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Statewatch News Online, 30 January 2012 (2/12)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/
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1.    EU: Council of the European Union: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council, Copenhagen
2.    EU: DATA PROTECTION: EDPS general survey shows different levels of data protection compliance
3.    UK: Home Affairs Select Committee report: Rules governing enforced removals from the UK
4.    EU: DATA PROTECTION BODIES CRITICISE COMMISSION LAW ENFORCEMENT PROPOSALS
5.    EU: NEW DATA PROTECTION PROPOSALS: European Commission
6.    EU-GREECE: LOST AT BORDER – A journey to the lost and the dead of the Greek borders
7.    EU pushes ahead with plans for greater law enforcement data access
8.    EU: European Digital Rights (EDRI): EU SURVEILLANCE
9.    EU: FRONTEX: Programme of Work 2012
10   EU: European Parliament: Minutes: Delegation Sicily, Italy
12.  EU: Eurospooks flourish as Euro flounders - UK may shun monetary cooperation but eager to promote security and intelligence links
13.  UK-EU: Statewatch Analysis: The Mother of all Opt-outs? The UK’s possible opt-out from prior third pillar measures
14.  UP DATE: EU: CRIME STATISTICS: Measuring Crime in the EU: Statistics Action Plan 2011- 2015
15.  Council of Europe: Convention for the Protection if individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data
16.  EU-USA PNR SCHEME:
17.  UK-FRANCE: Children's Commissioner report: Landing in Dover
18.  EU: Statewatch's In the News Press reports from around the EU
19.  EU: Commission still seeking proof of the necessity of mandatory data retention
20.  FRANCE: Court decision overturns government attempt to deny foreigners' access to lawyers in transit zones
21.  UK: Kettling protesters is lawful, appeal court rules
22.  UK: BORDER CONTROLS: Home Affairs Select Committee report
23.  UK: PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON JOINT ENTERPRISE: Joint Human Rights Committee
24.  EU: Council of the European Union: Amended proposal common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection
25.  EU: Report of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee(LIBE)
26.  EU: European Commission: Communication: Annual Report on the implementation of the EU Internal Security Strategy
27.  EU: REGULATION ON ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Report on debate in the European Parliament
28.  UK riots: paratroopers are trained in riot control

1. EU: Council of the European Union: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council, Copenhagen: Press release (pdf).
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-inf-jha-prel.pdf

Copenhagen: Discussion papers:

No 1: A common framework for genuine and practical solidarity towards Member States facing particular pressures due to mixed migration flows:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-inf-jha-paper-1-solidarity.12.pdf

No 2: Family reunification in light of the Commission Green Paper:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-inf-jha-paper-2-fam-reun.12.pdf

No 3: Financing of PNR-systems:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-inf-jha-paper-3-eu-pnr-finance-12.pdf

No 4: Brussels I-Regulation: Access to Union courts in civil cases with third country defendants:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-inf-jha-paper-4-brussels-I-reg-12.pdf

No 5:   Criminal sanctions and the proposal for a directive on insider dealing and market manipulation:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-inf-jha-paper-5-sanctions-market-12.pdf

No 6: Transfer of sentenced persons and social rehabilitation:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-inf-jha-paper-6-prisoner-transfer-12.pdf

2. EU: DATA PROTECTION: EDPS general survey shows that EU institutions and bodies have different levels of data protection compliance (Press release):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-edpd-dp-nat-powers-prel.pdf

Survey results: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-edpd-dp-nat-powers-survey.pdf

Peter Hustinx, EDPS, states: "I am concerned that not all EU institutions and bodies are performing as well as they should. Implementation of data protection principles is not only a matter of time and resources, but also of organisational will. Ensuring compliance is a process that requires the commitment and support of the hierarchy in all institutions and bodies."

3.  UK: Home Affairs Select Committee report: Rules governing enforced removals from the UK:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-hasc-report-enforced-removals.pdf

See also: Dangerous deportation techniques may still be in use, MPs warn - Home affairs select committee finds evidence of dangerous restraint techniques, although UK Border Agency denies claim (Guardian, link): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/26/deportation-techniques-mps-warn/print

4.  EU: DATA PROTECTION BODIES CRITICISE COMMISSION LAW ENFORCEMENT PROPOSALS: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Press release:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-edps-dp-proposals-prel.pdf

"the EDPS strongly regrets the inadequate content of the specific Directive on data protection in the area of police and justice. Peter Hustinx states: “The Commission has not lived up to its promises to ensure a robust system for police and justice. These are areas where the use of personal information inevitably has an enormous impact on the lives of private individuals. It is difficult to understand why the Commission has excluded this area from what it intended to do, namely proposing a comprehensive legislative framework.” and: "The EDPS regrets in particular that: the Commission does not propose stricter rules for the transfer of personal data outside the EU, data protection authorities are not given mandatory powers to effectively control the processing of personal data in this area and the possibilities for the police to access data processed in the private sector are not regulated."

