Events Archive

 

•  20 January 2016
  Department of Social Policy, Mannheim Centre for Criminology and the Howard League public discussion:
  New Media, Old News: strategies for penal reform groups to manage the new media landscape
  Speakers: Marianne Colbran, Fellow in Criminology at LSE and a former television scriptwriter; Niall Coupe,  author and Head of Media, PR and Supporter Care for Amnesty UK; Andrew Neilson, Howard League’s campaigns team; Danny Shaw, Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC News.
  A podcast of the event is available here.

 

 

• 26 November 2015
  Book launch of Stop and Search: Assessing a police power, edited by Rebekah Delsol and Michael Shiner
  Speakers:  Professor Ben Bowling, Dr Rebekah Delsol, Dr Victor Olisa, Professor Robert Reinter and Dr Mike Shiner.  Chaired by Professor Jennifer Brown. 
  
  
• 23 June 2015
  The Mannheim Centre and the Howard League for Penal Reform ‘What If...?’ Seminar 
  ‘What If…? Women's imprisonment was abolished?’
  Speaker: Michele Burman, Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow.
  Discussants: Sian James, Former MP, Swansea East and Baroness Corston
  
  
• 10 Jun 2015
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  ‘Sex in English Prisons’
  Speaker: Alisa Stevens (Southampton)
  
  
• 13 May 2015
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  ‘Sex offenders' use of the internet and online child safety@ 
  Speaker: Elena Martellozzo (Middlesex)
  
  
• 11 Mar 2015
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  Crime, Philosophy and the Streets of Gotham
  Speaker: Thomas Giddens  (St Mary's University)
  
  
• 11 Feb 2015
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  ‘Media and Crime’ 
  Speaker: Marianne Colbran (LSE)
  
  
• 14 Jan 2015
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  ‘Women in the international cocaine trade’ 
  Speaker: Jennifer Fleetwood (Leicester)

 

• 10 Dec 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  'Punishment, degradation and denial: a Stan Cohen perspective on European penology’
  Speaker: Tom Daems (Leuven Institute of Criminology, University of Leuven)
  
  
• 12 Nov 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  ‘What is penal populism? Politics, the public, and penological expertise’
  Speaker: David Garland (NYU)
  
  
• 8 Oct 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  ‘Realist Criminology’ 
  Speaker: Roger Matthews(Kent)

• 11 June 2014 
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Speakers:Dr Coretta Phillips (LSE) & Deborah Drake (The Open University)
  
  
• 14 May 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  ' Just Emotions: Rituals of Restorative Justice '
  Speaker:Dr Meredith Rossner (LSE/UWS)
  
  
• 12 May 2014
  LSE Law, Mannheim Centre for Criminology and the Howard League for Penal Reform public debate
  
  ' Limiting Justice: legal reform and access to justice for those at the margins'
  Speakers: Edward Fitzgerald QC, Laura Janes, David Renton
  
  
• 8 May 2014
  Book Launch:
  
  'Preventive Justice'
  Ashworth, Andrew; Zedner, Lucia. OUP.
  Speakers:Professor Andrew Ashworth &Professor Lucia Zedner.
  
  
• 18 March 2014
  Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Seminar Series
  
  'Presumption of innocence: Lost… and found?'
  Speaker:Professor Paul Roberts (School of Law, University of Nottingham).
  
  
• 12 March 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Speakers:ProfessorsDavid Downes, Tim Newburn & Paul Rock (LSE)
  
  
• 25 February 2014
  Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Seminar Series
  
  Speakers:Professor David Ormerod (Law Commissioner for Criminal Law and Evidence and Professor of Criminal Justice, QMUL School of Law)
  
  
• 12 February 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Speaker:Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Deakin University - Victoria , Australia)
  
  
• 11 February 2014
  Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Seminar Series
  
  'The criminal jurisdiction of occupation courts under law and morality'
  Speaker:Dr Alejandro Chehtman (School of Law, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires)
  
  
• 16 January 2014
  Book launch
  
  'Youth On Religion: The Development, Negotiation and Impact of Faith and Non-faith Identity'. 
  Madge, Nicola, Hemmings, Peter J, Stenson, Kevin. (2013) Routledge. 
  
