EUROPEAN GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS I. European Group 42nd Call for Papers Conference Confirmed Speakers Conference Fees Assisted Places

II. Comment and Analysis Constance Lytton: Living for a Cause David Scott and Faith Spear

III. In Memoriam William Chambliss Stuart Hall Keith Soothill

IV. European Group News First EG Undergraduate conference 2015 annual EG conference EG Secretary change of address Recent publications by Group Members Call for Papers (Newsletter) British/Irish Section Conference

V. News from Europe and around Australia the World Europe France Ireland Norway Portugal UK USA

I. European Group Conference

Resisting the Demonisation of ‘the Other’: State, Nationalism and Social Control in a Time of Crisis 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control 3rd - 6th September, 2014 Liverpool United Kingdom

CALL FOR PAPERS Six years into the financial crisis that began to unfold in 2008, we have witnessed a renewed politics of ‘the Other’. Processes of exclusion have intensified due to the onslaught of ruthless welfare reforms, mass unemployment and enforced poverty. The increasing evidence of hostility towards people considered as ‘the Other’ is further evidenced by the mobilisation of the far right across Europe. Meanwhile, activists and anti-capitalists are increasingly targeted for criminalisation and placed under surveillance. Systems of social control – including both formal mechanisms such as policing and prisons and informal mechanisms, such as those organised by voluntary organisations – are in a period of perpetual crisis: as punitive responses intensify, the poor and the unemployed are responsibilised for their own poverty. Anti-immigration policies, housing repossessions, and forced debt repayment have revealed new forms of state violence and have intensified processes of othering and exclusion. At the same time, the crisis has strengthened institutional practices widening class, gender, age and racialised inequalities whilst the impunity of powerful elites is sustained. This conference calls for papers exploring the demonisation of ‘the Other’ in our time of economic, political and social crises. How can we most effectively challenge the growing reach of social control apparatus and the rise of right wing extremism in Europe and beyond? What are the factors contributing to growing social and economic inequalities and their collateral consequences? How can we best promote principles of social justice, tolerance and social inclusion in times of crisis? How can academics most effectively make connections with grass roots resistance movements? What alternative values, principles and policies should be promoted? We particularly welcome papers focussing upon 'race', especially regarding the intersections between racism, sexism, classism and national identity and papers exploring the relationship between imperialism, sovereignty and processes of Othering. We are also keen to invite activist groups and social movements to present and participate in this conference. We welcome papers on the themes below which reflect the general values and principles of the European Group. Processes of Othering  Fortress Europe and the reinforcement of immigration controls Contact: Vicky Canning  The persecution and exclusion of minority Email: [email protected] groups  The rise of the far right in Europe and beyond  Immigration and the ‘war on terror’  The ‘other’ in divided societies Social control in a time of  Welfare and social control crisis  Policing and the crisis  Prisons in the age of austerity Contact: Vickie Cooper  Surveillance technologies and CCTV Email:  Decarceration and abolitionist critiques [email protected]  Futures of social control  Volunteers and the managerial state

Sovereignty, imperialism,  Racism and the State nationalism and racism  The return of imperialism  The meaning of sovereignty Contact: Giles Barrett  Explorations of the neo-colonial / post- Email: colonial condition [email protected]  Sectarianism  The different manifestations of nationalism (from racism to welfare nationalism) The harms of neoliberal  The social and environmental consequences of capitalism capitalism and consumerism  The harms of the powerful Contact: David Scott  State violence Email: [email protected]  The responsibilisation of the powerless Exclusion, marginalisation  The demonisation and punishment of children and criminalisation and young people  The criminalisation of poverty Contact: Helen Monk  Gendered critiques of the application of Email: [email protected] criminal law and criminal /social policy  Gendered violence  Violence against women  Identity, diversity and criminalisation  The regulation of ‘sexuality’ Resistance and radical  Moving beyond criminology towards a social alternatives harm approach to deviance  Radical alternatives and struggles for social Contact: Jim Hollinshead justice Email:  Universities and local activism [email protected]  The othering of radical activism  Resistance and the view from below

Further information on the 42nd annual conference may be found at http://www.europeangroup.org. Please submit all abstracts by 31st May2014 to the email contact provided under the stream you wish to present at. For all general enquiries please contact Anne Hayes at [email protected].

Confirmed speakers: Paul Gilroy, Jo Phoenix, Joe Sim

Costs: £ €* Full delegate fee including 4 nights’ accommodation and conference 340 412 dinner Full delegate fee including 3 nights’ accommodation and conference 290 350 dinner Full delegate fee including conference dinner 145 175 Full delegate fee 105 127 Unwaged fee 35 42 *€ prices are quoted at time of publication. These are subject to change according to fluctuating exchange rates A link to the website for booking will be published here soon.

Assisted Places Please note that there will be at least one assisted place available for the conference. The conference place is free and the European Group will help support travel and accommodation up to €250 for the assisted place. Depending on the nature of applications, we will bestow the assisted place on one person who meets some / all of the below criteria: * Does not have a tenured position in academia or has 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. * Is confronted with other significant difficulties which would merit special support to attend the conference. * Is currently undertaking research or activism in an area that reflects the themes and values of the European Group The deadline for applications is 1 st April 2014. 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. Please address applications to both Vicky Cooper (conference organiser) [email protected] and Emma Bell [email protected] II. Comment and analysis

Vision is often personal, but a cause is bigger than any one individual People don’t generally die for a vision, but they will die for a cause Vision is something you possess, a cause possess you Vision doesn’t eliminate the options; a cause leaves you without any options A good vision may out live you, but a cause is eternal Vision will generate excitement, but a cause generates power [Adapted from Houston (2001)]

In Prisons and Prisoners: Some personal experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, published 100 years ago this month in March 1914, Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton presented one of the most significant challenges to 20th Century anti-suffrage politics. In so doing she put herself forward as a “champion of women” (Lytton, 1914) in the hope that one day women would attain political equality with men.1 Prisons and Prisoners is a comprehensive and at times a harrowing personal account of her four prison sentences as a militant suffragette. The book is a compelling insight into the mind of a young woman consumed by a cause which would prove to be instrumental in prison reform and votes for women, as well as tragically being a contributory factor to her death.

