Events

Criminology Events

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• BSC Events
• Non-BSC Events

 

BSC Events

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BSC Early Career Researchers Network

Wednesday 24th February 5-6 pm ECR informal meet up

All Early Career Researchers are invited to attend our first meet up via Zoom.

Thank to those who complete our questionnaire last year – we have arranged the following in response to your feedback. We are conscious of the many pressures everyone is experiencing currently and wish to set up a safe space for discussion about research, surviving online teaching, juggling PhD, managing workload, uncertainty and anything else you wish to talk about!

This will be an informal catch up which also provides the opportunity for you to meet with peers.

We hope to run more of these over the forthcoming months, current suggested themes include writing book proposals, applying for jobs, grant writing but we welcome suggestions from attendees.

Please register via Eventbrite

Contact Jayne Price for further details: jayne.price@chester.ac.uk

 

‘Public Criminology Through Public Education’

March 29, 2021 – 9.30am – 12.30pm

This interdisciplinary event brings together academics from Criminology, Arts & Humanities, Education, and practitioners from the Criminal Justice System to share innovation in learning and teaching. The event is 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.

The day focuses on the role of Public Criminology from a Public Education viewpoint, more specifically:

• Higher Education’s role in facilitating desistance from offending.
• The potential of co-production between academics and young people engaged in education to reduce future offending
• The impact of public education programmes in bringing about change to policy and practice

The presentations will provide practical examples of teaching practice in Public Education, with speakers sharing how they have reconceptualised Public Criminology. As such, the day will appeal to those interested in the role of Criminology and its ability, through learning and teaching, to make a different to individuals and society. The event will also be of interest to those new to teaching, postgraduate research students wishing to develop their skills in this area, and those looking to develop Impact Case Studies.

Please email any queries to:

• Associate Professor Debbie Jones, Department of Criminology, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University
• Associate Professor Mark Jones, College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University.
• Dr Anthony Charles, Department of Criminology, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University

Registration via Eventbrite

 

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Non-BSC Events

Adverts for events placed below and in our bulletin cost £130. The advert should be provided as word document and a logo (if required) needs to be a jpg.

Adverts requested by members for free events, jobs and studentships are placed free of charge.

For more details contact info@britsoccrim.org

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Online Research Pathways for Early-Career Criminologists & Sociologists

February 25,  2021 12-2pm (GMT)

This lunchtime event is specifically aimed at Sociology and Criminology ECRs and
PhDs, to address challenges and opportunities for online research in the digital age and during the
current global pandemic.

Seminar series at London South Bank University

All seminars start at 3:30 pm. Free. On-line. Open to all.

Contact: crimeresearch@lsbu.ac.uk for joining instructions. Or DM on Twitter at @LSBU_Crime

Dr Tara Young
Wednesday 10^th March 2021
Title: “It’s tantalising evidence …. but you’ve got to look at the wider picture.” – Social media as evidence in joint enterprise cases (co-author Susie Hulley, Cambridge)

Dr Esmorie Miller
Wednesday, 28^th April 2021
Title: What’s it all About Jose? The Historic Invention of Black, Racialized  Deviant, in English Youth Justice

Dr Deborah Jump
Wednesday, 5^th May 2021 (new date)
Title: Cure de Jour: exploring the potential of boxing as a mechanism for change among vulnerable groups

Dr Federica Rossi
Wednesday, 19^th May 2021
Title: Clemency in punitive times: the declining use of amnesty and pardon in Italy and France

Professor Steve Tombs
Wednesday 9^th June 2021 (new date)
Title: States, Corporations and the Production of Social Harm

Online | Free to attend

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Risky places for crime

Crime does not occur randomly, it tends to be concentrated in places that are ‘risky’. These places include a range of settings such as convenience stores, parks, and transit stations, even confined to particular street corners, depending on the crime. However, our understanding of the places and settings that attract disproportionately high levels of crimes is still in its infancy.

In this seminar series, we invite prominent national and international scholars to offer us their perspective on the nature of risky places for crime and policy responses in different contexts.

Register for the webinar via ZOOM

11/03/2021 – Andrew Newton, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Public Transit – Risky facilities and ‘busyness’

18/03/2021 – Douglas Wiebe, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
How can paths be risky

25/03/2021 – Mangai Natarajan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, USA
Airports as Risky Facilities

(more dates to be announced)

All lectures will be held in English. The chairs of the series are Prof. Vania Ceccato, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Associate Professor Andrew Newton, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

More information here

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COVID-19 in prisons: strategies for preventing infection and death

Wednesday March 17, 9.30 to 11.00am (GMT).

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, no environment looked riper for explosive outbreaks than prisons. Cramped, crowded, insanitary, full of people with conditions that make them more susceptible to serious illness, and with high levels of staff and prisoner churn, many feared for the worst. In England and Wales, fewer prisoners died in the first wave than many had feared. It could have been a lot worse. But could it have been a lot better?

In this webinar we will discuss:

• What have we learnt about how to manage pandemics in prisons here and abroad?
• What went right?
• What went wrong?
• What could have been done differently?
• What would an ideal strategy look like next time?

Speakers include:

• Professor Richard Coker, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Dr Alves da Costa, World Health Organisation European Health, Alcohol, Illicit Drugs and Prison Health Programme
• Professor Nick Hardwick, Professor of Criminal Justice, Royal Holloway University

You can register your place here.

Online | Free to attend | Donations welcome

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The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research

SCCJR have collated a list of online events. See them here:

https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/news-events/events/

Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development is delighted and excited to announce a forthcoming talk by Professor John Brewer Queen’s University Belfast

Ex-Combatants’ Claims to Moral Legitimacy

May 12, 2021 • 17-18:30h (UK time)

This lecture uses data from research on male and female ex-combatants in Northern Ireland, Republican and Loyalist, to address the moral claims to legitimacy they make in order to render their decision to engage in violence as rational and inevitable. These claims do not denude them of moral responsibility for their actions, but frame their actions as morally legitimate as a way of managing the problem of moral responsibility. Six claims to moral legitimacy are made: they were reluctant combatants; the decision to take up arms and to continue was emotionally problematic and not lightly taken; they were protecting their own community; they have been heavily involved in subsequent conflict transformation; the legacy of that decision leaves heavy suffering and costs to this day; and people should be judged on what they do now for conflict transformation, not on the past.

John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA and is a former President of the British Sociological Association and Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast and Honorary Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University . He is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts for his work on peace processes. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Brunel University for services to social science. John Brewer is Series Editor for the Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict Book Series and Co-Editor of the Bristol University Press Book Series on Public Sociology.

Register here

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This workshop is a response to the historical Northern, Western-centric feature of criminology and the unequal relations of subordination and dependency which has shaped the production of knowledge in the field. It aims to bring contemporary changes and historical continuities in punishment in peripheral countries into the centre of the discussion. We welcome contributions which engage with punishment at peripheral contexts, broadly speaking, and shed light into the complexities of penal trends in these societies, both in relation to change but also persistence, describing and explaining them from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the legacies of imperialism and colonialism in order to understand contemporary penality in postcolonial contexts as well as the importance of travels from the central countries of penal ideas and techniques that influenced penal practices in peripheral contexts.

See website for more details

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