Criminology Events
BSC Joint Women Crime and Criminal Justice Network and Green Criminology Research Network
Gendering Green Criminology
November 26, 2020
Free to attend but registration required
How can feminism engage meaningfully with environmental harm? Why should those concerned about environmental harm also be concerned with issues of gender? This one-day conference joins feminism, gender studies, and green criminology, to explore the intersections between gender, environmental, non-human animal, and wildlife crimes and harms.
Further details about speakers and themes available from the Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network and the Green Criminology Network
December 7, 2020
Desistance and Rehabilitation: International Perspectives
Online Conference – Hosted by the University of Derby
Further details and registration required here
Green Criminology in a Changing World
January 27 & 28, 2021
Due to unprecedented circumstances the last 12 months have seen many environmental issues garner less and less attention in social, political and media circles. However, this has diminished neither their presence nor importance, and has instead raised important questions about their occurrence against a background of wider contextual fractures. For instance, how have the transitions seen since the start of 2020 influenced environmental harms and those who choose to study them? Why should those with an eye on these rapid social and political transformations still be mindful of environmental crimes and harms that continue to occur over the same period? This Twitter conference attempts to answer these questions, among others, to understand how environmental issues in the non-human world intersect with those occurring in their human counterpart. The legacies of these transformations are likely to be with us for some time, and accounting for the ways in which they entwine with one another is going to be of increasing importance.
Call for papers and presenter instructions
Abstract deadline is December 15, 2020.
Everyone who is presenting their work will also include #Greencrime2021 in their tweets
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For more details contact info@britsoccrim.org
Bystander to Participant – The Victim Journey
Tuesday, 1 December, 2020 16.00 to 17.15
Online | Free to attend
featuring
Dame Vera Baird – Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales
Dame Vera Baird will focus her talk on what steps we need to take to enhance the status of victims of crime from passive by-standers, to active participants within the justice system. This means participants with rights, a voice and access to professional support.
During her talk she will set out the journey over the past twenty years and the potential for further and transformational change offered by the Government’s long awaited Victims Law. She will also highlight areas of real progress, such as the introduction of ISVAs and IDVAs as well as areas where we seem to be moving backwards, such as the collapse in rape prosecutions.
PLEASE NOTE that places are limited so please be sure you can attend before booking. You must also be an Academy member in order to attend any events. If you are not yet a member you will be prompted to join when registering to attend this event.
Publishing 101: Social Sciences Books
December 1, 2020 (two timeslots available)
Are you an academic or researcher in the social sciences, looking to learn more about the steps to publish your research as a book? Then this webinar is for you!
You will hear from Palgrave Social Sciences Editorial Director Tamsine O’Riordan and Head of Science & Society, Rachael Ballard, who will introduce you to the portfolio and walk you through the 5 steps to book publishing with Palgrave. Our live webinar is free to attend and includes time for Q&As at the end of each session – all you need is an internet connection and access to a telephone or computer headset.
Online | Free to attend
Future of Policing – SIPR end of year event
December 2, 2020
The proposed time for this event is between 10am and 1pm although this is subject to change.
Online | Free to attend
The focus of this event will be on the ‘Future of Policing’ and the purpose of the event will be to bring together academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss research priorities and develop project ideas. The breakout sessions will each focus on one of the three SIPR Strategic Research Themes. Each breakout session will feature a panel who will identify some of the key future challenges for each of the topic. The session will also seek to facilitate discussions amongst the SIPR academic and practitioner participants.
We encourage participants to bring their research ideas to these sessions. As a practitioner or policy maker, this could be as an identified research need, or as an academic – a research concept.
Proposed running order
10:00 – 10:15 – Event commencement – SIPR Director Dr Liz Aston
10:15 – 10:30 – Launch of ‘Future of Policing’ research grant
10:30 – 11:00 – Special guest speaker (to be confirmed)
11:00 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 12:30 – Research ideas development breakout sessions
- Session 1: Policing and health, safety and well-being
- Session 2: Technology and digital policing; and
- Session 3: Policing systems capability and resilience
12:30 – 13:00 – Closing session including summary of discussion points and Q&A session
Register your interest for this event
Hull Criminology Rising Star Seminar Series, Trimester 1
Wednesday December 2, 2020, 12.15-2pm
Stephen Burrell (Durham University): “Engaging men and boys in the prevention of gender-based violence”
Iain Brennan (University of Hull): “Five years of coercive control: Successes and failure in the policing of a new domestic abuse offence”
To register, please follow the link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/criminology-rising-star-guest-speaker-series-202021-tickets-125894041467
2020 INHS Biennial Conference ‘Hate, Democracy, and Human Rights’
December 2nd-3rd 2020
The International Network for Hate Studies and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights are delighted to announce plans for our rescheduled conference, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will now be held fully online December 2nd-3rd 2020, and we look forward to engaging with colleagues and friends in this new but exciting format.
If you would like your work to be presented at the conference, please submit an abstract before Friday 23 October 2020. Details of the call for papers can be found here: https://internationalhatestudies.com/events/call-for-papers-inhs-biennial-conference-hate-democracy-and-human-rights/
Registration details for the conference will be posted on the INHS website in due course: https://internationalhatestudies.com/
Coronavirus in prisons: What’s happening across Europe?
