Institute of Criminology

Seminars

The Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series are free, open to all interested in attending, with no ticket required. Other seminars may be subject to pre-booking, or may incur a small fee, but this will be clearly indicated on the seminar page.

Please see below for a list of seminars, and click on the title to view the event poster. All event posters are in .pdf format. Adobe Reader is required to view .pdf files. It can be downloaded from the Adobe website.

Upcoming Seminars

•  Easter Term Seminars
  Location: all held at Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge unless stated
  


• Joined-Up Justice: Achieving fines compliance and the role of the police
  Speaker: Host Professor Larry Sherman will be joined by a panel of speakers from the Justice Sector Thursday 23rd May 2013, 3:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  Due to the great interest in this lecture, we are asking for RSVPs from those planning to attend. This will allow us to manage the seating arrangements for maximum comfort. Please RSVP to oliver.deboer@uk.g4s.com.


•  Global Hot Spots of Violence: Exploring the Paradox of State Strength and Weakness. Institute of Criminology’s 16th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture
  Speaker: Professor Susanne Karstedt
  Thursday 13th June 2013, 5.30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
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•  Problems of a Public Criminology
  Speaker: Emeritus Professor Paul Rock
  Thursday 20th June 2013, 5.30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  

Previous Seminars

•  When Criminal Coping is Likely: An Extension of General Strain Theory
  Speaker: Robert S Agnew
  Thursday 16th May 2013, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  ‘Parental Incarceration and Child Development: Cross-national Comparative Studies’
  Speaker: Dr Joseph Murray
  Thursday 25th April 2013, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Lent Term Seminars Click to view
  Location: unless specified all we be at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  How Closely Can Propensity Analysis Mimic Experiments?
  Speaker: Professor Philip Dawid
  Thursday 14th March 2013, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  ‘Sort Out Your PhD in 8 Minutes!’
  Conference Presentations from IoC PhD Students
  Thursday 21st February 2013, 4:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  From Gang Leadership, to Gang Prevention, and Research
  Speaker: Tanayah Sam
  Thursday 21st February 2013, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Parenting interventions for reducing child antisocial behaviour: how well do they transport from country to country? Evidence from a systematic review
  Speaker: Professor Frances Gardner
  Thursday 7th February 2013, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Riot from wrong Film Screening
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  The Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series are free, open to all interested in attending, with no ticket required.
  Thursday 24th January 2013, 5:30pm
  Location: LG19,Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ
  


•  Michaelmas 2012 Term Seminars View seminars happening during Michaelmas term 2012
  


• Long-Term Adverse Outcomes of School Bullying and Victimization
  Speaker: Dr Maria Ttofi
  Thursday 29th November 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Crime and the Camera: Making Prison Documentaries: The Work of Rex Bloomstein
  Speaker: Rex Bloomstein
  Thursday 15th November 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat
  Speaker: Professor Mark S Hamm
  Thursday 1st November 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Evidence-Based Policing at a Tipping point? Discussing the recent developments in evidence-based policing in the UK, Latin America, India, Australia and Asia.
  Speaker: Professor Lawrence Sherman
  Thursday 25th October 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Less Crime on the Tube: The London Underground Hotspots Experiment
  Speaker: Dr. Barak Ariel
  Thursday 18th October 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Testing Crime Prevention – Or Selling a Product? Conflicts of Interest in Criminology
  Speaker: Professor Manuel Eisner
  Thursday 11th October 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Breaking Rules: Exploring and explaining the causes of young people’s crime 15th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture
  Speaker: Professor Per-Olof Wikström
  Tuesday 18th September 2012, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
  


•  Riots, Revolution and Rehabilitation: The Future of Probation
  Speaker: Steve Collett
  20th June 2012
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


•  Effective Probation Services and Effective Community Sentences: A Joint Practice/Academic Seminar
  Speaker: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe et al
  29th May 2012, 5:00pm
  


•  Crime Prevention: A Nutritional Approach
  Speaker: Professor Adrian Raine
  24th May 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


•  Informal Carers and Private Law Cambridge Socio-Legal Group
  Speaker: Dr. Brian Sloan
  23rd May 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Seminar Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


•  Successful Implementation of What Works: Model Practices and a Victim’s Right
  Speaker: Professor Irvin Waller
  17th May 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