The Article 29 Working Party on data protection (national data protection bodies) takes a similar view: Press release: "Chairman Kohnstamm however regrets the Commission’s level of ambition in the area of police and justice and underlines the need for stronger provisions in this field.":
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-dp-art-29-wp-prel.pdf

5. EU: NEW DATA PROTECTION PROPOSALS: European Commission:

- Communication: Safeguarding Privacy in a Connected World A European Data Protection Framework for the 21st Century:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-dp-commuication-com-9-3-12.pdf

- General Regulation replacing 1995 Directive: Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-general-dp-regulation-com-12-3-12.pdf

- New Directive on the exchange of personal data by law enforcement agencies: Proposal for a Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and the free movement of such data:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-dir-dp-leas-com-10-3-12.pdf

- Report on infamous 2008 law enforcement Directive: Report from the Commission: based on Article 29 (2) of the Council Framework Decision of 27 November 2008 on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-leas-dp-2008-dir-report-com-12-2-12.pdf.pdf

See: Statewatch: Observatory on data protection in police and judicial matters (2005-2008) and 2011 ongoing:
  http://www.statewatch.org/eu-dp.htm

- Impact Assessment for both proposals: Commission Staff Working Paper: Impact Assessment: Accompanying the document Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) and Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and the free movement of such data:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-dp-ia-com-sec-72-12.pdf

- Annex to IA for both proposals: Annex (128 pages):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-dp-ia-com-sec-72-12-annex.pdf

6.  EU-GREECE: LOST AT BORDER – A journey to the lost and the dead of the Greek borders and see: Full report:
http://w2eu.net/2012/01/16/lost-at-border-a-journey-to-the-lost-and-the-dead-of-the-greek-borders/

7.  EU pushes ahead with plans for greater law enforcement data access
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/10eu-lea-data-access.htm

8. EU: European Digital Rights (EDRI): EU SURVEILLANCE: A summary of current EU surveillance and security measures (pdf). Excellent briefing:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-surveillance-edri.pdf

9.  EU: FRONTEX: Programme of Work 2012:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-frontex-2012-wp.pdf

10 EU: European Parliament: Minutes: Delegation of 24 November 2011, 25 November 2011 and 26 November 2011 Sicily, Italy (pdf), being discussed at the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) on 25 January 2012: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/ep-delegation-sicily.pdf

12. EU: Eurospooks flourish as Euro flounders - UK may shun monetary cooperation but eager to promote security and intelligence links (Guardian's Defence and Security blog, link) Article by Richard Norton-Taylor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/defence-and-security-blog/2012/jan/24/eu-intelligence-security/print

The article cites the following documents: Draft working method for closer cooperation and coordination in the field of EU security:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-closer-coop-eu-security-cosi-9125-rev3-11.pdf

Strengthening ties between CSDP and FSJ - Elements of a draft Road Map (from the European External Action Service):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-psc-csdp-fsj-15562-11.pdf

13. UK-EU: Statewatch Analysis: The Mother of all Opt-outs? The UK’s possible opt-out from prior third pillar measures in June 2014 by Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-168-eu-uk-opt-out.pdf

14. UP DATE: EU: CRIME STATISTICS: Measuring Crime in the EU: Statistics Action Plan 2011- 2015 (COM 713):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-com-crime-stats-action-plan-com713-12.pdf

15.  Council of Europe: The Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection if individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data [ETS No. 108] (T-PD): Modernisation of Convention 108: new proposals: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/coe-convention-108-revision.pdf

16. EU-USA PNR SCHEME: "the Working Party notes (modest) improvements in the draft agreement, but does not see its serious concerns removed" Article 29 Working Party on data protection: Letter to the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-art-29-wp-dp-eu-usa-pnr-letter.pdf

See also: USA offers an adequate level of protection: this means disproportionate processing, excessive retention, a lack of respect for privacy and minimal accountability (Amberhawk, link):
http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/2012/01/usa-offers-an-adequate-level-of-protection-this-means-disproportionate-processing-excessive-retentio.html

17. UK-FRANCE: Children's Commissioner report: Landing in Dover: The immigration process undertaken by unaccompanied children arriving in Kent:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-childrens-commissioner-landing-in-dover.pdf

See also: Child trafficking victims bounced back to France within hours of arrival in UK - Children's commissioner discovers trafficked minors were sent straight back under 'gentleman's agreement' with France (Guardian, link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/17/child-trafficking-victims-bounced-back/print

18.  EU: Statewatch's In the News Press reports from around the EU - 33 posts in January:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/Newsinbrief.htm

19. EU: Commission still seeking proof of the necessity of mandatory data retention:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/09eu-pnr.htm

"An ongoing campaign by data protection authorities and civil society organisations has attempted to have the Data Retention Directive either severely amended or repealed altogether. However, it seems that the statement of Commissioner Malmström in a December 2010 speech to a consultation workshop on the Directive remains true: "data retention is here to stay". Moreover, judging from the tone of the Commission's note, it is likely to continue to prioritise the requirements of law enforcement authorities over the rights of individuals."

