British Society of Criminology

BSC Race Matters Network: Race and Justice Seminar Series
2023-04-27 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London)
Speaker: Dr Sarah Turnbull, University of Waterloo
Title: Discover a world of cultures’: Diversity work as gendered racial governance in British immigration detention
Register here.
Dr Sarah Turnbull, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and a faculty member of the Balsillie School for International Affairs where she co-leads the Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster. Her areas of interest include immigration detention and deportation; parole and re-entry; punishment, abolition, and the carceral state; postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist thought; and qualitative research methods.

Blog online writing workshop
2023-04-21 14:00 - 16:00
Attention BSC members
You know that blog post you’ve been thinking about / working on / finishing off or ages? Do you need a gentle push to get it started / finished / submitted? If so, read on…
The British Society of Criminology wants to assist and encourage submissions to the BSC Blog to showcase members’ cutting-edge criminological research, theory, and practice. On Friday 21 April, 2-4pm, we’ll be hosting a two-hour, online session (via Zoom) dedicated to writing and sharing useful tips and tricks etc. The event is open to BSC members at all career stages, working on / in any area of criminology.
Click here for more information and to register. Any additional queries can be directed to Marian Duggan m.c.duggan@kent.ac.uk.

BSC Learning and Teaching Network free online seminar
2023-03-31 12:30 - 14:00
BSC Learning and Teaching Network free online seminar: Creating Student Communities in Criminology.
Hear about innovative ways in which a sense of community has been fostered amongst criminology students in this free online seminar.

The BSC Learning and Teaching Network is delighted to host this free online seminar, that explores a series of innovations in the development of student communities in criminology.
The 90-minute seminar comprises two 30-minute presentations, followed by 30 minutes for questions and networking.
An overview of each presentation is provided below:

What Works for ‘Authentic Belonging’ Enhancement in Criminology?
Christine Haddow and Jackie Brodie (Edinburgh Napier University)
Enhancing belonging and community is an area of strategic priority in research, within institutions and across the HE sector (Campbell, 2019; Robertson et al., 2019). The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp focus the need to galvanise student communities and enhance belonging to support student attainment and engagement, and as a buffer to mental health challenges (Blignaut et al., 2021; Gopalan et al., 2021). Yet as a concept, belonging remains contested and complex, and insights into its practical enhancement to support the development of communities as we move forward, are limited. In Criminology, a very small body of research has explored belonging or the various communities our students may feel part of (Dabney, Green and Volkan, 2006; Maunder, 2018; van Herpen et al. 2020). In seeking to address this gap, we propose the concept of ‘authentic belonging’, which emerged through the qualitative evaluation of a suite of belonging focused mini-projects conducted at Edinburgh Napier University. This presentation will explore and unpack the meaning of community and belonging in Criminology and provide practical recommendations for their enhancement within the discipline. In doing so, the paper provides a blueprint for criminologists seeking to strengthen the bonds of community for their learner cohorts.

Partners in Crime: Inclusion and Belonging on a Criminology Programme
Suzanne Young (University of Leeds)
This presentation will discuss the Partners in Crime initiative introduced into BA Criminology and Criminal Justice programme in the School of Law at the University of Leeds. Criminology courses are not always diverse, meaning that students can feel marginalized if they don’t see themselves as belonging to the cohort, which can result in feelings of isolation and disengagement. This initiative grew from students wanting a greater sense of course identity and belonging within the School of Law, and a desire to meet other students on the programme. The student led peer support initiative gave new 1st year students the opportunity to meet others in their cohort and in other year groups, whereby they were paired together during induction week. A background to the initiative, how it operated both on campus and online, and the student feedback will be presented while discussing the benefits of peer support to enhance a sense of belonging.

Should you have any queries about this event, please contact Sean Butcher (s.b.butcher@leeds.ac.uk).

