Criminal Justice Unit launch: Political change and criminal justice in Liverpool and beyond
5:00pm - 6:30pm /
Thursday 30th January 2025
/ Venue: SLSJ Events Space, Ground Floor School of Law & Social Justice
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
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The School of Law and Social Justice are inviting academics, criminal justice professionals and leaders in social justice to join us for the launch of our new research cluster, the Criminal Justice Unit. The CJU seeks to bring together key perspectives on criminal justice systems and to produce world-leading, agenda-setting, and impactful criminal justice research. The group, which is made up of researchers from a range of disciplines, including law, sociology, criminology, history, geography, psychology, management and philosophy, offers expertise in areas including but not limited to prosecution, courts and sentencing; probation; policing; gender-based violence; extremism; prisons and corrections; recidivism; rehabilitation; and the impact of the criminal justice system on marginalised groups. The event is an opportunity for local and national stakeholders to learn about key criminal justice research taking place across the University of Liverpool.
The event will feature a keynote address from world-renowned criminologist, CJU member and the new Head of Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at UoL, Professor Shadd Maruna (abstract below). This will be followed by a talk from CJU directors, Professor Anna Carline and Dr Ellen Reeves and an opportunity for networking at the end of the event.
Keynote address abstract
Prof Shadd Maruna, the newly arrived Head of School in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology in the School of Law and Social Justice last lived on Merseyside from around 1994 to 1998 as a PhD student. In this talk, he will compare the crime and justice scene in the Liverpool he knew then with the new city he has returned to thirty years hence. In some ways, the two eras (both featuring the transition from a long Conservative rule to a new Labour government) have much in common. Yet, in other ways, they are very different worlds. The talk will speculate what the current trends might suggest for the next 30 years of crime and justice in Merseyside and beyond.
The event will feature a keynote address from world-renowned criminologist, CJU member and the new Head of Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at UoL, Professor Shadd Maruna (abstract below). This will be followed by a talk from CJU directors, Professor Anna Carline and Dr Ellen Reeves and an opportunity for networking at the end of the event.
Keynote address abstract
Prof Shadd Maruna, the newly arrived Head of School in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology in the School of Law and Social Justice last lived on Merseyside from around 1994 to 1998 as a PhD student. In this talk, he will compare the crime and justice scene in the Liverpool he knew then with the new city he has returned to thirty years hence. In some ways, the two eras (both featuring the transition from a long Conservative rule to a new Labour government) have much in common. Yet, in other ways, they are very different worlds. The talk will speculate what the current trends might suggest for the next 30 years of crime and justice in Merseyside and beyond.