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Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on January 14, 2012 at 20:47

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 November 25, 2011 at 13:59

 

          '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 Sacha Darke on November 2, 2011 at 10:34

Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones

http://gu.com/p/3327k

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on November 2, 2011 at 9:57

 

Women Working Worldwide PT Finance Worker November, 2011

 

 

Women Working Worldwide (WWW), a small women’s labour rights NGO, is looking for a part-time, temporary finance and administration worker beginning mid-November, 2011.  The post is for 8 hours weekly at £12.50 per hour and the work will take place over a 10-week period.  The post is based at All Saints site, Manchester Metropolitan University; applicants should be available for at least one afternoon (Monday-Thursday) weekly. 

The job requires some administrative experience, an eye for detail, excellent written English, and preferably, familiarity with developing country contexts.  Experience with financial processing is highly desirable. 

 

For further details and a job description, please contact Jessica Mock (Secretary, WWW) at jessmock@yahoo.com.   To apply for this post, please send a CV outlining relevant experience, education, training etc with  names and contacts of at least one and if possible, two referees and a short covering letter.

   

The due date for applications is midnight Monday, 7^th November, 2011.    Interviews will be held on Friday 11^th November

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on November 2, 2011 at 9:56

“I have been a patron of INQUEST’s for twenty years and really appreciated the importance of their service when my family needed their ongoing help after our relative died.” Benjamin Zephaniah

Listen to Benjamin Zephaniah’sa target="_blank" href="https://mail.uclan.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=4676c405ab454c73aab5a4755521765d&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.benjaminzephaniah.com%2f">http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/> BBC Radio 4 fundraising appeal for INQUEST on Sunday 6 November 2011 at 7.55 and 21:26 and repeated on Thursday 10 November at 15:27.

The BBC’s UK-wide broadcast appeals are made weekly on BBC Radio 4 (92-95 FM, 198 LW).

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on November 2, 2011 at 9:53

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Law, Faculty of Public Affairs

Deadline for application:  Dec.1, 2011

The Department of Law, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Legal Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 1^st 2012.

Candidates should hold a doctoral degree, or the equivalent, in legal studies, law or a related discipline and demonstrate a capacity for theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching.  The successful candidate will have the ability to develop an externally-funded, high quality research program; will be committed to effective teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level; and will contribute effectively to the academic life of the Department.

Pursuant to the Department’s launch of a Ph.D. programme starting September 2011 we invite applications from qualified candidates in the field of “Law, Regulation and Governance,” one of the Ph.D. fields of concentration. This field focuses on the historical and contemporary place of law and regulation in the processes, discourses, knowledges and practices of governance. Emphasis is placed on investigating law and state as distinct sources of regulation, while examining wider forms of domestic and global governance. Particular focus is placed on the diversity of law-governance relationships both within and between regulatory regimes.  For this position the Department is particularly interested in scholars who explore the way such relations are mediated through the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Aboriginal Rights, Administrative Law, or other areas of public legal regulation.

We are particularly interested in applicants who are able to contribute to one of Carleton’s strategic themes, namely Sustainability and the Environment, Health, New Digital Media, and Global Identities and Globalization, or the inclusion of Aboriginal worldviews.

The Department of Law is the home of the oldest and largest undergraduate and graduate programs in Legal Studies in Canada. The Department emerged in 1967 as the first unit in Canada to study law with multidisciplinary academic concerns in mind. The Department offers a B.A. & B.A. (Honours) in Law to over 1000 students within the Faculty of Public Affairs and includes concentrations in Human Rights & Transnational Law, Business Law, and Law, Policy and Government among its undergraduate programs.  The Department of Law is committed to interdisciplinary legal inquiry and is composed of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary teaching and research from a range of disciplines including criminology, history, law, legal anthropology, political economy, political theory, mass communications and sociology.  The Department currently offers a B.A. in Law and a M.A. and Ph.D in Legal Studies.

Applicants should send a cover letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a teaching portfolio, including evidence of teaching performance, or a statement of teaching philosophy, and have three referees forward supporting letters to: Chair, Department of Law c/o Joan Thompson, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6. a target="_blank" href="https://mail.uclan.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=4676c405ab454c73aab5a4755521765d&URL=mailto%3aJoan_Thompson%40carleton.ca" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; color: #21769b; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Joan_Thompson@carleton.ca>

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on October 28, 2011 at 15:59

Dear All,

Joanna Gilmore has just updated the new European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control mailing list.  The new email list is linked-in with a Seattle-based organisation called 'Riseup' which we think fits very well with the ethos of the European Group ( for more information about rise-up please see https://help.riseup.net/en/about-us).

We currently have over 700 members on our mailing list.  It is now possible for anyone to ask to join our mailing list, so anyone on crimspace who would like to engage further with the European Group please go to our link on rise-up.

 

To contact members of the European Group please send your email to europeangroup@lists.riseup.net. Your email will be circulated automatically to the full list of European Group members.

 

If you would like to get in touch with the European Group Co-ordinator (David Scott) or European Group Secretary (Joanna Gilmore) please email us at:

europeangroupcoordinator@gmail.com

You can find out more about the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and our recent activity, conferences, and theoretical and political priorities at the following:

Website: http://www.europeangroup.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/105017501664/
Twitter: @european_group

 

Best wishes

David

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on October 10, 2011 at 18:56

The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control also has a page on 'Twitter'.  Our name is european_group.

David

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on October 6, 2011 at 13:54

 

There will be at least one assisted place at the 40th Annual Conference of the European Group. The first assisted place is named in honour of the late Anna Eggert, who died earlier this year.  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

Comment by Dr David Gordon Scott on October 6, 2011 at 11:54

 

The next three conference of the European Group

 

40th Annual Conference of the European Group - September 5th - 9th, 2012, Nicossia, Cyprus

 

41st Annual Conference of the European Group [marking 40 years] - August, 2013, Oslo, Norrway

 

42nd Annual Conference of the European Group - August, 2014, Liverpool, England

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