See: Statewatch's Observatory (from 2004 and ongoing): The surveillance of telecommunications in the EU:
http://www.statewatch.org/eu-data-retention.htm

20. FRANCE: Court decision overturns government attempt to deny foreigners' access to lawyers in transit zones
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/03fr-anfe.htm

21.  UK: Kettling protesters is lawful, appeal court rules - Metropolitan police win appeal against high court ruling criticising violent tactics at the G20 protest in 2009 (Guardian, link): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/19/kettling-protesters-lawful-appeal-court/print

and see: Full text of the judgment: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-kettling-judgment-full-text.pdf

22.  UK: BORDER CONTROLS: Home Affairs Select Committee report: UK Border Controls (78 pages):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-hasc-border-controls-preport.pdf

23. UK: PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON JOINT ENTERPRISE: Joint Human Rights Committee: Joint Enterprise: Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-jhrc-joint-enterprise-report-vol1.pdf

Additional evidence: volume 2:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-jhrc-joint-enterprise-report-vol2.pdf

See also: MPs call for new gang murder law (BBC News, link)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16605581?print=true

24. EU: Council of the European Union: Council developing its negotiating position: Amended proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection status (Recast) (166 Pages):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-ir-rights-5168-12.pdf

25. EU: Report of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee(LIBE) on: Summary record of the meeting of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), held in Brussels on 12 January 2012: Includes interesting comments by MEPs on the European Investigation Order in criminal matters.
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-ep-libe-12-jan-12.pdf

26. EU: European Commission: Communication: First Annual Report on the implementation of the EU Internal Security Strategy (COM 790-11):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-iss-1st-report.pdf

27. EU: REGULATION ON ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Report on debate in the European Parliament: Proposal for a Regulation regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (recast) - Outcome of the European Parliament's first reading (Strasbourg, 12 to 15 December 2011):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-access-to-docs-e...

28. UK riots: paratroopers are trained in riot control (Daily Telegraph, link) British troops are being trained in riot control tactics amid fears that violence and looting will return to Britain's streets this summer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9046668/UK-riots-paratroopers-are-trained-in-riot-control.html

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on January 27, 2012 at 10:53

Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment

YOUTUBE LINK: http://bit.ly/xtLouL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDsSiMpsIVQ&list=PL1071FAD6D4559...

 

Featuring:

PROFESSOR JOE SIM, Criminologist – Liverpool John Moores University

DR. BOB JOHNSON, Prison Psychiatrist – Special Unit in HMP Parkhurst

JOE BLACK, Prison Campaigner – Campaign Against Prison Slavery

DR. DAVID SCOTT, Criminologist – University of Central Lancashire

 

Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment provides a detailed, critical analysis of the current legal and justice system generally in operation across the planet whilst also providing potential solutions which work on preventing crime and creating a much more socially sustainable society.

The documentary film consists of interviews with various individuals; all of whom provide information on where we are going wrong when we treat offenders, and what we could head towards in regards to the solutions available.

 

It must be recognised that in order for change to occur in the system of punishment and 'justice', wider societal and cultural issues need to be addressed, as this documentary film recognises that there are inherent flaws in our current social system.

 

Although most sources of information originate from the United Kingdom, it is reasonable to state that the topics examined will apply to many other nations.

 

Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment is an independent film production and that has just been released online for free download and distribution.

 

WWW.NEWFUTUREMEDIA.NET

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on January 19, 2012 at 19:59

 

‎'Race', Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (REPS) PhD symposium - Call for
papers, London, City University 14-15 June 2012

The Sociology Departments of City University, Goldsmiths and the London
School of Economics invite you to participate in the third annual 'Race',
... Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (REPS) PhD symposium. Building on the
success of recent years, the REPS symposium provides a forum for PhD
research students to exchange ideas, present new work, receive constructive
feedback from scholars and work collaboratively with peers across
disciplines and institutions. Leading academics from all three universities
will chair sessions. Past chairs include: Claire Alexander, Les Back,
Chetan Bhatt, Caroline Knowles, Paul Gilroy, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Michael
Keith, Nirmal Puwar, Liza Schuster and John Solomos.

Presentations may be based on recently completed, in progress or planned
research broadly related to issues and debates in 'race', ethnicity and
post-colonial studies, from migration to multiculturalism. The symposium
will be hosted at City University in London and will take place over two
full days: Thursday 14th and Friday 15th June 2012. Participants are
expected to attend both days. Unfortunately abstracts at this time will
only be considered from PhD students registered at London institutions.

The event is free and lunch and refreshments will be provided on both days
however travel and accommodation expenses remain the responsibility of
attendees.

Participants wishing to participate are each given 15 minutes to present
their work. Eligible formats include:

Sole-authored papers; Co-authored papers; Dialogues between two or
more participants around a 'REPS'-themed paper or discussion topic; Film;
Art work; Posters.

Inputs will be clustered into sessions chaired by academics with
opportunities for questions, answers and discussion in a supportive
environment.

The deadline for title, abstracts and short bio (maximum 250 words) is 1 pm
Monday 5th March 2012. Please ensure that the abstract highlights both the
content and format of your input. Applicants will be notified about
acceptance by 5pm on Friday 16th March 2012.

