European Group for the Study of Deviance & Social Control

Our latest newsletter is available to download here. This month, David Scott discusses the problem of ‘criminal injustice’ and the urgent need to challenge it through radical interventions grounded in the principles of social justice. Please note that the final deadline to send in abstracts and register for this year's conference is 31st May. 

Please click here for our April newsletter. This month, Rachel Seoighe  discusses the United Kingdom’s removal practices with respect  to failed asylum seekers.

Our latest newsletter is available to download here. This month, we include a thought-provoking article on the democratic reform of the police by George Rigakos and Georgios Papanicolaou, as well as information about the very first study day organised by our new working group on Crimes of the Powerful.

Sarah Tickle reports on the policing and regulation of young people in the UK and Melanie Griffiths

Includes summaries of presentations delivered at the Sites of Confinement II Study Day organised by the Prisons, Punishment and Detention Working Group. Belinda Carpenter and Gordon Tait investigate death amongst vulnerable and marginalised populations and Carly Speed looks at degradation and death in psychiatric detention in England and Wales. Vicky Canning, organiser and coordinator of the working group, contributes a conference report. Download here. 

Agnieszka Martynowicz revisits the pains of confinement. John Moore contributes a report from the Civilising Criminal Justice Seminar held at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam on 14th October. Download here.

This month's edition includes the conference and AGM reports from our latest conference in Liverpool, a transcript of Thomas Mathiesen’s special talk to conference delegates via video conference, and a summary of Elizabeth Agnew’s paper on sexual crime discourses. Download here.

Special edition including a selection of thought-provoking papers from our very first undergraduate and post-graduate conference held at Liverpool John Moores University in April 2014. In the 'news' section, Stratos Georgoulas reflects on the rise of Golden Dawn in Greece, and David Scott provides an account of the most recent G4S AGM. Download here.