Events Diary

We maintain a comprehensive list of forthcoming conferences and seminars in the field of criminal justice and social policy.

July 2008 | January 2009 | April 2009 | July 2009

July 2009

Event: The Eve Saville memorial lecture 2009 - Estimating drug harms: a risky business
Date: 14 July 2009
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Location: Edmond J. Safra lecture theatre, King's College London, 6-7pm
Contact: The 20th Eve Saville memorial lecture will be presented by Professor David Nutt, Imperial College London. The current classification of illicit drugs is based on their relative harms. However, assessing such harms is challenging. Over the last few years Professor Nutt, and others, have been exploring the optimal way of doing this and this lecture will share some of the problems and successes of their endeavours.

Click here (Adobe PDF, 36KB) to download a flyer.

Click here for more information and for details of how to register.

Event: What is crime? Photography exhibition
Date: 4 July-21 August 2009
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning
Location: 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Brixton, London
Contact: An invitation to the exhibition can be downloaded here.

For more information on the What is crime? project, click here.

Please visit the gallery website at www.198.org.uk

April 2009

Event: What is crime? Event - Human Insecurity: harm, crime and injustice at a global level
Date: 29 April 2009
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Location: King's College London
Contact: The What is crime? project continues with a debate introduced by Dr David Roberts, author of Human Insecurity. Click here for more information.

January 2009

Event: Annual General Meeting
Date: 13 January 2009
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Location: King's College London
Contact:

To attend, please email your name, organisation (if applicable) and telephone number to

Download the flyer here (Adobe PDF, 1.4MB).

Download the Annual Report here (Adobe PDF, 1.1MB).

The AGM will preceed the 'Partners or prisoners?' event.

The AGM will take place from 5.15pm to 5.45pm in the Edmond J Safra lecture theatre at King's College London.

Event: Partners or prisoners? Voluntary sector independence in the world of titans and contracts
Date: 13 January 2009
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Location: King's College London
Contact:

To attend, please email your name, organisation (if applicable) and telephone number to

Download the flyer here (Adobe PDF, 1.4MB).

Are the values and independence of the criminal justice voluntary sector under threat? Our Annual Event will debate this issue.

Chaired by Mark Easton of BBC News, an expert panel will discuss whether the criminal justice voluntary sector should embrace government agendas or resist them.

The event takes place at the Edmond J Safra lecture theatre at King's College London from 6pm to 7.30pm followed by a drinks reception.

You can view our annual report here (Adobe PDF, 1.1MB).

July 2008

Event: Ten years of Labour's youth justice reforms- Panel discussion
Date: 17 July 2008
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Location: King's College London
Contact:

A panel discussion chaired by Robin Lustig, with:


  • Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Children’s Commissioner for England
  • Frances Done, Chair, Youth Justice Board
  • Fiona Millar, writer and chair, National Family Parenting Institute
  • Mike Thomas, Chair, Association of Youth Offending Team Managers
  • Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

The event takes place on Thursday 17 July in the Edmund J Safra lecture theatre at King's College London from 6-7.30pm followed by a reception.

To register for the event email with your name, job title, organisation and telephone number.

Event: The Eve Saville memorial lecture 2008
Date: 1 July 2008
Organised by: Centre for Crime and Jutice Studies
Location: The Great Hall, King's College London, 6-7pm
Contact: Professor Richard Wilkinson will be giving the 19th Eve Saville memorial lecture on the subject of Dysfunctional Societies: why inequality matters.

Click here for more information or click here (Adobe PDF, 32KB) to download a flyer.


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