Event Starts: 02/09/2010
2-3 September 2010
To be held at: ICOSS Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences,
University of Sheffield
In recent decades, the historical study of crime has become a
significant topic within social history and criminology. This is the
second symposium that seeks to bring together historians of crime and
criminologists engaged in historical research to review current
scholarship. Like the first symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University
in September 2007, it will be a `single strand¿ event organised around
themed panels, keynote addresses and roundtable discussion. This year a
key aim is to address the inter-disciplinary engagement between history
and criminology. However we welcome panel presentations on the broad
range of issues concerning sources of, and response to, crime, from the
17C to the 20C. We are also keen to include postgraduates students
undertaking research in the history of crime and criminal justice.
We aim to organise panels concerning:
Methods and Interpretation
Comparative Histories
History and Current Policy
Criminal Lives
Empire and Internationalism
Place and Space
Keynote Speakers:
Louise Jackson, University of Edinburgh
Geoffrey Pearson, Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths College, London
Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield
Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies
For further information visit: http://www.shef.ac.uk/law/research/ccr/conferences/britcrime.html