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SUMMARY:Public Guest Seminar - Institutionalising Forgiveness : Interperso
 nal Ideas in Criminal Justice  - with Professor Niki Lacey\, School of Law
 \, Gender and Social Policiy\, London School of Economics
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CONTACT:Professor Joe Murray
DESCRIPTION:In a series of papers over the last decade\, philosopher Hanna
  Pickard and I have begun to develop a revised vision of criminal justice 
 grounded in Pickard’s model of responsibility without blame.  In this se
 minar\, I will provide a brief recap on Pickard’s and my core position\,
  in particular our defence of a reconceived criminal process oriented to f
 orgiveness.  Second\, I shall turn to two important conceptual questions a
 bout how to institutionalise those ideas: first\, the question of whether\
 , and how\, it is possible to mobilise ideas like forgiveness which find t
 heir origin in moral psychology and interpersonal relations within a very 
 different\, institutionalised\, universalised and professionalised world s
 uch as criminal justice\; second\, the more specific question of whether i
 t is possible to borrow or adapt moral ideas and dispositions into legal a
 nd (with a small ‘p’) political institutions without implying a legal 
 moralist position: in other words\, the idea that criminal justice is fund
 amentally concerned with the enforcement of (pre-legal) moral values.  Thi
 rd\, I will consider a range of existing features of criminal justice syst
 ems which seem open to reconceptualization and institutional adaptation so
  as better to fit with Pickard’s and my conception of criminal justice\,
  as well as a range of existing practices which would need to be abolished
  on our vision.   And in conclusion\, I will briefly consider the implicat
 ions of my argument – both in relation to crime and punishment and for s
 ocial policy more generally - for institutions beyond the criminal justice
  system.\n\n \n\nA drinks reception for informal conversation will take pl
 ace in the basement common room for all who attend in person.\n\nPlease re
 gister attendance via our website: https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/publi
 c-guest-seminar-institutionalising-forgiveness-interpersonal-ideas-crimina
 l-justice
LOCATION:Seminar room\, Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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