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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
British Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and
Social Control
Critical Perspectives on 'Crime', Risk & Power
Organised by the Department of Education & Social Science
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Annual Conference 5th - 7th April 2005
KEY NOTE SPEAKERS include:
Barbara Hudson, Phil Scraton, Rene Van Swaaningen
The conference welcomes papers with a critical perspective on the
following themes:-
- Risk and Criminal Justice
Legal discourses, the courts and the politics of the judiciary, Social
control, restorative, justice and 'net-widening', Imprisonment and
alternatives to custody, Private and public policing, Risk
classification and probation
- State Crime, Risk and Crimes of the Powerful
State crimes, The "War on Terror", Corporate crimes, Violence against
women and children, The political economy of harms
- Risk, Criminalisation and the Punishment of the Powerless
Criminalisation of young people, women, minority ethnic groups,
economically marginalised and mentally disordered offenders, The state
and policies on asylum and immigration, Differential punishments of the
marginalised and powerless, Reflections on actuarial justice and
categorical suspicion
- Critical Responses to Risk, "Crime" and Power
Critical responses to developments in mainstream criminology, Critical
responses to "Risk Society" thesis, Denials of harm and social
production of moral indifference, Radical alternatives, human rights,
social justice and democratic accountability
CLOSING DATE FOR ABSTRACTS IS THE 31st JANUARY 2005.
Please address all general enquiries and abstracts to: -
Emma Woodward, Conference Officer, Conference and Events Management
Office,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 892654
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892977
Email: [log in to unmask]
Conference Website - http://www.europeangroup.org
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