Institute of Criminology Events


2019-03-18 16:30: 'The Right to Die?' A Panel Discussion on Assisted Dying (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-05-09 17:30: Panel Discussion and Book Launch - Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory (Matt Matravers, Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of York, and Christopher Bennett, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield)

2019-05-23 17:00: 22nd Annual Nigel Walker Lecture with Dr Claudia García-Moreno (Dr Claudia García-Moreno  Senior Medical Officer and Team Leader,  Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization)

2020-02-19 17:30: 'Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time’   (Hosted by Professor Alison Liebling, with Professor Ben Crewe, Dr Susie Hulley and Dr Serena Wright)

2022-02-24 17:30: ‘Child Murder by Mothers: Clinical & Legal Considerations' with Dr Susan Hatters Friedman (Dr Susan Hatters Friedman, The Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University)

2022-11-02 17:00: Prevention Not Cure: A “focussed deterrence” policing approach to  stop serious and organised crime from happening (Detective Chief Superintendent John Denley (Deputy Director, National Crime Agency) & Superintendent (retired) Richard Agar (Solihull College & University Centre))

2022-11-10 17:00: Humanising Criminal Law? BECCARIA and The Challenges of Law Reform (Professors Antje du Bois-Pedain (Cambridge University), Shachar Eldar (Ono Academic College, Israel), Lorenzo Zucca (King’s College, London), et al.   Moderator: Professor Leo Zaibert (Institute of Criminology) )

2022-11-18 13:00: Construction(s) of Female Criminality: Gender, Caste and State Violence (Nikita Sonavane, Founder Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project in Bhopal, India)

2023-01-19 17:00: Disorder, Social Control, and Opportunity (Assistant Professor Charles Lanfear, Institute of Criminology)

2023-02-02 17:00: The Spaces Between (Professor Ben Bradford, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science)

2023-02-16 17:00: Punishment and Revenge (Professor Leo Zaibert, Andreas von Hirsch Professor of Penal Theory and Ethics, Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Ethics)

2023-03-02 17:00: Speaking to the Data : Black Men's Perception of Pathway Non-Progression (Darrick Jolliffe, Professor of Criminology, School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich et al)

2023-05-11 17:00: Guest Public Thursday Seminar with Professor Joseph Murray  ( Professor Joseph Murray  Human Development and Violence Research Centre & Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil  )

2023-05-25 17:00: Nigel Walker Lecture – Sen and Sensibility:  Women, crime and sentencing (Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe (Emerita) PhD, FRSA, FAcSS Former Director of the Institute of Criminology)

2023-06-14 13:00: 25th Annual Bill McWilliams Lecture with Professor Lol Burke  (Lol Burke is Professor in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University)

2023-07-06 11:00: The long arm of the country of origin? Evaluating the cultural baggage hypothesis on inter-ethnic differences in youth violence (Professor Clemens Kroneberg, University of Cologne)

2024-02-01 17:00: Public Guest Seminar - Influence Policing: Digital Nudges and ‘Policing the Polycrisis’ in UK Preventative Law Enforcement  (With Dr Ben Collier, School of Social & Political Scrience, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-15 17:00: Public Guest Seminar - 'Drug policy constellations: the role of power and morality in the making of drug policy in the UK’  (Professor Alex Stevens, University of Kent)

2024-02-29 17:00: Public Guest Seminar - 'The Texture of Imprisonment' - Inaugural Professorial Lecture (Professor Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology)

2024-03-08 15:00: Many Women, Many Feminisms: Varied Responses to Violence against Women (Zeynep Kaya (Sheffield), Adrija Dey (Westminster) and Miranda Horvath (Suffolk))

2024-03-14 17:00: Public Guest Seminar - Institutionalising Forgiveness : Interpersonal Ideas in Criminal Justice  (with Professor Niki Lacey, School of Law, Gender and Social Policiy, London School of Economics)

2024-03-21 17:00: Public Guest Seminar - The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice – A Paradigm Shift  (Professor Jianhong Liu, Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Director of Centre for Empirical Legal Studies  University of Macau, Macau SAR, China)

2024-05-02 17:00: Public Guest Seminar - What (or who) has changed? Reflections on ‘revisiting’ an English Town  (Ben Bradford, Evi Girling, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks)

2024-05-30 17:00:  Nigel Walker Lecture  (Professor Daniel Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University)

2024-06-13 13:00: Do we punish too much? A Radzinowicz symposium  (Multiple)

2024-06-27 14:00: The 26th Annual McWilliams Probation Lecture - ‘Probation – A local collaborative venture’ (Helen Schofield, Chief Executive of the Probation Institute)