Desperate to find some way of empathising with the other suffragettes, Constance Lytton had a desire to stand beside those who were fighting. She was with them not as a ‘spare part’ but as a comrade. Most famously, to avoid receiving special treatment and privileges as a result of her family connections, she took on the guise of ‘Jane Warton’ and in so doing personally experienced the horrors of prison, including force-feeding. Although her health suffered, her story is one which shows courage, determination and an undeniable dedication to equality and justice (Lytton, 1914).

Concentrating attention on political injustice and votes for women, Constance Lytton brought notice to class and gender disparities in punishment and the struggles for the rights of women, always maintaining that the suffragette's militant actions were political rather than criminal. This all from a woman that described herself as having an exaggerated dislike of society and of publicity in any form and yet remarkably was at the same time a militant suffragette who took part in deputations to Parliament and prolonged periods of penal incarceration (Lytton, 1914; Haslam, 2008).

Lady Constance Lytton is not the only woman from a privileged background who has written about her prison experiences. The famous Irish rebel, Countess Constance Georgine Markievicz (1927/1973), most well known for her participation in the 1916 Easter rising, wrote extensively about her time in prison. Indeed, her prison letters were published to huge acclaim and are still considered today to be of great political significance. In more recent times – October 2013 – Vicky Pryce, former joint head of the UK's government economic service, published her account of her three and a half days incarcerated in HMP Holloway (12th-15th March 2013) and eight weeks in HMP East Sutton Park Open Prison (15th March – 12th May 2013).2 Her book, Prisonomics, which ultimately seeks to predicate penal change on an economic rationale rather than on humanitarian concerns, has not been so well received. The reaction is partly because it cannot be considered as representative of the lived realities of most women in prison,3 partly because of the privileged status

1For further details, see Lytton (1909). 2HMP East Sutton Park is a Grade II listed 16th Century building. 3Criticism includes the limited time she spent inside and her social background before and after prison. she was accorded inside prison and the vast economic resources at her disposal,4 and partly because of the support she was given in writing the book and her failure to identify closely with the painful realities of other prisoners.5 Yet perhaps the most damning indictment comes when the book is compared to the prison writings of people like Countess Constance Markievicz or Lady Constance Lytton, for then it becomes evident just what is missing from Prisonomics.

Lytton’s experiences of imprisonment After being arrested for being part of a deputation marching to Downing Street on 24 th February 1909, Constance Lytton was sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment in HMP Holloway. In Prisons and Prisoners, she provides extraordinarily rich descriptions of prison conditions, daily routine, fellow prisoners and prison wardresses in Holloway prison at that time. Although initially held in the hospital wing because of her poor health, following acts of resistance which in effect amounted to self-harm, she was allowed to join other prisoners on ‘the other side’ in the main wings (Lytton, 1914). She had a brilliant eye for detail and provides a number of clear and vivid accounts of sometimes overlooked aspects of prison life. For example, she describes how her prison clothes, with broad arrows stamped over them, were often ill-fitting, stained, unironed and looking unwashed even after they had been to the laundry. Further, the poor design and cut of her prison shirt was not just uncomfortable but so bad it “looked like the production of a maniac” whilst her prison shoes were too small and painful to walk in (Lytton, 1914). The prison cells were small, bitterly cold and poorly ventilated, making it hard for prisoners to breathe, never mind stay warm. Beds were uncomfortable whilst pillows were “stuffed with thunder”, making sleep and rest difficult under the best of circumstances and, when compounded by noise, impossible (Lytton, 1914).

In Prisons and Prisoners Constance Lytton draws the reader’s attention to the lack of privacy, including the ironies of being in so many ways alone in prison yet at the same time not having the opportunity to retreat to a private space of one’s own. She recounts the monotony of prison daily routine where days collapse into each other and the general dragging of time engenders feelings of wastefulness. She complains about the rigid enforcement of petty rules and the judgemental opinions of wardresses which make prisoners feel like they belong to “a race apart” (Lytton, 1914). Insightfully, Constance Lytton also recognised the difficulties wardresses had in understanding how the pains of imprisonment shape prisoners’ experiences, for such things the prison official can only “witness without sharing them” (Ibid). She rightly concludes that this results in a general failure on the part of prison officials to correctly read the feelings, meanings and actions of those they detain.

Constance Lytton acknowledged that her prison experience was mitigated somewhat by who she was. Despite the poor conditions she encountered, some improvements had been made on her arrival, including the supply of knives and forks which had not been available to prisoners in Holloway before her time there. As perhaps only an aristocrat would, she yearned for an authentic prison experience, and noted how other women prisoners seemed dejected, lifeless, listless, detached from each other and haunted by their own suffering, anxiety and bitterness (Lytton, 1914). On a number of occasions in her reflections on her time in Holloway prison, she uses her pen to poetically describe the abnormality, pain, sadness and venomous nature of penal incarceration, leaving the reader in no doubt of her repugnance of the penal machinery and its inevitably destructive results.

4 Undoubtedly relationships were distorted as both fellow prisoners and prison officers knew who she was and that she writing a book. She also brought more than £1490 in cash into prison. This level of economic resource can be contrasted to that of ordinary prisoners whose weekly wage is around £10-£15. 5 Four researchers were paid to collect data for part two of the book; much of the book refers to life outside the prison; and whilst she writes about ‘lovely’ people, things and places (i.e. pages 49, 68, 74, 79, 98) and ‘kindnesses’ (i.e. pages 18, 42, 84), she distances herself from acknowledging painful prison realities. The prison from here looks like a great hive of human creeping things impelled to their joyless labours and unwilling seclusion by some hidden force, the very reversal of the natural, and which has in it no element of organic life, cohesion, or self-sufficing reason. A hive of hideous purposes from which flows back day by day into the surrounding stream of evil honey, blackened in the making and poisonous in result. The high central tower seemed to me a jam pot, indicative of the foul preserve that seethed within this factory for potting human souls (Lytton, 1914).

