 Title: Criminology in Greece Today |
38th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control The Politics of Criminology
CALL FOR PAPERS
01st – 05th September 2010 The Department of Sociology and the Laboratory of Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports,
University of the Aegean http://soc-eknexasrv1.aegean.gr/site/index_en.html
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:
The conference will also celebrate the life, work and memory of Karen Leander 1949-2009. Papers are invited particularly on Gender and violence.
Further details of the conference venue and related information can be viewed at Abstracts to be submitted by 30 June 2010, to Assistant Professor Dr. Stratos Georgoulas.
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