Events

Wednesday 18^th August, 2021 – Emily Wertans : The forgotten victims of hate crime: How can hate scholars engage with homeless victims?

Abstract: As a group that stands outside of the formal protected characteristics of hate crime, homeless people are scarcely recognised as victims of prejudice within the UK. However, there are numerous accounts of targeted hostility directed towards people on the basis of their perceived homeless status. Nonetheless, hate scholars, victimisation researchers and politicians have not attempted to meaningfully engage with this group to better understand their experiences and needs. This presentation and the research that underpins it aims to address what we know about targeted hostility against the homeless, why there is so little attention on it and how can research be conducted to bridge this gap.

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Online | Free to attend

BSC Early Career Researchers Network

Wednesday September 22, 2021 5pm-6.15pm

In recent sessions we have had feedback from members that they would appreciate sessions that advise about grant applications. Professor Barry Godfrey (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-social-policy-and-criminology/staff/barry-godfrey/ ) has much experience and has  kindly agreed to come along and deliver a talk. After a brief discussion about the uses of external funding, using examples from past and present ESRC projects, we will discuss strategies for successfully securing research grants (both Research Council and Non-RC). The remainder of the session will be dedicated to informal catch up.

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BSC Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network

WCCJN Critical Conversations in Gender and Criminology

Annual Event 2021

Criminological Identities / Identity Criminologies

Wednesday 8th December 2021, 2 – 6pm

Online Symposium

Interrogations and explorations of identity in criminology have yielded a great depth of insight and understanding through analyses of identity (re)formation among (ex)offenders; explorations of identity-based victimisation; variable policing practices and identity bias; and disciplinary debates between ‘identity politics’ versus a ‘politics of identity’. These issues, coupled with a growth in researchers’ own reflective assessments of how their power, politics, and positionality influences their perspectives, illustrate how criminology is currently replete with considerations not only of identity, but also its influence and its importance.

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Online | Free to attend

Annual Scarman Lecture 2021

Drugs & the Criminal Justice System in the UK

Wednesday 29 September 2021 from 17:00 BST via Teams

With experts from policing, the prison service, public health and Release, we debate the ‘what works’ questions in relation to addressing how the criminal justice system responds to the challenges presented by substance use. Our speakers address the critical questions of how and if criminal justice systems should respond to substance use, and the efficacy of its interventions. Please join us for a 40 minute panel discussion chaired by Dr Tammy Ayres (followed by questions) with the following experts:

• Sue McAllister CB Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
• Kieran Lynch, Public Health England
• Jason Kew, Chief Inspector, Thames Valley Police
• Niamh Eastwood, Release

This event is free and open to all. Please click here for more information and to get your free ticket.

If you have any queries please email Laura on lan11@le.ac.uk and please feel free to forward this invitation.