European Group for the Study of Deviance & Social Control

This April Newsletter brings you two articles by us, Ida and Per. In our articles we intend to focus on both science and criminal justice’s inclination of producing the "other".

Per’s article focus on the interrelationship between the birth of a science on crime and the criminal and the gothic imagination of the nineteenth century.

Just a couple of days ago people rallied to denounce US gun legislation. Marching under the banner March for Our Lives, this has been described as a peaceful protest for change and against school gun violence. The responses in the press and social media, even from political opponents as of now has been to praise the fact that the rallies seems to have all been conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner. However, what if March for Our Lives had not been so ‘peaceful’ and ‘orderly’? What might some of the responses have been then?

In this months newsletter excerpts from brand new anthology on prisons.

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In this months newsletter you will find news from EG working groups as well as exciting new research on legal aid in the Nordic countries.

You will find the newsletter following this link