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A story of Crime and Justice: how to engage effectively with the media
February 25 2020
Bristol
Kieran McCartan, Professor of Criminology in conversation with Penelope Gibbs and former BBC journalist Philippa Budgen about how the public conversation around crime and justice can be reframed and more nuanced.
Transform Justice recently published ground-breaking research which showed the need for charities, academics and campaigners to use different language and techniques to inspire more nuanced attitudes about responses to crime.
FREE but booking required here
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Conflict-related Violence against Women and WPS: Visibility and Response, by Dr Aisling Swaine
February 26, 2020 12.30 – 2pm
Ulster University Jordanstown
As attention to conflict-related violence against women has grown in recent years, the need to ensure response to the realities of that violence beyond narrowly confined ideas of rape as a weapon of war has become more and more evident. In her new book, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition, Aisling Swaine examines the contexts of Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste to identify a spectrum of forms of gender violence. She analyses their occurrence, and the relationship between them, within and across different points of pre-, mid- and post-conflict. Swaine proposes that a transformation rather than a transition is required in the aftermath of conflict, if justice is to play a role in preventing gender violence. In her talk, Swaine will provide an overview of current approaches to understanding conflict-related violence against women and will comment on the relevance of these to the future of the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Dr Aisling Swaine is Associate Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author of Conflict-related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transitions (Cambridge University Press, 2018) which is based on the doctoral research she conducted at Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute.
This event is part of the WPS@20 seminar hosted by the Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute to mark the upcoming 20th anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security by the United Nations Security Council.
FREE to attend but please register here
Academy Leeds seminar: Working together to respond to modern slavery
March 18, 2020 17:00 – 19:00
Leeds
Mark Burns-Williamson OBE
Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire
The word “slavery” conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships – depictions that have been consigned to the history books, but according to the Global Slavery Index, there are 40.3 million people held in slavery across the world today.
In this free seminar Mark will focus on the response to modern slavery, both across West Yorkshire and nationally, during his time in office.
FREE but registration required
Academy of Criminal Justice Science
57th Annual Meeting
March 24-28, 2020
Envisioning Justice: From Local to Global
Bursting with relevant, timely, and thought-provoking educational sessions, this meeting provides members the opportunity to learn, grow, network and rejuvenate in a location that embodies the charm of a treasured city.
Deep in the heart of Texas, San Antonio’s bold spirit and historic legacies make it an ideal business or destination location. Come experience its rich culture, art, music and cuisine. Influenced by the cultures of Spain, Germany and Mexico; among others, San Antonio is home to a welcoming, diverse community with plenty to see and do.
Police Research Unit Annual Lecture
Professor Philip Stenning
March 24, 2020 3pm
Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP
“From ‘community policing’ to ‘plural policing’ provision: Evolving understandings of ‘policing’”
This is the fifth year of our successful Annual Policing Lecture. This year we are delighted to have Professor Philip Stenning of Griffith University, Brisbane Australia.
This is a free event.
Further details and instructions for booking can be found here
Time to get it right: The state of youth court in England and Wales
March 25, 2020
The Centre for Justice Innovation and the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research will launch the final report of their research project, which explores the state of existing practice in youth courts to assess how well they are functioning to meet the needs of children and young people. The event will be chaired by Lord Carlile and will include discussion of the key findings from the report and its policy implications, along with panel discussion with key national figures. The line-up includes:
- Linda Logan (Magistrates Association)
- Kate Aubrey-Johnson (Child rights and youth justice expert adviser)
- Mark Blake (Councillor and Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Engagement, London Borough of Haringey).
In addition to the panel discussion, Reality ART will be showcasing an immersive installation, that brings to life the findings of the report and allows the voices of children and young people to be heard on this topic.
Free to attend but registration required
University of London
Wednesday March 25, 2020 4pm
Professor Sandra Walklate
How and under what conditions might femicide be prevented?
The term femicide, whilst contested, focuses attention on women killed at the hands of men known to them, as such has encouraged researchers and policy makers to consider the nature, extent and risks of such lethal acts of violence. Work in this area has drawn attention to the nature and extent of early deaths and reduced quality of life experienced by women as a result of their protracted exposure to violence(s) at the hands of the men in their lives. This we have called ‘slow femicide’ (Walklate et al 2020).
