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Call for Papers
CRIME, JUSTICE AND SURVEILLANCE
A TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD IN ASSOCIATION WITH SURVEILLANCE & SOCIETY, http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/
Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th April 2006
INTRODUCTION
In the UK the last decade has seen an unprecedented deployment of surveillance technologies and practices in the name of crime control. Drug testing, electronic monitoring, DNA testing and video monitoring have all expanded rapidly. Actuarial practices based on risk assessment and offender profiling have become central to proactive based policing strategies that ‘target the criminal and not the crime’, and intelligence gathering has been put at the heart of policing. In addition multi-agency partnerships, which integrate police, probation, education, social services and health departments in a ‘joined up’ approach to crime reduction have led to new practices of information exchange. This is aimed at both identifying potential deviants for pre-emptive intervention and subjecting known criminals to ‘intensive supervision and surveillance’ in the community. The criminal record has now been enhanced and expanded with the development of searchable data-base technologies, specialist registers, and facilities to allow access to externally held databases.
These developments are not unique to the UK, and this conference seeks to explore the British experience in the context of developments in Europe and beyond and to consider the social, political and legal issues that arise from the expansion of surveillance. Although the conference will have a particular European focus we would especially welcome contributions from researchers in North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Africa and the Asian sub-continent. The conference aims to be truly inter-disciplinary and welcomes contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, criminologists, socio-legal scholars, historians, economists and social scientists researching surveillance practices and technologies
It is planned that all papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a special edition of Surveillance and Society. However, acceptance of a paper for the conference is not a guarantee of publication as all submissions will be subject to normal peer review procedures. We particularly welcome papers on the following topics:
Theorising the new technologies of surveillance
National and international trends in the growth of surveillance
Case studies of the impact of new surveillance
technologies in different
institutional settings/countries
Surveillance technologies and social exclusion
The portrayal of surveillance technologies in literature, film and the media
Surveillance and legal regulation
The history and politics of surveillance technologies
Resistance to surveillance technologies
The contours of public acceptability of new surveillance technologies
Surveillance technologies and civil liberties.
Ethical issues in the use of surveillance technologies
Intelligence led policing and the use of police informers
New database technologies
GIS systems and Criminal Justice
FEES & INFORMATION
This is a non-residential conference and participants will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. The Conference Fee will be £135 (£125 for early registration) for the two days and £70 for one-day attendance. The fee will include refreshments and lunch, but not overnight accommodation or evening meals. There will be a conference dinner on April 4th at an additional charge of £35.
Information about the Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research can befound at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ccr/
Information about the University of Sheffield can be found at:http://www.shef.ac.uk/
Details of how to get to the University can be found at:http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/
Maps of the university can be found at:http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/maps.html
Details about the city and hotels can be found at:http://www.shef.ac.uk/city/
The most convenient airport is located at Manchester. Sheffield is one hour away by train. Details can be found at: http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/
Flights to and from Manchester can be found at:http://timetables.oag.com/man/
A conference web page will be up and running in July 2005 and this will give further details of possible accommodation, travel arrangements and the conference programme
REGISTER OF INTEREST
For those who are interested in giving a paper or attending the conference please register your interest by sending an email to [log in to unmask] as soon as possible and before July 31st 2005, with the following information.
Name
Country of residence
Institutional affiliation
Institutional address
Telephone number
Email address
Proposed title/subject of paper
If you merely are thinking of attending but do not
want to give a paper
please state this clearly.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Professor Clive Norris
Dr Gwen Robinson
Dr Paul
Knepper