BSC Hate Crime Network online event: Sexual Harassment in the Night-Time Economy.
2023-03-23 14:00 - 15:00
BSC Hate Crime Network online event: Sexual Harassment in the Night-Time Economy.
23 March, 2-3pm with guest speaker Michelle Cunliffe, Nottingham Trent University.
Abstact
Sexual harassment is a global issue that disproportionately affects women (Gouseti, 2020: Stanko, 1990; Vera-Gray, 2016). Sexual harassment in public spaces, in particular in the Night-Time Economy, is relatively sparse. Whilst research has explored safety and women’s perceptions of safety in licenced venues, the focus tends to be on drink spiking and rape. Despite unwanted sexual behaviours such as touching and unwanted attention being documented as pervasive there is a lack of research in a UK context that focuses specifically on sexual harassment in licenced venues. This presentation will present the initial findings of the authors PhD thesis. Using a feminist methodological approach and based on semi-structured interviews, the experiences of women who have been impacted by and witnessed sexual harassment in licenced venues will be discussed. This research will illuminate the ways in which women experience harassment and how space and safety are negotiated in licenced venues. Findings suggest that the appearance of men and women and the appearance of venues influence perceptions of safety. Women also negotiate their rights to space in licenced venues by avoiding certain areas of space or accessing areas collectively. Findings also suggest that sexual harassment is presented as ‘just routine’ and interestingly, in some cases, women position themselves as abject when they do not experience unwanted sexual behaviours.
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BSC Race Matter Network Race and Justice Seminar Series
2023-03-09 18:00 - 19:30
Speakers: Dr David R Goyes and Prof Katja Franko.
Title: Profiting from Pablo: Consumerism, Memory and Global Hierarchies of Victimhood.
Katja Franko is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. Katja’s primary research interests are in globalization, migration and border control, international police co-operation, and on the uses of advanced information and communication technologies in contemporary crime control strategies. She is particularly interested in the relationships between state power and crime control under conditions of globalization.
Katja has just completed a monograph entitled “The Crimmigrant Other” (published in Routledge’s Key Ideas in Criminology 2020). Together With David R. Goyes she is currently working on a project on the impact of global entertainment industry on collective memory of violence in Medellin.
Dr David R Goyes is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. He has contributed extensively to the study of North-South global relations, environmental conflicts and Indigenous issues. Goyes is editor of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and member of several editorial boards of journals including Critical Criminology: An International Journal and Justice, Power and Resistance, the journal of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. Goyes has a long publication record, with titles in English, Portuguese and Spanish. His first sole-authored book, Southern Green Criminology (Emerald), was published in 2019. He has also published numerous edited books, scientific journal special editions, academic articles and book chapters. You can learn more about David’s work here: https://www.drgoyes.com

Registration link: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=36550

BSC Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Group Meeting
2023-03-08
The meeting will be at Sheffield Hallam University on Weds 8th March 2023 – the theme is Social Justice Research: Making Change Happen?

The theme of this one day workshop will focus broadly on social justice and criminal justice research and academic work with practitioners, external organisations and partners. We are keen for speakers to reflect upon constructive collaboration as well as the various challenges that researchers working with practitioners or external organisations to make change happen, for example, putting theory into practice, conflicting ideologies and outcomes, or positionality or personal ethics.
If you are interested in speaking at this event about your research or your collaboration then please send a 150-200 word abstract to Helen Johnston H.Johnston@hull.ac.uk by Monday 13th February 2023. Papers will be approximately 15-20 mins.
We welcome submissions from all researchers and aim to create a positive and inviting forum for discussion so please do encourage doctoral researchers and early career researchers to submit a paper or just to come along and join the discussion.

BSC Historical Criminology Network seminar series
2023-03-01 12:00 - 13:30
BSC Historical Criminology Network seminar series: Anti-Fascism, Decolonisation & Critical Race Theory.

Presenter Biographies & Session Information
Dr Evan Smith is a Lecturer in History at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

Moral Panics and the Free Speech ‘Crisis’ on Campus: Using Critical Criminology to Examine the History of ‘No Platforming’ at British Universities
Chair: Liam Miles

This seminar will be delivered via Zoom. Register here. You will receive the joining instructions in your confirmation email and again a few days before the event.

BSC Race Matters Network Race and Justice Seminar Series
2023-02-02 18:00 - 19:30
Speakers: Dr Niina Vuolajärvi and Prof Nick Mai

Panel Title: Migration and Sex Work.

