Regional Groups
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There are currently ten regional groups of the BSC – also see Regional Events and Archived Events
Loading…- 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 (m.feilzer@bangor.ac.uk)and Roxanna Dehaghani, Cardiff University (Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk) and Michael Levi, Cardiff University (Levi@cardiff.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 Shadd Maruna S.Maruna@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 Bill Dixon: William.Dixon@nottingham.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
Contact Jennifer Fleetwood (J.Fleetwood@gold.ac.uk) and Maria Adams (m.n.adams@surrey.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
Regional Events
- 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
Co-organised by the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
Dr Lizzie Seal – University of Sussex
Wed 19 February, 3.30pm
Emotion, race and gender in cases of partner-murder in England and Wales, 1900-39
Abstract: This talk examines eleven capital cases of men of colour sentenced to death in England and Wales for intimate murders of white British women, 1900-39. It argues that such cases enable analysis of the prevailing emotional norms of this era and the ways in which these were shaped by race, gender and class. Perceptions of intimate relationships as legitimate or illegitimate – judgments about who should feel what about whom – related to understandings of citizenship. In revealing the emotional norms at play in cases of murder, it is possible to illustrate how the criminal justice system governed through emotion.
Bio: Dr Lizzie Seal is Reader in Criminology in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex. Her research is in the areas of historical and cultural criminology. She was Principal Investigator on ‘Race, Racialisation and the Death Penalty in England and Wales, 1900-65’ [Leverhulme RPG-2016-352], 2016-2018 and is currently PI on ‘Reforming British Law and Policy on the Global Death Penalty’ [British Academy IC3\100170]. Lizzie is the author of four monographs, most recently (with Maggie O’Neill, 2019) Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Roxanna Fatemi-Dehaghani Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk
FREE but please book at Eventbrite
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Covert Surveillance and the Sociology of Policing: Taking the Moral Dimension Seriously
February 19, 2020 6pm
Dr Bethan Loftus
Bangor University, Main Arts, Council Chamber
Free to attend and no registration required
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Co-organised by the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
Dr Layla Skinns, University of Sheffield
Wed 11 March, 4pm
A room with a view? Material conditions and the ‘representational’ inside police detention
Abstract:
In a recent Trip Advisor review of a police custody block in South Yorkshire, the reviewer gave it only half a star and complained that “it was nothing but four walls and a mattress”. This illustrates how material conditions matter to those arrested and detained by the police whilst an investigation is conducted and a decision is taken about what to do next with the case. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ‘representational’ quality of these material conditions of police custody. Whether detainees have access to natural light and are detained in facilities which appear well maintained conveys to detainees something about how they are perceived by police authorities, by the state and by wider society, meaning that if a custody facility appears well looked after it suggests to detainees that their treatment is likely to follow suit. These ideas are examined using findings from a five-year ESRC-funded mixed-methods study of ‘good’ police custody which showed that detainee experiences of different types of dignity – linked to feelings of equal worth, autonomy and public decency – were significantly informed by their experiences of the material conditions of police custody. These arguments are also grounded in prison studies research and theorisation. As a result, I also reflect in my presentation on the boundaries between police studies and prison studies, and the possibilities and limitations of greater dialogue between scholars in each field.
Bio: Layla Skinns is a Reader in the Centre for Criminological Research, School of Law, University of Sheffield, having formerly worked and studied at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London. She has a longstanding interest in police and policing, in particular in how policing agents use their authority. A key focus of her research has been on police detention, in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the Anglophone world. In this setting, she is interested in police powers and their relationship with the law, police cultures and police discretion, and furthermore, how this impacts on equality and on state-citizen relations. She is also interested in how the public – particularly detainees – perceive the police, which links her research to discussions about police legitimacy and ‘good’ policing.
Any questions please contact the regional convenor, Roxanna Fatemi-Dehaghani Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk
FREE but please book at Eventbrite
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Building Trust in Justice: Understanding the role of civil society in legitimising state actors in transitional societies
March 25, 2020 1pm
Dr Martina Feilzer,
Bangor University, Main Arts, Council Chamber
Free to attend and no registration required
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‘Public Criminology Through Public Education’
April 23, 2020
This interdisciplinary event brings together academics from Criminology, Arts & Humanities, Education, and practitioners from the Criminal Justice System to share innovation in learning and teaching. The event is joint-funded by the British Society of Criminology Learning and Teaching Network and the Welsh Branch of the British Society of Criminology, and hosted by Swansea University’s School of Law.
See the BSC Learning and Teaching Network page for more details.
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Conference: Ethnography and the Shifting Boundaries of Policing
23 – 24 April 2020, Bangor University
http://policing-ethnographies.bangor.ac.uk
Ethnography has proved to be a crucial methodology for entering and understanding the world of policing. The contemporary ‘pluralised’ policing field comprises a multiplicity of public, private and voluntary organisations, inviting new avenues for ethnographic research and debate. This two-day conference brings together policing scholars and practitioners to discuss and share insights from ethnographic fieldwork undertaken with policing actors and social control professionals across different contexts.
We welcome papers both from researchers – doctoral researchers are especially encouraged to submit papers – who have undertaken ethnographic fieldwork with pluralised forms of policing (e.g. border enforcement officials, civil society groups, private security) and those researching more traditional forms of state policing via an ethnographic approach. We also welcome policing professionals interested in using ethnographic research for evidence based practice.
Call for Papers
The deadline for abstracts is Friday 28th February 2020. Please submit your abstract here
http://policing-ethnographies.bangor.ac.uk
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WELSH CENTRE FOR CRIME AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
WCCSJ is holding its Eleventh Annual Conference on:
Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th April 2020
At Gregynog Hall, nr. Newtown, Powys
Call for papers:
- Papers can include works in progress, completed research, policy ideas, theoretical, comparative, practitioner focused or issues for practitioners etc.
