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Centre News
Seminar on Preventive Justice
On 5-6th January 2012 an international inter-disciplinary workshop on Preventive Justice took place at All Souls College. [more…]
Preventive Justice Project hosts Oxford-UNSW postgraduate workshop
On Monday 5th December 2011, Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner and Patrick Tomlin hosted a Postgraduate Workshop at the Centre for Criminology on ‘Anti-Terror Laws and Preventive Justice’ jointly with colleagues George Williams, Andrew Lynch and Fergal Davis from the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales. [more…]
Ian Loader joins Commission into the future of Policing
Ian Loader has been appointed as a member of the Independent Commission on the Future of Policing in England and Wales to be chaired by former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens. [more…]
Hans Sigrist Prize 2011 awarded to Nicola Lacey
We are delighted to announce that Nicola Lacey has been awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize 2011 by the University of Bern. [more…]
Can a trust-based criminal policy lead to fewer crimes?
Oxford Sociology has joined a major research project funded by the European Commission. In November 2011, €2.7M were awarded by the European Commission for research into criminal policy and the promotion of trust in justice. [more…]
Forthcoming Events
February 2012
Thursday 16 February 2012
- All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Five Spaces of Cultural Criminology - Speaker: Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
March 2012
Thursday 8 March
- All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
A Power Law of Death - Speaker: Frank Baumgartner, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
April 2012
Thursday 19 April until Friday 20 April 2012
- Centre for Criminology
The Borders of Punishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship and Social Exclusion - Manor Road Social Sciences Building
Monday 30 April
- Police and Policing Research Discussion Group
Police Professionalism Seminar - St Peter's College Dorfman Centre
May 2012
Thursday 3 May
- All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Pluralism and its Discontents: A Reflection on Two Decades of Writing in the Sociology of Punishment - Speaker: Tom Daems, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Thursday 10 May
- All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Return of the Repressed? For Social Democratic Criminology - Speaker: Robert Reiner, Department of Law, London School of Economics
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Thursday 24 May
- 7th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture Series
7th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture - Speaker: Professor Marie Gottschalk,, University of Pennsylvania
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00