At the same time, following the UN call for the establishment of femicide observatories, the question of how to prevent such deaths has also risen up academic and policy agendas. The social ecological model of violence favoured by the UN has seeped into policy and practice responses with scant regard for the functionalist undertones associated with it and its subsequent inability to theorise the patriarchal social relationships, which underpin and frame the nature and extent of ‘slow femicide’. The result is an uncritical embrace of risk producing ‘thin’ counts and thereby actions amounting to ‘thin’ prevention. However only when we think of Patriarchy will ‘thick’ counts and ‘thick’ prevention result.
Free to attend but places must be booked in advance here
University of Greenwich
The Gender, Deviance and Society Research Unit Launch
Thursday March 26, 2020 6pm in QA175
The Gender, Deviance and Society Unit warmly invite you to the launch of their research unit and MSc Criminology Gender and Sexuality information evening. The event is open to any interested visitors, staff and students.
Speakers:
Finding ways to punish the failed mother: criminal law and newborn child death, Dr Emma Milne, University of Plymouth
RIP N1 – Closing Holloway Prison: the women’s voices, Dr Rachel Seoighe, University of Kent and Dr Carly Guest, University of Middlesex
Refreshments are available. Please book your free place here: http://flas-eventsgenderdeviancecrime.eventbrite.co.uk?s=118538055
If you are interested in the work of the Gender, Deviance, and Society Unit or the MSc Criminology, Gender and Sexuality but you cannot attend this event, please email us at Law@gre.ac.uk, or for the Master’s at S.L.Banwell@greenwich.ac.uk to stay in the loop about our future activities or to join our network.
Howard League for Penal Reform
Two-day international conference to be held at Keble College, Oxford
Tuesday 31 March – Wednesday 1 April 2020
How social harms are understood, questioned and tackled can have a profound effect on how communities approach crime and justice. This conference comes at a time when communities across the world are experiencing change and uncertainly affecting how they understand themselves and challenges to the status quo. Coping with, responding to and supporting such uncertainty and change brings challenges for political institutions, criminal justice agencies and civic society in developing values, strategies and systems.
We will bring together academics, policy makers, practitioners and those directly affected by the criminal justice system to discuss, reflect on and suggest alternative strategies.
The Howard League’s conference will consider the intersection of issues relating to crime, justice and social harms. Building on the Howard League’s Commission on Crime and Problem Gambling and the burgeoning international concern around it, we are keen to explore the impact of problem gambling on patterns of crime and the societal harms that link crime and problem gambling.
We will be announcing speakers soon.
Call for Papers
The Howard League is looking for papers from academics, policy makers, practitioners, PhD students and researchers from within the criminological and legal disciplines, however we are also keen to include contributions from fields of study including philosophy, geography, political science and economics.
We will consider theoretical, policy, practice-based and more innovative contributions around a wide range of issues that encompass the broad theme of justice and the wider conference themes. We would particularly welcome papers on the following themes, however other topics will also be positively considered.
- political instability, austerity and social change
- addictions as a social harm including gambling, drugs and alcohol
- racism as a social harm
- cybercrime, technology and social media
- policing
- sentencing and legal change
- the role of probation, prisons and the criminal justice system in responding to social harms
- community and civil society’s responses to social harms
- relationships and responsibility of social, health and (criminal) justice
- gender, men and masculinities
- equality and social justice
- women, gender and justice
- overuse of the penal system: mass imprisonment, mass supervision and mass surveillance
- poverty and criminal justice
- domestic violence as a social harm
- young people, young adults – social justice and criminal justice
victims of crime in a social harm context
Abstract guidelines
Abstracts should be a maximum of 200 words and include a title and 4–5 key words. Your submission should be submitted in English. Papers will normally be presented in panel sessions with 3 or 4 papers presented in either slots of 20 or 15 minutes, followed by 20/30 minutes discussion. This conference is particularly interested in and will respond positively to papers that incorporate participatory and creative methods to discuss ideas and findings, lightning talks, panels, or roundtables. We will ask you indicate your preferred method of delivering your paper. Include the proposer’s name and contact details along with the job title or role. Please submit abstracts via email to: anita.dockley@howardleague.org
The deadline for submissions is Monday 2 December 2019.
