Previous Events

BSC Criminology Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network, BSC Policing 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 – 17 May 2023.

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, challenges and barriers to their improvement remain poorly understood. As the government launches a review of disciplinary procedures in policing and the College of Policing prepares to launch its new Code of Police Ethics, this event brings police researchers, stakeholders and practitioners together to explore these issues, share knowledge in the field, and ultimately shape a research agenda for the future.

Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network and BSC Victims Network one-day conference on perpetrators of violence against women. 

9.30am-4pm, 21 October 2022.  City University, London.

Keynote speakers:

• Dr Michael Flood (Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Research)

• Jo Todd, CEO Respect (Practice)

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.

Future events are announced in the BSC bi-monthly bulletin.

Gendering Green Criminology
November 26, 2020
Co-hosted by the British Society of Criminology Women Crime and Criminal Justice Network and the Green Criminology Research Network

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Critical Conversations on Criminology and Gender: Innovations in Research

April 12, 2019

Inspired by burgeoning developments in creative and innovative methodologies in criminology, the third annual WCCJN ‘Critical Conversations on Criminology and Gender’ event explored contemporary and  innovative ways of doing and communicating criminological research via visual methods, arts and documents and the positioning of the researcher therein.

Since its inception, researching women in criminology has demanded careful and critical attention to issues of power and politics. This event continued this critical tradition by tackling questions such as: how can we make research that is meaningful? How can research representations contest marginalisation, stigmatisation and injustice? How can innovative and creative approaches to research help us better capture intransigent concepts like justice or harm?

See website for further details

Download pdf of flyer here

BSC Conference, July 2018
The WCCJ Network prize was awarded to Wendy Fitzgibbon and Camille Stengel for their paper:

Fitzgibbon, W., & Stengel, C. M. (2018). Women’s voices made visible: Photovoice in visual criminology. Punishment & Society, 20(4), 411–431.

May 1, 2018
Women Criminology & Criminal Justice: Practitioners Victims & Criminalised

BSC Postgraduate Committee in association with BSC Women Crime and Criminal Justice Network, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 from 11:00 to 17:00 (BST), London, United Kingdom

April 30, 2018
This one day conference on ‘Women as Victim-Offenders: Negotiating the Paradox’  was part of our Critical Conversations in Criminology and Gender series.

This conference provided a space for academics and practitioners working with women offenders to discuss and negotiate the paradox of victimization and offending. This was a free event and was open to both members and non-members of the WCCJN.

BSC Conference, July 2017
The WCCJ Network prize was awarded to Anastasia Chamberlen  for her paper:

Chamberlen, A. (2016). Embodying prison pain: Women’s experiences of self-injury in prison and the emotions of punishment. Theoretical Criminology, 20(2), 205–219.

Members only event

WCCJN – 8th May Flyer