To submit titles and abstracts, or for further information, please contact
the organising committee at mailto: reps.phd@gmail.com

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on January 18, 2012 at 22:55

  'Beyond the Wire': Regulating Division, Conflict and Resistance

 

40^th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

 

5^th - 9^th September 2012

Nicosia, Cyprus

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

This conference aims to explore the complexity of social conflicts and the way in which occupation (military or otherwise) can lead to the marginalisation of identifiable groups of people in societies divided by historical and territorial claims.  It will examine the meaning of going ‘beyond the wire’ or beyond the frontiers of a given conflict.  The conference intends to place deeply embedded social fault lines into context, and specifically to consider their impact on processes of criminalisation, justice and social control.  The conference organisers therefore encourage papers that will analyse social division, conflict and resistance across Europe and beyond.  For example, we welcome consideration of the long term implications of the re-unification of Germany; the consequences for Eastern European nations following the collapse of communist states and the Soviet Union; political and community developments in North of Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement; and the continued conflict in Palestine and resistance of the Palestinian people.

 

The conference will seek to examine the manner in which social divisions and conflicts implicitly or explicitly underpin definitions of ‘crime’, justice, political constructions of order and ideologies of the ‘other’.  In uncertain economic and political times, what will be the impact of profound social divisions on the application of the criminal law?  Will the harms of the powerful, corporations and nation states against humans and non-humans remain relatively invisible and under-enforced? How might current insecurities and inequalities impact on policing conflict, unrest and popular resistance?  Which identifiable groups are being placed ‘beyond the wire’ and how might deepening social divisions impact on the marginalization and criminalisation of children, young people, migrants and minority ethnic groups? What are the dynamics of persistent struggle, criminalisation and social justice in societies transitioning from conflict?

 

 

We welcome papers on a range of issues connected to the theme of ‘Beyond the Wire': Regulating Division, Conflict and Resistance, grouped under the six streams below.

 

Stream	Potential Topics
Social divisions and the application of the criminal law   For further details contact: Athanasios Chouliaras tchouliaras@hotmail.com  and/or Vicky Vasilantonopoulou vickyvassila@hotmail.com	Gendered violence Identity, diversity and criminalisation Gendered perspectives on social and criminal policy The criminalisation of children and young people. Contemporary anatomo-politics and bio-politics (incl. gender, sex and sexualities)
Anti-security     For further details contact: George Rigakos grigakos@connect.carleton.ca and/or Mark Neocleous mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk	Policing disorder Domestic and imperial projects of pacification Police science and political economy Private policing and the commodification of security Warfare in all its guises (class, race, gender)
Eco-global ‘crimes’, harms and abuse and consequences for human and nonhuman individuals and species For further details contact: Ragnhild Sollund ragnhild.sollund@jus.uio.no	Environmental crimes and harms The effects of globalisation on environmental justice and species justice The criminalisation of green and animal rights’ movements
Class, state power and corporate harms   For further details contact: Steve Tombs s.p.tombs@ljmu.ac.uk	Analysing ‘crime’ and harm in late capitalism Corporate crime and financial regulation: private profits, global contexts and consequences Truth, knowledge and the corporate state
The criminalisation and victimisation of migrants and minority ethnic communities  For further details contact: Stratos Georgoulas s.georgoulas@soc.aegean.gr and / or Georgios A. Antonopoulos g.antonopoulos@tees.ac.uk	Border controls and control of migration Explorations of the neo-colonial and post-colonial condition National / transnational exercises of power Mapping the current scientific and technological matrix
Marginalisation, exclusion and social control   For further details contact: Alejandro Forero Cuellar aleforero@ub.edu and /or Andrea Beckmann abeckmann@lincoln.ac.uk	Economic crisis, uprisings and social control Relationship between punishment and economic conditions The ever-expanding prison system Marginalisation in societies divided by history and territorial claims The criminalization of poverty

 

Further details of the conference can be viewed at: www.europeangroup.org

We also welcome papers broadly reflecting the wider interests of the European Group for the Study of Deviancy and Social Control.  If you would like any further information please contact David Scott or Joanna Gilmore at europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com

Abstracts to be submitted by 28 April 2011 to: europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com

Assisted Place

40^th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

 

There will be at least one assisted place at the 2012 European Group Annual Conference. The first assisted place is named in honour of the late Anna Eggert.  Through the years Anna was involved in two main issues: reproductive rights and women's empowerment. She also had a passion for understanding how fascism and racism could take hold of a society.

 

Depending on the nature of applications, we would be looking to bestow the assisted place on one person who meets some / all of the below criteria:

*       Do not have a tenured position in academia or have no means of providing alternative means of support through employment schemes.

*       An MA / PhD student / part time member of staff who is ineligible for university department/school/faculty funding to attend conferences.

*       Are confronted with other significant difficulties which would merit special support to attend the conference.

