News from the Department of Law and Criminology
At the French Prison Service’s international research conference Jeanette Hall presented on the potential impacts of pepper spray on perceptions of prison legitimacy
PhD candidate Heidi Maiberg presented on impact assessment ways of tertiary prevention programmes at the AVERT Research Symposium in Melbourne, Australia.
Congratulations to the Law Society for getting nominated to receive a Bright Network Legal Leaders Award!
The scientific article reports findings from a longitudinal study assessing adolescents’ legitimization of mafia-type groups in Italy
Dr Matt Clement writes about the government response to climate protests
The collaborative article analyses the definition of political Contention across disciplines.
Dr. Elizabeth Pearson wrote a blog post for Vox-Pol discussing academia's shortfalls in safeguarding researchers of terrorism and extremism
Dr Michael Wells-Greco and Alison Edmondson represented the International Academy of Family Lawyers as observer to the First meeting of the Special Commission.
The symposium was held in Chicago at the Chicago-Kent Law School on 11-12 November 2022
The blog post looks at councils in financial distress in the UK, and suggests strategies to improve the law in the area