Registration link: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=35804

Speaker 1: Niina Vuolajärvi
Title: Looking for a different kind of abolitionism. Sex Work, Migration and the Feminist Politics of Care
Niina Vuolajärvi is an Assistant Professor in International Migration at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her interdisciplinary research is situated in the fields of migration, feminist, and socio-legal studies. Niina’s projects have investigated migrant sex work, prostitution and migration policies, post-deportation experiences, and race and colonial legacies in Europe.
For more information, see: https://vuolajarvi.weebly.com/ and https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/vuolajarvi-niina

Speaker 2: Nick Mai
Title: Queering Sexual Humanitarianism Through Collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking
Nick Mai will present an analysis of the evolution of his research and co-creative filmmaking with migrant sex workers. He will present different attempts to queer the politics of representation framing contemporary humanitarian and other documentary genres (including ethno-fiction) in relation to the ethical and visual constraints posed by the stigmatisation of their protagonists.
Nick Mai is a filmmaker, ethnographer and sociologist working as Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. His research findings, publicatyions and films focus on the experiences and representations of stigmatised and criminalised migrant groups. Through collaborative, participative and co-creative methodologies my work aims to put their own priorities, needs and trajectories at the centre of the research findings, representations and policies. Nick is the author of Mobile Orientations: An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders (Chicago University Press, 2018). For more information: www.nicolamai.org

Race and Justice Series
This event is hosted by the Department of Criminology and supported by the British Society of Criminology’s Race Matters Network. For further information, please contact the event organiser and Race Matters Network coordinator Dr Monish Bhatia (m.bhatia@bbk.ac.uk).
This event is open to the public and free to attend however booking is required via this page. The event will be hosted on MS Teams, a free to access website. You will be sent a link to access the event on the day.

BSC Historical Criminology Network seminar series: Workshopping Critical Race Theory in British Criminology: Why the Outrage?
2023-02-01 16:00 - 17:30
Anti-Fascism, Decolonisation & Critical Race Theory.

Presenter Biographies & Session Information
Dr Esmorie Miller is a Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

Workshopping Critical Race Theory in British Criminology: Why the Outrage?
Chair: Lizzie Seal

Register here.

Reimagining Probation and the Rehabilitation of Offenders conference
2023-01-18 09:00 - 17:30
The BSC Midland Regional branch and University of Wolvershapton 1-day conference: Reimagining Probation and the Rehabilitation of Offenders.
This conference aims to explore new developments, policies, and practices in probation and the rehabilitation of offenders.
University of Wolverhampton – City Campus Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton WV1 1LY
This conference aims to explore new developments, policies, and practices in probation and the rehabilitation of offenders. The new era of the renationalisation of the Probation Service in England and Wales has established a redefined reality for the service where both low- and high-risk offenders are supervised by the National Probation Service. This has also meant the introduction and involvement of new and existing partners in the supervision of offenders in both prison and community settings. The Target Operating Model for probation services in England and Wales published in early 2021 has set renewed principles, anticipated benefits, and promises for offenders, victims, and probation officers in the renationalised infrastructure of probation. These ranging from transforming through partnerships, an open culture, and consistent supervision to changes in the language of probation, modernising estates, and more manageable workloads remain to be evaluated in both academia and practice. This conference thereby invites academics and practitioners to discuss their experiences, examinations, or expectations of this renationalisation enterprise and further appraise what path the new model imagines for probation and the rehabilitation of offenders. In addition, the conference is interested in other developments in the area that may have accompanied renationalisation, such as OMiC, IOM (Refresh) and others and their impact on the culture and practice of probation and associated services. Due to the collaborative ethos the new model aims to establish, academics and practitioners are invited to share their research and experience with multi-agency work in probation too – whether that involves criminal justice or non-criminal justice agencies, Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, or the future of victim work and victim liaison agencies in the reintegration of offenders. The conference also appreciates how the renationalisation era has come after the challenging part-privatised state of the Probation Service which has been heavily criticised by academics, practitioners, and service users alike. As such, it also invites discussion of the aftermath of part-privatisation of the service in relation to the state in which renationalisation has found probation services, and, crucially, the continuing impact of the Transforming Rehabilitation policy. Finally, the conference is interested in comparative approaches as well as experience or research on probation from other jurisdictions which may demonstrate developments in working with offenders and new rehabilitation policies outside England and Wales too.
Full details about the event, including the infromatoin on the schedule, key speakers and registration details can be found here.