Despite all the bleakness of the prison experience, Constance Lytton emphasised above all else those moments when humanity and the human spirit were able to overcome the brutal indifference characterising daily prison routines. She writes about the kindness and compassion of other women prisoners (especially other suffragettes) and the brief glimpses of humanity that she saw hiding behind the “masks” worn by wardresses when performing their duties (Lytton, 1914). Indeed, for her such “rare occasions of gladness outweigh from their importance the much more numerous experiences of gloom, anxiety, anger and physical suffering” (Ibid). Yet she never became blinded by these brief moments of “gladness”, keeping her sights firmly upon carefully describing the “nightmare of horror” of HMP Holloway and a dehumanising system which trapped both prisoners and wardresses (Ibid).

Shortly after her release from Holloway prison, Constance Lytton was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for a second time, on this occasion on Saturday 9th October, 1909 for throwing a stone at the car of Sir Walter Runciman in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Once imprisoned, she immediately went on hunger strike at HMP Newcastle. Although refusing medical examination, her health condition was still officiously checked and, after abstaining from eating food for three of the days into her one month sentence (Monday 11th – Wednesday 13th October, 1909), she was released. Her release was ordered – according to Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone – because of concerns regarding her heart condition. Unlike working class women suffragettes on hunger strike in prisons, the aristocrat Constance Lytton had not been force-fed. The belief that her class background had shaped her treatment in prison led to a fundamental change in her tactics.

‘Jane Warton, Spinster’ and Walton Prison The writings of Lady Constance Lytton on Holloway and Newcastle prisons are undoubtedly worthy of commemoration in their own right, but what she did next was truly remarkable, making Prisons and Prisoners one of the most unique prisoner autobiographies ever written. After hearing about the force-feeding of a working class suffragette of her acquaintance, Miss Selina Martin, and another named Miss Leslie Hall, while on remand at Walton Prison in Liverpool, Constance Lytton hatched a plan that would entail, if necessary, “sharing the fate of these women” (Lytton, 1914). Her intention was to transcend her class background in an attempt to understand the lived experiences of working class women prisoners. In so doing, she hoped to express political solidarity with the suffering of less fortunate others and to use her own frail body as the central way of achieving this.

Whilst visiting Manchester in early January 1910, she disguised herself with a most ridiculous hair- cut, cheap glasses and even cheaper clothes and then rejoined the WSPU[Women’s Social and Political Union] as ‘Jane Warton, Spinster’ (Lytton, 1914). She had chosen her new name carefully: the first name was taken from Jeanne of Arc (Jeanne is translated as either Joan or Jane) whilst the surname was derived from her relatives the ‘Warburtons’ but shortened to ‘Warton’ to appear more ordinary. She hoped the real meaning of her name ‘Jane Warton’ would give her strength in what she anticipated would be difficult times ahead (Ibid). ‘Jane Warton’ was subsequently arrested on Friday 14th January 1910 after participating in a protest march about the force-feeding of working class women suffragettes like Selina Martin in Walton prison. ‘Jane Warton’ started her hunger strike in the police cells that Friday evening, a couple of days before she was to begin her sentence at Walton Prison. Just as she had done so under her real name, when in prison ‘Jane Warton’ refused medical examinations. There was, however, to be no further investigation into the health of working class suffragette ‘Jane Warton’ and 89 hours into her hunger strike, force-feeding began. Between Tuesday 18th and Saturday 22nd January 1910, ‘Jane Warton’ was to have liquidised food poured into a tube forced into her stomach through her mouth on eight separate occasions.

At 6.00pm, Tuesday 18th January1910 her first force-feeding started. The medical officer and five wardresses entered her cell with the “feeding apparatus” (Lytton, 1914). There was no attempt to medically examine ‘Jane Warton’ and the half-hearted made attempts by the medical officer to induce her to eat unsurprisingly failed.

I offered no resistance to being placed in position, but lay down voluntarily on the plank bed. Two of the wardresses took hold of my arms, one held my head and one my feet. One wardress helped to pour the food. The doctor leant on my knees as he stooped over my chest to get at my mouth. I shut my mouth and clenched my teeth... The sense of being overpowered by more force than I could possibly resist was complete, but I resisted nothing except with my mouth… He seemed annoyed at my resistance and he broke into a temper as he plied my teeth with the steel implement… He said if I resisted so much with my teeth, he would feed me through the nose. The pain of it was intense and at last I must have given way for he got the gag between my teeth, when he proceeded to turn it much more than necessary until my jaws were fastened wide apart, far more than they could go naturally. Then he put down my throat a tube which seemed to me much too wide and was something like four feet in length. The irritation of the tube was excessive. I choked the moment it touched my throat until it had gone down. Then the food was poured in quickly; it made me sick a few seconds after it was down and the action of the sickness made my body and legs double up, but the wardresses instantly pressed back by back and the doctor leant on my knees. The horror of it was more than I can describe. I was sick over the doctor and wardresses and it seemed a long time before they took the tube out (Lytton, 1914).

When the force-feeding was over the doctor slapped ‘Jane Warton’ on the cheek and left her cell (Ibid).

I could not move, and remained there in what, under different conditions, would have been an intolerable mess. I had been sick over my hair, which, though short, hung on either side of my face, all over the wall near my bed, and my clothes seemed saturated with it, but the wardresses told me they could not get me a change that night as it was too late, the office was shut. I lay quite motionless, it seemed paradise to be without the suffocating tube, without the liquid food going in and out of my body and without the gag in my teeth… Before long I heard the sounds of forced feeding in the cell next to mine. It was almost more than I could bare (Ibid).

‘ Jane Warton’ continued to vomit following being force-fed on further occasions (Ibid). Her physical frailty was noted by the medical officer but remarkably when her heart was checked by a junior doctor, he exclaimed “Oh ripping, splendid heart! You can go on with her” (Ibid). From her fourth to eighth feedings the doctor and wardresses were more gentle, for they had realised that ‘Jane Warton’ was someone else in disguise, even though they remained unsure of her true identity. Her physical and emotional strength was virtually broken and at her feeding on Friday 21st she was “convulsed with sobs” (Ibid). Following outside intervention from her family, she was released from HMP Walton on the morning of Sunday 23rd January 1910.

