Regional Groups

Regional Groups

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There are currently ten regional groups of the BSC – also see Regional Events and Archived Events

• Scotland
• Wales
• Northern Ireland
• North East
• Yorkshire and Humberside
• North West
• Midlands
• South (inc. London)
• South Coastal
• South West

– also see Regional Events

Scotland

Contact: Professor Michele Burman, University of Glasgow, at Michele.Burman@glasgow.ac.uk

The Scotland Branch membership consists of staff and postgraduate students from several Scottish Universities and those working in criminal justice policy and practice in national and local government, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector. The Branch has strong links with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), both of which are collaborative partnerships between several Scottish Universities.

University of Aberdeen
Abertay University
University of Dundee
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Napier University
University of Glasgow
Glasgow Caledonian University
Heriot-Watt University
University of the Highlands and Islands
Queen Margaret University
Robert Gordon University
University of St Andrews
University of Stirling
University of Strathclyde
University of West Scotland

– also see Regional Events

 

Wales
Contact: Professor Martina Feilzer, Bangor University, atm.feilzer@bangor.ac.uk and Dr Sophie Pike, University of South Wales, sophie.pike@southwales.ac.uk

The Wales branch was launched at the end of 2007 (but was previously part of the Wales and West group).The main activity of the branch is a programme of seminars showcasing the most relevant and exciting research in criminology and criminal justice.

A range of speakers have presented at these seminars – ranging from local PhD students to established and eminent academics from in and outside Wales, such as Professor Rod Morgan, former Chairman of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, and Professor Pat Carlen, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology. More recently, Professor Steve Tombs discussed the aftermath and consequences of the Grenfell Tower tragedy at the University of South Wales and, at Bangor, Nicola Harding from Leeds Trinity University presented ‘You know what I mean…’ an auto-ethnographic account of co-produced research with criminalised women.

The audiences normally consist of academics, postgraduate students and some practitioners, such as local police officers and YOT staff. One of the aims in recent years has been to hold seminars at more Welsh universities and, pleasingly, the University of South Wales, Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and Bangor have hosted seminars.

Aberystwyth University
Bangor University
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cardiff University
Glyndŵr University
The Open University in Wales
Swansea University
University of South Wales
University of Wales
University of Wales Trinity Saint David

 

– also see Regional Events

 

 

Northern Ireland

Contact:  Graham Ellison at g.ellison@qub.ac.uk

The Branch membership consists of members from both the Law School and the Department of Sociology at Queen’s, as well as criminology and criminal justice academics at the University of Ulster. Branch activities also regularly attract practitioners from a wide array of statutory agencies and community groups from across Northern Ireland.  The Branch also has very strong links to the annual Irish Criminology Conference.

Open University in Ireland
Queen’s University Belfast
Ulster University

– also see Regional Events

 

 

 

North East

For more information on the North East branch contact Alexandra Hall, Northumbria University:  Alex.Hall@northumbria.ac.uk

Durham University
Newcastle University
Northumbria University
University of Sunderland
Teesside University

– also see Regional Events

 

 

 

Yorkshire and Humberside

Contact either of the co-convenors: Helen Johnston H.Johnston@hull.ac.uk or Suzanne Young s.young@leeds.ac.uk

 

University of Bradford
University of Huddersfield
University of Hull
University of Leeds
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Trinity University
University of Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
University of York
York St John University

– also see Regional Events

 

 

North West

Contact either of the co-convenors: Professor Andrew Millie andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk  or  Professor Barry Goldson b.goldson@liverpool.ac.uk

Also, see their recent blog posting

The North West Branch of the BSC provides funding for a series of seminars across the region. In 2016 two successful events were held at Liverpool Hope University and Salford University (see archive).

 

Blackburn College
Lancaster University
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool John Moores University
Manchester Metropolitan University
The University of Manchester
The University of Central Lancashire
University of Liverpool
University of Salford
Edge Hill University
University of Chester
University of Bolton
University of Cumbria

– also see Regional Events

 

 

Midlands

Contact Estella Baker – ebaker@dmu.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

Aston University
University of Birmingham
Birmingham City University
Coventry University
De Montfort University
Derby
Keele University
University of Leicester
University of Lincoln
Loughborough University
University of Northampton
University of Nottingham
Nottingham Trent University
Staffordshire University
University of Warwick
University of Worcester

– also see Regional Events

 

 

South (inc. London)

Contact Jennifer Fleetwood (J.Fleetwood@gold.ac.uk) and Johnny Ilan (jonathan.ilan@city.ac.uk)

Also, see their blog posting ‘Criminological Postcards from London’.

Imperial College London
University College London
King’s College London
London School of Economics and Political Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Royal Holloway University of London
SOAS – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
City University London
Brunel University
Birkbeck College, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
Kingston University
London Metropolitan University
University of East London
University of Greenwich
University of Oxford
University of Reading
University of Surrey
Oxford Brookes University
University of Kent
Middlesex University
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
University of Cambridge
University of East Anglia
University of Suffolk
University of Essex
University of Hertfordshire

– also see Regional Events

 

South Coastal

Contact Jenny Fleming (j.fleming@soton.ac.uk)

Bournemouth University
University of Brighton
University of Sussex
University of Portsmouth
University of Southampton
Southampton Solent University
University of Winchester

– also see Regional Events

 

 

South West

Contact:  Chair Dr Zoë James, Plymouth University, at Z.James@plymouth.ac.uk or Branch Secretary Dr Iain Channing iain.channing@plymouth.ac.uk

The South West branch was launched at the University of Plymouth Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies Symposium, ‘The Criminological Enterprise: Maximising Impact’, in 2009. The aim of the South West branch is to provide a forum for academics, students and practitioners to engage with criminological issues through a regular seminar series.