*      Currently undertaking research or activism in an area that reflects the work of Anna Eggert
*       Planning to deliver a paper at the conference on a theme that reflects the work of Anna Eggert

 

The deadline for applications is the 28^th February 2012.    Those wishing to apply should write a 150-300 word statement in support of their application.  A copy of the conference paper abstract should also be included in the submission.  The conference place is free and the European Group will help support travel and accommodation up to £250 for the assisted place.  If you would like further information please contact:  David Scott dscott@uclan.ac.uk / europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on January 18, 2012 at 22:54

Crime and Conflict Research Centre

 

Middlesex University

Hendon Campus

The Burroughs

London NW4 4BT

UK

 

 

Friday 30 March 2012

 

Day Conference

 

 

The Poverty of Punishment

 

 

 

While it has become increasingly clear that penal policies worldwide are aimed at ‘punishing the poor’, it is also becoming urgent to discuss the ‘poverty of punishment’, namely its debatable utility, official and hidden motivations, social and individual effects and visible dysfunctions.

 

This conference addresses the cultures and philosophies of punishment, which include dreams of socialisation, impulses of revenge, social defence and deterrence. Are we faced with what Nietzsche termed ‘a vulgar substitute for irascibility’? With what Durkheim described as ‘the instinct of vengeance’? Or with what Marx equated with ‘the glorification of the hangman’?

 

 Cultures and philosophies of punishment will be addressed from a variety of angles: the right to rehabilitation, the effectiveness of deterrence, the infliction of pain, the reproduction of crimes and offenders, the warehousing of social problems.

 

The conference will host a photographic exhibition  by Robert Gumpert, who has taken  pictures inside a San Francisco penitentiary, and will be among the invited guests.

 

This is a free event and a detailed programme will be circulated in due course.

 

 

For further information, please contact Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero: V.Ruggiero@mdx.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

Confirmed Speakers

 

 

Frances Crook (Howard League for Penal Reform)

‘Punishing the Poor: The Purpose of the Penal System?’

 

Mick Ryan (Greenwich University)

‘Delivering Pain in the Big Society’

 

Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex University)

‘Cultures of Punishment’

 

Anthony Goodman (Middlesex University)

‘Resettling Offenders in the Community’

 

Joe Sim (Liverpool, John More University)

‘Shock and Awe in the Criminal Justice System: Punishing the Poor after the Riots’

 

Leonidas Cheliotis (Queen Mary, University of London)

‘A Suitable Amount of Rehabilitation: A Critical Look at Arts-in-Prisons Programmes and their Evaluation’

 

Ruth Jamieson (Queen’s University Belfast)

‘Framing Blame and Punishment: Former Politically-Motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland’

Comment by Sacha Darke on January 17, 2012 at 13:00

Expressions of interest –

Convict Criminology and a place for ex-prisoners, prisoners and others

At the 2011 British Society of Criminology annual conference in Newcastle a small group of academics discussed the viability of establishing a Convict Criminology group, modelled loosely on a similar organisation established in the USA. These discussion arose from personal experience of conducting prison research and becoming more aware of the significance of corresponding experiences of ‘doing time’ and ‘crime’ for some of us. It is possible that in the UK the expansion of both University criminology courses and prisons over the last twenty years may have generated an otherwise unlikely convergence of experience that we feel is potentially productive but overlooked and underexplored.

Our intentions at this stage are very open as we don’t want to set fixed and rigid agendas for the potential grouping. We don’t know how many people such a group would appeal to so we are asking readers of this [BSC] newsletter to indicate if they are interested or know of others who may be. The group is not intended to be only for those with prison experiences (i.e. ex-convicts in the US vernacular) and we welcome wider support. Disclosure of any such relevant past is a matter of personal discretion that should be respected by all.  We want to avoid privileging or stigmatising particular convictions or time inside.  Having said that, we don’t think it would be appropriate for ex-prisoners to be a minority in the group. We would thus ask people, when contacting us at this stage to declare an absence of convictions by just putting ‘non-con’ after their name. The last thing we want to do is operate as some kind of reverse CRB vetting procedure but doing so will help us to establish the contours of interest in the group.

Early indications from our own networks are that such a group could be viable and productive. It would deepen and enrich criminology’s perspectives on prison and other forms of criminal sanction by introducing some of those views most commonly excluded and hard to elicit.     

Possible objectives

• Providing support to prisoners and ex-prisoners in establishing themselves as academics in criminology and its cognate disciplines
• Developing critical perspectives on prisons and research with/on prisoners and former prisoners
• Utilising our collective knowledge, experiences and expertise to influence, or at least attempt to influence, policy change through our academic work and connections to advocacy/campaign groups
• Developing strong links with non-statutory sector organisations in the field i.e. penal reform advocacy & campaign groups
• Developing the membership and profile of the group  through organising seminars, guest lectures and conferences
• Sharing experiences and developing ideas that draw from the convergence of academic study of prison and experience of it as a prisoner.

We will try to acknowledge all contacts and, having consolidated them, organise a meeting to discuss how we might develop and guide the group.

We look forward to hearing from you and please pass the word around.

