Call for abstracts for the special issue "The politics of (in)formality in criminal procedures"

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!

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 .

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.

Two members of the Criminal Justice Centre Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen recently worked with colleagues from Brunel University London, University of Oxford and University of York on an expert report on COVID-19 and the criminal law which was submitted to the Parliamentary Justice Committee.

The written expert which these academics submitted can be viewed here: Expert evidence on COVID-19 and the criminal law .