The Borders of Punishment: Criminal justice, citizenship and social exclusion

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Katja Franko AAS (University of Oslo)

(Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway) has published widely in globalization, borders, security and surveillance of everyday life. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (co-edited with C. Baillet, Routledge, 2011), Technologies of Insecurity (co-edited with H.M. Lomell and H. O. Gundhus; Routledge-Cavendish, 2009), Globalization and Crime (SAGE, 2007) and Sentencing in the Age of Information: from Faust to Macintosh (Routledge-Cavendish, 2005).

The Criminology of Mobility: A very brief introduction
Thursday 19 April 2012 09:20–09:30

Katja Franko AAS (University of Oslo)

(Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway) has published widely in globalization, borders, security and surveillance of everyday life. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (co-edited with C. Baillet, Routledge, 2011), Technologies of Insecurity (co-edited with H.M. Lomell and H. O. Gundhus; Routledge-Cavendish, 2009), Globalization and Crime (SAGE, 2007) and Sentencing in the Age of Information: from Faust to Macintosh (Routledge-Cavendish, 2005).

The ordered and the bordered society: migration control, citizenship and the Northern penal state
Thursday 19 April 2012 09:30–11:00
Session 1 (Chair: Carolyn Hoyle)
Discussant: Valsamis Mitsilegas, Queen Mary, University of London

Vanessa BARKER (Stockholm University)

is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University where she teaches courses on punishment, comparative criminology, immigration, and ethnicity. Her research on the USA has focused on imprisonment, the crime victims’ rights movement, the death penalty, the crime decline, including The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders (Oxford University Press, 2009).  In Europe, she is currently working on a comparative political analysis of territorial sovereignty expressed through the criminalization and expulsion of migrants.

No Man's Land: Deportation and the Paradox of Democracy, the Case of Sweden
Friday 20 April 2012 13:15–15:00
Session 7 (Chair: Lea Sitkin)
Discussant: David Nelken, University of Macerata and University of Oxford

Mary BOSWORTH (University of Oxford)

(Reader in Criminology, Fellow of St Cross College University of Oxford, Concurrently Professor of Criminology, Monash University Australia), has published widely on gender, race, prisons, and immigration detention. She is the author of Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons (1999, Ashgate); The US Federal Prison System (2002, Sage); Explaining US Imprisonment (2010, Sage); Race, Gender and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror (2007, Rutgers University Press) co-edited with Jeanne Flavin, and What is Criminology (2011, OUP) co-edited with Carolyn Hoyle.  She is also UK Editor-in Chief of Theoretical Criminology.

Can Immigration Detention Centres be Legitimate? Understanding Confinement in a Global World
Friday 20 April 2012 09:00–10:30
Session 5 (Chair: Emma Kaufman)
Discussant: Hindpal Singh Bhui, HM Prison Inspectorate

Mary BOSWORTH (University of Oxford)

(Reader in Criminology, Fellow of St Cross College University of Oxford, Concurrently Professor of Criminology, Monash University Australia), has published widely on gender, race, prisons, and immigration detention. She is the author of Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons (1999, Ashgate); The US Federal Prison System (2002, Sage); Explaining US Imprisonment (2010, Sage); Race, Gender and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror (2007, Rutgers University Press) co-edited with Jeanne Flavin, and What is Criminology (2011, OUP) co-edited with Carolyn Hoyle.  She is also UK Editor-in Chief of Theoretical Criminology.

The Criminology of Mobility: A very brief introduction
Thursday 19 April 2012 09:20–09:30

Catherine DAUVERGNE (University of British Columbia)

holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Professor Dauvergne’s research is in the areas of immigration and refugee law.  She has been involved in internationally collaborative work regarding first instance refugee decision making and she led an interdisciplinary project examining gender issues in Canada's refugee decision making system.  She is currently completing a SSHRC project examining humanitarian and compassionate exceptions to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.  Professor Dauvergne's most recent book is Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.  Her newest research will examine why international human rights norms are not working well for non-citizens in Canada and will consider the role of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms in this failure.

