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Guilt and Criminal Justice: (Re)Opening the Dialogue
The Criminal Justice Centre at Warwick Law School is delighted to be hosting the first BSC Midlands Regional Network Seminar for 2015-16. This seminar will discuss how an understanding of guilt, as a concept and as an emotion, can shed light upon contemporary problems facing criminal justice systems.
Although there has been extensive work done on guilt within other disciplines, such as philosophy, sociology and psychology, this concept has not figured very prominently in criminological debates in the UK. Meanwhile, while the idea of guilt, as a moral category, is sometimes present in legal academic debate, much less attention has been given to the psychosocial and political dimensions of the term. This seminar aims to address these gaps, exploring to what extent the notion of guilt can assist an understanding of the authoritarian, punitive and preventive elements of contemporary criminal justice.
Speaker programme
Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge)
Dr Samantha Ashenden (Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Please click here for the speakers abstracts.
Details (including registration, venue information and directions to Warwick) will be posted on the Criminal Justice Centre website http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/cjc
To book your place at this event, please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guilt-and-criminal-justice-reopening-the-dialogue-tickets-18499879638
Please address any enquiries to J.C.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk
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