Past Events

This years annual Nigel Walker Seminar will be given by Professor John Braithwaite (School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University).

This annual conference on Evidenced Based Policing is co-sponsored by the Police Executive Programme, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University; the Society of Evidence-Based Policing; and the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing Ltd.

This annual conference on Evidenced Based Policing is co-sponsored by the Police Executive Programme, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University; the Society of Evidence-Based Policing; and the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing Ltd.

This annual conference on Evidenced Based Policing is co-sponsored by the Police Executive Programme, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University; the Society of Evidence-Based Policing; and the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing Ltd.

Bill McWilliams, who died in 1997, had a prestigious career as a probation practitioner, researcher and writer. His quartet of articles on the probation service’s development up to the point at which the “punishment in the community” debate began, is now widely regarded as its definitive history of ideas. He was a staunch advocate of the need for rigorous evaluation of probation practice – but an equally staunch critic of the excesses of the management ideal.

To keep his spirit alive, a group of Bill’s relatives, colleagues and friends established The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture. It is intended to honour the contribution he made to the probation service over a 30-year period and keep his perspectives at the forefront of probation thinking.