Central contact:   bcc4bcc@hotmail.co.uk

Steering group:

Rod Earle, The Open University, r.earle@open.ac.uk

Sacha Darke, Westminster University, s.darke@westminster.ac.uk

 Andy Aresti, Westminster and Birkbeck, a.aresti@bbk.ac.uk

For the US group see: http://www.convictcriminology.org/

Comment by Sacha Darke on January 17, 2012 at 12:49

Statewatch News Online, 17 January 2012 (1/12)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/
e-mail: office@statewatch.org

1.    EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION DIRECTIVE: Commission Consultation concludes:
      "all Member States - not just a minority – need to provide convincing evidence of the value of data retention for security and criminal justice"
2.    EU: COUNTER-TERRORISM COMES TO SPORT
3.    Spain and France: The ongoing disgrace of detention centres
4.    EU: Statewatch Analysis: A proposal for an EU Immigration Code by Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex
5.    EU: USA INTERVENES IN THE REVISION OF THE DATA PROTECTION DIRECTIVE
6.    FRANCE: Fingerprints and transmission of data: biometrics to protect identity?
7.    EU: European Data Protection Supervisor: EDPS Inventory 2012 of legislative consultations
8.    CANADA: The total surveillance society approaches
9.    UK: London's Westminster Council seeks to prohibit long-term or noisy political protests and ban erection tents
10.  EU: EURO: Draft Agreement dated 10 January 2012
11.  EU-NORTH AFRICA: Statewatch Analysis: The EU’s self-interested response to unrest
12.  EU-ARAB SPRING: Statewatch Analysis: The Arab Spring and the death toll in the Mediterranean
13.  EU: Council of the European Union: Road traffic, Classified Information, plus Criminal law: Right to Information and Access to lawyer
14.  EU: Council of the European Union: Council Presidency: Draft Justice and Home Affairs Agendas
15.  UK: ASSET FREEZING: First Report on the Operation of the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act 2010
16.  EU: Council of the European Union: Prum implementation, EU Crime Survey, EU sanctions and SIS II
17.  UK: Extent of unmanned drone use within UK civil airspace revealed
18.  EU: EURODAC: European Data Protection Supervisor
19.  EU: Council of the European Union: European Investigation Order (EIO)
20.  EU: European Commission: Progress Report on Schengen Information System (SIS II)
21.  UK-EU: European Court of Justice: An asylum seeker may not be transferred to a Member State

1. EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION DIRECTIVE: European Commission Consultation concludes: "all Member States - not just a minority – need to provide convincing evidence of the value of data retention for security and criminal justice":

"there are serious shortcomings with the EU framework – including retention periods, clarity of purpose limitation and scope, lack of reimbursement of cost to industry, safeguards for access and use - which must be addressed. In particular, all Member States - not just a minority – need to provide convincing evidence of the value of data retention for security and criminal justice."

See: Consultation on reform of Data Retention Directive: emerging themes and next steps:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-mand-ret-com-consult-18620-11.pdf

2. EU: COUNTER-TERRORISM COMES TO SPORT: Council of the European Union: Annex to the Handbook for police and security authorities concerning cooperation at major events with an international dimension adopted at the Justice and Home Affairs Council, 13-14 December 2011:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-handbook-security-international-events-16933-rev1-11.pdf

This Annex is added to: Council Recommendation of 6 December 2007 concerning a Handbook for police and security authorities concerning cooperation at major events with an international dimension: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-handbook-police-sec-int-events.pdf

 The Annex embraces:"all participants of such events – sportsmen, spectators, organisers and bystanders" and include some classic statements:

"a terrorist attack is a specific kind of disturbances of public order and thus requires to a large extent different counter-measures than those regarding non-terrorist unlawful acts." and the main traits of sports events is that:

"sports fans who can be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, prone to disturb public order by clashes with fans of opposite teams or to commit other unlawful acts. In such an environment it is relatively easy for a range of extremists or terrorists to blend into the crowd and conduct an attack" and intelligence should be gathered on "groups of radically-oriented individuals pretending to be sports fans" [emphasis added]

and Council of the European Union discusses the legal possibilities for exit, entry and stadium bans for sports fans:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/07eu-com-bans.htm

3. Spain and France: The ongoing disgrace of detention centres
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/06spain-france-detention.htm

"Two reports on detention centres have been published in Spain and France that highlight a situation in which foreigners are experiencing conditions that are often worse than those in prisons as a result of administrative offences (irregular residence) and an aim to maximise the rates of detention and returns. This has led to large-scale violations of human rights and to policies that reduce judicial oversight and the possibility of detained foreigners to effectively exercise their rights through judicial proceedings and access to effective remedies."
 
