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A conference titled "Being There: Ethnography and the Study of Policing" is scheduled to be held on 18-19 January 2018 at the University of Liverpool. There is one free place to giveaway for this conference. The organizers have very generously donated a free place specifically for a BSC member. The conference is very affordable for anyone not winning. To enter, please email info@britsoccrim.org with ‘Conference Draw – Policing’ in the subject line by Sunday, 26 November 2017.

Organised by the Police Ethnography Research Collaboration with the International Criminological Research Unit, this will be an opportunity for dialogue about the value of ethnographic approaches for enhancing our understanding of policing. Abstracts for contributions are also welcomed before the abstract deadline: Monday, 27 November 2017. For more information and registration details see.

The 2018 British Society of Criminology annual conference will be held in Birmingham, UK. Hosted by Birmingham City University the conference will take place on 3-6 July 2018. This year, the theme of the conference is "Transforming Criminology: Rethinking Crime in a Changing World". Save the date!

CJC colleagues Professor Jackie Hodgson & Solange Mouthaan are this week collaborating with Monash University, teaching on their summer school programme in Prato, Italy. Jackie is leading sessions on European criminal justice and human rights, focusing on the development of procedural protections for criminal suspects. Solange is leading sessions on International criminal justice, focusing on gender and victims. Dr. Asher Flynn (Monash), who has worked with Jackie and other CJC colleagues on a number of projects, is coordinating the 'human rights in the criminal justice sphere' programme, which runs over several weeks.

On 6 October 2017, JUSTICE's Legal Director, Jodie Blackstock, and Membership Coordinator, Rumina Ali, spoke to Warwick Law Students about JUSTICE's remit to promote and uphold the rule of law, its legal heritage, programme of law reform work and interventions on behalf of its membership comprising all branches of the legal profession. For further information about JUSTICE, please visit their website.

JUSTICE staff was also joined by CJC colleagues Professor Jackie Hodgson (an elected member of the JUSTICE Council), and doctoral researcher Natalie Kyneswood, who discussed her career to date and her collaboration with JUSTICE's 'What is a Trial' Working Party as part of her ESRC funded Ph.D. (supervised by Jackie Hodgson and Vanessa Munro). Further information about the collaboration is available here.

JUSTICE has collaborated with the CJC in previous research and impact projects. In 2012 Jodie Blackstock and Jackie Hodgson delivered a policy briefing in Brussels regarding the implementation of best practice on police station advice, and training in Edinburgh for lawyers delivering custodial legal advice to suspects held in police custody in Scotland. They also collaborated on a major four country EC funded empirical study of suspects’ right in police custody (Inside Police Custody). For more about Inside Policy Custody see JUSTICE's website.

CJC Researcher, Natalie Kyneswood has been awarded a prestigious ESRC doctoral scholarship from the newly formed Midland Graduate School to examine the implementation of special measures in collaboration with the legal profession. Focusing on multi-defendant sex cases, Natalie's Ph.D. will investigate the impact of pre-recorded evidence on the quality and credibility of evidence, trial procedure, substantive rights and trial philosophy and whether the recent introduction of pre-recorded cross-examination under s. 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 delivers a fair trial for witnesses as well as defendants. Her methodology involves a 12-month secondment to JUSTICE, working as a co-researcher on JUSTICE's 'What is a Trial?' Working Party, co-producing data on the efficacy of legal reforms, including special measures, and the relevance of adversarial, professional culture from a user perspective to provide recommendations for policymakers and inform her Ph.D. For more information about the 'What is a Trial' Working Party, please visit JUSTICE's website.