Crime, Justice and Social Harms

• Start date: 31 Mar 2020

• End date: 1 Apr 2020

• Location: Keble College, Oxford

Tickets

Two days including conference dinner (statutory and private sectors) : £400

Two days without conference dinner (statutory and private sectors) : £360

One day (Tues) including conference dinner (statutory and private sectors) : £245

One day (Tues) without conference dinner (statutory and private sectors) : £200

One day (Wed) (statutory and private sectors) : £200

Two days including conference dinner (charities, NGOs, students and early career academics) : £360

Two days without conference dinner (charities, NGOs, students and early career academics) : £315

One day (Tues) including conference dinner (charities, NGOs, students and early career academics) : £220

One day (Tues without conference dinner (charities, NGOs, students and early career academics) : £175

One day (Wed) : £175

Conference dinner : £60

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Two-day international conference to be held at Keble College, University of Oxford

Tuesday 31 March – Wednesday 1 April 2020

How social harms are understood, questioned and tackled can have a profound effect on how communities approach crime and justice. This conference comes at a time when communities across the world are experiencing change and uncertainty affecting how they understand themselves and challenges to the status quo. Coping with, responding to and supporting such uncertainty and change brings challenges for political institutions, criminal justice agencies and civic society in developing values, strategies and systems.

We will bring together academics, policy makers, practitioners and those directly affected by the criminal justice system to discuss, reflect on and suggest alternative strategies.

The Howard League’s conference will consider the intersection of issues relating to crime, justice and social harms. Building on the Howard League’s Commission on Crime and Problem Gambling, we are keen to explore the impact of problem gambling on patterns of crime and the societal harms that link crime and problem gambling.

Speakers & contributors confirmed so far:

• Lauren Abraham, Senior Service Designer, Digital Justice, Ministry of Justice
• Dr Victoria Baines, Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University Department for International Development (ODID)
• Dame Vera Baird QC, Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales
• Dr Tim Bateman, Reader in Youth Justice, University of Bedfordshire
• Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE, FRCPsych, BA (Hons), DOccMed, MD (Imperial), Consultant Psychiatrist, Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic
• ACC Matt Burton, Cheshire Constabulary,
• Dr Emma Casey, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
• Professor Neil Chakraborti, Head of School, Criminology and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies, University of Leicester
• Dr Jo Collinson Scott, Reader in Music, University of the West of Scotland
• Frances Crook, Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform
• Dr Baz Dreisinger, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
• Professor Manuel Eisner, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, Professor of Comparative & Developmental Criminology, Director of Violence Research Centre, University of Cambridge
• Dr Wendy Fitzgibbon, Reader in Criminology, University of Leicester
• Dr Claire Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Youth Justice Lead, Centre for Child & Family Justice Research, The Law School, Lancaster University
• Dr Elaine Genders, University College London
• Professor Barry Goldson, Charles Booth Chair of Social Science, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
• Frankie Graham, Founder & CEO, Betknowmore UK
• Anna Hemmings, Chief Executive Officer, GamCare
• Councillor Teresa Heritage, Deputy Chairman, LGA Children and Young People Board
• Cristian A Herrera, Health Policy Analyst, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Avril Joy, short story writer, novelist and poet
• Dr Laura Janes, Legal Director, Howard League for Penal Reform
• Professor John Lea, Visiting Professor, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• Professor Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology; Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
• Lord Ken Macdonald QC, President, Howard League for Penal Reform and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
• Karyn McCluskey, Chief Executive, Community Justice Scotland
• Professor Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology & Social Work, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Howard League for Penal Reform
• Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns, Howard League for Penal Reform
• Dr Alpa Parmar, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
• Professor Simon Pemberton, Professor in Social Policy and Criminology, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham
• Neil Platt, Clinical Director, Beacon Counselling Trust
• Sarah Ramanauskas, Senior Partner, Audit and Research, Gambling Integrity
• Professor Gerda Reith, Professor of Social Science, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
• Katharine Sacks-Jones, Chief Executive, Become
• Professor Richard Sparks, Professor of Criminology, University of Edinburgh
• Benoit Van Keirsbilck, Defence for Children International – Belgium
• Andy Watson MBE, CEO / Artistic Director, Geese Theatre Company and Vice-Chair, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance
• Harriet Wistrich, Founding Director, Centre for Women’s Justice
• Hwa Young Jung, multidisciplinary artist

Panels

Submissions were invited from academics, policy makers, practitioners, PhD students and researchers from within the criminological and legal disciplines, and from other fields of study including philosophy, geography, political science and economics. We invited theoretical, policy, practice-based and more innovative contributions around a wide range of issues that encompass the broad theme of justice and the wider conference themes.

The list of the accepted papers

Conference fees

What’s included?

Conference fees include all day access to the conference sessions on your chosen day(s), conference papers, choice of delicious hot and cold two-course lunch served in the magnificent Victorian Gothic Dining Hall, morning and afternoon refreshments. Conference gala dinner on the first day is optional and can be selected at the time of booking.

Book now to take advantage of our ‘early bird rate’.

Full list of conference rates

Accommodation is not included in the conference fees and can be booked directly with the college online: https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/conferences/accommodation at a special, discounted rate quoting promotional code: HOWARD20. Please book early as places are limited. Alternatively, delegates can arrange their own accommodation outside the college.

Sponsors and exhibitors

Sponsorship opportunities

For information on sponsorship opportunities, exhibiting or advertising in the conference booklet, please email barbara.norris@howardleague.org

Reports from previous conferences

• Redesigning Justice: Promoting civil rights, trust and fairness international conference was held on 21–22 March 2018
• We have published three special conference ECAN (Early Career Academics Network) bulletins following the 2018 conference:
  –  Redesigning Justice conference special No.1 July 2018
  –  Redesigning Justice conference special No.2 October 2018
  –  Redesigning Justice conference special No.3 December 2018
• Justice and Penal Reform: Re-shaping the penal landscape international three-day conference was held on 16–18 March 2016
• What is Justice? – international two-day conference held in on 1–2 October 2013
  –  Conference Podcasts. These are audio recordings of the plenary presentations
  –  Video shorts with plenary speakers talking about their presentations