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38th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

The Politics of Criminology

CALL FOR PAPERS

01 st – 05th September 2010

Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports

Department of Sociology,

University of the Aegean

Mytilene -Lesvos, Greece

CALL FOR PAPERS

From Howard Becker’s 1967 exhortation, ‘Whose side are we on?’ the issue of the politics of criminology has continued to be a significant theme in academic debate, policy implementation and legal reform. Variously identified as ‘technicians of the State’ or ‘apologists for criminal justice’, administrative criminologists have been criticized as functioning primarily to ‘manage’ the consequences and conflict of structural inequalities in advanced democratic states. They are represented as necessary and willing functionaries in what Nils Christie termed the ‘social control industry’. What critical analysis has established is that in official definition, popular discourse and state intervention ‘crime’ and ‘conflict’ are political; in the processes of recording and reporting, measurement and targeting, policing and punishment. The conference invites papers on any aspect of the theme, including theoretical debates and controversies in critical analysis, primary research, global trends and international comparisons. Suggestions are:

  • Critical histories of criminology
  • Theorising power, authority and legitimacy
  • Knowledge, ideology and hegemony
  • The nation-state in a global context
  • ‘Crimes of the powerful’; ‘Crimes of the powerless’
  • The politics of imprisonment and detention
  • Class, poverty and marginalization
  • Gender, power and feminist critiques
  • Neo-colonialism, migration and borders
  • Criminalising children and young people
  • Reflections on ‘harm’
  • Green criminology and harms against nature and non-human species
  • Challenging the state and the politics of resistance

The conference will also celebrate the life, work and memory of Karen Leander 1949-2009. Papers are invited particularly on Gender and violence.

Abstracts submitted by: 31stMay 2010

Full Details: Assistant Professor Dr. Stratos Gorgoulas

Address:1M. Asias & Tertseti’s street, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.

Tel: (+30) 2251036538

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38th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

The Politics of Criminology

Registration Form

01 st – 05th September 2010

Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports,

University of the Aegean

Mytilene -Lesvos, Greece

Registration Form

To book your place at the conference please fill in this form and return via email to or by post to Assistant Professor Dr. Stratos Georgoulas, Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports,1 M. Asias & Tertseti street, University of the Aegean, Mytilene - Lesvos, Greece.

Booking forms must be received by31st May 2010.

If delegates wish to present a paper at the conference, please submit your abstract form along with this booking form.

Conference fees include the delegate fee, refreshments (tea/coffee/biscuits), all lunches and dinners and the book of abstracts.

Payment should be made to the Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports, in Euros (€). Payment can be made by credit card, in our bank or on site.

Email confirmation of payment will be issued. Receipts will be issued upon request.

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If you have any special requirements please contact to Assistant Professor Dr. Stratos Georgoulas on (+30) 2251036538 or to discuss how we can assist you during the conference.

Conference fees

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38th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

The Politics of Criminology

Abstract Form

01 st – 05th September 2010

Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports,

University of the Aegean

Mytilene -Lesvos, Greece

Abstract Form

To register your interest in presenting a paper at the conference please fill in this form and return via email or or by post to Assistant Professor Dr. Stratos Georgoulas,,Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports, 1 M. Asias & Tertseti’s street, University of the Aegean, Mytilene - Lesvos, Greece.

Abstract forms must be received by 31st May 2010.

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