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Valérie Hayaert awarded prestigeous Eutopia Science and Innovation Fellowship at the Universirty of Warwick (Criminal Justice Centre)
Call for Abstracts: Special Issue International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
Call for abstracts for the special issue "The politics of (in)formality in criminal procedures"
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (peer-reviewed, open access possible)
The tension between formality and informality is intrinsic to the implementation of criminal law. Criminal procedures in fact always happen on a continuum between formality and informality, where the different actors involved (police officers and other street-level bureaucrats, prosecutors, judges, experts, defense lawyers, etc.) continuously perform and negotiate (in)formality. In this special issue, we aim to explore these “politics of (in)formality” in different criminal law settings and from different disciplinary perspectives.
To see the full Call: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-law-crime-and-justice/call-for-papers/the-politics-of-in-formality-in-criminal-procedures
Please send your abstract (max. 300 words) to the guest editors Kei Hannah Brodersen (hannah.brodersen@unine.ch) and Damian Rosset (damian.rosset@unine.ch).
Deadline for submission of abstract: 1 November 2021 (24:00h CEST).
A selection will be made soon thereafter. The journal submission deadline is 31 March 2021.
Laura Lammasniemi announced as British Science Association (BSA) 2021 Award Lecturer
CJC Member Dr. Laura Lammasniemi was recently announced as a winner of the prestigious British Science Association (BSA) Lecture Award Series for 2021. Laura was recognised as the winner for social sciences based on her work 'Sexual Consent -Looking back at the law'. There were seven awardees across a number of disciplines who represent Early Career Researchers based in the UK who have displayed cutting edge work and committed public engagement.
The seven awardees will be present at a special Q + A event during the British Science Festival at the Chelmsford campus of Anglia Ruskin University in September where they will delve into their research and its real-world implications.
A short clip of Laura talking about her work can be found here on the BSA's Youtube channel.
Congratulations Laura!
New Article by CJC members Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho, Anastasia Chamberlen and Máximo Sozza 'Decolonizing the Criminal Question'
CJC members Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen along with Máximo Sozza, professor of Sociology of Law and Criminology and Director of the Program on Crime and Society at the National University of Litoral (Argentina) have published a new Article 'Decolonizing the Criminal Question' in Punishment and Society.
This article examines this debate surrounding the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field.
It offers a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from the intimate relationship between colonialism and punishment that directly challenge the persistent neglect of these dimensions in mainstream criminological scholarship. The authors aim to foreground the relevance of this relationship to contemporary enquiries. They highlight that decolonization did not dismantle the colonial roots of the cultural, social and political mechanisms informing contemporary punishment. These colonial roots are still very much part of criminal justice practice and are thus also central to criminological knowledge productions.
For access to the article click here .
Call for Papers: Southern Perspectives on Border Control
The European Society of Criminology will be hosting an online event from 8-11 November 2021. Border Criminologies is inviting submissions for papers to organise one or two panels within this conference.
