Forthcoming Seminars

SCCJR @ University of Glasgow Seminar Series

All welcome, further information will be available in seperate news items closer to the time.

1 October        Dr Susan Batchelor, (SCCJR, University of Glasgow), ‘Challenging the myth of “equal opportunity violence:” the continuing salience of gender to an understanding of young women’s violent offending’ [Glasgow University, Adam Smith Building Room T206, 3.30-5.00 pm]

23 October      Rex Bloomstein (independent documentary maker), Workshop: ‘The Making and Impact of Prisoner Documentaries’, (limited places, please contact Robin Kirschbaum at r.kirschbaum to check availability) [half-day workshop, Glasgow University, room and time TBC]

29 October      Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (University of London), ‘The Socio-spatial Mechanics of Exclusion’ [Glasgow University, Adam Smith Building Room T206, 3.30-5.00 pm]

20 November  Dr Andrew Davies (University of Liverpool), ‘“The Scottish Chicago”: the Glasgow gangs of the 1920s and 1930s’ [Glasgow University, Lilybank House, Seminar Room, 11.00 am-12.30 pm, co-sponsored with Department of Economic and Social History]

10 December   Prof Mike Nellis (Strathclyde University), ‘British Prisoner Autobiographies (with a Detour into some Foreign Territory)’ [Glasgow University, Adam Smith Building Room T206, 3.30-5.00 pm]

SCCJR GU Seminars Spring 2009

Feb./March?    Workshop on Young People and Gangs (Susan Batchelor organising)

March/April?   Ben Crewe (Cambridge)

May/June?       Jane Scoular (Strathclyde), Prostitution

                        Mathieu Deflem, Terrorism, Policing or Social Theory and Law

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