Scarman lectures

Academic year 2023/24

• Jayne Butler, Manjit Atwal: Policing and Sexual Violence: Reflecting on challenges and opportunities for change (27 September 2023)

Academic year 2022/23

• 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

• Sue McAllister, Jason Kew: Drugs and the criminal justice system in the UK (29 September 2021)

Academic year 2020/21

• David Lammy MP, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins QPM, Dr Martin Glynn, Dr Suzella Palmer: Policing, Race and Criminology in the UK (30 September 2020)

Academic year 2019/20

• 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

• Phil Scraton, Professor Emeritus: Fractured Lives, Dissenting Voices, Recovering Truth (26 September 2018)

Academic year 2017/18

• Frances Crook OBE, Mick Creedon, William Baldet: What is the Future of Criminal Justice and Human Rights? (27 September 2017)

Academic year 2016/17

• Professor Tim Newburn: England 2011 Five Years On: Understanding the ‘life-cycle’ of riots (28 September 2016)

Academic Year 2015/16

• Sue McAllister: Unlocking the Past – from conflict to reform in the Northern Ireland Prison Service (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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)