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British Society of Criminology Conference in Liverpool

Friday, 10 January 2014

Looking for an intellectual work out this summer? The British Society of Criminology annual conference in Liverpool in July might be for you.

Taking as its title 'Crime, Justice, Welfare: Can the Metropole Listen?', the conference will be looking at the scope for the criminological discipline to give 'voice' to the marginalised.

At the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies we put a lot of effort into presenting complex academic and research ideas in language accessible to the non-specialist.

But even we were a bit thrown by the following, from the conference blurb:

'Criminology, like other core social science disciplines, reflects a tendency to over-write the metropolitan experiences of the Northern hemisphere. Criminology’s starting point, therefore, is based upon the continual attempt to reinvent, improve, or make more just, a ‘rule of law’ society in the image of the hegemon. Such over-writing takes its toll on the ‘discipline’ in multi-faceted ways, all of which tend to contribute to hegemonic epistemologies and practices that serve to marginalise different ways of thinking about, and engaging with, an alternative criminological enterprise.'

Fancy offering a plain English translation? Send your answers into info@crimeandjustice.org.uk and we'll publish the best ones.

More information on the conference can be found here.


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