Forthcoming
16 May 2012 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, London School of Economics, New Academic Building Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, LG 09
Joint 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'
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
23 May 2012 | 2.30pm-8pm | London School of Economics, New Academic Building, Thai Theatre
'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 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Dr Dave Scott (University of Central Lancashire)
'From Penal Hell and Back Again'
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
Recent Events
26 March 2012 | 6pm | London School of Economics, Clement House, CLM.3.02
What if …?
A series of challenging pamphlets The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Mannheim Centre at the London School of Economics would like to invite you to the next seminar in the series which focuses on the role of the magistracy on Monday 26th March at 6pm in at the London School of Economics in Clement House, CLM.3.02.
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 http://www.howardleague.org/what-if/|| In the days before the event a short exposition of Frances Crook's ideas will be available. Places are limited. If you would like to attend this event you can book a place here: http://www.howardleague.org/what-if-event-bkg/?no_cache=1||
Professor Jennifer Brown (Mannheim Centre, LSE)
Anita Dockley (Research Director, Howard League)
14 March 2012 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Dr Rachel Condry (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
"Families, Parenting and Crime"
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
15 February 2012 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Frances Crook (Howard Leagues)
"Why can't we have a radical penal policy?"
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
18 January 2012 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Professor Penny Green (University of Westminster)
"State crime"
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
7 December 2011 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (Queen Mary University of London)
"Erich Fromm and the Political Economy of Punishment: A Freudo-Marxist Approach to Neoliberal Penality"
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
Mannheim Centre for Criminology – Speciality Seminar
22 November 2011 | 6.00-7.30pm | London School of Economics, Moot Court Room, 7th floor, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields
The Mannheim Centre for Criminology is holding a speciality seminar to mark the publication of Children of the Drug War by Damon Barrett.
Speakers :
Jennifer Fleetwood - Mothers and Children of the Drug War : A View from a Women's Prison in Quito, Ecuador.
Steve Rolles - After the War on Drugs : How Legal Regulation of Production and Trade Would Better Protect Children
Michael Shiner - Taking Drugs Together: Early Adult Transitions and the Limits of Harm Reduction in England and Wales
About the book
Chidren of the Drug War is a unique collection of original essays that investigates the impacts of the war on drugs on children, young people and their families. With contributions from around the world, providing different perspectives and utilizing a wide range of styles and approaches including ethnographic studies, personal accounts and interviews, the book asks fundamental questions of national and international drug control systems:
• What have been the costs to children and young people of the war on drugs?
• Is the protection of children from drugs a solid justification for current policies?
• What kinds of public fears and preconceptions exist in relation to drugs and the drug trade?
• How can children and young people be placed at the forefront of drug policies?
For further details see http://www.childrenofthedrugwar.org|
About the speakers
Damon Barrett is Senior Human Rights Analyst at Harm Reduction International.
Jennifer Fleetwood Is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent.
Steve Rolles is Senior Policy Analyst at the Transform Drug Policy Foundation.
Michael Shiner is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics.
9 November 2011 | 6.30pm | London School of Economics, NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology Joanna Gilmore (University of Manchester)
"Repression and resistance in an age of austerity; protest policing and the normalisation of exceptional powers in the UK"
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
27 October 2011 | 6-8pm | London School of Economics (New Academic Building 2.04)
27 October 2011 | 6-8pm | London School of Economics (New Academic Building 2.04)
27 October 2011 | 6-8pm | London School of Economics (New Academic Building 2.04)
27 October 2011 | 6-8pm | London School of Economics (New Academic Building 2.04)
Mannheim Centre and Howard League for Penal Reform
WHAT IF ...? SEMINAR : POLICING
Speakers: Sir Denis O'Connor (Chief Inspector of Constabulary); Baroness Hamwee; Professor Robert Reiner
Listen to this seminar as an MP3 podcast (108MB)|
Wednesday 12 October 2011 | 6.30pm | NAB1.07, New Academic Building, LSE
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Riots and the crisis of neoliberal state'
Speaker: John Lea ( University of Brighton)
15 June 2011
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Professor Simon Hallsworth of London Metropolitan University will be presenting a paper on:
' "We have lessons to teach you": Schools, securitisation and state development'.
Location: London School of Economics, EAS (East Building), Room E304
7 June 2011 | 6.30-8pm | The Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, The New Academic Building, London School of Economics
SEMINAR AND DISCUSSION
'What role for short prison sentences in the rehabilitation revolution?'
Dr Sarah Armstrong, Scottish Centre for Criminal Justice Research and
Dr Julie Trebilcock, Imperial College, London
The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Mannheim Centre, at the London School of Economics, invite you to attend a special event with Dr Sarah Armstrong, Scottish Centre for Criminal Justice Research and Dr Julie Trebilcock, Imperial College, London.
The seminar will use new research to explore the role for short prison sentences in the wake of the Coalition Government's early commitment to embark on a rehabilitation revolution.
