Past Events
See our list of past conferences and events below.
Previous Events and Seminars
2022-2023
2021-2022
Dr Hannah Bows (Durham University)
Discussants: Dr Amanda Spalding (Sheffield); Natalie Christian (Sheffield)
Title: Domestic abuse against older adults - emerging findings from a study on victims and perpetrators
Date: 23 June 2022
Reinvigorating Research – CCR/SCJ PGR Conference
Title: Reinvigorating research: methodological reflections, emergent or resurgent themes, interdisciplinary.
Date: 10 June 2022
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The theme of the conference is Reinvigorating Research - within this broader focus, PGRs are invited to submit an abstract that connects with the following non-exhaustive list of themes:
- Methodological reflections: Challenges and opportunities in the (post)pandemic context.
- Emergent or resurgent themes: Inequality; access; risk governance; safety and securitisation.
- Interdisciplinarity: Developing new conversations and expanding horizons within the field of Security, Conflict and Justice.
We welcome and encourage expressions of interest by PGRs regardless of the stage of their research. The aim of this event is to bring together PGRs not only from criminology, but also from various other disciplinary backgrounds, in a friendly environment to engage with each other’s research. This will be a very beneficial opportunity for PGRs to present their work and get feedback, test ideas, reflect on methodological or other challenges brought upon by covid, and network with peers.
Christopher Bennett (Philosophy, Sheffield), Udit Bhatia (Philosophy, Sheffield), Mark Brown (Law, Sheffield), Katherine Ebury (English, Sheffield), David Hayes (Law, Sheffield), Richard Percival (Law, Sheffield)
Workshop: Humanities Perspectives on Criminological Questions
Title: Humanities Perspectives on Criminological Questions
Date: 27 April 2022
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This workshop will showcase some of the diversity of criminological research at Sheffield. We will be featuring perspectives from the humanities: in particular, history, literature and philosophy. In bringing together researchers who are working on a diverse range of perspectives, we aim to emphasise the wide range of criminological research going on in CCR, and to encourage mutually beneficial networking.
Dr Grace (Yu) Mou (SOAS, University of London)
Title: Techniques to Exploit Vulnerabilities: Persuasion and Education in Chinese Police Interrogations
You can view the presentation for this event here
Date: 27 October 2021
Sights, Sounds and Art: New Directions in Criminal Justice Research (Seminar Series)
This was a seminar series of monthly 2-hour events which provided a platform for scholars who are forging innovative ways of doing criminal justice research in different parts of the world. Events took place either face-to-face or virtually. However, all face-to-face events were livestreamed for registered attendees.
Dates: 8 September - 8 December 2021
- The sights of criminal justice - 8 September 2021
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Location: Virtual
Panellists: Dr Michael Fiddler (Greenwich) and Dr Maggie Wykes (Sheffield)
Chair: Dr Gilly Sharpe (Sheffield)
- The sounds of criminal justice - 13 October 2021
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Location: School of Law, Bartolomé House, Winter Street, Sheffield S3 7ND (Room: Moot Court). Please note that we will livestream this event for registered attendees.
Panellists: Dr Leila Ullrich (Queen Mary's), Dr Kate Herrity (Cambridge) and Dr Mark Brown (Sheffield)
Chair: Dr Lindsey Rice (Sheffield)
- The art of criminal justice - 10 November 2021
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Location: Virtual
Panellists: Dr Roxana Willis (Oxford), Dr Lambros Fatsis (Brighton) and Dr Layla Skinns (Sheffield)
Chair: Dr SJ Cooper-Knock (Sheffield)
- Keynote speech delivered by Dr Jo Deakin (The University of Manchester) - 8 December 2021
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Location: School of Law, Bartolomé House, Winter Street, Sheffield S3 7ND (Room: Moot Court). Please note that we will livestream this event for registered attendees.
Chair: Dr Mark Brown (Sheffield)
2020 - 2021
- Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery
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Daniel Briggs
Date: 28 April 2021
- The two-sided spectacle at the border: Between hyper visibility and denial of migrant suffering
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Katja Franko
Discussant: Dr Mark Brown (CCR Director)
Date: 3 March 2021
- Irregular Migration from Eritrea and the ‘Smuggling/Criminality Nexus
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Joseph Whittle
Date: 10 February 2021
- Confronting Penal Excess: Retribution and the Politics of Penal Minimalism
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David Hayes, Author Meets Critics
Discussants: Professor Lucia Zedner (Oxford) and Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit (Nottingham)
Date: 14 October 2020
2019 - 2020
- Criminal Law Reform in the Postcolony: Nikita Sonavane in Conversation with Prabha Kotiswaran and Tarunabh Khaitan
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Note: This event was recorded on 24 September 2020 and does not consider additional concerns surrounding subsequent changes to the mandate and composition of the Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws.
You can find the transcript here
You can also view the occasional paper here.