Writing, reception and legacy of ‘Prisons and Prisoners’ When Constance Lytton (‘Jane Warton’) was finally released from Walton prison on 23rd January, a major political scandal immediately followed. The then Home Secretary, Herbert Gladstone, claimed that ‘Lady Constance Lytton’ had been released from Newcastle prison when she went on hunger strike because she had heart disease, yet in her guise as ‘Jane Warton’ had been subjected to force-feeding and was released due to “loss of weight and general physical weakness”(Lytton, 1914; Haslam, 2008). Before Constance Lytton, some 35 other women suffragettes had been force- fed whilst on hunger strike, but none of these suffragettes were members of the ruling elite and their sufferings during force-feedings had largely been ignored. Lady Constance Lytton’s treatment as ‘Jane Warton’ by contrast was a major political embarrassment, although the extent of the fall-out from her revelations and the concerted petitioning of her brother and sisters remain unclear. Although Herbert Gladstone ended his tenure as Home Secretary shortly after the release of ‘Jane Warton’, it is debatable whether the two events were linked.6 The personal consequences for Constance Lytton of her ‘force-feeding’, sadly, are undoubted. Following her release, she was confined to her bed for six weeks because her heart was so weak, and in the autumn of 1910 a heart seizure temporarily paralysed her. Her health never fully recovered and although the initial paralysis eased, two more years of suffering from heart seizures followed (Lytton, 1914).

Remarkably, Constance Lytton somehow found the passion and energy to continue, as by this time she had personal insight complete with understanding, but most of all a strategy, and yet again she was arrested and sent to Holloway between 21st - 28th November 1911. Although the sentence was for a month, members of her family paid the requisite sum for her release and so she served one week only. Tragedy was to strike on 5th May 1912, when Constance Lytton suffered a stroke. In Prisons and Prisoners she wrote:

… had a stroke and my right arm was paralysed; also, slightly my right foot and leg. I was taken from my flat to my sister’s house … from that day I have been incapacitated from working for the Women’s Social and Political Union, but I am with them still with my whole soul (Lytton, 1914).

This remarkable and courageous woman wrote her book Prisons and Prisoners with her left hand as a result of the paralysis. She spent the final years of her life (1912-1923) an invalid at Knebworth, cared for by her mother and hired nurses, one of which she closely befriended. As the Letters of Constance Lytton, selected and arranged by Betty Balfour (Lytton, 1925) published posthumously in 1925 indicate, Constance Lytton was a prolific letter writer prior to her stroke in 1912, but following this was able to write only very few personal letters, showing us just how much of a struggle it must have been to write Prisons and Prisoners with her left hand. Christabel Pankhurst on 20th March 1914 wrote “Prisons and Prisoners is in itself a triumph of will – a great conquest of the spirit over bodily infirmity”. Indeed it was.

The story of Constance Lytton as detailed by her own hand, and that of others, caught the imagination of both her peers and fellow suffragettes. Her story was first to come out in a fictionalised form, as a thinly disguised character in the classic Gertrude Colmore (1911) novel Suffragette Sally.7 Her struggle also had a far reaching effect on legislation. This can be illustrated

6For discussion on this see Haslam (2008). 7 For further details on this classic text see Lee (2008). by the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge of Ill Health) Act, which became known as the Cat and Mouse Act. It was rushed through parliament in 1913 to allow the discharge of hunger-striking suffragettes from prisons as a response to growing public disquiet about the use of forcible feeding. This Act allowed for the early release of prisoners who were so weakened by hunger striking that they were at risk of death. However, they were to be recalled to prison once their health was recovered, when the process would begin again. Though hardly a victory, political pressure continued to mount and finally, in Constance Lytton’s lifetime, propertied women aged over 30 got the vote1918.8

As a consequence of her actions ‘for this cause’ (Houston, 2001), Constance Lytton had many that were grateful for the sacrifice she gave. Below are some of the many testimonies:

The Outlook (28th January 1910) “Whenever the annals of the human race are preserved, this deed of hers will be treasured up as a priceless possession”

Emmeline Pethick Lawrence (28th January 1910) “[her act] will be written in letters of gold upon the tables of human history”

Mrs Coombe Tennant, (visiting justice, 1925, cited in Balfour, 1925) “prisons today are different from what they would have been had she not gone down into hell.”

Constance Lytton died at the age of 54. At her funeral Emmeline Pethick Lawrence placed a palm leaf on the casket, with the statement: Dearest Comrade – You live always in the hearts of those who love you and live forever in the future race which inherits the new freedom you gave your life to win (cited in Miles and Williams, 1999).

Critical appraisal When looking back at Prisons and Prisoners 100 years on, it is clear that the book is not only an important historical artefact in terms of publicising the struggle for women’s equality but also a remarkable testimony of one women’s experience of imprisonment. Prisons and Prisoners provides insights neglected by some penological narratives of that time and directly contradicts official reports and documents – most famously those of then Home Secretary, Herbert Gladstone (see Haslam, 2008). Undoubtedly, Prisons and Prisoners continues to humanise prison studies and to enrich understandings of prison life, both past and present. It also provides an antidote for those drawn to the publicity-craving celebrity autobiographies of the political elite imprisoned for their own corruption. When contrasting Constance Lytton’s Prisons and Prisoners with the more recent Prisonomics by Vicky Pryce (2013) it seems the two books provide almost a mirror image of each other. Prisons and Prisoners is a personally courageous attempt to uncover the terrible truth regarding the experiences of both ordinary prisoners and suffragettes. Deeply connected to radical suffragette politics, the book questions imprisonment because it is a dehumanising environment creating unnecessary human suffering. In comparison Prisonomics central focus is upon the economic, rather than human, costs of penal incarceration. But what distinguishes the two books more than anything else is the political commitments of the authors to their given cause. Whereas a strong commitment to her cause is evident in nearly every act undertaken by Constance Lytton as described in her autobiography it is noticeable in the main through its absence in the writings of Vicky Pryce. As such it is difficult to imagine commemorating the publication of Prisonomics in the next century.

