International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research

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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