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CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. NEW DIRECTIONS

5-6 July 2007, King’s College London, The Strand

 

This conference will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to critically assess ten years of Labour's social and criminal justice policies and discuss and debate future directions in harm, crime and social justice. This two day event will involve three main plenaries and a number of workshop sessions and will be of interest to those working in the fields of social justice, social policy, criminal justice, human geography, young people and children’s policy, harm, health and criminology.

 

To find out more, view the call for papers and complete the online booking form, visit our website here - http://www.crimeandsociety.org.uk/projects/cjsjconf2007.html.

 

 

PLENARIES:

 

Critical reflections on Labour's social and criminal justice policy agendas

§              Professor Ruth Levitas, Bristol University

§              Professor Colin Leys, Edinburgh University

§              Professor Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores University

 

The role and limits of criminal justice and criminology

§              Professor Pat Carlen, Kent University

§              Professor Paddy Hillyard, Queen's University Belfast

§              Professor Rod Morgan

 

New agendas, new directions

§              Professor René van Swaaningen, University of Rotterdam

§              Professor Richard Wilkinson, Nottingham University

 

PROPOSED WORKSHOP THEMES:

 

§              Communities and social justice

§              Criminalisation of social policy

§              Does harm matter more than crime?

§              The free economy and the strong state

§              The limits of reformism?

§              Public sociologies? The role of the social scientist

§              Popular punitiveness / authoritarian populism

§              Social policies for security and safety

 

BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!

www.crimeandsociety.org.uk/conf2007.html

 

We hope to see you in July.

Kind regards,

Rebecca Roberts

Research and Policy Associate

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The Crime and Society Foundation is a social policy and criminal justice think tank based at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College London.

www.crimeandsociety.org.uk

 

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