Race and Justice Seminar Series
2022-12-15 18:00 - 19:30
Counterterrorism in the UK: The Policing of Muslims in the name of fighting armed Muslim Groups
In this session, Rizwaan Sabir will critically map the connections between counterinsurgency warfare and the domestic ‘war on terror’ being fought in the United Kingdom through policing, counterterrorism, and counter-extremism policy, law, and practice. The session will draw upon Sabir’s recently published book ‘The Suspect’ which employs counterinsurgency warfare theory and doctrine to conceptualize and frame his experience of being arrested and detained by UK authorities on suspicion of terrorism for possessing a document he downloaded from the US Department of Justice website for his research on armed Muslim groups, and years of subsequent surveillance and state interest he was subjected to on his release (without charge) from custody.
Sabir will outline how and why the employment of counterinsurgency approaches to the policing of terrorism are fundamentally concerned with pre-emptively neutralizing threats before they manifest into violence and how such an approach de-politicizes and de-historicizes armed Muslim struggle (and political Islam more broadly). He will also examine how this pre-emptive approach to counterterrorism constructs armed Muslim struggle as a ‘new’ form of terrorism, and how such a reading signifies Muslims as dangerous and risky; making securitization, coercion, and conflict the logical outcome of counterterrorism policy. The lecture concludes with some suggestions around how a human-rights orientated approach that centers and recognizes the role of socio-economics and notably politics is critical to understanding and addressing the issue of terrorism and counterterrorism in the UK (and the west more broadly), and how communities of struggle can contest, challenge, and resist securitization and counterterrorism policy and practice.
Bio: Dr Rizwaan Sabir is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the School of Justice Studies at Liverpool John Moores University (UK), and author of the book ‘The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State’ (Pluto, 2022). In addition to providing analysis and commentary in the written and broadcast media for the Guardian, Al-Jazeera, TRT World, and the BBC, he briefs lawyers, community groups, and policy makers at the UK Parliament, United Nations, and the Council of Europe. He can be contacted via email R.Sabir@ljmu.ac.uk or followed on Twitter at the following handle: @RizwaanSabir
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Speaker: Tarek Younis
The Muslim, State and Mind: The Psychologisation of Counter-Extremism
Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and psychiatry are not apolitical, and neither are Muslims. In this session, Tarek Younis unpacks where the politics of the psy-disciplines and the politics of Muslims overlaps, demonstrating how psychological theories and practices serve State interests and perpetuate inequality—especially racism and Islamophobia. Viewing the psy-disciplines from the margins, Younis will draw upon his forthcoming book to illustrate how these necessarily serve the State in the production of loyal, low-risk and productive citizens, offering a modern discussion of three paradigms underlying the psy-disciplines: neoliberalism, security and the politics of mental health.
Bio: Dr Tarek Younis is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University. He researches and writes on Islamophobia, racism in mental health, the securitisation of clinical settings and the politics of psychology. He teaches on the impact of culture, religion, globalisation, and security policies on mental health. As a registered clinical psychologist, he primarily attends to experiences of racism, Islamophobia, and state violence in his private practice. His book is called The Muslim, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia.
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Discussant: Arun Kundnani
Kundnani writes about racial capitalism and Islamophobia, surveillance and political violence, and Black radical movements. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain (Pluto, 2007), which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year. He has written for the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Vice, and The Intercept. Born in London, he moved to New York in 2010. A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he was miseducated at Cambridge University, and holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University. He has been an Open Society fellow and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Register here.

BSC Learning and Teaching Network - Managing Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
2022-12-09 12:30 - 14:00
Hear about innovative approaches towards managing challenging criminological conversations in this free online seminar that explores a series of pedagogically-informed approaches to managing difficult conversations in learning spaces.
The 90-minute seminar comprises two 30-minute presentations, followed by 30 minutes for questions and networking.
Cultivating trauma-informed pedagogies in criminology: Insights from student victim-survivors. Julia Downes (The Open University)
Many people with lived experience of injustice and violence are drawn to criminology; however, criminology has traditionally kept lived experience and victimisation at its margins. Survivor criminology emphasises the importance of listening to lived experience (Cook et al., 2022), so how can educators hold space for classroom discussions of sensitive and controversial topics with students from different backgrounds and levels of lived experience? I will share findings from an educational research project on how students learn sensitive topics in criminology at The Open University (Downes, Wall & Alvaer 2022) and a digital toolkit co-produced with students and tutors as part of the Positive Digital Practices project. In attending to the experiences of student victim-survivors studying gender-based violence I emphasise how supporting the strengths, capacities, and skills of those of us with lived experience can transform the criminological classroom.
A recent THE Campus article related to the particulars of this presentation can be found here.
An inclusive learning design approach to individual and socially sensitive topics in the classroom. Rachael Burns and Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt (University of York)
With a broad outlook on mental wellbeing in the classroom, we aim to introduce perspectives and strategies that can serve colleagues in Higher and Further Education to introduce and discuss difficult topics in the classroom. We will be drawing from cases from our teaching experience including on topics such as hate crime and debating social anxiety as a medical gaze.
Should you have any queries about this event, please contact Sean Butcher (s.b.butcher@leeds.ac.uk).
Register for the seminar here.