  Detailed programme of the event is available here.
• 15 January 2014
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Speaker:  Marian Fitzgerald (University of Kent)

• 11 December 2013
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Speaker: George Mair (Liverpool Hope University)
  
  
• 3 December 2013 
  Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Seminar Series 
  
  'Historicising criminal responsibility: How about the twentieth century?'
  Speaker: Dr Arlie Loughnan (School of Law, University of Sydney)
  
  
• 19 November 2013
  Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Seminar Series 
  
  'Criminalising sex.'
  Speaker: Stuart Green (Rutgers School of Law)
  
  
• 13 November 2013
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Speaker: Daniel Briggs (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
  
  
• 5 November 2013
  Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Seminar Series 
  
  'Duties of citizenship and just war.'
  Speaker: Dr Massimo Renzo (Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick)
  
  
• 16 October 2013
  Part of the Law Matters series: showcasing LSE talent
  
  'Imprisoning the mentally disordered: a manifest injustice?'
  Speaker: Professor Jill Peay (LSE Law)
  Respondents:Anita Dockley (Research Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform); Dr Tim Exworthy (Clinical Director & Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at St Andrew’s Hospital), 
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty (LSE  Law)
  
  
• 9 October 2013 
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  'Unheimlichkeit, Alienated and Integrated Identities and Criminal Existence(s)' Speaker: Anthony Amatrudo (Middlesex University)
  
  
• 12 June 2013
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  'What we can learn from the history of British serial killing.'
  Speakers: Professor David Wilson (Birmingham City University)
  
  
• 15 May 2013
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  'Co-operating or Coerced? The "others" in public protection.'
  Speakers: Professor Mike Nash (University of Portsmouth)
  
  
• 13 March 2013  
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  Ros Burnett  (University of Oxford) will talk about “False allegations of abuse in positions of trust".

• 16 May 2012  
  Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology 
  
  Professor James Sheptycki (York University, Toronto)  and Professor Ben Bowling (Kings College, London) discuss their new book 'Global Policing'

• 23 May 2012 
  'Beyond Pentonville'
   
  It is now nearly a century and a half since the opening of Her Majesty's Prison Pentonville and half a century since the publication of the Morris' seminal sociological study of it. The Mannheim Centre is delighted to be hosting a special seminar in honour of Emeritus Professor Terry Morris, the Centre's first director, to celebrate and reflect on this important study.
  
  Chair: Emeritus Professor David Downes
  Speakers: Professor Alison Liebling and Louis Blom Cooper QC 
  
  
• 20 June 2012
  Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology

             'From Penal Hell and Back Again'
             Speaker: Dr Dave Scott (University of Central Lancashire)

• 26 March 2012
  What if ....? A series of challenging pamphlets 
  
  Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League has agreed to be the author of the pamphlet which has a working title of:  'Community magistrates delivering community justice'.
  
  The premise of the pamphlets is to challenge conventional thinking about various aspects of the penal system.  We want to work with established and well thought of thinkers, academics and practitioners to develop innovative, and perhaps controversial, ideas that can work as a stimulus to new policy initiatives and ultimately achieve change.
  
  We are keen to test, challenge and improve the ideas to be promulgated in the pamphlet.  To achieve this the author, in this case Frances Crook, will subject her ideas to 'peer review' at this invitee seminar, with the ideas initially subject to scrutiny by a couple of discussants.  We are pleased to announce that the discussants will be John Fassenfelt, Chairman of the Magistrates' Association, Professor Barry Godfrey, University of Keele and Professor Julian Roberts, Oxford University. The event will be chaired by Professor Frances Heidensohn from the LSE. 
  
  Information about this event is available at What If...
  Professor Jennifer Brown (Mannheim Centre, LSE)
  Anita Dockley (Research Director, Howard League) 
  
  
• 14 March 2012
  Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology

             "Families, Parenting and Crime"
             Dr Rachel Condry (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

•  15 February 2012
  Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology

              "Why can't we have a radical penal policy?" 
               Frances Crook (Howard Leagues)

• 18 January 2012
  Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
  
  "State crime"
  Professor Penny Green (University of Westminster)