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DL extended to Sunday, 26 March 2023 THE VIOLENCE OF LAW In most legal and political discourses, law is usually associated with peace and the search for peaceful solutions to social conflicts. Nevertheless, while law and the rule of law are touted as the antonym of violence, law itself is…
Continue readingDear EG comrades, Attached is the ‘definitive’ program. Best wishes and see you all in Turin! Book of abstracts:
Continue readingFollowing the publication of the First Do No Harm report (also known as the Cumberlege Review), Baroness Julia Cumberlege CBE, a life peer who chaired the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, stated “The first duty of any health system is to do no harm to those in its care; but I…
Continue readingby Remember Oluwale in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: We are raising money to fund a blue plaque on Leeds Bridge to commemorate the life and death of David Oluwale. David Oluwale was a British-Nigerian citizen who arrived in Hull in East Yorkshire as a stowaway in a cargo ship from Lagos….
Continue readingConference report by Andrea Beckmann Date: 22.-23.10.202 Venue: Albert Hall, Nottingham A conference of the British/Irish section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control This conference has been a long time coming and was challenging to organise as COVID put the brakes on this event…
Continue readingWe are very pleased to announce that EG member Professor Valeria Vegh Weis has been awarded with the Critical Criminology of the Year Award by the American Society of Criminology Division of Critical Criminology. The awarding committee were greatly impressed with scope, scale and impact of Dr Weis’s work. Further,…
Continue readingThis is and urgent message to inform that tomorrow’s EG meeting (Wed-8) has to be postponed since we couldn’t send the call to all of our email lists due to a wonderful blocking of our email account provided by Gmail for alleged “security” reasons. We are trying to fix it…
Continue readingFollowing patient-led campaigns, on the 22nd February 2018, Jeremy Hunt, the then, Secretary of State for Health, commissioned a review into the potentially harmful side effects of three NHS treatments: Primodos; Mesh and Sodium Valproate. As a result, on the 8th July 2020, the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review published the First Do No Harm report. According to Baroness Cumberlege, a life…
Continue readingAs news of the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard by a Metropolitan Police Officer became a headline story, a vigil held in her memory was violently suppressed by the very same police force on Clapham Common in London. Both incidents should shock us, but they should occasion no surprise. The world may have…
Continue readingWE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST ALARM AND ANGER OVER THE HARASSMENT OF OUR COLLEAGUE AND COMRADE PROFESSOR STRATOS GEORGOULAS AND EIGHT OTHER CITIZENS BY THE GREEK POLICE Georgoulas and the other eight other citizens participated with many others in a public event on November 17th 2020 commemorating the Athens…
Continue readingRE: The Case of Hassan Diab and Issues in Canadian Extradition Law 2011 letter from the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control expressingconcerns about the Hassan Diab case and Canadian extradition law. “The European Group is not just an academic network”
Continue readingThe European Group for the Study of Deviation and Social Control presents this statement of total support for Iñaki Rivera Mr. Rivera, Director of the Observatory of the Criminal System and Human Rights at the University of Barcelona, has been criminally denounced by the section of prison workers of the…
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