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 Fiona Brookman, University of South Wales, at fiona.brookman@southwales.ac.uk and Professor Mike Levi, Cardiff University, at 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 monthly evening seminars followed by a social event. 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.

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, Glamorgan, 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 Suzanne.Young@leedsbeckett.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

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
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)

 

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)

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

Thursday 31st May 2018, Room B001, Brecon Building, University of South Wales, Treforest Campus

18:15 – 20:00

Chair: Fiona Brookman

Professor Steve Tombs (Open University)

“Grenfell: From Crime to Social Harm”

We can of course agree that Grenfell was, remains and will continue to be a tragedy of immense proportions. But what does it mean to say this? Here I examine this question through the lens of social harm, and focus on the aftermaths and consequences of the fire; but in so doing, many of the factors it reveals also help to explain the presence and character of the factors which, in combination, helped to produce a fire which could have such devastating effects. The paper seeks to delineate, largely empirically (though suggestive of lines of conceptual development), the various, discrete ways in which distinct types of harms – physical, emotional and psychological, financial and economic , and cultural and relational – have been and will continue to be produced by the fire. Some of these are these are readily apparent, others of these are opaque and obscured. On the basis of these explorations of the range of social harms produced by the fire at Grenfell Tower, I conclude by asking what criminal justice can provide to the victims, survivors and other affected communities.

This is a free event but you still need to register for a ticket through Eventbrite.  Tickets are expected to go quickly.

Refreshments will be provided and we look forward to seeing you at the event.

 

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North East Branch

Thursday September 20, 2018, 2 – 5pm

Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Emerging Perspectives on Violence

List of Speakers:

Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield) – The violence of benign life: Life in a plutocratic city.

Ruth Lewis, Mike Rowe & Clare Wiper (Northumbria University) – New forms of old misogyny: Violence against women online and offline.

Simon Winlow (Northumbria University) – The Universal, the Specific and the Particular: Notes on Men and Violence.

Tanya Wyatt (Northumbria University) – Environmental Harm as Violence.

There is no charge for the event. To secure a place please register your attendance with Alex Hall, NorthumbriaUniversity:

alex.hall@northumbria.ac.uk

 

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Yorkshire and Humberside Branch

To be announced

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North West branch

Thursday 26 April 2018

Criminology and Public Theology: On Justice, Mercy and Forgiveness – Edge Hill University

A seminar hosted by the Department of Law and Criminology and sponsored by the North West Branch of the British Society of Criminology and the Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P), Edge Hill University

The seminar brings together leading academics from theology and criminology – two disciplines that have seldom interacted – in a cross-disciplinary discussion to consider the potential contribution that Christian theology can make to criminological debates on justice, mercy and forgiveness. The starting point for the seminar is that, “At the heart of the Christian tradition is a radical critique of the concept of punishment” (Chris Wood, 1991:72). At a time when the penal system is in crisis it is perhaps right to consider such challenges to criminal justice orthodoxy.

Places are strictly limited. If you wish to come you can register for the event at: https://edgehill.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/i4p-26-apr-2018

List of speakers:

Dr Aaron Pycroft (Reader in Criminal Justice and Social Complexity, University of Portsmouth)

Saint Paul amongst the criminologists

Prof Andrew Millie (Professor of Criminology, Edge Hill University)

Public theology, criminology and hope 

Dr Alistair McFadyen (Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Leeds)

On having and loving enemies – Terror, torture, policing … and theology! 

Prof Jonathan Burnside (Professor of Biblical Law, Law School, University of Bristol)

Why does Israel obey the law? Legitimacy and compliance in Biblical Law 

Prof Loraine Gelsthorpe (Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge)

Am I my brother’s or sister’s keeper? 

Prof Tim Gorringe (Emeritus Professor of Theological Studies, University of Exeter)

Slaves to defunct theologians: Religion, structures of affect and penal theory of practice 

Dr Eric Stoddart (Lecturer, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews)

The restoration gaze 

Prof Lawrence Burke (Professor of Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University)

The ‘quality of mercy’ in probation practice 

Revd Dr Myra Blyth (Fellow in Practical Theology, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford)

Rituals of restoration: Understanding restorative conferencing and eucharistic sharing through the lens of ritual studies.

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Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Theorising Sites of Discipline in Society – Liverpool Hope University

This event is sponsored by the North West Branch of the British Society of Criminology and Liverpool Hope University

There has been growing interest within criminology and across the social sciences more widely in the diffusion of disciplinary techniques and institutions throughout society.  These techniques range from the more subtle as exhibited by the development of the Behavioural Insights Team (or nudge unit) under the Coalition Government and the associated shift towards an increasingly penal welfare state, to the hardening of responses in more traditional institutions in the carceral state and beyond.  This one-day conference intends to critically examine the growing influence of some of these techniques and institutions and their impact upon vulnerable and marginalized populations as well as their wider ramifications for society as a whole.  Themes which we intend to address during the day’s discussion include: the role of the military in disciplining marginalized populations; the disciplining of refugee and migratory groups in the ‘Jungles’ of Northern Europe; the problems posed by imprisonment upon those seeing to desist from crime; the associated role of society as a site of discipline for those facing the stigma of criminal records and Disclosure and Barring Service checks; and shifting sites of discipline in contemporary mental health and penal welfare policy reform.

Places are limited. If you wish to come you can register for the event at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theorising-sites-of-discipline-in-society-one-day-conference-tickets-43545367366?aff=es2

List of speakers:

Dr Emily Hart (University of Liverpool)

Developing a ‘Critical Desistance’: The harms of imprisonment and the search for a ‘real utopia’

Dr Andrew Henley (Keele University)

Criminal records checks and the regulation of redemption: a delegation of the power to punish?

Dr Rich Moth (Liverpool Hope University)

From psychiatric abuse to psycho-compulsion: shifting sites of discipline in contemporary mental health and welfare policy reform

Dr Zaki Nahaboo (Liverpool Hope University)

Disciplining refuge in The Calais Jungle

Hannah Wilkinson (Keele University)

The military as a continuation site of discipline and conflict: ‘it was either join the army, or go to jail’

 

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Midlands branch

Register here

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

Criminology Seminars

16 May
Panel on ‘Deep Imprisonment’ with  Ben Crewe (Cambridge), Alison Liebling (Cambridge), Yvonne Jewkes (Brighton)
Chair: Leo Cheliotis (LSE)
Location: New Academic Building Alumni Theatre

6 June
Insa Koch (LSE), The Paradox of Punishment: an Anthropology of Crime, Politics and Welfare at the UK’s Margins
Chair: Tim Newburn (LSE)
Location: New Academic Building 1.04

More information available here

 

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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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