Kat Hadjimatheou publishes blog piece on anti-trafficking at the border for Oxford University's Border Criminologies site. You can view the piece here.

On 4th July 2017 Kat Hadjimatheou presented her paper 'Neither Confirm nor Deny: Secrecy and Disclosure in Undercover Policing' (forthcoming Dec.2017, Criminal Justice Ethics) at an event organized by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies entitled 'Can Undercover Policing be Held to Account?'.

Tom Sorell and Monica Whitty (WMG) presented a joint paper on 'Victim-Offenders in Scams' at a conference on Cybercrime held at Nuffield College, Oxford on 13th June 2017. The paper draws on a soon-to-be submitted co-authored paper, 'Romance Scams and Victimhood' connected to the ongoing EPSRC-funded DAPM project.

Kat's article on How Brexit border debate could affect human trafficking into UK has been published in the Conversation

'Security Ethics', a new collection co-edited by IERG's Kat Hadjimatheou, Tom Sorell, and John Guelke has been published by Routledge. Find out more here.

About the Book

 Governments often act in the name of security to protect their citizenries. For example by legislation or by the recruitment and employment of large numbers of armed personnel to detect and prosecute violent crime, or via engagements in military interventions to repel or pre-empt foreign attacks. These practices are often taken to have strong moral justifications. The value of security is linked to the value of life and the disvalue of violence and injury, and all of these are central both to theoretical accounts of and common sense views about the difference between right and wrong. The essays in this volume seek to increase our understanding of state action in the name of security and take a range of viewpoints and approaches. Some articles attempt to delimit the concept of security, or dispute attempted delimitations; some consider security as a 'good' and ask what sort of good it is, and how valuable; whilst others consider the relation between state action in the name of security and state action in the name of other goods, notably liberty, or consider ethical issues in health security, climate security and cybersecurity. Overall, this collection of essays shows how appeals by governments to the value of security have grown out of relatively recent events and processes at a global level, such as the response to pandemics, the acceleration of climate change, and counter-terrorism. The volume features an introductory essay and forms part of a five-volume series on legal ethics and the enforcement of law.