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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.

 

 

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.

 

Wed 13 Oct 2021, 10:45 | Tags: journal, Criminal Justice, call for papers, criminal law

Call for Papers: Global Borderlands Conference, 16-18 September 2021

Crimmigration has rapidly become the dominant response to human mobility around the globe. It has emerged, ironically, in tandem with growing economic globalization. For capital, national borders have virtually disappeared, while the walls, virtual and literal, are growing higher for workers and others who need mobility to thrive, and even survive. Race, ethnicity, and personal wealth matter in who gains entry.

This hybrid conference will treat crimmigration and bordering holistically as systems nested within economy and society in subtle, and not-so-subtle ways. In so doing, the conference calls attention to the various 'faces' and experiences of crimmigration and bordering across the globe as well as to a critical examination of the scholarship so far.

Deadline for panels/ individual papers: May 1st, 2021

To apply, submit a (maximum) 200-word abstract, with a tentative title and contact information.

Wed 21 Apr 2021, 23:21 | Tags: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Centre, call for papers

New Book by CJC Member Ioana Vrăbiescu 'Deporting Europeans: The Racialized Mobility of Romanians in France'

Deporting Europeans reveals an unexpected feature of the political, institutional and cultural entanglement between two EU countries, Romania and France. Contemporary structural dependencies are rooted in a deeply neo-colonial predicament that perpetuates the inferior position of Romania vis-à-vis France and results in the implementation of policies that ultimately disadvantage and discriminate against some of the most vulnerable citizens in the EU. By analysing the deportation of Romanians from France, the book shows how policing the mobility of poor EU citizens, who are often identified as Roma, is effectively a racist policy. Deporting Europeans uncovers the justifications set forward by states in policing for deportation and in normalizing violence. The book argues that EU citizens deportation within the EU territory serves the reinforcement of state sovereignty in relation to processes of globalization. Curbing the freedom of movement, re-articulating borders and racializing the policing of certain EU citizens attest to neo-colonial patterns that structure power relations and legitimize hierarchy in Europe. This book is a compelling contribution to decolonial critique of state power in the European continent.”


Ana Aliverti awarded the prestigious BJC Radzinowicz Prize 2020

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!

Tue 26 Jan 2021, 14:35 | Tags: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Centre, Criminology

Amanda Wilson awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Amanda Wilson, who is currently a WIRL Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow at the School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust, due to start in November 2020.

Amanda will be working on a book project that pursues a rational reconstruction of restorative justice. Drawing on critical theory and moral psychology, the book will advance an ethical critique of restorative justice and its development, and propose a new moral psychological account of violation and restoration that is radically different from anything currently articulated in conventional legal and moral theory or restorative justice scholarship. Over the course of her Fellowship, Amanda will also develop a new restorative justice module that will be launched in 2021.

Research Interests

Amanda is a critical researcher of criminal law and justice. Within this field, her primary interest is alternative justice mechanisms and their relation to orthodox thinking and practices. On the level of theory, this has most recently taken her into the productive terrain of moral psychology and critical ethics. Empirically, her work examines reparative and therapeutic consciousness, and intersectional concerns. Amanda works closely with a number of key policy and practice organisations including Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service’s newly launched Restorative Practice Hub and the European Forum for Restorative Justice. In 2020 she was a visiting scholar at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) at KU Leuven where she gave the first lecture in the Interdisciplinary Lecture Series in Restorative Justice and Victimology on the ethics of restorative justice.

Biography

Amanda first joined the University of Warwick in October 2018 as a WIRL Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow. She holds a PhD in Law (PhD Excellence Award) and a Bachelor of Social Science majoring in Criminology and Social Science and Policy with Honours (Class 1 and The University Medal) from the University of New South Wales. Before coming to Warwick, Amanda held positions as a researcher at the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, and as a sessional lecturer and convenor at the University of New South Wales. She taught criminal law and therapeutic jurisprudence in the School of Law as well as criminology, social science and theory subjects in the School of Social Sciences. She sits on the Global Advisory Council for the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence and co-developed the first dedicated course on Therapeutic Jurisprudence to be offered in Australia.

Mon 13 Jul 2020, 12:39 | Tags: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Centre

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