2011
14 Nov 2011
Professor Lawrence Sherman in the Telegraph: The magic bullet that could solve our prison problem.
Summer 2011
Events:
- The 2011 Evidence-Based Policing Conference took place 4-6 July.
- The conference Evidence-Based Prevention of Bullying and Youth Violence: European Innovations and Experiences was held 4-5 July in the Moller Centre.
- The 2011 Nigel Walker lecture was given by Professor Richard Tremblay on 2 June at 6pm: Origins, Development and Prevention of Chronic Physical Aggression: From Criminology to Obstetrics and Epigenetics. The winners of the 2010 Nigel Walker prize were Drs Sarah Bennett and Leonidas Cheolitis. The prizes were presented at the lecture.
- The 2011 Bill McWilliams lecture was given by Professor Peter Raynor on 22 June: Is Probation Still Possible?
- The STARR project held an international conference in Sophia, Bulgaria 7-10 June 2011. Link to this article about STARR
- http://cep-probation.org/default.asp?nbId=100&prsid=746&page_id=65&news_item=326
Staff:
- Professor King has now retired, but will continue in the Institute as an Honorary Research Fellow from 1 March 2011 for 3 years.
- Dr Ben Crewe was appointed to the post Director of the MSt Penology Programme and Deputy Director to the Prison Research Centre from 1 February 2011.
- Dr Justice Tankebe was appointed as a Teaching Associate to the MSt Police Programme from 1 July 2011.
- Professor Manuel Eisner will be on sabbatical during the Michaelmas 2011 and Lent 2012 terms.
Awards and Honours and other Appointments:
- Professor Lawrence Sherman has been awarded the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal form the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), from 1st November 2011
- Professor Eisner has been elected as the recipient of the 2011 Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology. The award acknowledges criminological scholarship on problems of crime and justice manifested outside the United States.
- Loraine Gelsthorpe FRSA, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the M.Phil Programme in the Institute of Criminology, and Fellow of Pembroke College, has been elected President of the British Society of Criminology. The election was at the British Society of Criminology annual conference held last week (at Northumbria University this year).
- Professors Farrington and Lösel have been awarded Honorary Professorships by the Zhejiang Police College in Hangzhou and the Delinquency and Drug Research Centre of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chonqing, China.
- Professor P-O Wikström has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
Social Events and Other:
- Criminology for all seasons - 50th Anniversary of the first diploma in Criminology