8The struggle for the vote for working class women continued until 1928, after Constance Lytton had died. Nonetheless Prisons and Prisoners, and what it attempted to achieve, is also not without difficulties. Despite her best efforts, it was always an impossible ambition for Constance Lytton to entirely transcend class boundaries and gain an experience that could reflect the lived realities of ordinary women prisoners. Even as ‘Jane Warton’ she could never experience the restricted choices and power-differentials shaping pre- and post -incarceration for working class women offenders. Her understanding of working class women in prison was always informed by a pastoral and maternal ideology rather than by an ideology of political emancipation and resulted in a tone which in the main sought to foster sympathy for prisoners through their ‘victimhood’ rather than actualising change motivated by an understanding of prisoners as free-willed autonomous agents. Consequently, whereas suffragette women prisoners (Constance Lytton included) are presented as engaging in acts of resistance, working class criminal women prisoners are constructed as passive and unable to fight back against penal oppression (Lytton, 1914).

Furthermore, Constance Lytton made little progress in providing a platform from which the actual voices of either working class women suffragettes or ‘ordinary’ prisoners could be heard, although her stroke and subsequent paralysis in 1912 may have made such endeavours physically impossible. Nevertheless, in Prisons and Prisoners and in the wider writings of Constance Lytton (Lytton, 1909, 1910a, 1910b), we only ever hear her privileged voice and significant though this is, it can only provide us with a partial narrative of that historical moment. Despite these concerns, the courage, bravery and commitment of Constance Lytton to expose the brutal treatment of working class women in prison, whatever the cost to her fragile health, must be recognised for the heroism it undoubtedly was. It represents a victory of the human spirit over what appear to be insurmountable odds and, 100 years on, is a story that can inspire those working against dehumanisation and for human equality in all of its rich and wonderful diversity.

References

Balfour, B (1925) “Introduction” in Lytton, C. (1925) Letters of Constance Lytton, selected and arranged by Betty Balfour London: Heinemann Gertrude Colmore (1911) Suffragette Sally Toronto: Broadview Press Haslam, J. (ed) (2008) Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton Toronto: Broadview Press Houston, B. (2001) For this Cause: Finding the meaning of life and living a life of meaning. Castle Hill: Maximised Leadership Inc. Lee, A. (2008) Suffragette Sally by Gertrude Colmore Toronto: Broadview Press Lytton, C. (1909) “No votes for Women”: A reply to some recent Anti-Suffrage Publications. London: A. C. Fiefield Lytton, C. (1910a) “A Speech by Lady Constance Lytton, Delivered at Queen’s Hall, 31st January 1910” pp 326-332 in Lee, A. (2008) Suffragette Sally by Gertrude Colmore Toronto: Broadview Press Lytton, C. (1910b) “The prison experience of Lady Constance Lytton” in Votes for Women28th January 1910 pp 301-305 in Haslam, J. (ed) (2008) Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton Toronto: Broadview Press Lytton, C. (1914) Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, Spinster London: William Heinemann Lytton, C. (1925) Letters of Constance Lytton arranged by Betty Balfour London: Heinemann Markievicz, C. (1927 / 1973) Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz London: Virago Press Miles, P. And Williams, J. (1999) An Uncommon Criminal: The Life of Lady Constance Lytton, Militant Suffragette 1869-1923.Knebworth: Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust Pankhurst, C. (1914) “A Prisoner’s Book” in The Suffragette, 20th March 1914, pp 323-326 in Haslam, J. (ed) (2008) Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton Toronto: Broadview Press Pethick Lawrence, E. (1910) “Lady Constance Lytton” in Votes For Women28th January, 1910, pp 314-315 in Haslam, J. (ed) (2008) Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton Toronto: Broadview Press Pryce, V. (2013) Prisonomics London: Biteback Scott, D. & Spear, F. (2014) “Constance Lytton/ Jane Warton Prisons and Prisoners: 100 years on” in Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, July 2014 The Outlook (1910) editorial of Votes For Women, 28th January, 1910 pp 311-314 in Haslam, J. (ed) (2008) Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton Toronto: Broadview Press

David Scott teaches at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a former coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and an associate editor of the Howard Journal. He is currently completing a book for Palgrave entitled The Caretakers of Punishment: Power, Legitimacy and the Prison Officer.

Faith Spear is an independent Criminologist and is a member of the Reclaim Justice Network steering group and Vice-chair of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB YOI/HMP Hollesley Bay). III. In memoriam

William Chambliss

William (Bill) Chambliss, Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, passed away peacefully on Friday February 22, 2014 with his beloved wife Pernille by his side. Chambliss wrote and/or edited over 25 books and numerous articles for scholarly journals in sociology, criminology and law. His work integrating the study of crime with the creation and implementation of criminal law has been a central theme in his writings and research. Chambliss was a path breaker for modern criminological conflict theory, he has become a standard criminology textbook topic. His best known work not only included his treatments of the origins of criminal law in capitalist societies, but also highly influential work on how class inequality affected crime rates (i.e., SAINTS AND ROUGHNECKS), political corruption (i.e., ON THE TAKE), and criminal fencing (i.e., THE BOXMAN), while following his long time passions for studying and writing about organized crime and piracy, criminal conspiracies, and state criminal behaviour. His recent research covered a range of lifetime interests in international drug control policy, class, race, gender and criminal justice and the history of piracy on the high seas. In addition to being a former president of ASC, he was also president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Bill touched the lives of many in the Division on Critical Criminology very deeply. Although there will be a private memorial, other organisations may make plans to honour Bill and his legacy. Donna and Jeff

An obituary by Greg Squires can be read here: http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/sociology/Professor_Chambliss

Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall died on 10th February 2014, aged 82. His work was obviously of enormous influence for members of the European Group, especially his co-edited Policing the Crisis which continues to frame the debate about the politics of crime control amongst critical criminologists today. He never gave up fighting for social justice and most recently published the Kilburn Manifesto with Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin, exploring alternatives to neoliberalism (http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/manifesto.html). Lawrence and Wishart have made a webpage so that others can share with them in remembering Stuart and all the different things he meant to us. Collected here are tributes, obituaries, Stuart’s own writing, and interviews with him. Please visit the webpage here. The Guardian obituary is available here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall

Comments from European Group members

Stuart Hall's sense of place and culture, of contemporary history and politics, set him above all his contemporaries. Every time he lectured we were genuinely enthralled, on the very edge of our seats: every time we digested what he had to say, our own understanding of modern Britain grew. His legacy is not so much a body of knowledge, but more a way of thinking. No one painted on such an expansive canvas with such assurance and intellectual panache. Mick Ryan

Very sad to hear...the combined loss of Stan, Barbara, Keith and Stuart will be keenly felt. It is up to us I guess to continue their work in our own practice... We have lost the cornerstones of an amazing insight into humanity...even more reason to work hard...x Kaaren Malcolm

My deepest condolences, I am terribly sorry to hear this. Give my greetings too everybody. Thomas Mathiesen

I can’t write a long thing about Stuart Halls enormous importance to me and to so many people worldwide. I’m just so sad to get your message. Now again we have lost one of our big ones. Love from Ida Koch

The Stuart Hall Project

The response to the announcement of the death of Professor Stuart Hall served to confirm his status as one of the most influential and widely respected public intellectuals of the past fifty years.