Also contributing to the event will be Professor Jennifer Brown, the Mannheim Centre, who will chair the event and Anita Dockley, Research Director, Howard League for Penal Reform.
Special offer: If you attend this event, we are able to offer a 20% discount on the cover price of the Howard League's new research into short prison sentences: No winners: the reality of short prison sentences.
If you have any queries about this event, please contact Victoria Brown on victoria.brown@howardleague.org |
Powerpoint presentation: What do the Punished Think of Punishment?|
18 May 2011
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Dr Wendy Fitzgibbon (London Metropolitan University)
'Probation and Social Work on Trial: Violent Offenders and Child Abusers'
Dr Wendy Fitzgibbon of London Metropolitan University will be presenting a paper on 'Probation and Social Work on Trial: Violent Offenders and Child Abusers'. The venue is EAS (East Building), Room E 304 at the London School of Economics.
The seminar will start at 6.30pm, with wine from 6.15pm, and we recommend arriving early to be sure of a seat. We hope you will also be able to stay for drinks with the speaker after the talk.
16 March 2011
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Professor Jennifer Brown (LSE Mannheim Centre)
'Policing Sexual Violence'
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07
16 February 2011
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Christina Pantazis and Dr Simon Pemberton (University of Bristol)
'Assessing the Impact of Recent UK Counter-Terrorism Legislation on Communities'
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07
27 January 2011
REFORMING THE RESPONSE TO YOUTH JUSTICE :
From evidence to implementation
5.00 to 7.30pm | Moot Court Room 7th Floor New Academic Building LSE
Speakers: David Utting (Secretary to the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour); David J. Smith (Visiting Professor, Mannheim Centre, Hon. Professor of Criminology, University of Edinburgh, Commission member)
Discussants: Professor Michael Little (Director of the Social Research Unit, Dartington); Lizzie Nelson (Director of the Restorative Justice Consortium)
The seminar will discuss the proposals of the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour, the evidential backing for these proposals, the coalition government's plans set out in the recent Green Paper, and how best to build on these plans so as to reform the youth justice system.
For the Commission's proposals and their evidential background, see:
Time for a Fresh Start: The report of the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour (available at www.youthcrimecommission.org.uk|) and
David J. Smith (ed.) A New Response to Youth Crime (Willan, 2000).
19 January 2011
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
Professor Bob Hoogenboom (VU University, Amsterdam and Nyenrode Business University)
'The Jack Bauer Culture: Imbalance Between Publicity, Privacy and Secrecy'
Location: London School of Economics, NAB (New Academic Building), Room 1.07
2010
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8 December 2010
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Representations of Policing in Parliamentary Debates about Incitement to Hatred on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation.'
Dr Paul Johnson (University of Surrey)
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9 June 2010
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Eco Crime and Speciesism'
Professor Nigel South (University of Essex)
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26 May 2010
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Cultures of Policing'
Dr Bethan Loftus (Oxford University)
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10 March 2010
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Imaginary Penalities'
Professor Pat Carlen (Kent University)
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10 February 2010
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Gangs, God and Globalisation'
Professor Dave Brotherton (John Jay College, New York)
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20 January 2010
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'The Punitive Myth'
Professor Roger Matthews (South Bank University); rejoinders by Professors John Lea and Simon Hallsworth.
2009
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2 December 2009
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Legitimacy Crisis: the News Media Humiliation of Sir Ian Blair'
Professor Eugene McLaughlin and Dr Chris Greer (City University)
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19 November 2009
'New Developments in Policing Public Disorder'
The LSE Mannheim Centre of Criminology is proud to hold a screening of Louise Turner's important new documentary 'Ready for Riot', produced by Professor Roger Graef's company Films of Record. This will be followed by a discussion of it and of the Report on policing public disorder by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, chaired by Roger Graef. There will be responses from the HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Denis O'Connor; Peter Neyroud, Director of the National Police Improvement Agency; Commander Bob Broadhurst, Metropolitan Police; Professor P.A.J. Waddington, the leading academic authority on policing public disorder
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10 June 2009
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Transatlantic policing: a Caribbean island perspective'
Professor Ben Bowling (Kings College London)
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20 May 2009
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Tragedy, Cynicism and the Pursuit of Justice: Important Distinctions in the Work of Prison Officers'
Professor Alison Liebling (Cambridge University)
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11 March 2009
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'A tainted trade? Moral ambivalence and the quest for legitimacy in the private security industry'
Dr Benjamin Goold, Professor Ian Loader and Dr Angelica Thumala (Oxford University)
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11 February 2009
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Gangs in a British City'
Dr Judith Aldridge and Dr Juanjo Medina Ariza (Manchester University)
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21 January 2009
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Borderlands: criminology's boundaries in a globalising world'
Dr Katja Franco Aas (University of Oslo)
2008
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10 December 2008
Joint Seminar Series with the British Society of Criminology
'Restorative Justice and High Risk Sex Offenders.'
Dr Anne-Marie McAlinden (Queens University Belfast)