Plenary Keynote

Yvonne Jewkes1 1Research Professor in Criminology, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton This presentation will discuss the limits to prisoners’ horizons that arise from pandering to perceived public opinion about digital media in correctional environments.  Writing a decade before the...
  • November 25, 2016
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Yvonne Jewkes1 1Research Professor in Criminology, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton This presentation will discuss the limits to prisoners’ horizons that arise from pandering to perceived public opinion about digital media in correctional environments.  Writing a decade before the...
  • November 25, 2016
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If we take an international view of things, Japan enjoyed its post-war reputation as one of the most crime-free countries. The number of homicides reported in Japan has constantly decreased since 1955, and the five years from 2009 to 2013...
  • November 4, 2016
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Koichi Hamai School of Law, Ryukoku University If we take an international view of things, Japan enjoyed its post-war reputation as one of the most crime-free countries. The number of homicides reported in Japan has constantly decreased since 1955, and the...
  • September 1, 2016
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Koichi Hamai School of Law, Ryukoku University If we take an international view of things, Japan enjoyed its post-war reputation as one of the most crime-free countries. The number of homicides reported in Japan has constantly decreased since 1955, and the...
  • September 1, 2016
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Jeff Ferrell We occupy a contemporary world awash with drift and drifters – a world in which dislocation and disorientation have become phenomena in their own right. To make sense of this world we might inquire into drift’s long history,...
  • August 31, 2016
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Jeff Ferrell We occupy a contemporary world awash with drift and drifters – a world in which dislocation and disorientation have become phenomena in their own right. To make sense of this world we might inquire into drift’s long history,...
  • August 31, 2016
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Sandra Walklate Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool conjoint Chair of Criminology, Monash University, Melbourne.   H.G. Wells’ classic science fiction novel (from which the title of this presentation is taken) was first published in book form in...
  • July 17, 2016
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