The Guardian obituary, almost inevitably describes him as the “Godfather of Multiculturalism” (http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/10/godfather-multiculturalism-stuart-hall-dies). This seems to imply that Hall led this project rather than providing incisive and challenging commentary on the social developments that underpin it. A couple of weeks prior to Professor Hall’s death, the DVD of John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics and the New Experience was released. This marvellous film uses a bricolage of interviews with Professor Hall, film and TV archive and the music of Miles Davis to paint a compelling portrait of one the cultural theorist. The film will now serve as a fitting tribute to his life and work.

Stuart Hall was born in Jamaica in 1932. He attended Jamaica College and then was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford (1951-57). Since his arrival in England, Hall had been a key figure in academia but his influence has extended far beyond this. He was one of the founders of the New Left Review in the early 1960s – a key journal in mapping the cultural and political debates from that period onwards. The film contains some fantastic footage of the young Hall in the early 1960s – looking for all the world like a contemporary hipster, discussing what appear as very contemporary issues, such as the disillusionment of the young with professional machine politics. This could have been a member of the Occupy Movement being interviewed outside St. Paul’s. Hall later helped to found the Centre for Cultural Studies at Birmingham University with Richard Hoggart, author of the influential Uses of Literacy: spects of Working Class Life (1957). He became Director of the Centre. He then became Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Hall is regarded as one of the founders of an essentially new academic discipline – Cultural Studies. In an interview with The Guardian in 2012, Hall outlined the importance of moving away from a political analysis that is solely concerned with the problems of the economy:

"I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an argument with economic determinism. I lived my life as an argument with Marxism, and with neoliberalism. Their point is that, in the last instance, economy will determine it. But when is the last instance? If you're analysing the present conjuncture, you can't start and end at the economy. It is necessary, but insufficient."

Akomfrah very skilfully interweaves Hall’s move from Jamaica to studying at the centre of the Empire, Oxford University, in the late 1950s and his establishment as an influential public intellectual with the development of his political and cultural thought. Hall was born and brought up in period of colonial rule. In the film, he is shown on a 1990s visit to his childhood home. He reflects on how societies construct and maintain racial and ethnic division. Hall describes himself as having African, Scottish and Portuguese Jewish roots. The fact that his skin colour was much darker than his parents’ was a source of tension and friction as it seemed to conflict with the family’s class status. In a very moving scene, he talks about how his parents completely disapproved of his sister having a relationship with a doctor who had darker skin. The family and societal pressures led to his sister being hospitalised and receiving ECT, from which she never fully recovered. As Hall argues, “hybridity” is one of the key features and impacts of globalisation. He is concerned with how these issues play out in cultural and political settings. In the UK context, he argues that on a very personal level the answer to the question, ‘Where are you from?’ increasingly involves complex tales of migration from to Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.

Hall’s academic work in the areas of cultural theory, race and racism, the construction of national identities and the importance of the media in framing debates around topics such as crime has been profoundly influential on successive generations of thinkers. His major works such as Policing the Crisis (1978), Culture Media and Language (1980) and The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) remain key texts for anyone who seeks to understand modern society and politics. For example, Paul Gilroy’s There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack (1987) and The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993) show the application of the cultural studies approach to contemporary questions of race and politics. In addition, The Politics of Thatcherism remains a key text for anyone seeking to understand not just the neo-liberal project but also the political impact that it has had. Hall’s outlining of “authoritarian populism” contained a warning that progressive political parties needed to create new coalitions. New Labour in particular ignored this analysis and set about producing their own form of populism. However, it is important that we also acknowledge Hall’s position as a public intellectual. As John Akomfrah noted in a statement released with the film:

“Stuart Hall was a kind of rock star for us. For many of my generation in the 70s,... he was one of the few people of colour we saw on television who wasn’t crooning, dancing or running. His very iconic presence on this public of platforms suggested all manner of ‘impossible feelings’”.

The archive footage, the superb score and the later interviews with Hall exploring his involvement in all the major political issues of the past fifty years – including the Suez crisis, CND marches to Aldermaston, the economic crisis of the 1970s and the triumph of Thatcherism – give the film an elegiac and melancholy feel. The news of Professor Hall’s passing adds to this mood. The film is a lament for a period when the broadcasters such as Channel 4 and the BBC were prepared to give space to a left-wing intellectual of colour to discuss issues such as national identity rather than celebrity chefs, glorified estate agents or programmes that denigrate the poorest members of society. Ian Cummins, Salford 2014 The film is available to purchase here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-film-releases/stuart- hall-project

Stuart Hall Interview: David Scott has found a little-known interview with Stuart Hall, published in ‘Afras Review 4’ (1978). It has some very detailed reflections on Policing the Crisis and also the situation in South Africa at that time. It will surely be of great interest to EG members. We’d like to publish it in our April newsletter but, before doing so, wanted to check if anyone might be able to tell us if they know how we could track down the Afras editors at the time to check on copyright. If you can help, please contact the [email protected].

