4th September 2023
10th January 2008
All are welcome at our seminar series. Details below:
24/01/08 Ms Helen Baillot, Scottish Refugee Council.
‘Asylum in Scotland – a Human Rights perspective?’ 4.15-6.00 pm, Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge.
The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk 29/01/08 Professor Nicola Lacey, LSE.
‘From Moll Flanders to Tess of D’Urbervilles: Gender, Identity and Criminalisation in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England’.
5pm-6pm, Lecture Theatre 175, Old College, South Bridge.
Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk
31/01/08 Professor Johannes Feest, University of Bremen. (in association with SCCJR)
‘The future of prisons and prison abolitionism’. 4.15-6.00 pm Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge.
Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk 04/02/08 Charles Woolfson, School of Law, University of Glasgow
‘The conventionalisation of safety crime in the Baltic New EU Member States: Neo-liberalism and the tolerance of non-compliance’
(4-6 pm, Room T206, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow University)
07/02/08 Professor Thomas Feltes, ‘
‘Police Reform in Countries in Transition – Experiences from Bosnia, Kosovo and South Africa’ (jointly organgised by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research).
4.15-6.00 pm, Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge.
Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk
12/02/08 Jonathan Jackson, Methodology Institute & Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics
‘New directions in research on public confidence in policing: Trust, legitimacy and consent’
(4-6 pm, Lecture theatre B, Boyd Orr, Glasgow University) [co with SIPR)
20/02/08 Alistair Fraser, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
‘Researching young people and violence in Glasgow’
(3-5pm, Room T206, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow University) [co with SAASS]
21/02/08 Professor Fiona Raitt, University of Dundee (joint with SCCJR).
‘Re-Vulnerability in the Adversarial Process’ 4.15-6.00 pm Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge. Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk 28/02/08 Professor Linda Mulcahy, Birkbeck College, London.
‘An unbearable lightness of being? Movements towards the virtual trial’. 4.15-6.00 pm, Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge. Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk 06/03/08 Gavin Smith, Aberdeen University.
‘Re-thinking CCTV operation: interactions and ontologies’. 4.15-6.00 pm, Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge. Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk 13/03/08 Professor Tim Hope, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Edinburgh and Keele University.
‘A Political Economy of Community Safety’. 4.15-6.00 pm, Moot Court Room, Old College, South Bridge. Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk Working lunches
06/02/08 Jason Ditton, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
‘The Promise of Longitudinal Data’
(12.30 -2 pm, Meeting Room, Florentine House, Glasgow University)