University of Stirling

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;

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.

 

13 February 2009 (University of Stirling)

Joint meeting with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Reseearch. Participants: Claire Lightowler, Richard Sparks, Gillian McIvor, Sarah Armstrong, Yulia Chisyakova, Niall Hamilton-Smith, Sharon Cowan.

 

20-21 March (University of Warwick): Second Workshop

Papers presented by

  • Carol S Steiker - " Criminalization and the Criminal Process:  Prudential Mercy as a Limit on Penal Sanctions in an Era of Mass Incarceration". Response by Rowan Cruft.
  • Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner - " Preventive Orders: A problem of under-criminalization?". Response by Douglas Husak.
  • R.A. Duff - " Perversions and Subversions of Criminal Law". Response by Andrew Williams.
  • Mireille Hildebrandt - " Proactive Forensic Profiling: Proactive Criminalization?". Response by Kimberley Brownlee.
  • John Stanton-Ife - " Horrific Crime". Response by Erik Claes.
  • Victor Tadros - " Criminalization and Regulation". Response by Alon Harel.
  • Markus D. Dubber - "Criminal Law between Public and Private Law". Response by Tatjana Hornle.       
  • Lindsay Farmer - "Criminal Wrongs in Historical Perspective". Response by Susan Mendus.

8 May (University of Glasgow)

Victor Tadros “Wrongdoing and Motivation”

Discussion of Tim Scanlon, Moral Dimension: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame

 

2 June (University of Warwick) – History and Crime

Papers presented by : Nicola Lacey, Judith Rowbotham and Barry Godfrey.

Other Participants: Jackie Hodgson, Dan Priel, Barry Godfrey, Chris Bennett, Dennis Baker, Mario Ricciardi, Fabienne Peter

 

 

10-11 September (University of Glasgow): Third Workshop

Papers presented by:

  • Sharon Cowan – “Disavowing the Erotic, Instantiating Injury: Separating Sex and Violence in Criminal Law”
  • Paul H. Robinson - “Criminalization Tensions: Empirical Desert, Doing Justice and Changing Norms"
  • Alan Norrie – “When Good People do Bad Acts: Euthanasia and Criminal Responsibility”
  • Michael McGuire – “Abnormal Law: Teratology as a Logic of Criminalization”
  • Peter Ramsay – “Police Power in the Subjective Pattern of Liability”
  • Adil Haque - “Structures of International Crimes”
  • Malcolm Thorburn – “Constitutionalism and the Limits of Criminal Law”

Other participants: Peter Duff, Claes Lernestedt, Scott Veitch, Stuart MacDonald, Antony Hatzistavrou, Line Marie Sorsdal, Vera Bergelson.

 

30 October (University of Warwick) – Paternalism

Papers presented by: Andrew Von Hirsch & Andrew Simester, Clare McGlynn and Sharon Cowan.

Other Participants: Jackie Hodgson, Dan Priel, Fabienne Peter

 

29 January (University of Stirling) – German and European Criminal Law

Papers presented by: Michael Bohlander, Jackie Hodgson, Sarah Sumners.

Other Participants: Gustavo Beade,  Kay Goodall, James Chalmers.

 

26-27 February (Univesity of Stirling)  – Joint meeting with members of the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and the University of Oslo

Papers presented by: Vidar Halvorsen, Lill Scherdin, Pamela Ferguson, Claire Connelly, Claire McDiarmid.

Other participants: Sharon Cowan, Liz Campbell, Findlay Stark, Line Marie Sorsdal.

 

 

19-20 March (University of Stirling): Fourth Workshop

Papers presented by:

  • Paul H. Robinson - “Criminalization Tensions: Empirical Desert, Doing Justice and Changing Norms". Response by Stuart MacDonald.

  • Adil Haque - “Structures of International Crimes”. Response by Massimo Renzo.
  • Marcia Baron - "The Standard of the Reasonable Person in the Criminal Law". Response by Victor Tadros.
  • Andrew Cornford - "Resultant Luck and Criminal Liability". Response by Vera Bergelson.
  • Michael McGuire – “Abnormal Law: Teratology as a Logic of Criminalization”. Response by Antony Hatzistavrou.
  • Sharon Cowan – “Disavowing the Erotic, Instantiating Injury: Separating Sex and Violence in Criminal Law”. Response by Sandra Marshall.
  • Alan Norrie – “When Good People do Bad Acts: Euthanasia and Criminal Responsibility”. Response by Peter Duff.
  • Malcolm Thorburn – “Constitutionalism and the Limits of Criminal Law”. Response by Claes Lernestedt.

 

30 April (University of Glasgow) – Terrorism

Papers discussed: Jeremy Waldron, “Security and Liberty, the Image of Balance”; Samuel Scheffler, “Is Terrorism Morally Distinctive?”; Matthew Noah Smith, “Terrorism, Shared Rules and Trust”.

 

12 May (University of Stirling) – Law and Coercion

Papers presented by: William Edmundson, Grant Lamond and Nicos Stavropoulos. Other participants: John Horton, Dudley Knowles, Piero Moraro, James Dempsey, Ambrose Lee

 

18 June (University of Glasgow) – Thick vs Thin Terms and Legal Descriptivism.

Discussion of: Daniel Y. Elstein and Thomas Hurka, “From Thick to Thin: Two Moral Reduction Plans”; Alan C. Michaels, “‘Rationales’ of Criminal Law Then and Now: for a Judgmental Descriptivism”