The Wales branch was launched at the end of 2007 (but was previously part of the Wales and West group). It is co-ordinated by a single chair, John Minkes, but regional members are consulted about potential speakers and venues. 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 have hosted seminars, and Bangor is soon to join the list.

Scotland
Contact: Dr Liz Frondigoun, Glasgow Caledonian University, at Liz.Frondigoun@gcu.ac.uk

Northern Ireland
Contact: Professor Shadd Maruna, Chair, Northern Ireland Regional Group, Queen’s University, Belfast, at s.maruna@qub.ac.uk

Interests: Desistance from crime; ex-prisoner reintegration; public attitudes toward justice issues.

The Northern Ireland Branch is co-ordinated by Professor Shadd Maruna, who is also the Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. 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.

North East
Contact: Dr Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Teesside University, G.Antonopoulos@tees.ac.uk

The North East branch usually holds 4 early-evening seminars per year. While previously most of these have taken place at Teesside University, the plan is for all north-east universities to co-host the seminar series from 2012 onwards

Yorkshire and Humberside
Contact: Professor Stephen Farrall, Sheffield University, at S.Farrall@sheffield.ac.uk or Dr Emma Wincup, Leeds University, at e.l.wincup@leeds.ac.uk

North West
Contact: Treasurer Dr David Whyte, Liverpool University, at David.Whyte@liverpool.ac.uk

South East
Contacts: Chair Simon Hallsworth, London Met, at s.hallsworth@londonmet.ac.uk or Branch Secretary Maria Kaspersson, Greenwich University, at M.Kaspersson@greenwich.ac.uk

Midlands
Contacts: Branch Secretary Dr Kate Williams, Wolverhampton University, at Kate.Williams@wlv.ac.uk

Chair: Professor Tank Waddington, Wolverhampton University, at PAJ.Waddington@wlv.ac.uk

Research interests:
• Policing and police work
• Public perceptions and expectations of police officers
• Police use of force and weapons
• Public order policing
• Protest
• Political violence
• Violence

South West
Contact: Chair Dr Zoë James, Plymouth University, at Z.James@plymouth.ac.uk or Branch Secretary Gareth Addidle at gareth.addidle@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. This has largely been carried out through a regular seminar series with speakers attending such as Professor Martin Innes from the Police Science Institute at Cardiff University and Professor John Pitts from the University of Bedfordshire. Future speakers include Dr Neil Chakraborti from the University of Leicester who will be talking about his research on hate crime. Also, the branch supported a national youth justice conference held at the University of Plymouth in June 2011 in conjunction with the Youth Justice Network of the BSC.

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Regional Events

BSC South East branch

18 January 2012 Professor Penny Green (University of Westminster)
Title to be confirmed
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07

15 February 2012 Frances Crook (Howard Leagues)
"Why can't we have a radical penal policy?"
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07

14 March 2012 Dr Rachel Condry (St Hilda’s College, Oxford)
“Families, Parenting and Crime”
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07

16 May 2012 Professor James Sheptycki (York University, Toronto)
‘Global Policing’
Location: London School of Economics, Con (Connaught House), Room 1.01

20 June 2012 Dr Dave Scott (University of Central Lancashire)
‘From Penal Hell and Back Again’
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07

Seminars run from 6.30 to 8.00 pm, with drinks available from 6.15pm.

BSC Welsh branch

Wednesday February 22nd 2012, Cardiff University. The speaker will be Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero.

Further details to be announced shortly.

BSC North East branch

January 25th 2012, Teesside University, Clarendon Building, CL 1.01, 16:00-17:30:

Title: "Community, Politics and Resistance in Down Town East Side Vancouver: Using participatory and visual methods in criminological research"

Maggie O'Neill, Professor of Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University.

Abstract
Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) is consistently described in the mainstream media as a problem community and ‘Canada's poorest postal code.’ DTES also has a long and deeply embedded history of community activism and resistance. This paper presents the participatory action research undertaken in DTES between January and September 2011 to show what 'community' means, looks and feels like and the relations, spaces and places of marginality and resistance through the eyes, photographs, digital stories and lived experiences of DTES residents.

BSC Yorkshire and Humberside branch

You are invited to attend a day long seminar organised by the British
Society of Criminology (Yorkshire and Humber Branch).

2nd Research Seminar: Qualitative Research with Offenders

Thursday 22nd March 2012

This day-long (10am to 3pm) seminar will be devoted to papers which
explore recent qualitative research on offenders. Qualitative research
is understood broadly (and would include research based on 1-1
interviews, focus groups, ethnographic observation, archival research
and other innovative methods). No specific groups of offenders will be
excluded, so research on drug users, sex workers, those on probation or
in prison, amongst others, are all welcome. Papers based on research
which explores offender-CJS interactions (such as arrest, 'treatment' or
supervision) are also of relevance. Presentations by PhD students are
encouraged. We expect that there will be about 6 papers.

The seminar will take place at the School of Law at Leeds University.
Lunch will be provided.

Please provide a title and abstract to Lisa Burns
(l.k.burns@sheffield.ac.uk) by the 15th December 2011.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Emma Wincup or Stephen Farrall, Co-organisers.

E.L.Wincup@leeds.ac.uk
S.Farrall@sheffield.ac.uk

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