Historical Criminology Conference 2019

Linking past and present in criminological research

University of Plymouth

9-10 April 2019

Historical Criminology Conference 2019

Linking past and present in criminological research

This inaugural event of the BSC Historical Criminology Network (in association with the BSC South West

Branch) provides an open forum for discussion of relations between past and present in criminological

research.

Historical perspectives can vitally enrich criminological thinking, and this conference will explore how

engaging with the past contributes to understanding crime and justice today. In this way, it seeks to

advance the network’s aim to promote, develop and embed historical approaches to criminology.

Plenary speakers

Professor Barry Godfrey (University of Liverpool) ‘J’Accuse Crime History? What is the point of us?’

Dr Kate Lister (Leeds Trinity University) ‘Making the past present: the future of historical activism in

criminology‘

Schedule

9th April

12:00 Registration and Coffee

12:30 Welcome and Plenary (Prof Barry Godfrey)

13:30 Panel 1a Panel 1b

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Panel 2a Panel 2b

17:00 Wine reception

18:30 Conference Dinner, The Stable

10th April

08:30 Coffee

09:00 Panel 3a Panel 3b

10:30 Coffee and cream tea

11:00 Panel 4a Panel 4b

12:30 Plenary 2 (Dr Kate Lister)

13:30 Close and packed lunch to go

Tuesday 9th April: Panel sessions

1a Life-Courses and Transitions

Hamish Maxwell-Stuart (University of Tasmania): Early court encounters as a predictor of life course offending: lessons from Van Diemen’s Land

Stephen Case (Loughborough University) and Chris Kay (Loughborough University): Explaining the history of youth justice: A Social Identity Model of Transition

Katherine Roscoe (University of Liverpool): Challenging Myths through Big Data: Colonial Prisoners on Cockatoo Island (Sydney), 1839-69

1b Sex, Violence & Shame

Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki): ‘Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother’: Violence against Parents Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Jack Taylor (Open University): Narratives of adult male sexual victimisation, c.1761-1861

David Cox (University of Wolverhampton) and Yasmin Devi-McGleish (University of Wolverhampton): #Sorry: Public shaming in social media 1719-2019

2a History, Theory & Youth Justice

Zoë James (University of Plymouth) and Iain Channing (University of Plymouth): ‘The Amateur Gipsy’: A deviant leisure perspective on the history of the caravan holiday and the harm caused to Gypsy and Traveller communities

Justin Brett (Loughborough University): Looking back to look ahead - the process of youth justice legislation

Esmorie Miller (London South Bank University): Race and marginalisation in contemporary youth justice through a historical lens

2b Prisons

Jayne Mooney (City University of New York): Suffering and Resistance: A Social History of New York City’s Rikers Island Jail Complex

Alex Tepperman (University of South Carolina-Upstate): Big House, Small Scale: Viewing the Social Worlds of the Historical Prison Through an Ethnographic Lens

Helen Johnston (University of Hull) and Jo Turner (Staffordshire University): From Lewes to Woking: the development of an invalid convict prison

Wednesday 10th April: Panel sessions

3a Spectacle, Visual & Material

Dan Johnson (University of York) and Rhiannon Pickin (Leeds Beckett University): Suffering on Display: An Argument for Historical Nuance in British Prison Museums

Alexa Neale (University of Sussex): Historical ‘CSI-effects’? Picturing the miniature crime scene

Kate West (Oxford Brookes University): Look, don’t touch: Visual and historical criminologies in the digital age

3b Politics & Policy

Harry Annison (Southampton University): Risk, Populism and parole in England and Wales

Thomas Guiney (Oxford Brookes University): ‘It was not what they wanted’: Thatcherism, law and order, and the legacy of the 1981 Conservative Party Conference.

Ben Jarman (University of Cambridge) and Louise Jackson (University of Edinburgh): The historical criminology of ‘safeguarding’: children in the secure estate, 1960-2016

4a History & Criminology

Rod Earle (Open University): Historical perspective on convict criminology

Aaron Pycroft (University of Portsmouth): Beyond Penal Substitution Theory

Henry Yeomans (University of Leeds), Iain Channing (University of Plymouth) and David Churchill (University of Leeds): A Dialogue of the Deaf? Assessing the Impact of Historical Research on Criminology

4b Policing and Regulation

Judith Rowbotham (University of Plymouth): Shaping Contemporary Legacies - the place of historical environmental and cultural traditions in policing Devon and Cornwall

Mary Muscat (University of Malta): Scottish, empire or hybrid policing? Understanding the historical origins of Malta’s current model of policing.

Wayne Cronin-Wojdat (Wrexham Glyndwr University) : Local Authority Byelaws: The Forgotten Anti-Social Behaviour Laws