Keith Soothill Professor Keith Soothill, Emeritus Professor of Social Research at Lancaster University, died on Wednesday after a short illness. Keith had worked in criminology for over 40 years, writing over 250 research papers on topics such as sex offending, recidivism, media & crime and rehabilitation of offenders, and the author of numerous books such as The Prisoner’s Release, Sex Crime in the News, Criminal Conversations: an Anthology of the work of Tony Parker, Questioning Crime and Criminology and Understanding Criminal Careers. Keith was well-known and greatly appreciated by many members of the Group – he will be missed. IV. European Group News

First European Group Undergraduate Conference

The 1st European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control undergraduate conference will be held at Liverpool John Moores University on Monday 7th April 2014. The conference has been organised by students and staff at Liverpool John Moores University and will provide an opportunity for undergraduates studying ‘crime’, deviance and social control at a number of universities in the North West of England to present papers based upon research undertaken for their dissertations. The student papers will broadly reflect the key principles and priorities of the European Group and alongside undergraduates there will also be presentations from MA/MRes and PhD students talking about their research and the transition to postgraduate study. If European Group members would like further information regarding the conference please contact Anne Hayes, Will Jackson or David Scott: [email protected].

Future Conference We are delighted to announce that Anna Markina, our Estonian national representative, will be organising our 2015 conference at the University of Tartu in Tallinn, Estonia, during the week of August 24th to 30th August (exact dates will be confirmed shortly).

EG Secretary change of address After taking up a new job at the University of Abertay, Dundee, Monish Bhatia’s address has now changed to [email protected].

Recent publications by European Group members Rowland Atkinson has just published his edited collection Fifty Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm (Routledge, 2014). There are many contributions from members of the European Group. It is reasonably priced at just £13.59 and is available from Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415733236/

The Group would like to encourage members to send references for their new publications to the Group coordinator. These will be published in the newsletter and then will appear on the website. The aim is to build up a directory of members’ work over the coming years. Please send in your references in Harvard format by the 25th of each month to [email protected] if you wish to see them appear in the following month’s newsletter.

Call for papers We’d like to encourage academics, activists and those targetted by mechanisms of state control (people in prison, migrants, people who have come into conflict with the police etc.) to contribute short pieces of approximately 1,500 words to our monthly newsletter ‘comment and analysis’ section. Contributions from across the globe are welcome. Please contact Emma Bell at [email protected]

British/Irish Conference ‘Penal Law, Abolitionism and Anarchism’, a conference hosted by the British/Irish section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and the Hulsman Foundation will take place from Saturday 26th – Sunday 27th April 2014 at Shire Hall, Nottingham. Can we imagine law without the state? Could what we now call ‘crime’ be dealt with by means other than criminal law and punishment? This conference seeks to explore interrelationships and tensions that exist between the philosophies and practices associated with penal law, abolitionism and anarchism. It aims to provide a space for the interdisciplinary exploration of complex critiques of state law and legality, criminalization and other forms of state and corporate power in neoliberal contexts. The rich and complex European tradition of abolition recently explored in great detail by Vincenzo Ruggiero, to which Louk Hulsman made such a creative contribution, provides important intellectual resources to challenge neoliberal penal and social [well/war –fare] politics and policies and to expose their harms and underlying power-dynamics. Joe Sim underlined the continued importance of Angela Davis’ concept of ‘abolitionist alternatives’ as well as of forms of a renewed penal activism. These and other abolitionist or minimalist approaches to criminal justice challenge existing hegemonic belief systems that continue to legitimate the generation of harms via the operations of law, psychology, criminology, the media and frequently shape public opinion. For some critical criminologists such reflections might imply promoting an Anarchist Criminology, while for others this might involve the use of courts to challenge decisions made by ministers. The direct action taken by the Occupy movement and similar movements (e.g. UK Uncut) can of course also be linked to a diversity of philosophies and principles of anarchism as well as to contemporary media movements and digital activism that are of crucial relevance in the current context. For further details please contact Andrea Beckmann [[email protected]] or Tony Ward [[email protected]] The full programme will be sent round the mailing list shortly. V. News from Europe and the World

Australia

Amnesty International webpage about Australia’s offshore asylum policy: http://www.truthaboutmanus.com/? utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=smshare&campaign=refugees&utm_content=tweet2%2F

Europe

An important Statewatch/TNI report on the EU and drones is available to download in English, German, Italian and Spanish: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2014/feb/sw-tni-eurodrones-inc-feb- 2014.pdf

Migreurop has published its latest chronology which seeks to make it easier to understand European migration and asylum policies through a time-framed comparison of the evolution of the legal framework, the public discourse and the facts. It is available to download in English, French, Spanish and Italian: http://www.migreurop.org/article1961.html?lang=fr

France

Call for Papers Savoirs, politiques et pratiques de l’exécution des peines en France au XXe siècle (Appel à contribution) Date du colloque : mardi 25 mars et mercredi 26 mars 2014 Lieu : Sciences Po, Salle des conférences, 56 rue Jacob 75006 Paris Dans le cadre du colloque final du programme de recherche Sciencepeine (projet n° ANR-09-SSOC-029), cet appel à contribution entend traiter les questions suivantes : le champ de l’exécution des peines est soumis depuis quelques années en France à de profondes modifications : juridictionnalisation de l’application des peines, renouvellement des agents et du parc immobilier... http://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org/?p=6852

Workshop Le prochain interlabo du GERN se tiendra à Paris le vendredi 7 mars 2014. « Carrières de jeunes dans la délinquance et processus pénal, le cas du Brésil ». Organisateur : Dominique Duprez (Cesdip). Lieu de la journée : Maison de l’Amérique latine. 217, BD SAINT-GERMAIN . 75007 PARIS Inscription : formulaire (voir fichier joint) à retourner avant le 17 février 2014 : Par e-mail à Daniel Ventre. [email protected] Ou par courrier à Dominique Duprez – CESDIP.

Ireland

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) at University College Cork is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Graduate Conference which will take place on the 5th and 6th June, 2014 and is putting out a call for papers.

The conference is specifically aimed at those who are undertaking doctoral research in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice and human rights. The theme for this year’s event is “Justice and Dignity under Challenge.” The aim is to reflect upon how intransigent law making can negatively impact upon human rights protection and criminal law. The theme will encourage debate on the challenging questions which arise when interpreting the law in rapidly changing and unstable times.