- We welcome papers from practitioners, academics, policy-makers and post graduate research students. PG Supervisors, please encourage your doctoral students to present a paper – the conference is very friendly and supportive.
- Any topics are welcome: theoretical; practitioner focused; policy focused; comparative; or others.
We welcome one or both of the following:
- Full conference papers – reports or conference papers on research that has concluded or is near completion; theoretical discussion pieces etc. (about 20 minute papers)
- Shorter pieces maybe on small aspects of a piece of research or on work in its initial/developmental stages – this might be for report or open discussion etc. (5 – 10 minutes);
Please send all abstracts (maximum of 200 words though can be considerably shorter) to admin@wccsj.ac.uk indicating what type of input you would like (full conference paper, short conference paper, poster presentation).
Northern Ireland Branch
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court
Date: March 20, 2020 3:00 – 4:30pm
Location – Bell Lecture Theatre, Maths & Physics Building QUB
Price – Tickets are free but registration is essential to attend
The School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, with QUB ICCJ and Queen’s on Crime has invited Associate Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve to give a Distinguished Lecture based her award winning book.
Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action on the street and the processing of primarily Black and Latino defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about how they function internally. Informed by over 10 years of work and investigation, Dr. Gonzalez Van Cleve’s book, Crook County, bursts open the courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges’ chambers, and attorneys’ offices to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. In 2019, Crook County received 2019 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Book Prize.
See more here
For any queries, please contact: sseswevents@qub.ac.uk
In association with the BSC Green Criminology Network
One-day Symposium – 16th January 2020 – Northumbria University
Future events to be announced
Yorkshire and Humberside Branch
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Midlands branch
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Southern branch (in association with the Mannheim Centre London School of Economics)
February 12
LSE (NAB 1.07)
Living in hostile environments: Illegality assemblages and everyday experiences of ‘illegality’
Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Coretta Phillips (LSE)
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March 11
LSE (NAB 1.07)
Constraints and opportunities in transnational drug markets:
A social network analysis of cocaine and heroin supply to Europe
Giulia Berlusconi (University of Surrey)
Chair: Mike Shiner (LSE) (TBC)
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‘Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing’, a Mannheim Centre Seminar
March 25, 2020
Venue: Mannheim Centre, LSE, Aldwych, London [exact room location t.b.c.]
The seminar is supported by the British Society of Criminology Policing Network and the British Society of Criminology Southern Branch. Participants will receive discount vouchers for N. Fielding, K. Bullock and S. Holdaway (eds.), (2020) Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing, Routledge.
See more here
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May 13
LSE (Alumni Theatre)
Young Men’s Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment
Rachel Tynan (Goldsmiths)
Chair: Johann Koehler (LSE)
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June 10
LSE (Wolfson Theatre)
From King’s Cross to Soho:
Innovative approaches to studying gentrification, gender, sex work and space
Erin Sanders-McDonagh (University of Kent), Lucy Neville (University of Leicester)
and Magali Peyrefitte (Middlesex University)
Chair: Janet Foster (LSE)
All seminars begin at 18.30
(Doors open at 18.00 for refreshments
South Coastal (in association with the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton)
The British Society of Criminology’s South Coastal branch, Bournemouth University’s Women’s Academic Network, and Centre for Seldom Heard Voices present research by Dr Emma Milne from Plymouth University.
Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother
Thursday 13 February at 2pm in R301 (Royal London House).
Abstract:
Women who kill their newborn children pose significant challenges to criminal justice – they have acted in a way that has led to the death of a child, and yet they often have substantial vulnerabilities that influenced their behaviour in the lead-up to the death. Analysis of court transcripts in such cases illustrates that concern of the courts lies not only in the killing of the child, but in the women’s failure to act as an “appropriate” mother and thus a suitable woman. These cases provide a lens through which to analyse the gendered assumptions that surround reproduction, including women’s sexual activity and behaviour during pregnancy. This presentation will explore the gendered experiences of these offenders and the criminal justice responses to their behaviour.
This event is free for staff, students and colleagues: all are welcome but please book via the Eventbrite link so that we can ensure sufficient space and catering.
Visitors are also welcome to join us at a local venue for further discussion and debate afterwards.
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The British Society of Criminology’s South Coastal branch, the Women’s Academic Network, and the Centre for Seldom Heard Voices at Bournemouth University are welcoming Hannah Mason-Bish to talk on her current research on disabled and non-binary people’s experiences of touching in public.
March 9, 2020 1-2pm
EB302 (Lansdowne site)
FREE Event but please register here
This presentation aims to explore the way that disabled women experience physical touching by strangers when out in public spaces. It emerged from Hannah’s research on gendered hate crime and increased government attention which has largely focussed on the ubiquity of street harassment, catcalling and sexual intrusions by strangers. However, much literature and research on this is not intersectional and instead focuses particularly on the experiences of non-disabled white women. What scant literature does exist around disabled women has generally focused on the absence of street harassment and been framed around the notion of the disabled body as sexless and devoid of sexual attention (Whaley, 2016). These ideas will be explored by discussing the forthcoming project of the author which involves life story interviews with disabled women.
Specifically, the presentation will explore the nature of non-consensual touching in public and how it might be intrusive, unwanted or violent. Furthermore, it will explore the ways in which this might impact on or limit the freedom of movement that disabled women have. The aim of this is to then begin to draw out the deeper phenomenological impacts that this has on them as disabled women and their identities.
Biography
Dr Hannah Mason-Bish is a Criminologist and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Sussex. She specialises in researching hate crime policy, with a focus on gender and disability. Her current research project examines how disabled women experience non-consensual touching when navigating public spaces.
Future events to be announced.
South West branch
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