•  Brain Mechanisms and the Criminal Mind
  Speaker: Professor Adrian Raine
  8th May 2012, 3:00pm
  Location: Seminr Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


•  Legitimacy and Criminal Justice An International Symposium
  Main Speakers: Anthony Bottoms, Jean Marc Coicaud, John Dunn, Mike Hough, Michael Levi, Alison Liebling, Peter Neyroud, Lawrence Sherman, Jonathan Simon, Justice Tankebe, Tom Tyler, Dirk van Zyl Smit
  2nd - 4th May
  Location: The Møller Centre, Churchill College


•  Lent Term 2012 Seminars
  


• The English Riots in 2011 A Discussion from Different Criminological Perspectives
  Speaker: Professors Friedrich Lösel, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Alison Liebling, Lawrence Sherman and Dr. Ben Crewe
  Thursday 22nd March 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Benighted or De-knighted - but Seldom Incarcerated: The Shredding of Reputations and Other Issues in the Sanctioning of Business Crimes and Misdemeanours
  Speaker: Professor Michael Levi
  Thursday 15th March 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  “Relational Re-entry” of Disordered and Disruptive Offenders in the US
  Speaker: Professor Beth Angell
  Thursday 23rd February 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Offender Desistance Policing – Operation Turning Point in West Midlands
  Speaker: Peter Neyroud
  Thursday 16th February 2012, 4:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Crime and Decision Theory
  Speaker: Professor Lawrence Sherman
  Thursday 16th February 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Psychopathic Personality: Capturing an Elusive Clinical Concept
  Speaker: Professor David J Cooke
  Thursday 9th February 2012, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Prison? a talk with Charlie Ryder
  Speaker: Charlie Ryder
  Thursday 24th November 2011, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Doing Probation Work in Turbulent Times: A case of edgework, organisational cynicism and expedience?
  Speakers: Professor Anne Worrall & Dr. Rob Mawby
  Thursday 10th November 2011, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  The Decline and Fall of Lawyers in the House of Commons and what it means for British Politics
  Speaker: David Howarth
  Wednesday 9th November 2011, 5:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B4


•  Crime and Migration: The Australian Experience
  Speaker: Professor Ronald Francis
  Thursday 27th October 2011, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Exploring Violence Committed by Women: Karla Homolka as a Case Study
  Speaker: Professor Sylvie Frigon
  Thursday 13th October 2011, 5:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Victims of Terrorism in Israel: The Role of Restorative Justice
  Speaker: Professor Uri Yanay
  Wednesday 24th August 2011, 3:30pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Putting the Offender Back into Public Opinion: The Implications of a Study of the Public’s Sense of Justice
  Speaker: Austin Lovegrove
  Wednesday 24th August 2011, 2:00pm
  Location: Institute of Criminology, Seminar Room B3


•  Is Probation Still Possible? 14th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: Professor Peter Raynor
  Wednesday 22nd June 2011, 1:00pm for 2:30pm
  Location: Faculty of Law


•  Origins, Development and Prevention of Chronic Physical Aggression: From Criminology to Obstetrics and Epigenetics 14th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture
  Speaker: Professor Richard E. Tremblay
  Thursday 2nd June 2011, 6:00pm


•  Monitoring for human rights in places of detention NPMs and IMBs – how effective are they in securing human rights?
  Speaker: Dr Bronwyn Naylor
  Wednesday 18th May 2011, 5:00pm


•  Dirty Anthropology: Epistemologies of Violence and Ethical Entanglements in Police Ethnography
  Speaker: Dr. Beatrice Jauregui
  Monday 16th May 2011, 5:00pm
  Location: Department of Social Anthropology Seminar Room


•  Adolescent Friendship Networks, Delinquency, and Substance Use: Findings from the PROSPER Peers Project
  Speaker: Professor D. Wayne Osgood
  Thursday 12th May 2011, 5:30pm


•  Rationing Relationships: Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Search for Professional Status?
  Speaker: Geoff Page, Ph.D. Candidate
  Thursday 12th May 2011, 4:30pm


•  Neurocriminology: Neuroethical and Neurolegal Implications
  Speaker: Professor Adrian Raine
  Thursday 5th May 2011, 5:30pm


•  It's nature AND nurture: Integrating biological factors to social learning theory
  Speaker: Bryanna Hahn, Ph.D. Candidate
  Thursday 5th May 2011, 4:30pm


