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This series is host to episodes created by the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford which is part of the Faculty of Law, within the Social Sciences Division. The series reflects this department's world-leading research and teaching by providing talks that encompass topics such as right…

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    All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2020 58:06


    All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations

    All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2020 65:17


    All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights

    All Souls Seminar Series - Rethinking "Smuggling" in Libya

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2019 45:46


    All Souls Seminar Series - Rethinking "Smuggling" in Libya All Souls Seminar Series - Rethinking "Smuggling" in Libya

    All Souls Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2019 55:36


    The Shamima Begum case: Citizenship Stripping and Belonging in Britain

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019 53:28


    All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol

    "Doing Civilization's Heavy Lifting": The State of Injustice in the United States

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019 62:58


    All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Dr Tony Platt, University of California, Berkeley

    Historicising American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment and Inequality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2019 56:46


    All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Prof. Niki Lacey

    All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2019 63:05


    The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

    All Souls: 'Pervasive Punishment' Making sense of mass supervision

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019 62:45


    Fergus McNeill introduces the main arguments from his recent book explaining the meanings of 'mass supervision’ and outlining its scale and social distribution, the processes by which it has been legitimated and its significance as a penal phenomenon. However, the main focus of this seminar will be on the lived experience of supervision, as revealed in conventional ethnographies and in his own recent work using creative methods to explore and represent what it is and how it feels to be supervised. In conclusion, Fergus will explore how mass supervision might be best resisted and restrained. Fergus McNeill is a Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow.

    Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2019 39:28


    The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace. However, statistics on violent groups in Latin America show that these groups are largely made of young people. The position of young people at the crux between peacebuilding and perpetuation of violence needs to be contextually unpacked. While studies have tended to focus on youth movements, the question of how non-organised, (self-)marginalised youths relate to peacebuilding is largely unaddressed. Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork with outcast adolescents in the conflict-affected town of San Carlos and marginal neighbourhoods in the close-by city Medellín, this paper addresses this gap.

    All Souls Blog: The Politics of Global Policing

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 57:15


    Creating More Peaceful Societies - Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50 Percent in 2040

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2018 86:00


    How 'gangsters' become jihadists (and why most don't): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2018 65:00


    Criminology at the periphery: understanding police work in the remote Northern islands of Scotland

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2018 60:41


    Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, gives a talk for the Criminology seminar series on 11th October 2018. Drawing on her ethnographic research in Shetland and the Western Isles, she made us question our understanding of 'place' and what it means when applied to criminological research. Dr Souhami began with the idea that there are limitations to our conceptual vocabulary, particularly within research that considers urban policing as the norm. Islands have been used as laboratories to test theories in the natural sciences, and Dr Souhami utilises a similar approach in order to 'explore the blind spots in the way we think' about policing.

    All Souls Seminar: 'Shared Beginnings? The Role of Race'

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2018 64:31


    Dr. Coretta Philips and Dr. Alpa Parmar London School of Economics and University of Oxford

    The Enemy In-Between: Ambivalence, Hostility, and Joint Enterprise

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2018 61:33


    Public trust and police legitimacy: Diversity and complexity in the 'global city'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2018 51:38


    Seeing and Seeing-as: Building a politics of visibility in criminology

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2018 69:49


    All Souls Seminar: 1st February 2018. This paper is about problems of representation in criminology, and builds on a recent chapter in the Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology (2017). It begins with the recognition that like other researchers, criminologists are engaged in a process of making things visible. That is, we try to get others to see something for the first time, or to see it in a new light, or to see it the 'right' way, countering fallacies and misrepresentations with good evidence. But criminology is a particularly fraught field because particular, and particularly domineering, imagery is so well established, analysed and embedded that it colonises political and popular imaginations. How can one represent injustice without reinforcing it, given that even critical representations tend to encourage particular associations? The paper focuses mainly on the case of prison, first to deconstruct the problematics of representation and, second, to suggest how these might be challenged and overcome, for example, by making visible aspects of punishment which are presently invisible. The paper draws on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to suggest alternative practices of representation, particularly relying on STS concepts of multiplicity, contradiction and absence. Finally, I connect the project of developing new representational practices to a progressive politics of criminology, hoping to stimulate debate in the seminar about the (appropriate) relationship of the descriptive and the normative in social science research.

    Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2018 54:11


    All Souls Seminar, Centre for Criminology, Univeristy of Oxford, 18th January 2018. In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016, Sweden closed its border with Denmark. This closure makes a startling reversal of Sweden’s open borders to refugees and contravenes free movement in the Schengen Area, a founding principle of the European Union. What happened? Vanessa Barker’s new book develops the concept of penal nationalism to explain the use of penal power in response to mass mobility for nationalistic purposes, including state sovereignty, national identity and in the Swedish case, welfare state preservation.

    Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2017 57:58


    Exploring the Long Term Effects of 'Thatcherite' Social and Economic Policies for Crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2017 59:59


    Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield - 02 Feb 2017

    Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2017 52:11


    Ian Loader, University of Oxford - 10 Nov 2016

    The Problems of Long-term Imprisonment

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2017 60:08


    Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge - 6 October 2016

    Blogging and Social Media in Criminology

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2016 27:54


    Sarah Turnbull and Ines Hasselberg, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015.

    Doing Research with or without Impact: Policing Studies as a Global Field of Interest

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2016 21:29


    Ian Loader and Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015.

    Prisons and the problem of trust: contrasting approaches to risk, radicalisation and personal growth in two high security prisons

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2016 60:10


    Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Centre for Criminology on 5th June 2015.

    Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2016 60:16


    Plenary Session II: Vulnerable Adults and the Criminal Justice System

    Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2016 1313:00


    Panel 2: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Proceedings, Detention and Immigration detention of Adults

    Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2016 1537:00


    Panel 2: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Proceedings, Detention and Immigration detention of Adults

    Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2016 62:18


    Plenary Session I: Vulnerable Young People and the Criminal Justice System

    Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2016 827:00


    Panel 1: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Justice Interventions with Young People and their Parents

    In the Beginning: Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice in 1966

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2016 98:42


    Professor David Downes, Professor Tim Newburn, and Professor Paul Rock, London School of Economics

    Re-thinking police legitimacy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2015 57:08


    Dr Justice Tankebe, University of Cambridge - 12 March 2015

    Too Big to Jail: Theory and Evidence on Corporate Crime Enforcement in the U.S.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2015 64:27


    Professor Brandon Garrett, University of Virginia School of Law - 30 April 2015

    Private Security and Regulatory Space: In Search of the Public Interest

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2014 32:14


    Ian Loader, Centre for Criminology - 7 October 2014 at National Law University, Delhi

    Knowing what we know now. International crimes in historical perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2014 53:49


    Prof Willem De Haan, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Universtiy of Amsterdam - 15 October 2014

    Stuck in the middle: Waiting and Uncertainty in Immigration Detention

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2014 21:49


    Sarah Turnbull - Centre for Criminology - 7 October 2014 at National Law University, Delhi

    Experiments in public confidence and police legitimacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2014 30:14


    Dr Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology - 7 October 2014 at National Law University, Delhi

    Revisiting Nordic Exceptionalism: The view from inside

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2014 45:02


    Immigration Enforcement

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2014 51:01


    Prof Jennifer Chacon, School of Law, University of California - 12 November 2014

    Experiments in public confidence and police legitimacy: Promise, potential and pitfalls

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2014 54:02


    Centre for Criminology Panel Discussion on Criminal Justice Careers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2014 75:49


    Panel: Jon Collins, Restorative Justice Council; Amrik Panaser, Oxford Youth Offending Service; Betsy Stanko, London Metropolitan Police; Rachel Taylor, Fisher Meredith, Solicitors: Michael Bochenek, Amnesty International.

    Death and Other Dire Outcomes of Delinquent Youth: New Findings from the Northwestern Juvenile Project

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2014 61:20


    Professor Linda Teplin, Dept. Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University - 15 May 2014.

    Moving Targets: Reputational Risk, Rights and Accountability in Punishment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2014 50:30


    Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto, gives a talk on human rights within the Canadian Prison system

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