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.

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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 /…

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.  

BSC Policing Network, BSC Criminology Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network, City University and the University of Essex’s Centre for Criminology, one-day conference: Police Misconduct and Violence Against Women and Girls: Exploring Research and Practice Evidence from a series of police reviews and inquiries in recent years has revealed serious and systemic misogyny and violence against women and girls in policing. Both police culture, and police vetting, misconduct, and disciplinary practices have been identified as contributing to this situation. Despite the intense recent media attention on issues of police misconduct in England, the way these practices work and the opportunities,…

BSC Historical Criminology Network meet the author events The aim of this series is to provide a platform to support rich discussion about historical criminology amongst those with an interest, in academia and beyond. Ultimately, we aim to promote new ideas on historical criminology, continuing to widen awareness and generate rich conversation. Historical criminology as a tool is relevant for the classroom, for research, and appeals to a wider public fascination concerning the role of history in our lives. The event offers the opportunity to meet the authors of new works (not necessarily books alone), including the possibility to pose…

The BSC Midlands Region, in collaboration with the University of Derby's College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, will be running a seminar on Wednesday 24 May at 2pm in room 201 Friargate Squate, University of Derby. There are three really interesting speakers from both Derby and Nottingham University. Refreshments will be provided on arrival and at the end of the afternoon and we hope that you will stay and join us afterwards for further discussions in an informal social atmosphere. It will provide a good chance for colleagues to get together. If you would like further information or would…

Panel: Gendered-Racist Regimes of Detention and Deportation.   Speakers and Paper title: Dr Dorina Damsa: Gender, Race and Deportation in the Nordic Welfare State. Dr Francesca Esposito: Racist-Gendered Regimes of Detention Violence. Dr Dorina Damsa achieved a PhD in Criminology and the Sociology of Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research is centred around global inequality regimes, borderscapes, and im/mobility, at the intersections of citizenship status, gender, race, and class. Her approach relies on perspectives from border criminologies and feminist and post-colonial studies. Dr Francesca Esposito is a Lecturer at the University of Westminster and  Research Fellow at…

BSC Historical Criminology Network meet the author event The aim of this series is to provide a platform to support rich discussion about historical criminology amongst those with an interest, in academia and beyond. Ultimately, we aim to promote new ideas on historical criminology, continuing to widen awareness and generate rich conversation. Historical criminology as a tool is relevant for the classroom, for research, and appeals to a wider public fascination concerning the role of history in our lives. The event offers the opportunity to meet the authors of new works (not necessarily books alone), including the possibility to pose…