The Troublesome Intersections of Refugee Law and Criminal Law
Thursday 19 April 2012 11:15–12:45
Session 2 (Chair: Ana Aliverti)
Discussant: Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham

Matthew GIBNEY (University of Oxford)

is University Reader in Politics and Forced Migration and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He is a political scientist who has written widely on issues relating to refugees, migration control and citizenship from the perspectives of normative political theory and comparative politics. He is a graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and completed an M.Phil and a Ph.D. at Cambridge University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He has taught politics at Monash, Cambridge, University of Toronto and Harvard universities. He has held Visiting Academic positions at Northwestern University in Illinois, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and, most recently at the University of Toronto and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Deportation, Crime and the Changing Character of Membership in the United Kingdom
Friday 20 April 2012 09:00–10:30
Session 5 (Chair: Emma Kaufman)
Discussant: Hindpal Singh Bhui, HM Prison Inspectorate

Nicolay JOHANSEN (University of Oslo)

is a post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. He has published in a variety of criminological areas such as drug addiction, social control, violence and classical sociology, as well as white-collar crime, urban life and the foundations of social theory.

Emma Kaufman received her B.A. from Columbia University and her M.Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Law at Oxford as a joint Clarendon and Marshall Scholar, and is appointed as a Guest Scholar at the University of California, San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. Her research examines the treatment of foreign national prisoners within the British prison estate. Emma has published on American immigration imprisonment, gender and punishment, and British penal policy. Her wider interests include race and gender, sentencing, and the sociology of punishment.

Forcing the unenforceable: Governing the funnel of exclusion
Thursday 19 April 2012 15:30–17:00
Session 4 (Chair: Thomas Ugelvik)
Discussant: Benjamin Bowling, Kings College London

Emma KAUFMAN (University of Oxford)

received her B.A. from Columbia University and her M.Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Law at Oxford as a joint Clarendon and Marshall Scholar, and is appointed as a Guest Scholar at the University of California, San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. Her research examines the treatment of foreign national prisoners within the British prison estate. Emma has published on American immigration imprisonment, gender and punishment, and British penal policy. Her wider interests include race and gender, sentencing, and the sociology of punishment.

Hubs and Spokes: The Transformation of the British Prison
Friday 20 April 2012 10:45–12:15
Session 6 (Chair: Sophie Palmer)
Discussant: Coretta Phillips , LSE

Maggy LEE (University of Hong Kong)

is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of Hong Kong and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. She is currently working on research projects on British lifestyle migration in Asia (funded by the ESRC/Hong Kong RGC) and female transnational migrants in Hong Kong (funded by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council). Her recent publications include: Human Trafficking (Willan, 2007) and Trafficking and Global Crime Control (Sage, 2010).

Trafficking, Migration Control and the Criminology of Mobility
Thursday 19 April 2012 15:30–17:00
Session 4 (Chair: Thomas Ugelvik)
Discussant: Benjamin Bowling, Kings College London

Dario MELOSSI (University of Bologna)

is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law of the University of Bologna. After having being conferred a law degree at this University, he went on to do a Ph. D. in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was then Assistant and thereafter Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1993. He has published The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System (together with Massimo Pavarini, 1981, orig. 1977), The State of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social Control in the Making of Democracy (1990), Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in Europe and America (2008), and most recently, with Maximo Sozzo and Richard Sparks, Travels of the Criminal Question: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion (2011). In 2003 he has introduced the new Transaction Edition of Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer, Punishment and Social Structure (orig. 1939). He is one of the most prominent spokespersons for the so-called “critical criminology” movement. He is the main editor of Studi sulla questione criminale, co-editor of Punishment and Society, and member of the Board of many other professional journals. His current research concerns the processes of construction of deviance and social control within the European Union, especially with regard to migration.

A Political Economy of Migration and imprisonment
Friday 20 April 2012 13:15–15:00
Session 7 (Chair: Lea Sitkin)
Discussant: David Nelken, University of Macerata and University of Oxford

Sharon PICKERING (Monash University, Australia)

is Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia.  She researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. She currently leads a series of research projects focusing on the intersections of security and migration. She has previously worked in Northern Ireland, on counter-terrorism policing, and human rights and women in South East Asia. She is currently head of the Criminology program at Monash University and is the Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. She has recently taken up an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on Border Policing and Security.

