Department of Philosophy
Criminalization Project
Previous Events
7 th February 2008 (University of Warwick)
Paper presented by:
Victor Tadros – “Crimes and Security”
13th March 2008 (University of Stirling)
Paper presented by:
Massimo Renzo – “Three Principles of State Legitimacy”
4th April 2008 (University of Glasgow)
Papers presented by:
Simon McKenzie - 'Performative Regulation: A Case Study in How Powerful People Avoid Criminal Labels', by Simon McKenzie & Penny Green, British Journal of Criminolgy, 2007.
Other participants: Rowan Cruft, Sarah Armstrong, Fergus McNeill.
2nd May 2008 (University of Stirling)
Papers discussed:
- "Beyond the Harm Principle" by Arthur Ripstein, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 34, pp. 215-245, Jun 2006;
- "Harm Versus Sovereignty: A Reply to Ripstein" by Colin Bird, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 35, pp. 179-194, Mar 2007;
"Legal Moralism and the Harm Principle: A Rejoinder" by Arthur Ripstein, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 35, pp. 195-201, Mar 2007;
- “Republican Theory and Criminal Punishment” by Philip Pettit, Utilitas, Vol. 9, pp. 59-79.
Other participants: Piero Moraro.
10th June 2008 (University of Glasgow) - “Young People and Criminal Law”
Papers presented by:
Rod Morgan – “Summary Justice - Fast But Fair?”;
- David Archard – 'Children's Rights and Juvenile Justice' in A. Lockyer, M. Hill and F. Stone, Youth Justice and Child Protection (2006);
- Leslie McAra – McAra, L., and McVie, S., (2005,) "The Usual Suspects? Street-life, Young Offenders and the Police", Criminal Justice vol. 5 (1) pp 5 - 36;
- Clare McDiarmid – Childhood and Crime (Dundee University Press, 2007).
7th July 2008 (University of Warwick)
Papers presented by:
- Richard Dagger - “Republicanism and Crime”;
- Michelle Dempsey & Jonathan Herring - "The Typical Justification of Criminalization".
Other participants: Matthew Clayton, Octavio Ferraz, Grant Lamond, Roger Leng, William O’Brian, Anna Puthuran, Shlomit Wallerstein.
11th – 12th September (University of Glasgow): First Workshop
Papers presented by:
- Andrew Ashworth & Lucia Zedner - "Preventive justice: a problem of under-criminalization?";
- Markus Dubber - "Civilizing Criminal Law";
- Mireille Hildebrandt – "Proactive Forensic Profiling: Unbounded Criminalization?";
- John Stanton-Ife - "The Crime, the Harm and the Wrongness of Rape";
- Carol Steiker - "Prudential Mercy: Revitalizing Discretion in an Era of Mass Incarceration";
Other participants: Richard Sparks, James Chalmers, Peter Duff, Erik Claes, Neil Walker, Rowan Cruft, Emilios Christodulidis, Scott Veitch, Fiona Leverick, Douglas Husak, Adam Tomkins, Simon Hope, Raymond Critch.
24th October 2008 (University of Warwick)
Book Discussion: Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously by Paddy Hillyard, Christina Pantazis, Steve Tombs and Dave Gordon (Pluto Press, 2004)
21st November 2008 (University of Stirling)
Papers presented by:
- Kimmo Nuotio - "Theories of Criminalisation and the Limits of Criminal Law"
- Antony Duff - “Subverting Criminal Law?”
- Lindsay Farmer - “Times and Space in Criminal Law”
Other participants: Sakari Melander, Niall Hamilton-Smith, William Munro, Piero Moraro and Ambrose Lee
16th January 2009 (University of Glasgow)
Papers presented by:
- Fiona Leverick & James Chalmers – “Fair Labelling in Criminal Law” (2008) Modern Law Review, 71(2), 217-246;
- Massimo Renzo - "Crimes against Humanity and the Limits of International Criminal Law"
- Discussion of Hypercrime: A Geometry of Virtual Harms by Michael McGuire (Routledge 2007).
Other participants: Andrew Ashworth, Sarah Armstong, Dudley Knowles, Simon Mackenzie, Scott Veitch.