•  2011 Lent Term Seminars
  


•  A Panel Debate on Prison Privatisation
  Wednesday 16th March 2011, 6:30pm


•  Sentencing for Murder: Exploring Public Knowledge and Opinion
  Speaker: Professors Barry Mitchell & Julian Roberts
  Thursday 10th March 2011, 5:30pm


•  Work and Crime: Mechanisms of Desistance
  Speaker: Professor Julie Horney
  Thursday 3rd March 2011, 5:30pm


•  Total Incapacitation: The Emergence of an Exceptional Penal Rationale and its Consequences for Imprisonment
  Speaker: Professor Jonathan Simon
  Thursday 24th February 2011, 5:30pm


•  Postmodern Penality Under Scrutiny
  Speaker: Ruth Armstrong & Tiffany Bergin
  Thursday 24th February 2011, 4:30pm


•  Risk and Treatment Assessment Research in Spain
  Speaker: Professor Santiago Redondo et al
  Friday 18th February 2011, 10:30am


•  Triple Risk for Delinquency and Crime Model (TRDm): A New Integrative Theory of Criminal Behaviour
  Speaker: Professor Santiago Redondo
  Thursday 17th February 2011, 5:30pm


•  Research on the Criminalisation of Migrant Women
  Speaker: Dr. Liz Hales
  Tuesday 15th February 2011, 5:30pm


•  Psychopathy and Socio-legal Studies: Disorder of Language and Language of Disorder
  Speaker: Dr. William Watson
  Thursday 3rd February 2011, 5:30pm


•  Legal Sabotage and the Financial Crisis: Bankers, Lawyers and Responsibility
  Speaker: Professor Doreen McBarnet
  Thursday 11th November 2010, 5:30pm


•  Father and (Incarcerated) Son: Forging Family through Intergenerational Imprisonment
  Speaker: Associate Professor Mark Halsey
  Thursday 28th October 2010, 5:30pm


•  Understanding Legitimacy: A Dialogic Relationship within Institutional Normative Order
  Speaker: Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms and Dr Justice Tankebe
  Thursday 21st October 2010, 5:30pm


•  Corporal Punishment by Parents: Links to Criminal Behaviour of University Students in 32 Nations
  Speaker: Professor Murray Straus
  Thursday 14th October 2010, 5:30pm


•  Intergeneration Transmission of Violence: A new approach to studying intergenerational transmission from violent versus non-violent fathers: Latent Class Analysis
  Speaker: Sytske Besemer
  Thursday 14th October 2010, 4:30pm


•  Taking on Trust: New Leadership Perspectives for Probation: 13th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: John Crawforth OBE
  Tuesday 29th June 2010, 1:00pm for 2:30pm


•  Distinctions and Distinctiveness in the Work of Prison Officers: Legitimacy and Authority Revisited Institute of Criminology’s 13th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture
  Speaker: Professor Alison Liebling
  Wednesday 26th May 2010, 6:00pm


•  Psychopathy: Personality Disorder or Different Species
  Speaker: Professor Stephen J. Woods
  Thursday 13th May 2010, 5:30pm


•  Lesbian and Gay Parenting and European Human Rights Law: When will France catch up with the UK?
  Speaker: Professor Robert Wintemute
  Thursday 6th May 2010, 5:00pm


•  Listening to the Crime Victim: Evaluating victim input at sentencing and parole
  Speaker: Professor Julian V. Roberts
  Thursday 4th March 2010, 5:30pm


•  Revisiting the Pains of Imprisonment
  Speaker: Dr. Ben Crewe
  Thursday 25th February 2010, 5:30pm


•  Witness Statements and Credibility Assessments in the British Asylum Courts
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Good
  Friday 19th February 2010, 4:15pm


•  On Probation: Helping, holding and hurting offenders
  Speaker: Professor Fergus McNeill
  Thursday 18th February 2010, 5:30pm


•  Paternalism and Consent: Three weaknesses in Feinberg’s analysis of two-party interactions
  Speaker: Dr. Antje du Bois-Pedain
  Thursday 28th January 2010, 5:30pm


•  Trust in justice – how much do we need? A short history of trust and its present condition
  Speaker: Professor Susanne Karstedt
  Thursday 26th November 2009, 5:30pm


