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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:24:15 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
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Subject: 27th Annual Conference of the European Group: Criminal
Injustices and the Production of Harm
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
27th Annual Conference
Palanga, on the coast of Lithuania,
2-5th September 1999.
Criminal Injustices and the Production of Harm
Dissatisfaction with criminal justice systems is widespread and comes from different directions.
Victims of all kinds remain a low priority, left searching for justice, truth, information,
support, protection and compensation. The reality of homicide, violence against women and
children, and 'hate crimes' generate new calls for criminal justice responses. But we hear
less about the damage inflicted by state violence, the reduction of social protections and
public safety/health, and the non-regulation of corporate activity. Criminal justice systems
themselves are under various pressures for modernisation and to process more 'clients' with
greater efficiency. The result is expanding prison populations in some countries and new
experiments in punishment in others. At the same time, the measures of pain dispensed by
criminal justice systems are under closer scrutiny from human rights movements, new
constitutional requirements and the alignment of jurisdictions with the European Convention
on Human Rights. Meanwhile, the old agendas of the criminal justice industry continue, often
assisted by media actively engaged in 'virtual criminalisation'. Popular debate becomes focused
on the reduction of harmful processes to simple stereotypes of 'organised crime', 'terrorist'
and 'immigrant'.
Papers are encouraged on the above themes. In particular:
· The concept of harm
· The analysis of harm production
· Ethics of research on vulnerable groups
· Human rights paradigms
· Prison 'solutions'
· The creation of 'good enemies'
· Media responsibility
· New imperatives for social control
We are particularly concerned with promoting debate which widens the narrow disciplinary
concerns of crime/victim-logy.
Abstracts should be submitted Booking forms can be requested at:
no later than June 1, 1999 to:
Aleksandras Dobryninas www.qub.ac.uk/ss/ssp/eg.htm
Dept of Social Theory
Didlaukio 47 or
2057 Vilnius, Lithuania Karen Leander (Stockholm,Sweden)
fax +370 2 761 890 fax +46 8 517 77930
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Centre for the study of social exclusion and social justice
School for Policy Studies
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