Decisions will be made by Wednesday 8 January 2020.
All participants, whether presenting a paper or not, are expected to pay conference fees.
Further information and conference costs available here:
https://howardleague.org/events/crime-justice-and-social-harms/
After Strangeways: The past, present and future of prisons
The 25-day protest in 1990 at Strangeways prison in Manchester was the longest prison protest in British history.
On 1 April 2020 – 30 years to the day from the start of the protest – we will be holding a major conference in central London to discuss the past, present and future of prisons.
The root causes of the protests lay in many years of unjust and abusive prison policies and practices that affected not just Strangeways, but the British prison system as a whole. The conference will consider the deep history of British prisons, using the Strangeways protests as a signal moment in a wider history of problematic and abusive institutions.
Ethnography and the Shifting Boundaries of Policing
April 23-24, 2020, Bangor University
Ethnography has proved to be a crucial methodology for entering and understanding the world of policing. The contemporary ‘pluralised’ policing field comprises a multiplicity of public, private and voluntary organisations, inviting new avenues for ethnographic research and debate. This two-day conference brings together policing scholars and practitioners to discuss and share insights from ethnographic fieldwork undertaken with policing actors and social control professionals across different contexts.
The Cognitive Centre is proud to present a one day event
KNIFE CRIME AND GANGS – BEYOND THE HEADLINES
ONE DAY CONFERENCE AND LEARNING EVENT
April 30, 2020
COPTHORNE TARA HOTEL, SCARSDALE PLACE, KENSINGTON, LONDON W8 5SY
DISCOUNT PRICE – £120 + vat FOR ALL BRITISH SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY MEMBERS
Chief Inspector Alastair Muir is Deputy Director of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit – a national centre of expertise in tackling violence. Working in partnership with Scottish Police and the Scottish Government the SVRU aims to prevent violence wherever it’s found from the streets, to classrooms, homes and workplaces. The SVRU has adopted a public health approach which treats violence as a disease and seeks to diagnose and analyse the root causes of violence in Scotland, then develop and evaluate solutions which can be scaled-up. The SRVU has moved on from campaigns focused on “stop and search” supported by metal detectors to projects aimed at prevention, diversion and support. Many forces are now looking to Scotland to find out how, as a country, they worked together to cut homicides by nearly 50% and reduce offensive weapon carrying by 64%. http://actiononviolence.org
Craig Pinkney is a Criminologist, Urban Youth Specialist, Lecturer at the University College Birmingham and is one of the UK’s leading thinkers/doers in responding to Gangs and Serious Youth Violence. He is an JNC qualified Youth Worker with over 15 year’s experience as an Outreach Worker, Transformational Speaker, Gang Exit Strategist, Mediator, Mentor and Filmmaker. https://craigpinkney.com
Dr Andrew Whittaker is Associate Professor and Head of the Serious Violence research cluster at London South Bank University. Over the past 30 years he has been a practicing social worker and researcher into the risks faced by young people. He leads a programme of research into gangs and trauma informed approaches, including the award-winning ‘Postcodes to Profits’ gang study. He is currently a commissioner for the Poverty and Inequality Commission chaired by Baroness Tyler and an expert advisor to the UK What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care. www.lsbu.ac.uk
John Poyton, is co-founder and CEO of Redthread, a London-based youth outreach charity. As a trained and experienced youth worker John took the reins of Redthread in 2009. He moved from a clinical practitioner role, working one to one with high-risk vulnerable young people, to lead on the vision and strategy for the organisation. Since then, Redthread has been working in partnership with London’s major trauma centre hospitals and has youth workers embedded in the A&E teams, working with victims to break the cycle of violence. In 2014 Redthread had a team of 7, now John leads a team of 30 and has embarked on plans to take their ground breaking model, having youth workers embedded within clinical teams, to hospitals in Nottingham and Birmingham. https://www.redthread.org.uk
Abianda is a social enterprise that works with young women affected by gangs, and provides training for the professionals who work with them. They provide frontline services for young women aged 11 to 24, and training for social workers, youth workers, police, health professionals, foster carers and other audiences. Abianda was set up to address the gap in services for gang-affected young women and to change the way services are delivered to them, so they can more effectively respond to their needs. They do this through their unique model of practice – addressing the barriers that stop young women seeking help & working alongside them to design & deliver their services. http://abianda.com
Please contact wendy@cognitivecentre.com
University of Leeds School of Law Postgraduate Research Conference
Call for Papers
Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 2020
Event date: May 1, 2020
This one-day PGR Conference on ‘the role of the law in an ever-changing society: national and international challenges in the 2020s’ will provide a great opportunity for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) in Law and Criminology to present their work and receive valuable feedback and to develop their scholarship in a constructive and collaborative environment for PGRs. PGRs at any stage in their research studies are encouraged to participate.
