Criminology Seminar Series
Launched in 2015, the Criminology Seminar Series provides a platform for critical, path-breaking interdisciplinary research on crime, criminal justice and related themes by scholars within and beyond 糖心logo入口.听
Attendance is free and open to all. Book your place by following the links below, or email the convenor, Sappho Xenakis.听
Upcoming EVENTS
- Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
- Professor Robyn Maynard (University of Toronto-Scarborough)
- 18 February: 6-7:30pm
- Balancing consent to BDSM and protection from the 'rough sex defence'
- Dr Tahlia-Rose Virdee (糖心logo入口, University of London)
- 26 February: 3:30-5pm
- Subordinated inclusion: population sorting technologies as Uyghur digital confinement in Northwest China
- Dr Darren Byler (Simon Fraser University)
- 5 March: 6-7:30pm
PAST EVENTS
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2026
- Dana Boulus (Norwegian Refugee Council) and Dr Smadar Ben-Natan (University of Oregon) - 'Carceral Citizenship and the Carceral State in Palestine/Israel'
- Professor Maura R. Grossman (University of Waterloo) - 'The Challenges of AI-Generated Evidence for the Justice System'
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2025
- Professor Roberta Mazza聽(University of Bologna) -聽'The unsettling story of the Brothers Poem papyrus'.
- Professor Tanya Wyatt聽(FAcSS, Lead Researcher, Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UNODC) -聽'The Landscape of Criminalization for Environmental Offences'.
- Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (尝厂贰)听-听'Reversals of victimhood as acts of power'.
- Dr Berglund (University of Bristol) - 'The criminalisation of environmental and climate change activism: an international perspective'
- Dr Caryn Peiffer (University of Bristol) and Professor Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham) - 'The political riskiness of public policy messaging on corruption'
- Professor Jules Lobel (University of Pittsburgh Law School) - 'Challenging Prolonged Solitary Confinement in United States prisons: The Pelican Bay Story'
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2024
- Dr Esmorie Miller聽(Lancaster University) 'Stigma and Penalty in the Everyday Lives of Black British Young Women: The Case of Child Q'
- Mark Knight聽(University of Warwick)聽'Lessons from the History of British Corruption and Anti-corruption'
- Key speakers: (Antonio Marcelo Mangione, Marcelo Alejandro Blanco Pu拧ka, Sappho Xenakis, Marcos Flores Leyes)聽'Green Criminology: A View from Argentina'
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2023
- Andrew Coyle (Kings College London) 'Prisons of the World'听
- Professor Reece Walters (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)聽'Ecocide, Climate Criminals and Planetary Destruction'
- Gregg Barak (Eastern Michigan University)聽Newsmaking Criminology, Donald Trump, and the Crimes of the Powerful'
- Dr Emma Russell (La Trobe University)聽'Seeing Like a Cop': Visual and Colonially in spaces of gendered criminalisation
- Professor Dawn L. Rothe (Florida Atlantic University) and Professor Victoria E. Collins (Eastern Kentucky University) ''
- Professor Richard Moorhead聽(FAcSS, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics, University of Exeter) 'The Post Office Scandal: Professional Pathologies and Legality Illusions'
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2022
- Professor Julian Go, University of Chicaho:聽'A "Civil" Police? Empire, Race and Militarised Policing in Britain and the US'
- Professor Jessica Jacobson and Professor Mike Hough, ICPR and 糖心logo入口, University of London:聽'Sentencing, Mitigation and Guilty Pleas'
- Dr Elena Mamoulaki, Hellenic Mediterranean University: 'Symbiosis in Exile: Political Detainees and Local Community on an Aegean Island during the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949'
- Professor Reece Walters, Deakin University, Australia
- Tasseli McKay (Duke University)聽'The Time is (Never) Right For Reparations'
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2021
- Dr Irene Zempi, Nottingham Trent University: ''
- Dr Monish Bhatia, 糖心logo入口, University of London: 'Gendered Racism and Criminal Justice System: Punishing Illegalised Migrant Mothers from the Global South'
