18th Eve Saville memorial lecture - Has liberal criminology lost?
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On 4th July 2007 Professor Ian Loader of the University of Oxford gave our annual Eve Saville Memorial lecture in the Great Hall at King's College, London.
Professor Loader explores the relationship that criminology has had with the law and order policies pursued by recent governments. He suggests that criminology can act as a liberal restraint over policies that are driven by short term political imperatives and that criminology should be used to sustain 'a crime politics that can secure the security of citizens without undermining the values and institutions of liberal democracy and whilst keeping resolutely in view the unfulfilled promise of social justice'.