 

University of Bristol
University of Exeter
University of Bath
Bath Spa University
University of the West of England
University of Plymouth

 

 

 

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Regional Events

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• Scotland branch
• Wales branch
• Northern Ireland branch
• North East branch
• Yorkshire and Humberside branch
• North West branch
• Midlands branch
• South branch (inc. London)
• South Coastal branch
• South West branch

Events are typically scheduled from September to the beginning of July each year. Watch out for new events being announced below.

Wales Branch

Friday October 26, 2018 18:00-19:30

Bangor University, Room: TBC

Normalising the Exceptional: Covert Surveillance and the Subterranean World of Policing    

Dr Bethan Loftus, Bangor University

Abstract

In this paper, I draw on data derived from an ethnographic field study of covert policing to make two arguments. The first is that the deployment of covert surveillance has become normalised, both in policing thought and operational practice. In a break with earlier patterns, the methods of covert surveillance are used extensively and are no longer regarded as a tactic of last resort. Covert policing is well anchored within organisational arrangements and is empowered by a series of internal rationales mobilised to justify the expansion of covert tactics over and above more traditional, overt forms. Secondly, I argue that the building of intrusive and exceptional policing practices within mundane contexts is one of the ways the police have innovated and adapted to a broader policing environment characterised by public scepticism and distrust. Policing relies on the invisibility and low profile that comes with covert work in order to govern contemporary concerns of crime and insecurity without the conflicts and tensions which increasingly accompany and trouble overt policing practices. In the context of reputational threats which hamper or restrict overt policing practices, covert policing has become a functional and alternative power resource largely uncoupled from the spectacle of mainstream policing.

Chair: Martina Feilzer

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Friday November 23, 2018 18:00-19:30

University of South Wales, Treforest Campus, Room: TBC

The impact of ‘children first’ policies on the enforcement of statutory orders by Welsh Youth Offending Teams.

Heddwen Daniels (PhD Student, University of South Wales)

The Welsh Government’s latest youth justice strategy states that young people in the Youth Justice System are “children first, offenders second” (Welsh Government and YJB Cymru, 2014:4).  Integral to this principle is that these young people should have “the same access to their rights and entitlements as any other young person” (ibid.). Numerous national social justice policies and legislation, and international conventions adopted by the Welsh Government, provide a firm historical underpinning for these statements.

To just what extent, however, do these ‘children first’ principles inform the decisions made by the youth justice professionals who enforce statutory orders? This paper argues that breach decision-making varies considerably according to the professionals’ personal beliefs regarding crime and its perpetrators. Indeed, preliminary findings from the author’s ongoing study suggest that this variability is significantly marked. This paper explores the impact of these different beliefs on young people who fail to comply with their statutory orders. The author concludes that unless the dominant societal attitudes towards crime can be overridden in the practice of youth justice, the advantages of ‘children first’ policies will remain but an ideal, implemented only by those professionals whose perceptions of young people naturally complement the policies.

Chair: Sophie Pike

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Wednesday December 5, 2018 17:00-18:30

Cardiff University, Room: TBC

Federico Varese (Professor of Criminology, Oxford University)

Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology at Oxford and a world expert on mafias and their movement. He has recently published Mafia Life, a more popular audience book on the dynamic of mafias. Full details of the talk to follow.

 

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North East Branch

Future events to be announced

 

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Yorkshire and Humberside Branch

To be announced

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North West branch

The North West Branch of the British Society of Criminology is funding a series of seminars to be held at any North West university. Applications are welcome for the 2018-2019 academic year. Funding of up to £330 is available per event and a maximum of three events will take place during the year. The deadline for applications is Friday 30 November 2018. Applications should be no more than three sides of A4 in length including details of the following: seminar theme, list of speakers, intended audience, date, institutional support and costings. Events are free to attend.

Applications must be from a member of the British Society of Criminology working in a North West university. Please email applications to Andrew Millie at Andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk  and Barry Goldson at B.Goldson@liverpool.ac.uk

 

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Midlands branch

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Southern branch (in association with the Mannheim Centre London School of Economics)

 

All seminars begin at 18.30. Seminar locations and chairs to be confirmed by the Mannheim Centre

31 October

‘Betwixt and Between’: The Evolution of Parole as a Public Policy Concern in England and Wales

Thomas Guiney (LSE),

with a response from Nick Hardwick (Royal Holloway, University of London)

 

28 November

Taking Stock of Research on Policing and the Police

Panel with Jennifer Brown (LSE), Penny Dick (University of Sheffield) and Nigel Fielding (University of Surrey)

 

16 January

Reading Pictures: Art History and the Sociology of Punishment

Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex)

 

20 February

Hate Crime and the Legal Process

Abenaa Owusu-Bempah (LSE) and Susann Wiedlitzka (University of Sussex)

 

20 March

The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space

Jennifer Turner (University of Liverpool)

 

29 May

Contemporary Crime Control in Historical Context: From the ‘New Police’ to the ‘Transformation of Policing’?

David Churchill (University of Leeds)

 

12 June

Challenges, Innovation and Reform in the Policing of Drugs

Panel with Matt Bacon (University of Sheffield), Leah Moyle (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Niamh Eastwood (Release)

 

All seminars begin at 18.30. Seminar locations to be confirmed.  

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South Coastal (in association with the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton)

To be announced.

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South West branch

 

Further future events to be announced.

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