Join the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies to explore prison population changes across European states during the pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic and the measures implemented to control it have had an extraordinary impact on society. Prisons are no exception, with the number of people incarcerated in penal institutions dropping significantly across the globe.
These reductions are, however, not uniform. In France, the prison population fell from 72,000 to 59,000, a drop of nearly a fifth, in a matter of months. England and Wales saw a more modest fall of five per cent, decreasing from nearly 84,000 before the lockdown in March to just over 79,000 now.
In this webinar we explore changes to prison populations across a selection of European states asking the following:
- How have prison populations changed in different European countries during the pandemic?
- What factors have impacted these changes?
- What are the implications for managing the virus in prisons and handling or preventing future outbreaks?
- What are the implications for reforms aimed at reducing the prison population in future?
Speakers include:
- Matt Ford (England and Wales), Research Analyst at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
- Emma Jardine (Scotland), Policy and Public Affairs Manager at Howard League Scotland
- Cécile Marcel (France), Director at the Observatoire International des Prisons
- Alessio Scandurra (Italy), Coordinator of Antigone’s Observatory on Prison Conditions
Online | Free to attend | Donations welcome
Crime, Justice and the Covid-19 pandemic: Towards a Research Agenda
Maynooth University, Department of Law
December 8, 2020 3pm – 4.30pm.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had profound implications for crime and its control both in Ireland and globally. This seminar will discuss the impact on policing and the prison system in Ireland, as well as some of the implications for criminological research.
Speakers include:
- Liam Herrick, Executive Director, Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Law, Maynooth University
- Fíona Ní Chinnéide, Executive Director, Irish Penal Reform Trust
- Dan Jones, MSt, Inspector, Edmonton Police Service, Canada, PhD Candidate (Criminology) University of Huddersfield.
This event will be chaired by Prof. Claire Hamilton, Maynooth University Department of Law.
Online | Free to attend
Centre for Crime and Policing Seminar and Conference Series – Policing and Technology
Tuesday December 8, 2020, 10.00am – 1.15pm
The Centre for Crime and Policing Network seminar series showcases emerging cutting-edge contributions of research staff from across Northumbria University. Each session provides an opportunity for staff to present their research findings on key topics for contemporary policing and to reflect on the challenge of developing evidence based for police practice. The seminars are informal and designed to promote debate between academics and practitioners from the police and other relevant agencies.
This half-day conference will address the transformations that technology is bringing to contemporary policing in terms of new forms and modes of crime, and the investigation thereof. The potential (and limitations) of technology in relation to facial recognition, surveillance, polygraphs, biometrics, AI and predictive policing and related matters – such as ethics and regulation – will be addressed. Additionally, the impact of technology on police operational practice amongst frontline officers and staff is considered.
See here for full information and registration
Online | Free to attend
Speakers will include:
– Professor Claire McDiarmid, Head of School, School of Law, University of Strathclyde
– Dr Michelle Donnelly, Lecturer in Law, University of Stirling
– Dr Harriet Pierpoint, Associate Professor, Centre for Criminology, University of South Wales
This event forms part of the British Academy’s Childhood Policy Programme.
December 16, 2020 14:00- 16:00
In this author meets critics seminar, Dr David Hayes discusses his monograph ‘Confronting Penal Excess: Retribution and the Politics of Penal Minimalism’ in which he considers the correlation between the relative success of retributive penal policies in English-speaking liberal democracies since the 1970s, and the practical evidence of increasingly excessive reliance on the penal State in those jurisdictions.
Online | Free to attend
Responding to the ever changing world of Cyber Crime
Academy for Social Justice
January 13, 2021 16.00 – 17.15
The global threat of cyber crime continues to rise in scale, complexity and impact. With technology underpinning essential services, businesses and private individuals alike we have never been more vulnerable. Cyber crime costs the UK billions of pounds, causes untold damage to society, and threatens national security.
In this seminar, Nigel Leary, Head of Operations at the National Cyber Crime Unit, National Crime Agency, will consider the evolution of cyber crime and examine how inter-connected technological innovation is helping with the response to this ever changing threat. Nigel will also discuss strategies to minimise your exposure from the risk of cyber crime.
Please note you must be a member of the Academy to attend an event. Membership is free and you will be prompted to join when registering for this event.
Online | Free to attend
Woolf report anniversary conference
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
February 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the Woolf report into the Strangeways prison protest; the longest and most significant prison protest in British prison history.
To mark this important occasion we are organising a series of online events between 22 and 26 February 2021.
Over five days, a range of expert speakers will discuss the events around the Strangeways prison protest, the official response, what has happened in prisons the intervening years, and what the future might hold.
Register your details to keep in touch with our plans and get early notice of when event bookings will open.
6th International Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health
March 22-24, 2021
Philadelphia, USA
The LEPH2021 Conference Directors and Organisers are pleased to announce that the conference will take place as scheduled but as a virtual event.
See website for more details