Policing Multiple Borders
Thursday 19 April 2012 13:45–15:15
Session 3 (Chair: Christopher Giacomantonio)
Discussant: James Sheptycki, York University, Canada.

Juliet STUMPF (Lewis & Clark, USA)

is Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.  Stumpf’s current research explores the intersection of immigration law with criminal law and other  substantive areas including constitutional law, civil rights, and employment law.  Her research is interdisciplinary, examining the insights that sociology, psychology, criminology, and political science bring to the study of immigration law.  Her recent publications include Doing Time: Crimmigration Law and the Perils of Haste, 58 UCLA L. Rev. 1705 (2011); Fitting Punishment, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1683 (2009); States of Confusion: the Rise of State and Local Power over Immigration, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 1557 (2008); and The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power, 56 Am. U. L. Rev. 367 (2006). Before joining the Lewis & Clark Law School faculty in 2005, Professor Stumpf was on the Lawyering Program faculty at the New York University School of Law.  She clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit, and served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.  She practiced with the law firm of Morrison and Foerster in Palo Alto, California and Washington, D.C.

The Process is the Punishment in Crimmigration Law
Thursday 19 April 2012 11:15–12:45
Session 2 (Chair: Ana Aliverti)
Discussant: Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham

Thomas UGELVIK (University of Oslo)

is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is currently working on an ethnography of state power with a particular focus on immigration detention. His research interests also include crime and globalization, crime and the media and gender issues.

Less eligibility resurrected? : Immigration, exclusion, and the Norwegian welfare state prison
Friday 20 April 2012 10:45–12:15
Session 6 (Chair: Sophie Palmer)
Discussant: Coretta Phillips , LSE

Darshan VIGNESWARAN (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)

is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity where he coordinates the Diversification of the State in the Mega City project and the Public Space and Diversity working group. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Forced Migration Studies Programme, WITS University, South Africa where he co-coordinates International Policing, Mobility and Crime in South Africa, an initiative funded by the Open Society Foundation. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection titled Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa and has published many book chapters and peer-reviewed articles including for Political Geography, Review of International Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies and Policing & Society. Darshan has provided expert consultation to INTERPOL, the EU, UNHCR, IOM, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and comment for Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, and the New York Times.

Policing in South Africa: depicting migration as crime
Thursday 19 April 2012 13:45–15:15
Session 3 (Chair: Christopher Giacomantonio)
Discussant: James Sheptycki, York University, Canada.

Leanne WEBER (Monash University, Australia)

is a Larkins Senior Research Fellow in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, specializing in migration policing. She has studied and worked at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge and the Human Rights Centre at Essex University; held research contracts at the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University; and taught criminology at the University of Western Sydney and The University of New South Wales. She is co-editor, with Sharon Pickering of Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control (Springer, 2006)and co-author, also with Sharon Pickering, of Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier (Palgrave, 2011).

Policing Multiple Borders
Thursday 19 April 2012 13:45–15:15
Session 3 (Chair: Christopher Giacomantonio)
Discussant: James Sheptycki, York University, Canada.

Lucia ZEDNER (University of Oxford)

is Professor of Criminal Justice, Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and a Member of the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
 Since 2007 she has also held the position of Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Sydney where she is a regular visitor.
 She has served on the editorial boards of many journals: currently these include the Criminal Law Review, European Journal of Criminology, International Journal of Criminal Law Education, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and the Oxford Comparative Law Forum.
 She is also the General Editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series Clarendon Series in Criminology. Professor Zedner is currently co-directing with Andrew Ashworth a three-year study of Preventive Justice generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which will re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of crime prevention and public protection.

Is the Criminal Law only for Citizens? A problem at the borders of punishment
Thursday 19 April 2012 09:30–11:00
Session 1 (Chair: Carolyn Hoyle)
Discussant: Valsamis Mitsilegas, Queen Mary, University of London


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