School of Criminology
Previous lectures
Since 2008, our Scarman Lectures have invited high profile guest speakers to deliver papers on current issues in criminology, criminal justice, policing and community safety.
Below is a list of our previous speakers and lectures, some of which you can listen to on SoundCloud.
Academic Year 2023/24
Speakers |
Title |
Date |
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Jayne Butler Manjit Atwal |
Policing and Sexual Violence: Reflecting on challenges and opportunities for change | 27 September 2023 |
Academic Year 2022/23
Speakers |
Title |
Date |
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Professor John Holmwood Dr Layla Aitlhadj Dr Isobel Ingham-Barrow |
Preventing equal participation. How the government's PREVENT strategy undermines democracy. | 28 September 2022 |
Academic Year 2021/22
Speakers |
Title |
Date |
|
Sue McAllister Jason Kew |
Drugs and the criminal justice system in the UK | 29 September 2021 |
Academic Year 2020/21
Speakers |
Title |
Date |
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David Lammy MP |
Policing, Race and Criminology in the UK |
30 September 2020 |
Academic Year 2019/20
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Professor Kalwant Bhopal | Black and minority ethnic (BME) experiences in higher education: social justice, exclusion and white privilege | 25 September 2019 |
Academic Year 2018/19
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Phil Scraton, Professor Emeritus | Fractured Lives, Dissenting Voices, Recovering Truth | 26 September 2018 |
Academic Year 2017/18
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Frances Crook OBE Mick Creedon William Baldet |
What is the Future of Criminal Justice and Human Rights? (SoundCloud) |
27 September 2017 |
Academic Year 2016/17
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Professor Tim Newburn | England 2011 Five Years On: Understanding the ‘life-cycle’ of riots (SoundCloud) | 28 September 2016 |
Academic Year 2015/16
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Sue McAllister |
Unlocking the Past – from conflict to reform in the Northern Ireland Prison Service (SoundCloud) | 2 December 2015 |
| Maya Foa |
European Aid for Executions |
11 November 2015 |
| Yvonne Jewkes |
'How 'super' are the new super-sized prisons? Building a better future for prisoners' |
30 September 2015 |
Academic Year 2014/15
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| John Taft |
Miscarriages of Justice Happen to Ordinary People |
25 March 2015 |
| Shami Chakrabarti |
On Liberty |
11 February 2015 |
| Sue Berelowitz |
No Longer Invisible: Child Protection and Children's Rights |
26 November 2014 |
| Ben Gunn |
Breaking The Carceral Machine |
1 October 2014 |
Academic Year 2013/14
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Professor John Lea | Privatising Probation: The Consolidation of the Risk Agenda | 26 March 2014 |
| Frances Crook OBE | Justice and the Limits of Incarceration | 19 February 2014 |
| Sir Clive Loader | The Role of the Police and Crime Commissioner in our Society | 4 December 2013 |
| Professor David Nutt | Drugs Without the Hot Air | 20 November 2013 |
| Keir Starmer QC | A Prosecution Service for the 21st Century | 2 October 2013 |
Academic Year 2012/13
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Dr Sharon Shalev | Solitary Confinement and Supermax Prisons: Lessons from America | 22 May 2013 |
| Dr Barbara Perry | Rejected and Dejected: Impacts of Islamophobic Violence in Canada | 8 May 2013 |
| Dr Anna Souhami | Becoming a Police Researcher: Ethics and Authenticity | 27 March 2013 |
| Professor Jo Phoenix | Out of Place: Exploring the Criminalisation of Sexually Exploited Girls and Young Women | 20 February 2013 |
| Nick Hardwick CBE | What's Prison Really Like? | 12 December 2012 |
Academic Year 2011/12
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Julian Buchanan | The Damage Caused By Drugs, Or The Damage Caused By Drug Policy? | 13 June 2012 |
| Professor Tony Jefferson | The Riots 2011: Another Moral Panic Or....What? | 8 February 2012 |
| Reece Walters | Invisible Violence: Air Pollution and the Politics of Regulation in the UK | 11 January 2012 |
Academic Year 2010/11
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Dr Chris A Williams | The Development of the Police National Computer, 1958-1975, and the Promises and Limitations of Computerisation | 2 December 2010 |
Academic Year 2008/09
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
| Professor Alice Hills | Ghetto Security: Policing Post-Conflict Cities | 21 January 2009 |
| Rex Bloomstein | Crime and the Camera: Making Prison Documentaries - The Work of Rex Bloomstein | 5 November 2008 |
| Martin Narey | Imprisonment, Crime and Child Poverty | 7 May 2008 |
| Bruce George MP | Private Security and the Role of the Legislature | 4 April 2008 |