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 |
|
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 |