Next week I am attending the ICCCR Conference and will be giving a talk.
‘THE PROGRESSIVE PRISON? HISTORICAL NARRATIVES, CONTEMPORARY REALTIES’
ICCCR Conference, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Thursday 21 June & Friday 22 June 2007
and
Launch of Handbook on Prisons (Willan Publishing)
Thursday June 21
09:15-09:45
Registration
Tea and Coffee
09:45-10:00
Welcome and Introduction
Yvonne Jewkes
(Open University)
10:00-11:00
Two Keynote Addresses
Alison Liebling (Cambridge University) ‘Transitions and continuities in prison life: 1987-2007’; and
Richard Sparks (Edinburgh University) ‘Incarceration, legitimacy and their limits’
Chair Yvonne Jewkes (Open University)
11:00-12:45
Expert Panel ‘The most pressing issue facing the prison system is…’ I Phil Wheatley (Director General Prison Service), Michael Wheatley (Senior Manager, Directorate of High Security, HM Prison Service),
Jamie Bennett (Prison Manager), Mark Leech (Editor The Prisons Handbook), Chloe Chitty (Home Office RDS), Diana Medlicott (Buckingham Chilterns University)
Chair Reece Walters (Open University)
12:45-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Roundtable Discussion ‘Capturing Public Opinion: Prisons, Media and the Public’ Paul Mason (Cardiff University), Lucie Russell (SmartJustice), Richard Garside (Kings College London),
John Hirst (prison law consultant and campaigner for penal reform), Maik Finch (ex-prisoner and OU Criminology student)
Chair Paul Mason (Cardiff University)
15:00-15:15
Tea and Coffee
15:15-17:00
Expert Panel ‘Solutions to the prison crisis’ Lucie Russell (SmartJustice), John Pratt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Joe Sim (John Moores University Liverpool), Kimmett Edgar (Prison Reform Trust)
Chair John Muncie (Open University)
17:15-18:45
Pub Quiz and Bar
19:00
Conference Dinner
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Friday June 22
09:00-09:15
Tea and Coffee
09:15-10:45
‘Learning from the past… looking to the future’’
Simon Devereaux (University of Victoria, Canada), Heather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan University), Helen Johnston (Hull University), Saul Hewish (RideOut/Creative Prison)
Chair Chris Williams (Open University)
10:45-11:30
‘Is the future private?’
Mick Ryan (Greenwich University),
Trevor Williams (NOMS)
Chair Deb Drake (Open University)
11:30-12:45
Expert Panel ‘The most pressing issue facing the prison system is…’II Elaine Crawley (Salford University), Leonie Howe (Greenwich University), Alice Mills (Southampton University), Dirk van Zyl Smit (Nottingham Trent University) Deborah Coles (Inquest)
Chair TBC
12:45-13:30
Lunch
13:30-13:45
Wine Reception/Launch
13:45-15:00
3 Papers from Handbook Contributors:
Laura Piacentini (Strathclyde University) ‘Bringing Russian Prisons to Life and the Entangled Self: Reflections on the Method and the Madness of Prison Research in Russia’
Ben Crewe (Cambridge University) ‘The New Society of Captives: Learning from the Classic Studies, and Moving On’
David Scott (Central Lancashire University) ‘Understanding the changing face of prisons: legitimacy deficit or crises of penal legitimacy?’
Chair Yvonne Jewkes (Open University)
15:00-15:30
Closing Address
Pat Carlen ‘Imaginary Penalities, Risk-Crazed Governance and the Politics of Prison Research’
Chair Clive Emsley (Open University)
15:30
Tea and Coffee
16:00
FINISH
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A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Well, I hope it all goes well. You may find your way into Milton Keynes but you may never find your way back out again. Many poor souls have been lost inside the void more commonly known as "The Keynes".
ReplyDeleteTIP: take a satnav with you
"TIP: take a satnav with you".
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't do that, if I were you, because some thieving toerag will nick it and he won't worry about being caught and going to prison because in the unlikely event of the former happening, the latter will almost certainly not; and even if it did, he still wouldn't care because "Prison's a 'larf', innit?"
Incidentally, search as I might, I could find no speaker providing a lecture on, say, "The advantages of taking away all TVs and radios, putting prisoners back in uniforms, no earning rights, no time off for good behaviour and no recreation time". If you're short of a speaker, I would be happy to oblige!
Ron: I seem to recall something about artificial cows in a field in Milton Keynes. And, didn't Horace Batchelor and his infra draw method have a base there?
ReplyDeleteDavid Duff: I think the dinosaur has died out mate...
Be sure to attend anything Clive Emsley is hosting. An insightful man - I got to know him quite well when doing my OU degree some years ago.
ReplyDeleteAnd Milton Keynes was also where they filmed Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. New York was too expensive ;)
alan: The intention is to be at all the events.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the concrete cows are now confined to the MK Dons football ground (when they've not been vandalised). Find out the nearest H/V junction to where you want to be and MK is a doddle. The grid roads make it easy. But boy, is it dull......
ReplyDeletemaneatingcheesesandwich: Luckily, I am combining the trip with seeing some good friends. This will make the experience interesting. I don't plan to do any sightseeing, and I will only be there long enough for a couple of shits and shaves...
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