Welcome to the British Society of Criminology
UPDATE – Changes due to COVID-19
Alternative arrangements are being made to store all post (unopened) until we are back in the office. Please use email to contact us, scanning any documents. All steps are being taken to keep the services to you, our members, as uninterrupted as possible.
We are sad to announce the cancellation of the annual conference, including postgraduate event, scheduled to take place at the University of Liverpool 8-10th July 2020. We hope you and your families stay safe and we hope to see you at our conference next year.
The British Society of Criminology aims to further the interests and knowledge of both academic and professional people who are engaged in any aspect of work or teaching, research or public education about crime, criminal behaviour and the criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom. The Society has been in existence for nearly 60 years and has a wide-ranging membership based here and overseas.
The BSC Annual Conference 2019 was in Lincoln. An innovation at the conference was a series of vodcasts which were were recorded to capture the voices of the delegates. Watch the whole series here.
Latest article
After the Pandemic: Criminology and Social Harm after Covid-19 by Andy Diaper
BSC Blog of the Year Award – 2020
It is with pleasure that we announce we are launching the ‘Blog of the Year Award 2020’ to the best article published on our Blog during this calendar year.
https://thebscblog.wordpress.com/
If you want to submit an article for the blog, please contact us on info@britsoccrim.org
Please explore our site to find information about the Society and its regional and network activities, links to other events, calls for papers, research (including, QAA benchmarks, ethical statement and websites of potential use to criminologists), and a jobs board of current vacancies in criminology.
Membership
If you are interested in becoming a member, you can apply from the Membership page. Membership includes a personal subscription to the Society’s official journal Criminology & Criminal Justice and, for most categories of membership, subscription to The British Journal of Criminology.
BSC Members Book Draw
June 2020
This month the book draw is for a copy of ‘The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change‘, by BSC President Sandra Walklate, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jude McCulloch and Jane Maree Maher.
This draw is open to all BSC members. To enter the book prize draw, please email info@britsoccrim.org with ‘Prize Draw: June’ in the subject line. The closing date is June 30, 2020. The draw will be made Monday July 1, 2020. All entries are checked as being BSC members and then drawn randomly. We only contact the winner directly. Notice of the winner will be made in the BSC bulletin, the website and on Twitter.
May 2020
The winner of May’s book draw for a copy of ‘Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires: Why they do it and how to help’ by Joanna Foster is BSC Member Julia Winstone. With thanks to Jessica Kingsley Publishers for supporting the BSC book draw.
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