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Read the newsletter here. See you at the 47th EG Conference in Barcelona! Summary: I. Is it a crime to be poor? – Rona Epstein [p.4]II. Spain’s second-largest bank BBVA charged with bribery, disclosure of secrets and corruption – ‘Spain as usual’ [p.5]III. Barcelona’s ‘top manta’ street vendors feel ‘betrayed’…

Read the newsletter here. Welcome to the June edition of our newsletter! We are delighted to be including the provisional programme for our forthcoming conference in Barcelona, 4-6th September 2019. This is an important time in Catalonian history, and we are pleased to be hosting many members of the European…

Dear comrades and colleagues of the European Group Welcome to the April edition of our newsletter. We are delighted to say that the Group continues to go from strength to strength, with more members than ever and a promising outlook for the annual conference and the forthcoming editions of our…

I. Barcelona, 4-6 September 2019. Call for Contributions       European Group 47th Annual Conference – in English & Spanish II. Scientific Skepticism and Political Commitment. For Stan Cohen by Stratos Georgoulas III. Spain: Concern over the campaign against Iñaki Rivera            World Organisation Against Torture – OMCT IV. Criminal Justice Reform in…

I. RESISTING STATE-CORPORATE CRIMES AND FACING REPRESSION. TOWARDS A THEORY OF INSURRECTION. Barcelona 2019 European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control 47th Annual Conference. Can Batlló, Barcelona, 4, 5, 6 September 2019 [Call for contributions & accomodation info]. II. No Small Fracking Matter. Samantha Fletcher. III. Letter…

I. Barcelona, 4-6 September 2019: European Group 47th Annual Conference II. EG Working Groups and National Representatives: Updated list and information III. John Kendall. Regulating police detention. Voices from behind closed doors – book IV. Bree Carlton & Emma K. Russell. Resisting Carceral Violence. Women’s Imprisonment and the Politics of…

TABLE OF CONTENTSI. Ljubljana 2018. A personal chronicle by Emma Hyndman [p.3]II. No Prison. Manifesto & book published by EG Press Edited by Massimo Pavarini & Livio Ferrari [p.5]III. Anarchism, Penal Law and Popular Resistance. Published by EG Press Edited by Andrea Beckman, J.M. Moore and Azrini Wahidin [p.7]IV. Puerto…

 In less than a week’s time, it is the European Group’s 46th Annual Conference. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in Ljubljana and we are grateful to the organizers for all their work creating what in Norwegian we would call “sommerens vakreste eventyr” (this summer’s most beautiful adventure). Read…

We are happy to present the program for the European Group Annual Conference 2018 in Ljubljana. It is a packed program with much to look forward to, with its focus on Social harm in a digitalized global world: Technologies of power and normalized practices of contemporary society. You will find…

“For anyone advocating penal abolitionism it is essential that they acknowledge the harms of VAW and the challenges that it confronts to the idea of living in a world without prisons…” Read more about this as well as the EG’s upcoming conference in this month’s newsletter which can be downloaded here.

Last October Catalonia held a referendum into becoming independent from Spain – a vote the Spanish authorities quickly claimed was illegal and whose claim of illegitimacy was used to “make it OK” to strike down those they deemed insurgents. We all remember the pictures shared in the news and on…