The Critical Research Seminar Series

Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box

The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation, and Social Exclusion (CCSE) is delighted to welcome you to this year's Annual Public Lecture event on 10 April 2024 - Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box.

Drinks/refreshments will be provided before and after the lecture, with the event running from 4pm until 9pm altogether (the scheduled speaker’s talks will run from 5pm until 7.30pm).

This event includes:

• Marking the publication of the new book Demystifying Power, Crime, and Harm introduced by the editors Dr David Scott and Professor Joe Sim.
• Insights from guest speakers (see below) discussing the practical application of the book’s key themes to real world campaigns for justice.
• Social event with refreshments and a chance to discuss the book with the editors and contributors and a call for future speakers continuing to explore the central concerns of this edited collection within the CCSE Seminar Series and beyond.

Please note
This will be a hybrid event for those who cannot attend in person.

Speakers include:

• Kathryn Chadwick (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Becky Clarke (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Janet Cunliffe (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association/JENGbA)
• Gloria Morrison (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association/JENGbA)
• David Scott (The Open University - Online)
• Joe Sim (Liverpool John Moores University - Online)
• Steve Tombs (The Open University)
• Lisa White (Liverpool John Moores University)

The event is public, free to attend, and all are welcome. Find out more info and register via Eventbrite.

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• 10 April 2024 - Yulia Chistyakova, Lecturer in Criminology, LJMU, CCSE, Jenny Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Newcastle University. Bankole Cole, Emeritus Fellow, The Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Department of Law and Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University: Experiences of Minority Ethnic Women in English Criminal Courts

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• 2 November 2022 - Dr Sarah Greenhow and Dr Sarah Tickle: A National External Evaluation of the NHS England and NHS Improvement [NHSE/I] Mind The Gap Programme 2021/22: Identifying and supporting carers from vulnerable communities.
• 31 May 2023 - Dr MJ O’Leary: Reading the comments: Authors, affect and interface design in new media dialogues

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• Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign on the search for truth, justice and accountability after Hillsborough
• Joanne Gilmore, Will Jackson and Helen Monk on community perspectives on the policing of anti-fracking demonstrators in the North West
• Robert King and Albert Woodfox from the Angola 3 on racism and America’s ‘Criminal Injustice System’
• Carol Smart on sexism and misogyny in Criminology and in the criminal justice system
• Thomas Tonatiuth Lopez (in collaboration with Writing on the Wall, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University) on the Standing Rock Dakota Pipeline protest and the degradation of Native American burial sites

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• 25 February 2015 - Joanna Gilmore, Will Jackson and Helen Monk: ‘Keep moving!’: A report on the Policing of the Barton Moss Community Protection Camp
• 25 February 2015 - Hazel Kemshall: Risk in an Age of Austerity: What Next for Offender Risk Assessment and Management?
• 16 March 2015 - Professor Carol Smart, Professor Richard Collier and Professor Frances Heidensohn: Celebrating 40 years of Women, Crime and Criminology

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• 6 November 2013 - Patrick Williams: Becoming the ‘Other’: Challenging the Race and Gang Nexus
• 4 December 2013 - Kirsteen Paton: State Sponsored Gentrification
• 15 January 2014 - Val Walsh: Men and Masculinity in an Outsourced World
• 12 February 2014 - Andrea Beckmann: Fifty Shades and Beyond: Researching Intimate 'Bodily Practices'
• 12 March 2014 - Liz Kelly: Changing the Discourses on Sexual Consent: Lessons from Research with Young People

• 10 October 2012 - Sheila Coleman: The Hillsborough Justice Campaign
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