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Vanessa Munro has recently been appointed as an Associate Member of the Ministry of Justice’s End to End Rape Review. This Review, which is scheduled to report later this year and includes membership across the judiciary, legal profession, senior policing and prosecution personnel, as well as key victim support stakeholders, has explored evidence across all stages of the criminal justice process. It will produce a series of recommendations designed to bring about improvements in the handling of rape complaints.

The Criminal Justice Centre's co-Director, Ana Aliverti, has received the prestigious 2020 Radzinowics Prize, awarded by the British Journal of Criminology. The Prize is awarded annually for the BJC article from the latest volume which, in the opinion of the Editor-in-Chief and Editors, has made the greatest contribution to the development of criminology. More information can be found here. Ana was awarded the Prize for her article, ‘Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls’ (2020) British Journal of Criminology 60(5):1175-1135.

This article reports on a large-scale ethnographic study on immigration-police collaboration in everyday policing. Drawing on this unique dataset, it explores a largely neglected aspect in the policing literature: the growing emphasis on safeguarding and protection. The paper makes an important contribution to the sociology of punishment and the policing literature by assessing how punitive and humanitarian rationales and logics dovetail in the exercise of state coercion in the context of growing global interdependence and profound geopolitical inequalities. It sheds light on the ‘moral pains’ of border controls and their disruptive potential.

The full article can be found here.

Many congratulations, Ana!

In this video Dr Ana Aliverti from Warwick University discusses her research with British police and immigration enforcement agents, paying particular attention to how these state agents make sense of their work and its morally contested nature. Drawing on several years of observational research and interviews, she discusses how police and enforcement agents work together and how, their jobs and views of their roles, remain distinct.

On the 9th and 10th September 2020, CJC’s Ana Aliverti and Ioana Vrăbiescu hosted an international workshop on the policing of mobility to explore the new configuration of policing under conditions of globalization and mass migration.

Published in April 2020 by Oxford University Press, the focus of this book is the potentially radical and fundamental changes that are taking place within criminal justice in Britain and in France and the ways that these are driven by wider domestic, European or international concerns. This metamorphosis away from established values and practices is eroding what were once regarded as core rights and freedoms in the name of efficiency, security and justice to victims.