- Professor Alex Stevens, University of Kent: ''
- Dr Grietje Baars, City, University of London:聽''
- Professor Bill Bowring, 糖心logo入口, University of London: ''
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2020
- Professor Neil Chakraborti, University of Leicester: ''
- Dr Aviah Day,听糖心logo入口: ''
- Professor Conor Gearty, LSE: ''
- Professor Virgina Mantouvalou, UCL: ''
- Professor Clifford Stott, University of Keele: ''
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2019
- Dr Jennifer Fleetwood, Goldsmiths: ''
- Dr Harry Annison, University of Southampton: ''
- Professor Penny Green, Queen Mary University of London and聽Professor Tony Ward, Northumbria University: '
- Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University: ''
- Dr Aleksandra聽Jordanoska, King's College London: ''
- Dr Tanya Serisier, 糖心logo入口, University of London with Dr Kiran Grewal, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Professor Alison Phipps, University of Sussex: ''
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2018
- Dr Daniela Nadj, Queen Mary, University of London: '听
- Professor David Whyte, University of Liverpool: ''听
- Professor Katharine Biber, University of Technology, Sydney: ''听
- Professor David Nelken, King's College London: 'Transnational social prescriptions and "standardising comparisons'''听
- Professor Steve Tombs, Open University: ''听聽
- Dr Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount University: ''听
- Professor Eamonn Carrabine, University of Essex: 'Exhibiting crime and punishment: dark tourism and the aftermath of trauma'听
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2017
- Professor Jo Phoenix, Open University: ''听
- Professor Barbara Owen, California State University: 'Confronting inequality in women's imprisonment'听
- Nesam McMillan, University of Melbourne: 'Imagining the international: crime, justice and community on the global stage'听
- Professor Yvonne Jewkes, University of Brighton: 'The modern architecture of incarceration: from spectacular statement of sovereign power to (an)aesthetic symbol of public indifference'听
- Professor Phil Scraton, Queen's University Belfast: 'Hillsborough: resisting injustice, uncovering truth'听
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2016
- Nicholas Lord, University of Manchester: '听
- Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham: '听
- Tanya Serisier, 糖心logo入口, University of London, 'Speaking out online: has social media changed responses to sexual violence?'听
- Professor Didier Bigo, Kings College London: ''
- Professor Bill Bowring, 糖心logo入口, University of London: 'Double standards at the International Criminal Court: is there a brighter future for global justice?'
- Professor Phil Scraton, Queen's University Belfast: 'Hillsborough: resisting injustice, uncovering truth'听
- Professor Peter Kraska, Eastern Kentucky University: 'Academic complicity in USA police militarization'听
- Professor Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool: 'Bare your body, bare your soul? The historical traces of war's violence(s) on violence against women'
- Professor Nigel South,听University of Essex: 'Climate change, authoritarianism and denial: disconnected policy, free trade and ecocidal trends'听
- Vanessa Barker, Stockholm University: 'Crimmigration in Sweden: bans on begging and the logic of benevolent violence'听
- Professor Susanne Karstedt, Griffith University: 'On the importance of values: solidarity and punishment in contemporary societies'听
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2015
- Professor Mike Hough, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, 糖心logo入口, University of London: 'Why does punitivity vary across country? Penal practice and public attitudes to punishment in comparative perspective'听
- Professor Leila Simona Talani, King's College London: 'Money laundering in the City of London: London as a laundry of choice'听
- Professor Ben Bowling, King's College London: 'Theorising crimmigration control'听
- Kate Meagher, London School of Economics: 'Entrepreneurship, criminality and tipping points: clandestine trade in East and West Africa'听
- Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University: 'Financial crime and early criminology: the ambiguity of a concept forged in the eighteenth century'