Historical Criminology Network seminar series
2022-11-30 16:00 - 17:30
Locating contemporary concerns within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond.
Racist-Gendered State Violence: Punishing Migrant Women and Separating Families
Dr Monish Bhatia is a Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck University, London, UK.
Chair: Karina Garcia-Reyes
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BSC Race Matters Network: Race and Justice Seminar Series.
2022-11-17 18:00 - 19:30
Crisis Ordinariness and Racial Justice.
Speaker: Prof Nasar Meer. Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh.
This talk explores how societies adapt to a form of ‘crisis ordinariness’ (Berlant 2011) in which the regularity of racial injustice prevails without the need for pre-meditated racist intentions. Underwritten by a ‘racial contract’ (Mills 1997), and propelled by racial mechanics in seemingly disparate and ancillary social spheres (Meer 2022), the argument advanced here is that social systems bear the imprints of older racial injustices that are not merely restated but re-articulated in ways that may be novel, and yet share common properties with how other racial projects have been curated and sustained. Seeing racial injustice as systemic, therefore, better allows us to grasp the nature of the challenge we face.
The event is online and free to attend. Register here. For further information, please contact the event organiser and Race Matters Network co-coordinator Dr Monish Bhatia (m.bhatia@bbk.ac.uk).

BSC Prisons Research Network Event
2022-11-09 16:00 - 17:30
9 November 2022, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT
Get excited! Shadd Maruna joins us with colleagues from User Voice to talk all things about peer and prison research.
Register here.

Historical Criminology Network seminar series
2022-11-02 16:00 - 17:30
Locating contemporary concerns within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond.
Seminar 2: Decolonialization and Counter-Colonial Criminology
Presenter: Dr Biko Agozino is a Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech University, Virginia, USA.
Chair: Esmorie Miller
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About the seminar series
What role can a historical criminology platform have in matters of contemporary concern? Where do our contemporary concerns with topics such as anti-fascism, decolonization, gender, free speech, and critical race theory intersect with the multidisciplinary logics guiding criminological observance of historical methods, pedagogies, and wider community participatory action? @BSC’s #HCNet brings together a seminar series covering this multidisciplinary range of contemporary ideas, allowing attendees to ‘meet’ specialists virtually, taking the opportunity to interrogate the extent which history intersects with the contemporary. Our aim is to provide a platform to support rich discussion, with the chance to locate contemporary conversations within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond

BSC Victims Network and Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network one-day conference on perpetrators of violence against women
2022-10-21 09:30 - 16:00
The British Society of Criminology Victims Network (BSCVN) and Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network (WCCJN) are pleased to announce a one-day conference on perpetrators of violence against women.
9.30am-4pm, 21 October 2022. Followed by a wine reception. City University, London.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
• Dr Michael Flood (Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Research)
• Jo Todd, CEO Respect (Practice)
• Other TBC
Over the last four decades, significant attention has been paid to men’s violence against women and girls. Much of this has focused on victimisation – studying the prevalence, nature, impacts and consequences of violence against women – which has informed legislative reform and policy implementation with the aim of preventing VAWG and improving criminal justice and support outcomes for survivors. This has informed, and been informed by, feminist theory and research, and Victimology as a specific sub-discipline of Criminology.
By contrast, perpetrators of violence against women and girls have been understudied, perhaps with the exception of child sex offenders where research has been most concentrated. The evidence gaps in relation to perpetrators have recently been acknowledged by the UK Government who have commissioned research and pilot projects on perpetrators of domestic violence to inform the wider Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and forthcoming Domestic Abuse Act (2021) which acknowledges the need to focus on perpetrators both in terms of prevention and responding to violence against women. In Europe, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has highlighted the importance of focusing on perpetrators of VAWG and called for member states to enhance knowledge to inform perpetrator programmes and prevention work. Over the last decade there has been some research on perpetrator programmes (Kelly and Westmarland, 2014) but this remains fairly limited. Moreover, emerging research on working with men and boys has attested to the importance of conducting work with men generally, as well as those already known as perpetrators (Burrell, 2018; 2019) but there remain significant gaps in this area.
We hope to use the conference as a platform to stimulate discussion and collaboration and intend to submit a proposal for a Special Issue based on some of the papers presented at the conference.
The event is free to attend and you can register here.
Room details to be confirmed closer to the time

