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Thursday, October 10, 2019
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Centre for Critical Legal Studies - Weekly Reading GroupRoom S2.09 Law SchoolThe Centre for Critical Legal Studies (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/ccls/) has finally gotten the all clear from the myriad different academic and administrative committees in the University. We have lots of plans and ideas, but we would like to open it out to everyone now, firstly to join the centre, and secondly to help us plan our activities. We don't want to bombard you with information at this stage, so we want to just draw your attention to three things:1. Events Our plan is to run a small reading group each week on Thursday morning. This will continue on from the R&R group that Stephen has run so well in recent years. The Group will read a mixture of our own work as we prep it for publication and key critical texts. It will be open to everyone who might be interested, including UGs, PGs, sessional staff, professional services, and academic staff. We will be producing notes on the readings which we will start to build into a pedagogic archive. Please pass on details to any students or colleagues who might like to come along. This year it will always be at 10am in S2.09 on Thursdays. Our first reading group is this coming Thursday (the 3rd of October). We will be discussing the Introduction to Christine’s exciting new book. It is attached it here.2. Membership To join the Centre - for staff - you need to sign into the Warwick website, go to your staff page and click the CCLS in the sidebar. Once it is highlighted you are in. For others, for now, membership is really just attending events, planning events which the centre might be able to help with, or taking part in our other activities.3. CCLS Day Finally, as far as possible, all events for the CCLS will be organised on one day per week, to help make planning more easy. Thursday will be the key CCLS day this year.Best wishes,Illan and Christine |
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CJC Research Seminar - Punishing Women: The 'Crisis' in the Women's Penal System and the Case for AbolitionRoom S2.09 Law SchoolGillian McNaull - Despite recommendations imprisonment should be limited to those few women who pose a demonstrable risk to the public (Corston 2007), women 'on the margins' (class; 'race'; poverty; mental ill-health; vulnerability) continue to experience custodial remand regardless of the severity of their crime. Derived in primary empirical research with women remand prisoners in Northern Ireland, this paper explores the 'liminal space' (Baldry 2010) occupied by women remanded to custody, before prison and during their incarceration. It outlines the processes of criminalisation which vulnerable women endure as their ‘criminality’ is co-produced with criminal justice agents. The paper considers that reformists such as Corston retain the discourse that women are ‘offenders’ rather than ‘offended upon’ by society, allowing the rationale for their punishment to persist. By binding women discursively to criminal justice conceptualisations, Corston in effect calls for the palatability of punishment exerted by society, while allowing oppressive practice to continue. Linda Moore- Following a series of tragic deaths in custody, the Corston Report in 2007 recommended a radical, 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales. Baroness Corston suggested a 'fundamental re-think' about the treatment of women in conflict with the law, within custody and in the community. The report recommended a strategy of decarceration, whereby only those women who committed the most serious and violent offences would be imprisoned. This paper considers what progress has been made in reducing the use of imprisonment for women both in the UK context and internationally and asks what have been the barriers to decarceration. In doing so, the relationship between Corston's vision and a more radical abolitionist agenda is explored. |
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