Events Calendar
April 2026
Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India [joint work with Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich]
Thursday 2 April 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Mannheim Centre for Criminology seminar
Presenter: Dr Nirvikar Jassal (Department of Government, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
May 2026
Mannheim PhD Symposium 2026
This inaugural PhD Symposium will take place on May 18th-19th, 2026 at LSE.
The Centre will host ten PhD students for two days of vibrant interdisciplinary discussion about their research in the company of fellow students, LSE faculty, and the Mannheim Centre community.
Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places
Tuesday 19 May 2026, In-person event (Alumni Theatre, CKK Building)
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to host Professor Alison Liebling for the Centre’s inaugural Annual Mannheim Lecture.
Police & People in London — What’s Changed in 40 Years?
Co-hosted by LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology and UCL’s Centre for Global City Policing on 6 March 2026
In the late-1970s, the police’s unfair treatment of London’s residents, allegations of widespread corruption, and plummeting public trust spurred an ambitious research programme to understand The Police & People in London (1983). That effort yielded pioneering answers about what police do, how they do it, and the effects of that work.
Forty years later, what—if anything—has changed? This afternoon event drew together new research about police and policing in London, and reflected on whether intervening efforts to strengthen public trust have delivered.
Book Launch- The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements & Hope
Hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology on 30 January 2026
This event launched the findings of a new book, The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements & Hope (OUP, 2026), that interrogates the past, present and future of the public health approach.
Celebrating the Career of Professor Tim Newburn
Hosted by the Department of Social Policy and LSE Law School on Saturday 2 March 2024
For over 40 years, Tim Newburn has been a key figure in British and European criminology and social policy. The author of over 40 books, Tim’s influence spans the whole field, from comparative and historical scholarship through policy studies, policing, youth justice, drugs and alcohol, urban violence and restorative justice to criminological theory. At this event, Tim’s colleagues and students gathered to discuss his influence and his major contributions to the field, and to the LSE, and to celebrate his career. The event was chaired by Professor Nicola Lacey.