- Seeing people in the round: the challenge for criminal justice policy and practice
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Speaker - Joanna Shapland (Sheffield)
Wednesday 10th June 2020
- Cross-sectoral responses to prison suicide
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Speaker - Philippa Tomczak
12th February 2020
- Author meets readers – Police powers and Citizens’ Rights: Discretionary Decision-making in Police Detention
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Author - Layla Skinns (Sheffield), Critics - Megan O’Neill (Dundee) and Adam White (Sheffield)
30th October 2019
- Reading Pictures: Art History and the Sociology of Punishment
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Speaker - Eamonn Carrabine (Exeter)
2nd October 2019
- Methods and Data in Sentencing Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
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Thursday 11th and Friday 12th July 2019
Bartolome House, Sheffield
- ‘Humanities Perspectives on Crime and Justice’ Workshop
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Friday 31st May 2019
Sheffield
2018 - 2019
- Author Meets Critic: The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody, Circles of Support and Accountability
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Wednesday 24th October 2018
Speaker - Author Dr David Thompson, University of Sheffield meets critic Sarah Armstrong from the University of Glasgow.
- Regulating Police Detention: Voices from behind closed doors
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Wednesday 21st November 2018
Speaker - Dr John Kendall, Author
- ‘Help me please’: Terror, Trauma and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prison
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Wednesday 5th December 2018
Speaker - Prof Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores
- The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Emerging Scholarship
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10 January 2018
London
- Desistance: Agency, structures and policy - an international seminar at the University of Sheffield
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11-12th January 2018
Sheffield
- New directions in hate reporting research: agency, heterogeneity and relationality
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Wednesday 13th February 2018 at 17:15
Speaker - Prof Catherine Donovan, Durham University
- Ultra Realism: A Guide for the Uninitiated
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Wednesday 13th March at 17:15
Speaker - Professor Simon Winlow - Northumbria University
- Complex Victims, Responsibility and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland
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Wednesday 1st May at 17:15
Speaker - Dr Sarah Jankowitz
- New Perspectives on Criminological Questions
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24 May 2018
Sheffield
- Understanding Implicit Bias and Policing
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4-5th June 2018
Sheffield
A two-day research symposium exploring implicit bias and how it impacts policing policies and policing outcomes.
2017 - 2018
- Author Meets Critics: Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation.
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Wednesday 11th October 2017
Speaker - Author Dr Matthew Bacon, School of Law, University of Sheffield with critics Professor Simon Holdaway (Nottingham Trent University) and Charlie Lloyd (University of York)
- Death in Punishment
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25-26 October 2017
Sheffield
- Policing Permissive Space: Rethinking sovereignty and statehood in South Africa
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Wednesday 8th November 2017
Speaker - Dr Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock, University of Edinburgh
- Send out a Signal, I’ll Throw You a Line”: Insights for Desistance Research from Signaling Theory
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Wednesday 6th December 2017
Speaker - Professor Shadd Maruna, University of Manchester
- Veterans and violence: an exploration of pre-enlistment, military and post-service life
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Wednesday 7th February 2018
Speaker - Dr Katherine Albertson, Sheffield Hallam University
- QuadCOPters & Robbers: Constables, criminals and disruptive drones
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Wednesday 21st February 2018
Speaker - Philip Wane, Nottingham Trent University
- 'A tale of two institutions'. This will be about David's journey from criminal to criminologist and prison to university.
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Wednesday 21st March 2018
Speaker - David Honeywell, York University
- Drug Prohibition, Inequality and Consumer Capitalism: A Toxic Trap
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Wednesday 18th April 2018
Speaker - Dr Keir Irwin Rogers, Open University
- Queering the Pitch? LGBT Prisoners Rights, Needs and Experiences
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Wednesday 25th April 2018
Speaker - Dr Nicola Carr, University of Nottingham
- Understanding Implicit Bias and Policing
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4-5 June 2018
Sheffield
A two-day research symposium exploring implicit bias and how it impacts policing policies and policing outcomes.
2016 - 2017
- Child Sexual Exploitation: Learning from Rotherham and Beyond
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Date: 8 July 2016
A one-day symposium on child sexual exploitation on "Learning from Rotherham and Beyond"
- Cities, Crime and Disorder: A Dialogue between Urban Studies and Criminology
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Date: 14-15 September 2016
A symposium led by Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield) and Gareth Millington (University of York)
The city has been central to the development of the field of criminology, it is both the site of the majority of many forms of crime and a type of social space that has generated many key insights into our understanding of why crime occurs and what the structural and social conditions and forces that shape the motivations of individuals and groups to pursue deviant careers or engage in harmful acts. The rationale for this symposium lies in our identification of the often disconnected ways in which criminology and urban studies have identified problems of crime, harm and disorder.
- Working with the Police on Policing
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Date: 12-14 October 2016
This conference focused on the ways academics and the police do and can work together, drawing on real-world collaborations between academics and the police from different countries. In terms of format, each panel session at the conference involved academics talking alongside police practitioners about specific research projects where they have worked closely together.
- Crime, Punishment and Society Conference
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Monday 10 - Tuesday 11 April 2017
A two-day conference exploring the interrelations between crime, criminal justice, politics, and citizenship.
- The Voluntary Sector in Criminal Justice: Setting the Research Agenda
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Date: 5 - 6 June 2017
A two-day conference on the voluntary sector in criminal justice.