The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
28th Annual Conference
Stockholm, Sweden
31st August - 3rd September 2000.
Punishment enough?
The issue of crime, and what becomes defined and policed as
crime, cannot be conceptualised without analysing its crucial
relationship with institutional responses.Crime and punishment
relate to the selectivity of penal systems, social construction
of insecurity, the production and perception of social harm, and
changing definitions of violence. Crime rates and trends also
relate to developments in social control, in governance,
institutionalisation, social exclusion, inequality, gender
identities and gender politics.
While victimology is attempting to reorient attention on
vulnerable social groups, and reformers are trying to develop
alternatives to custody, imprisonment and other forms of
containment continue to expand. This expansion is mainly directed
towards the marginalised, ethnic and cultural minorities, the
poor and children. Meanwhile, many violations committed by
powerful people are either not criminalised or leniently dealt
with.
We welcome contributions on the following themes:
Ø From welfare to crime prevention societies
Ø Social construction and political exploitation of insecurity
Ø Realistic and imagined risks and related fear of crime and
victimisation
Ø New preventive measures and the concept of zero tolerance
Ø Penal managerialism
Ø Gender and the criminal process
Ø The use of the judicial system in larger spheres of social
life
Ø Differentiated control of 'crimes in the street and crimes of
the elite'
Ø The control of gendered violence
Abstracts should be submitted to Maria Kaspersson by the 15th of
August but see Booking Form or web site for other, earlier
registration deadlines!!
For further information, contact:
Maria Kaspersson
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or Karen Leander
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Please also see our web-site:
http://priv6.onet.pl/war/eurogroup/
Booking form has been sent as an attachment
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C Pantazis, School Policy Studies
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Centre for the study of social exclusion and social justice
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
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Bristol
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Telephone: (0117) 9546766
Fax: (0117) 9546756
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