Jun
Past, present and future in crime and justice
- How do past decisions influence today’s criminal justice policy and practice?
- What decisions being made now will shape the choices of future generations?
- How does our anticipation of what the future may bring affect our decisions about crime and justice in the present?
Michael Fiddler and Travis Linnemann joined our Director, Richard Garside, for a discussion on these and related questions. Theo Kindynis unfortunately had to drop out of the event.
Using the metaphor of ‘ghosts’ to capture the way that present-day policy-making is ‘haunted’ by past decisions and future expectations, Michael, Travis and Theo offer fresh ways of understanding current policy dilemmas, and why our current approaches to crime and punishment seem to rely so much on older, failed experiments.
In recognition of the originality of their work, their article – ‘Ghost Criminology’ – was awarded this year’s prestigious Radzinowicz Price for the best article in The British Journal of Criminology (BJC).
Editor-in-Chief of the BJC, Eamonn Carrabine, also joined us to talk about the prize and why it was awarded to Michael, Travis and Theo’s article. You can read the text of Eamonn's speech here.
About the event
This event was held both in-person and online.
About the speakers
- Dr Michael Fiddler is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich
- Dr Travis Linnemann is Associate Professor at Kansas State University