Race and Justice Seminar Series.
2022-10-20 19:30
Speaker: Professor Ana Aliverti, University of Warwick.
Title: Policing the Borders Within: Globalisation, State Power and Magic
Speaker Bio: Ana Aliverti is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (Oxford, 2012), an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distinction, Oxford, 2008), an MA in Sociology of Law (IISL, 2005) and a BA in Law (Honours, Buenos Aires, 2002). Her research explores questions of national identity and belonging in criminal justice, and of law, sovereignty and globalisation. She has led extensive empirical work in the UK’s criminal justice and immigration systems. She is the author of Crimes of Mobility (Routledge, 2013) and Policing the Borders Within (OUP, 2021). She was co-awarded the British Society of Criminology Best Book Prize for 2014, and received the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) (2015), the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law (2017), and the British Journal of Criminology’s Radzinowicz Prize for her article ‘Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls. She is co-Director of the Criminal Justice Centre at Warwick and the Associate Director of Border Criminologies.
Race and Justice Series
This event is part of the Department of Criminology’s Race and Justice Series and is supported by the by the British Society of Criminology’s Race Matters Network. For further information, please contact the event organiser and Race Matters Network co-coordinator Dr Monish Bhatia (m.bhatia@bbk.ac.uk).
This event is open to the public and free to attend however booking is required via this page https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=34192. The event will be hosted on MS Teams, a free to access website. You will be sent a link to access the event on the day.

Historical Criminology Network seminar series
2022-10-19 16:00 - 17:30
Locating contemporary concerns within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond.
Seminar 1: What is Fascism and Where Does it Come From?
Presenter: Dr Geoff Eley Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA.
4-5.30pm (BST) 19 October 2022,
Chair: Lizzie Seal
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About the seminar series
What role can a historical criminology platform have in matters of contemporary concern? Where do our contemporary concerns with topics such as anti-fascism, decolonization, gender, free speech, and critical race theory intersect with the multidisciplinary logics guiding criminological observance of historical methods, pedagogies, and wider community participatory action? @BSC’s #HCNet brings together a seminar series covering this multidisciplinary range of contemporary ideas, allowing attendees to ‘meet’ specialists virtually, taking the opportunity to interrogate the extent which history intersects with the contemporary. Our aim is to provide a platform to support rich discussion, with the chance to locate contemporary conversations within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond

Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) free film screening
2022-10-11 17:00 - 20:00
To celebrate Black History Month, the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) will be screening the American documentary film Free Renty (2021).
Tuesday October 11th from 5-8pm at the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, Oxford Street, Liverpool. L7 3NY.
This documentary epitomizes this years Black History Month theme, ‘Time for Change: Action Not Words’ by inviting viewers to engage with ongoing debates surrounding decolonizing academic archives and curriculum. The film’s Director, David Grubin, will also Zoom in for a live Q&A after the screening.
The event is free but you need to register here.

Children’s Human Rights and Youth Justice: Progress, Challenges and Visions
2022-09-15 10:30 - 16:30 | University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Children’s Human Rights and Youth Justice: Progress, Challenges and Visions
Thursday 15th September 2022, 10:30am – 4:30pm (registration from 09.30am).

A one-day conference organised by the National Association for Youth Justice (NAYJ) and hosted by the International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU), the University of Liverpool.
More details and registration: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law-and-social-justice/events/youth-justice-conference-22/
