Archive of events
Wales Region
‘Public Criminology Through Public Education’
March 29, 2021
This interdisciplinary event brought together academics from Criminology, Arts & Humanities, Education, and practitioners from the Criminal Justice System to share innovation in learning and teaching. The event was 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 Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law.
North East Region
BSC North East Region and Northumbria University event – 19 June 2024
“Space Matters: Innovations and Challenges in the Use of Space when Managing Offenders with Multiple and Complex Needs” – 19 June 2024, 9.30am-4.30pm at Northumbria University.
Northumbria University and the BSC North East Regional group are delighted to invite you to this exciting event aimed at academics and professionals working in criminal justice. The event is organised by the Offenders with Multiple and Complex Needs research cluster at Northumbria University.
Managing offenders with multiple and complex needs presents an array of challenges within criminal justice settings. In a context of severe overcrowding and a significant reduction in available space, professionals have began identifying specific issues that must be urgently addressed, and innovative measures are beginning to emergence in response to this crisis.
This event will explore examples of innovation, and encourage academics and professionals to share knowledge and ideas that might help inform future developments.
North West Region
Social Justice Research: Making Change Happen? – Sheffield Hallam University – Weds 8th March 2023
The theme of this one day workshop will focus broadly on social justice and criminal justice research and academic work with practitioners, external organisations and partners. We are keen for speakers to reflect upon constructive collaboration as well as the various challenges that researchers working with practitioners or external organisations to make change happen, for example, putting theory into practice, conflicting ideologies and outcomes, or positionality or personal ethics.
‘Emotionally Challenging Research’ event held at the Leeds Trinity University campus in Horsforth, Leeds on Monday 21 November 2022. Keynote lecture given by Professor Sharon Grace (University of York) on ‘Hearing the voices of women involved in drugs and crime’.
Midlands Region
The BSC Midlands Region, in collaboration with the University of Derby’s College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, held a seminar on Wednesday 24 May 2023 at 2pm in room 201 Friargate Squate, University of Derby.
BSC Midlands Regional group with University of Wolverhampton: Reimagining Probation and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Conference. 18 January 2023, 9am-6pm; University of Wolverhampton, City Campus.
This conference invites academics and practitioners to discuss their experiences, examinations, or expectations of the renationalisation of the Probation Service in England and Wales and further appraise what path the new model imagines for probation and the rehabilitation of offenders. In addition, the conference is interested in other developments in the area that may have accompanied renationalisation, such as OMiC, IOM (Refresh) and others and their impact on the culture and practice of probation and associated services. The conference also appreciates how the renationalisation era has come after the challenging part-privatised state of the Probation Service which has been heavily criticised by academics, practitioners, and service users alike. As such, it also invites discussion of the aftermath of part-privatisation of the service in relation to the state in which renationalisation has found probation services, and, crucially, the continuing impact of the Transforming Rehabilitation policy. Finally, the conference is interested in comparative approaches as well as experience or research on probation from other jurisdictions which may demonstrate developments in working with offenders and new rehabilitation policies outside England and Wales too.
BSC Midlands Branch & Criminal Justice Research Centre, University of Nottingham. COVID & Imprisonment: BSC & CJRC Event. 24 February 2022.
Speakers:
• Professor Lynn Saunders OBE = Prison leadership during COVID.
• Dr Olga Suhomlinova = Transgender and non-binary prisoners and COVID.
• Steve Bravery = COVID prison risk assessment, risk reduction, and remote reviews during COVID.
• Paula Harriott & PPN = Covid-19 Action Prisons Project: Tracking Innovation, Valuing Experience.
• Oscar O’Mara = A prison ethnography PhD during COVID.
Author Meets Critic: ‘Complex Inequalities and Innovative Solutions.’ University of Derby on 6 July 2022
The speakers and critics for this event were:
• Valeria Abreu, University of Derby, UK – Changing Patterns of Domestic Homicide in light of Covid-19 in England and Wales.
• Thomas Guiney, University of Nottingham, UK – Parole, Parole Boards and the institutional Dilemmas of Contemporary Prison Release.
• Andrew Henley, University of Nottingham, UK – When ‘Ideal Victim’ meets ‘Criminalised Other’: Criminal Records and the Denial of the Victim.
• David Patton, University of Derby, UK – Motivations for Change in Drug Recovery: Turning Points as the Antidotes to the Pains of Recovery.
South West Region
BSC South West Region and University of Plymouth conference: Ghosts of futures, pasts and presents: The hauntology of crime, harm and criminology.
19 June 2025, 10am-5pm. The Levinsky Room, RLB, University of Plymouth.
Inspired by Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology and Mark Fisher’s reinterpretation of the concept as a cultural condition of late capitalism, this conference invites scholars to explore the intersections of criminology and hauntology, engaging with themes of harm, justice, punishment, and deviance through the lens of spectrality, temporalities, and the uncanny.
Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Esmorie Miller, Lancaster University
Dr. Michael Fiddler, University of Greenwich
BSC South West Region & University of Plymouth event – 17 June 2024
Crisis Reform Repeat? Evaluating change in Criminal Justice – University of Plymouth
Plenary Speaker: Dr Travis Linnemann (Kansas State University) The Police at the End of the World
This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, ‘Time is a flat circle.’ Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again. Thus spoke Rust Cohle (True Detective, 2014)
Rust Cohle’s pessimistic view of the world draws upon Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence – but are things really this bleak? This conference provides a forum for discussion on the nature of reform across all elements of the criminal justice system and beyond. Reform is often fuelled by an event or crisis, but to what extent are reforms successful? Do they bring about needed change? Or are we doomed to keep repeating the mistakes of the past regardless?
Southern Region
BSC Southern branch (Co-organised with the Mannheim Centre): Prisoner Re-Entry and Neoliberalism. 26 January 2022. Alessandro De Giorgi (San Jose State University, California).
Constraints and opportunities in transnational drug markets: A social network analysis of cocaine and heroin supply to Europe. 23 February 2022. Giulia Berlusconi (Surrey University).
Policing the ‘savage horde’: Settler masculinities and racist violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands. 11 May 2022. Margarita Aragon (Birkbeck, University of London).
Forensic Psychologists: Prisons, Power, and Vulnerability. 25 May 2022. Jason Warr (De Montfort University).
Orderly Britain: How we solve our everyday problems from dog fouling to double parking. 8 June 2022. Tim Newburn (LSE).