•  Mentoring, Partnership and the Rise of the ‘Third Sector’: the changing landscape of work with offenders
  Speaker: Professor Mike Maguire
  Thursday 19th November 2009, 5:30pm


•  Towards a General Theory of Violence Challenges and Issues
  Speaker: Professor Manuel Eisner
  Thursday 12th November 2009, 5:30pm


•  Policing Controversy: Sir Ian talks about his new book
  Speaker: Sir Ian Blair
  Wednesday 11th November 2009, 5:00pm


•  Rights as Risk: Managing Human Rights and Risk in UK Prisons
  Speaker: Professor Noel Whitty
  Thursday 5th November 2009, 5:30pm


•  "Indirect" Paternalism in criminal law: Killing a patient at his own request
  Speaker: Professor Andrew von Hirsch and Professor Andrew Simester
  Thursday 22nd October 2009, 5:30pm


•  The Rockefeller Drug Laws: A Socio-legal analysis of the most punitive drug laws in the United States
  Speaker: Bob Costello
  Thursday 15th October 2009, 5:15pm


•  Women, Penal Reform and the Probation Service: 12th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: Dr. Loraine Gelsthorpe
  Wednesday 24th June 2009, 1:00pm for 2:30pm


•  Pathways of Delinquency and Social Structure during Adolescence
  Speaker: Professor Klaus Boers and Professor Jost Reinecke
  Thursday 14th May 2009, 5:30pm


•  Making Sense of Penal Change: The Intellectual Life-Course of Four Key Thinkers in the Recent Sociology of Punishment
  Speaker: Dr Tom Daems
  Thursday 7th May 2009, 5:30pm


•  A Human Rights Revolution in English Criminal Procedure: Whether, Whence, Whither, and So What?
  Speaker: Professor Paul Roberts
  Thursday 30th April 2009, 5:30pm


•  The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain: Political, Cultural and Penal Change in the Mid-Twentieth Century
  Speaker: Professor Tim Newburn
  Thursday 5th March 2009, 5:30pm


•  Improving Older Adults’ Eyewitness Testimony
  Speaker: Dr Katrin Müller-Johnson
  Thursday 26th February 2009, 5:30pm


•  The Immigration and Diversity Debate: Insights from Criminology
  Speaker: Professor Robert J. Sampson
  Thursday 19th February 2009, 6:00pm


•  The Early Release of Paramilitary Prisoners in Northern Ireland
  Speaker: Dr Adrian Grounds
  Thursday 12th February 2009, 5:30pm


•  Young Children CAN be Competent Witnesses When Competently Interviewed
  Speaker: Professor Michael E Lamb
  Thursday 5th February 2009, 5:30pm


•  Growing up Shut up the Howard League for Penal Reform
  Thursday 22nd January 2009, 5:00pm


•  'Policy-related research': research and the political process Skills Development Seminar
  Speaker: Dr. Gemma Harper et al
  Friday 16th January 2009, 3:00pm


•  Crime, Fear and Blame: Does respondent ethnicity make a difference?
  Speaker: Dr. Paula Kautt
  Thursday 27th November 2008, 5:30pm


•  'I’m a detainee get me out of here' :Legal advice, length of police detention and the law
  Speaker: Dr. Layla Skinns
  Wednesday 26th November 2008, 5:30pm


•  Young Adult Persistent Offenders and the Uncertain Path to Desistance
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Bottoms and Professor Joanna Shapland
  Thursday 20th November 2008, 5:30pm


•  Researching Bullying Among Prisoners: A decade of research
  Speaker: Professor Jane L. Ireland
  Thursday 6th November 2008, 2:00pm


•  Bullying in School: Large-scale interventions with the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)
  Speaker: Professor Dan Olweus
  Thursday 30th October 2008, 5:30pm


•  The Right to Security: securing rights or securitizing rights?
  Speaker: Dr. Liora Lazarus
  Thursday 16th October 2008, 5:30pm


•  Speaking up for Probation 11th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: Judy McKnight
  Wednesday 25th June 2008, 1:00pm for 2:30pm


•  Location, Location, Location: Why Crime Theory and Policy Should be Focused on Places
  Speaker: Professor David Weisburd
  Thursday 18th October 2007, 5:30pm