4. EU: Statewatch Analysis: A proposal for an EU Immigration Code (64 pages, pdf) by Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex: Under the Stockholm Programme the EU is committed to the "“consolidation of all legislation in the area of immigration...to “ensure fair treatment of third country nationals who reside legally on the territory of [the EU’s] Member States”. This substantive text of a Draft Code seeks to contribute to the debate:
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-167-immigration-code-steve-peers.pdf

"Since the existing EU immigration law has often (rightly) been criticised for setting low standards on these issues, the adoption of an immigration Code will be an important opportunity to improve the substance and coherence of that existing law, in order to ensure that it is fair, understandable and transparent....
this Statewatch analysis proposes a complete text of a draft Code [and] is intended as a contribution to the debate about the future proposal for a Code, which aims to raise the substantive standards and improve the procedural rights of legal immigrants, while also making the law simpler and more consistent."

5.  EU: USA INTERVENES IN THE REVISION OF THE DATA PROTECTION DIRECTIVE: The following Note by the USA was sent to the European Commission listing its opposition to key clauses in the draft revision of the Data Protection Directive: Informal Note on Draft EU General Data Proection Regulation (December 2011):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-dp-usa-note.pdf

This was accompanied by a lobbying campaign at the stage of Inter-service consultation within the Commission. It is therefore no surprise to learn that: EU Commission Postpones Publication of Proposal for Revised Data Protection Directive (Privacy and Information Security Law blog, link):
http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2012/01/articles/eu-commission-postpones-publication-of-proposal-for-revised-data-protection-directive/

See also: EDRI comments: US lobbying against draft Data Protection Regulation (link)
http://www.edri.org/US-DPR

The complete the Draft package of three proposals out for Inter-service consultation within the Commission:

- Proposal for Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation): http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/eu-com-draft-dp-reg-inter-service-consultation.pdf

- DATA PROTECTION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES: European Commission draft out for Inter-service consultation: Proposal for a Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of crime: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/ep-dp-leas-draft-directive.pdf

See also: Council Framework Decision on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (pdf) the highly criticised measure which covers the exchange of personal data between EU Member States law enforcement agencies:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/jun/eu-counc-dpfd-final.pdf

See Statewatch's Observatory on data protection in police and judicial matters (2005-2008) and 2011 ongoing:
http://www.statewatch.org/eu-dp.htm

- Communication Communication: Safeguarding Privacy in a Connected World A European Data Protection Framework for the 21st Century (pdf)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/eu-com-draft-dp-communication-28-11-11.pdf

6. FRANCE: Fingerprints and transmission of data: biometrics to protect identity?
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/04fr-id.htm

7.  EU: European Data Protection Supervisor: EDPS Inventory 2012 of legislative consultations: a challenging year ahead for data protection in the EU (Press release):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-edps-2012-inventory-prel.pdf

and Inventory: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-edps-2012-inventory.pdf

8. CANADA: The total surveillance society approaches (Ottawa Citizen, link): "We will soon reach the point where governments will have the capacity, should they wish it, to monitor, record, and permanently archive the communications and activities of their citizens from birth to death:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/story_print.html?id=5898559&sponsor =

See: Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments by John Villasenor (pdf, link):
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/1214_digital_storage_villasenor/1214_digital_storage_villasenor.pdf

9. London's Westminster Council is currently running a consultation on proposed new byelaws that seek to prohibit long-term or noisy political protests. If made law, the draft provisions would ban the erection or keeping of tents "or similar structures", whether for sleeping in or not, as well as permitting "constables and authorised officers" to seize "noise equipment" being used to cause "annoyance":
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/02uk-tents.htm

10. EU: EURO: Draft Agreement dated 10 January 2012:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-pres-new-euro-draft-10-jan-12.pdf

and Draft Agreement from the Danish Council Presidency (5 January 2012):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-pres-new-euro-draft.pdf

See also Statewatch Analysis of previous: Draft Agreement on Reinforced Economic Union (REU Treaty) (pdf) by Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex:
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-164-reu-treaty.pdf

11. EU-NORTH AFRICA: Statewatch Analysis: The EU’s self-interested response to unrest in north Africa: the meaning of treaties and readmission agreements between Italy and north African states by Yasha Maccanico: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-165-eu-north-africa.pdf

"The Italian government and the EU are attempting to urgently re-establish readmission agreements with new regimes in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya with scant regard for the wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers. A ‘state of emergency’ has been declared in Italy which has allowed the government to derogate from certain laws and fast-track the application process."

12.  EU-ARAB SPRING: Statewatch Analysis: The Arab Spring and the death toll in the Mediterranean: the true face of Fortress Europe by Marie Martin:
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-167-arab-spring-med.pdf

13.  EU: Council of the European Union: Road traffic, Classified Information, plus Criminal law: Right to Information and Access to lawyer

- Road traffic: linking the Prum Decision and EUCARIS vehicle database: from the Delegations of Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Poland and Sweden: Implementation of Directive 2011/82/EU of 25 October 2011 facilitating the cross-border exchange of information on road safety related traffic offences (‘CBE Directive’) – the way forward:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-road-traffick-offences-17281-11.pdf

- CLASSIFIED INFORMATION: Draft interinstitutional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council concerning the forwarding to and handling by the European Parliament of classified information held by the Council on matters other than those in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy - Outstanding issues: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-ep-classified-information-18783-11.pdf

