Our latest event - an evening with David Nutt - is on 30 October. The event is being held ten years to the day that Professor Nutt was fired from his role as chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs for standing for drugs policies grounded in science and evidence.
Professor Phil Scraton, who is delivering our annual lecture on 23 May, received a standing ovation at the BAFTAs last night.
The audience reacted as Phil walked up as part of the team behind the...
We are delighted to announce that Professor Phil Scraton will deliver this year's Eve Saville Memorial Lecture, on Tuesday, 23 May.
His lecture – 'Bearing witness to the pain of others...
Leading lawyer and activist Imran Khan last night spoke about police corruption, surveillance and racism, as he gave the 23rd Eve Saville Memorial Lecture.
Imran started by talking about the unprovoked racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in a south London...
My subject this evening is privatisation and punishment. As I shall come on to explain I’m going to deal with this subject in quite a broad manner.
I am reminded that two weeks ago at a prison on the Isle of Wight, the Chairman of the Board of Visitors introduced me as the Director General who he believed would take the Prison Service into the millennium.
Although many people believe inequality is socially divisive and adds to the problems associated with relative deprivation, what inequality does or does not do to us has remained largely a matter of personal opinion.
Thank you for coming to this 22nd Lecture in honour of Eve Saville.
Psychoanalysis has been used to aid social policy thinking in just a handful of occasions.
I have to start with a confession. I am a charlatan. I know a little about place, less about poverty, and very little about crime.