See: http://www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/news/fullstory-426331-en.html

Norway

The First International Symposium on Narrative Criminology will take place at the University of Oslo from 29th-30th May 2014. Narrative criminology aims to bring insights from psychology, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies to studies of crime, criminal justice, law, and deviance. See: http://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/forskning/prosjekter/nettverkfornarrativkrim/arrangementer/konferanser/ 2014/the-first-international-symposium.html

Portugal

Some of the presentations given at the international conference "Economic and Financial Offences: Criminology and Law Studies" that took place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, on the 20th February are available to watch here: http://www.justicatv.com/

United Kingdom

Activism The People's Assembly will be holding its first national delegates conference on 15 March 2014 at the Emmanuel Centre in London. This conference will be a chance for representatives from organisations across the anti-austerity movement to come together, debate and decide on the next initiatives, events and priorities for the People's Assembly over the coming year. As well as People's Assembly local groups, any supporting trade union branch, community group or campaign can send delegates and submit motions to be discussed and voted on. You must register in advance for this event: https://padelegateconf.eventbrite.co.uk

Please sign the following petition against the proposed construction of a children’s ‘super-prison’ in the UK. See: https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/chris-grayling-no-children-s-super-prison

Conferences/lectures/workshops The School of Education and Professional Development are very pleased to have the opportunity to welcome Arun Kundnani to University of Huddersfield campus on Tuesday 4th March to talk about his book (The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War), his research, and to have the opportunity to share and discuss his findings. Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-lecture-the-muslims-are-coming-islamophobia-extremism- and-the-domestic-war-on-terror-tickets-9239917843

Anton Symkovych is to give a seminar in Edinburgh on 'Legitimacy and the Exercise of Power in a Ukrainian Prison', with Laura Piacentini as a discussant on Tuesday 4th March, 16.15-18.00, Raeburn Room, Old College, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

University College London is hosting a debtate entitled ’Why isn't my professor black?’ on 10th March 2014. There are just 85 black professors out of 18,510 in the UK and the number has barely changed in eight years. The percent of black professors (0.4%) shows a striking disparity with the proportion of black students, which has increased steadily each year and now stands at 6%. What does it mean when the generation that produces knowledge is so unrepresentative of the generation that consumes it? This panel debate will be chaired by Professor Michael Arthur, UCL President and Provost. It will aim to ask difficult questions and explore even more challenging solutions. See http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:xe-hobmesz1-pt3gqx/why-isnt-my-professor-black

Registration is now open for the third seminar in the ESRC-funded series, 'Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention' (see http://immigration-detention-seminar- series.org/ ). This seminar will be held on 25 March 2014 at the University of Oxford.

Justice Matters for Women Event: As part of the Justice Matters for Women initiative, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is holding a workshop event in partnership with Women in Prison on Wednesday 26th March. For more info, see http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/civicrm/event/info? reset=1&id=41

The University of Sussex will be hosting a conference entitled ’Understanding Hate Crime: Research, Policy and Practice’ from 8th-9th May 2014. See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/law/newsandevents/hate

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the University of Liverpool will behosting a conference entitled ’How violent is Britain?’ on Friday 16th May. For more details, see http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=35

Aimilia Voulvouli and Dr Raul Gerardo Acosta Garcia, a Mexican fellow anthropologist currently working at ITESO, are organizing a panel for the upcoming Royal Anthropological Institute Conference on Anthropology and Photography to be held in London from 29th – 31st May at the British Museum. You are more than welcome to apply to our panel entitled “Visibility of dissent: meanings and repercussions of urban activism through digital photography and video” (http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/panels.php5? PanelID=2827) or any of the other panels of the conference.

The University of Sheffiled will be hosting the 5th Annual Conference 'Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane - more questions of the human' from 7th-8th July 2014. See http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/conferences

British Society of Criminology Conference, Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, The University of Liverpool. 10-12 July (preceded by a postgraduate conference on 9th July). For further details see: http://www.liv.ac.uk/law-and-social-justice/conferences/bsc/

Reports A Prison Reform Trust Briefing on the new Criminal Justice and Courts Bill which is currently being debated in the UK Parlaiment is available here: http://info-prisonreformtrust.org.uk/47L- 26BAV-1UMUM3-XTSWY-1/c.aspx

Jobs Swansea University is seeking to appoint a Professor of Empirical Legal Studies and Head of Department of Criminology. The purpose of this post is to provide strategic leadership for the Department of Criminology within the recently created Swansea University College of Law and to bring publications and research in quantitative empirical research to the College. This leadership will be both in research and in management of Criminology programmes. We are looking for applications from those able to demonstrate a willingness and ability to further integrate the work of the Department of Criminology in meeting the new strategic vision for the College. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong empirical research skills and in those with a track record of interdisciplinary research spanning criminology and law. A requirement for the post is that the post holder’s research be focused in quantitative analysis of crime, human behaviour, law and institutions of criminal justice. Further details can be found at: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/the-university/work-at- swansea/jobs/details.php? nPostingID=1353&nPostingTargetID=2492&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QHUFK0262 03F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LOV4=7812&JOBADLG=UK&Resultsperpage=20&lg=UK&mask=sue xt

Professorship in Criminology at Nottingham Trent Closing date: 09/03/2014 The Sociology Division at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is at the forefront of shaping knowledge, policy and practice. The Division is characterised by a strong culture of theoretically driven and applied research, established excellence in teaching and learning and consultancy services making a significant national and international impact. Our large team of academics have research, teaching and professional experience in their respective fields and our relationships with key external partners enhance the work that we and they do. We are looking for a research leader to help us take forward our ambitious and exciting research strategy. You will have a successful track record of grant capture, an internationally recognised publications portfolio and demonstrable experience of developing the talents of research colleagues and students. You will build on our reputation for impactful research through your experience of working in partnership with local, national and international policy makers and practitioners. If you have any specific queries in relation to this position, please contact Dr Jason Pandya-Wood, Head of Sociology, on +44 (0)115 848 5503, or via email [email protected]

USA 6th Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference at Indiana State University. Abstracts are due by May 5, 2014. Presenter Registration payments are due by May 19, 2014. Non-Presenter registration is Due August 12, 2014. Conference Dates are : September 22- 24th, 2014. See: http://www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/index.htm A BIG THANKS to all the European Group members for making this newsletter successful.. Please feel free to contribute to this newsletter by sending any information that you think might be of interest to the Group to Emma/Monish: [email protected] Please try to send it in before the 25th of each month if you wish to have it included in the following month’s newsletter. Please provide a web link (wherever possible).