This page lists short details of all BSC events during 2016. All events were free to attend and organised by the convenors of each regional group.
Scotland
21 June 2016
Justice Reinvestment and Social Justice: Beyond ‘What Works’: Seminar by Professor Julie Stubbs, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Northern Ireland
3-4 March 2016
Symposium on the Legal Regulation and Policing of Commercial Sex, Queen’s University Belfast: The Commercial Sex Research Network Ireland (CSRNI)
Wales
28 January 2016
Clare’s Law: A Case of Therapeutic Justice?: Professor Sandra Walklate (Eleanor Rathbone – Chair of Sociology)
3 February 2016
The Working Lives of Judges in the Criminal Courts: Professor Penny Darbyshire (Kingston Law School, Kingston-upon-Thames)
10 March 2016
Using Images to Reflect the Social World of Meth Users: Professor Heith Copes, (University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
19 October 2016
Sports Criminology: Dr. Nic Groombridge (St Mary’s University, London)
2 November 2016
Intelligence-led Policing and Gun Crime in Toronto: Professor James Sheptycki (York University, Toronto)
7 December 2016
Putting the ‘Wales’ into England and Wales: Robert Jones (University of South Wales)
North East
3 February 2016
What are you looking at? Disentangling the subject, space and hegemonic in male violence: Dr Anthony Ellis – The University of Salford
North West
5 May, 2016
Extremism and Counter-Extremism: Changing Images, Emerging Realities: Gavin Bailey, Phil Edwards, Neil Ferguson, Elizabeth Poole, Piers Robinson, Rizwaan Sabir, Katy Sian, Paul Thomas.
10 June 2016
Criminology, Criminal Justice and the Ex-Military Community: The Way Ahead: Co-funded by the North West Branch of the British Society of Criminology and the University of Liverpool’s International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU).
Midlands
2016 programme
Session One – Guilt and Criminal Justice: (Re)Opening the Dialogue: Dr Samantha Ashenden (Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (Department of Social Policy, LSE).
Session two – Police Leadership: Dr. Mark Kilgowan (Senior Fellow at the University of Derby), Steve Allen (Deputy Chief Constable of Police Scotland) and Mike Barton (Chief Constable of Durham).
Session three – Future Directions in Green Criminology: Matthew Hall (University of Lincoln), Gary Potter (Lancaster University), Nigel South (University of Essex), Dominic Wood (Canterbury Christ Church University).
South Coastal
There were no events in this region as they went through a process of re-organisation.
South
13 January 2016
Understanding Street Culture Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool: Jonathan Ilan Kent (Kent University).
10 February 2016
Discretion and decision-making at the Criminal Cases Review Commission: Carolyn Hoyle (Oxford University).
9th March 2016
The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics: Lisa Miller (Rutgers).
11 May 2016
Russian Gangs: Svetlana Stephenson (LondonMet).
12 October 2016
The Internet and the Transnational Market in Illicit Pharmaceuticals: Georgics Antonopoulos and Alexandra Hall (University of Teeside).
7 December 2016
Clare’s Law: Evaluating Deviations in Domestic Violence Prevention Policies: Marian Duggan (University of Kent).
South West
There were no events in this region as they went through a process of re-organisation.
Archive 2015
Below are short details of all BSC events during 2015. All events were free to attend and organised by the convenors of each regional group. Please note that some groups had not formed or were newly emerging during this year.
Northern Ireland
7 October 2015
The first meeting of the NI BSC Regional Group was very well attended with around 25 representatives from the various statutory agencies (PSNI, DOJ, Prison Service) students and NGOs with an interest in criminal justice.
Wales
15 October 2015
Integrating the longitudinal study of intimate partner violence perpetration within life course criminology: Dr Janna Verbruggen (Cardiff University)
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An exploration of the changes to the investigation of homicide in England and Wales from the 1980s to the present day: Sophie Pike (University of South Wales).
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The Structure of Human Trafficking: Lifting the Bonnet on a Nigerian Transnational Network: Paolo Campana (University of Cambridge).
The North East Branch held their re-launch event in June 2015, at Durham University.
An Introduction to Inside-Out: principles, pedagogy and challenges in introducing it to the UK: Dr Kate O’Brien and Dr Hannah King.
North West
29 April 2015
Public Criminology and the 2015 General Election: Professor Richard Sparks (University of Edinburgh), Dr Emily Gray (University of Sheffield) and Dr Karen Evans (University of Liverpool).
20 May 2015
Critical Reflections on the Relationship between Punishment and Desistance: Dr Serena Wright (University of Cambridge), Marie Hutton (University of Birmingham/University of Cambridge), Dr Deborah Jump (Liverpool Hope University) and Jessica Bird (University of Edinburgh).
South
14 October 2015
Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City: Alistair Fraser (Glasgow University).
11 November 2015
Dangerous Politics: Risk, Political Vulnerability, and Penal Policy: Harry Annison (Southampton University).
9 December 2015
Green Criminology and Policing the Environment: Angus Nurse (Middlesex University).