- Criminal law:Text of Council and European Parliament 1st reading deal: Proposal for a Directive on the right to information in criminal proceedings - Outcome of the European Parliament's first reading (Strasbourg, 12 to 15 December 2011):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-right-to-information-ep-18410-11.pdf

- Danish Council Presidency re-draft: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and on the right to communicate upon arrest - Revised text: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-access-to-lawyer-18240-11.pdf

14.  EU: Council of the European Union: Council Presidency: Draft Justice and Home Affairs Agendas:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-jhacouncil-draft-agendas-jan-june-12.pdf

and the Danish Council Presidency full programme:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-danish-prog.pdf

15.  UK: ASSET FREEZING: First Report on the Operation of the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act 2010 (Review period: December 2010 to September 2011) by David Anderson Q.C. Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/uk-review-asset-freezing.pdf

See also Commentary: Terrorist asset-freezing: an intrusion too far by Dr Cian Murphy (Human Rights in Ireland, link)
http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2011/12/21/independent-reviewer-report-on-uk-asset-freezing/

16. EU: Council of the European Union: Prum implementation, EU Crime Survey, EU sanctions and SIS II

- PRUM (the automated exchange of personal data on vehicles, fingerprints and DNA): Implementation of the provisions on information exchange of the "Prüm Decisions" - overview of documents and procedures - overview of declarations - state of play of implementation of automated data exchange (pdf) Includes Member State by Member State breakdowns: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-prum-data-exchange-evaluation-6077-rev10-11.pdf

- Implementation of the Prüm Decisions - lessons learned: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-prum-data-exchange-evaluation-lessons-18676-11.pdf

"The implementation of the "Prüm Decisions" turned out to be a complex challenge on different levels.... An increased political will to cope with the Prüm requirements was asked for. However, Member States' meeting the deadline was hampered by domestic issues such as pending legislation, technical concerns or concerns with regard to human or financial resources." [and] "Information exchange for the purpose of EU internal security relies on a panoply of activities which can significantly diverge from one Member State to another."

See  also: Automated searches ("fishing expeditions") may be damaging national police data (Statewatch database):
http://database.statewatch.org/article.asp?aid=29304

and Latest limits placed on automated searches: Implementation of the “Prüm Decisions” regarding fingerprints - Search capacities (EU doc no: 5860/3/10):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/may/eu-fingerprints-info-exhange-prum-5860-rev3-10.pdf

- EU Crime Survey including long list of questions: Proposal for a Regulation on European statistics on safety from crime:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-crime-stat-reg-16920-rev2-11.pdf

- EU Crime Survey: Proposal for a Regulation on European statistics on safety from crime - Summary table: Detailed discussion of the Council's position:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-crime-stats-18952-11.pdf

- European Union autonomous sanctions: - Recommendations for working methods for EU autonomous sanctions (pdf): "Restrictive measures against third countries, individuals or entities are an essential foreign policy tool of the EU."
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-external-sanctions-listings-18920-11.pdf

- SIS II: Questions regarding SIS II which shall be taken into account by the European Commission in its written report to the JHA Council in December 2011 – Follow-up (pdf). The Austrian and German delegations pose a number of question to the Commission on the construction of SIS II and the contract:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-sis-II-questions-18972-11.pdf

17. UK: Extent of unmanned drone use within UK civil airspace revealed: "the market potential on the civil side is considerably larger than the military sector in the long term":  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/01uk-drones.htm

See also: Drone Wars Briefing (pdf, link) by Chris Coles, Drone Wars UK:
http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/drone-wars-briefing-jan2012.pdf

18.  EU: EURODAC: European Data Protection Supervisor: Eurodac Coordinated Supervision Group report on advance deletion (pdf)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2012/jan/eu-council-edps-eurodac-supervision-18885-11.pdf

19.  EU: Council of the European Union: European Investigation Order (EIO): Initiative of Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Austria, Slovenia and Sweden for a Directive regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters - Text agreed as general approach. This is the Council's agreed position before entering 1st reading "trilogue" discussion with the European Parliament: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/eu-council-eio-gen-app-18918-11.pdf

See Statewatch's Observatory on the: European Investigation Order:
http://www.statewatch.org/Targeted-issues/EIO/eio-observatory.htm

20.  EU: European Commission: Progress Report on the development of the Second Generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) January 2011 - June 2011:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/eu-com-sis-II-com-907-11.pdf

21. UK-EU: European Court of Justice: An asylum seeker may not be transferred to a Member State where he risks being subjected to inhuman treatment - EU law does not permit a conclusive presumption that Member States observe the fundamental rights conferred on asylum seekers (Press release):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/uk-eu-ecj-asylum-seekers-transfer-prel.pdf

and Judgment - full-text: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/dec/uk-eu-ecj-asylum-seekers-transfer-judgment.pdf

See also: Home Office loses legal battle over asylum seekers - European court rules that asylum seekers cannot be removed to other EU countries if they risk being treated 'inhumanely' (Guardian, link): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/21/home-office-loses-asylu...

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on January 14, 2012 at 20:48

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