We welcome submissions within the following three Conference streams on a number of topics, including but not limited to:
- Business Law: Commercial law; corporate law; intellectual property law; tax law; technology and business law; competition law; insolvency law; international trade law; private international law; contract law and European Union law.
- Criminal Justice Studies: Policing; penology; security; technology; cybercrime; counter-terrorism; criminology; evidence; youth crime and justice; criminal justice policy; criminal justice processes; criminal justice agencies; international and comparative criminology and historic criminology.
- Law and Social Justice: Human rights; public international law; healthcare law; disability law; law and inequality; legal education; labour law; law, gender and sexuality; social and legal theory; and activism.
Abstracts should specify the Conference stream they relate to. They should not exceed 300 words and must be submitted to lawpgrconf@leeds.ac.uk by Friday, February 28, 2020 at noon. Successful applicants will be notified by March 20, 2020.
The Conference is completely free of charge. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. A number of bursaries of £300 each are available to help towards the cost of travel and accommodation for external PGRs who present at the Conference. If you wish to apply for a bursary then you must state this on your submission, attach a copy of your CV and specify under which Conference stream you are applying to present.
WPS@Belfast: Roundtable of activists reflecting on the local significance of UNSCR1325
Ulster University Belfast Campus
May 6, 2020, 12.30-2pm
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 has been prominent amongst local campaigners in Belfast working for the inclusion of women and a gender perspective in post conflict peacebuilding and dealing with the legacy of the conflict. This Roundtable includes diverse perspectives from local activists on Resolution 1325, its utility as an advocacy tool, and its limitations.
This event is part of the WPS@20 seminar hosted by the Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute to mark the upcoming 20th anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security by the United Nations Security Council.
FREE to attend but please register here
EUROPEAN GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL – 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Campus Luigi Einaudi, Torino, Italy September 2-5, 2020
Dynamics of harm and social control in the transformation of capitalism
Over past decades, capitalism has undergone transformations that have posed radical challenges for critical thinking. From the harms of ‘old’ capitalism to its most recent transformations, the world is experiencing new forms of exploitation, contradictions and challenges. Political movements around ethical consumption and green capitalism increasingly overshadow the fundamental problems at the heart of corporate capital: exploitation of human and natural resources, inequality and state-corporate expansionism.
Undoubtedly, one of the most pressing contemporary issues is the rise of surveillance capitalism, which increasingly invades our daily lives and shapes our subjectivities (individually and collectively). The transformations of new surveillance capitalism are affecting people intersectionally, relating to class, religion, race, gender, economic status, educational attainment, and countries where people live. Our choices and decisions (from what we eat to whom we date!), risk creating new and effective tools for further exploitation and social control. This is particularly true for the ways we communicate, move and experience in, for example, the ‘smart city’ and ‘smart university’.
See the website for full details
Widening the Net of Education and Scholarship in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Southern Criminal Justice Association
September 9-12, 2020
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
In addition to the stellar panels and fellowship that have made Southern conference the top regional criminology conference, we’ve planned a special emphasis on how we expand the reach of our scholarship and teaching in meaningful ways to recognize and value the importance of interdisciplinary outreach and implications. Thematic presentations, discussions, and roundtables will largely focus on this theme.
For full details see the website