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Congratulations to CJC member Anastasia Chamberlen on winning the British Society of Criminology Book Award 2019
Anastasia Chamberlen (Warwick Sociology) has been awarded the prestigious BSC Book Award for her book Embodying Punishment: Emotions, Identities and Lived Experiences in Women's Prisons.
Workshop – Conflict, Power and Justice in the Global South (6-8 November 2019)
Academic knowledge about conflict, power and justice has generally been sourced from a select number of countries from the Global North, whose journals, conferences, publishers and universities dominate the intellectual landscape. In the last decades, there have been substantial efforts to undo these colonized ways of producing knowledge in this field. This three-day workshop in Colombia brings together scholars, practitioners and activists from across the globe to contribute to this task of southernizing and democratising knowledge. For further details click here.
CJC member Azrini Wahidin to give keynote at
Women's Equality Party Manchester is organising a conference titled Offending Women? Women's Journeys Through The Criminal Justice System on 6 April 2019. CJC member Azrini Wahidin will be giving a keynote at the conference. For more details, click here.
CJC member Azrini Wahidin publishes article in The Prison Journal
CJC member Azrini Wahidin has published an article in The Prison Journal titled Menstruation as a Weapon of War: The Politics of the Bleeding Body for Women on Political Protest at Armagh Prison, Northern Ireland. To access, click here.
Throw away the key: 150 years of prison health and medicine
The Modern Records Centre (MRC) of Warwick University is hosting an exhibition titled Throw away the key: 150 years of prison health and medicine till 5 April 2019. The exhibition features archives on prison conditions and health, including sections focusing on mental health, enforced leisure, and the treatment of women and young people. For further details, click here.