substance abuse among young female children in Bauchi State of Nigeria |
| Billie McNeill | University of Hull | The impact of current legislation upon indoor sex workers involved in prostitution in English cities |
| Ben Colliver | Kingston University London | Transforming the Landscape of Hate: A Critical Analysis of ‘Everyday’ and ‘Mundane’ Transphobic Hate Crime |
| Muhammad Asif and Don Weenink | Group Violence Research Program, Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Culture-Violence Link: The Role of Cultural Moral Imperatives endorsing Vigilante Violence |
| Kate Strudwick, Suzanne Young, Nicola Cadet and Natacha Harding | University of Lincoln | Learning journeys- Meeting the challenges |
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A new Blog posting gives a taste of the conference:
Previous recent conferences
2017 – BSC Annual Conference -Sheffield – Forging Social Justice: Local Challenges, Global Complexities
2016 – BSC Annual Conference – Nottingham – Inequalities in a diverse world
2015 – BSC Annual Conference – Plymouth – Criminology: Voyages of critical discovery
2014 – BSC Annual Conference – Liverpool – Crime, Justice, Welfare: Can the Metropole listen?
2013 – BSC Annual Conference – Wolverhampton – Criminology on Trial
2012 – BSC Annual Conference – Portsmouth – Criminology at the Borders
2011 – BSC Annual Conference – Northumbria – Economies and Insecurities of Crime and Justice
2010 – BSC Annual Conference – Leicester – Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Dilemmas and Diversity in Criminology
2009 – BSC Annual Conference, Cardiff – A Mirror or a Motor? What is Criminology For?
2008 – BSC Annual Conference, Huddersfield – Criminological Futures: Controversies, Developments and Debate
2007 – BSC Annual Conference, London
2006 – BSC Annual Conference, Glasgow
2005 – BSC Annual Conference, Leeds – Re-Awakening the Criminological Imagination
2004 – BSC Annual Conference, Portsmouth
2003 – BSC Annual Conference, Bangor
2002 – BSC Annual Conference, Keele
The BSC conference, previously bi-annual, began to take place annually from 2002
2000 – BSC Annual Conference, Leicester
1999 – BSC Annual Conference, Liverpool
1997 – BSC Conference, Belfast
1995 – BSC Conference, Loughborough
1993 – BSC Conference, Cardiff
1991 – BSC Conference, York
1989 – BSC Conference, Bristol
1987 – BSC Conference, Sheffield
Turning Presentations into Publications
For publications, also see Papers from the British Criminology Conference and consider turning your presentation into a publication.