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As 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 readingThe EG is a community of activists working towards social justice, state accountability and decarceration. Research and political activity arising from it are two of the most important pillars of the EG. They not only provide basis for direct engagement of our members and action on concerns related to constructions…
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 readingDownload and read here. Dear comrades and colleagues of the European Group We hope this month’s newsletter finds you well. We continue to work in strange times – whilst some of us are emerging from what feels like endless ‘lockdowns’, others continue to face uncertainty and Covid related restrictions and…
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…
Continue readingStatement of support: Dr. Ida Nafstad and Dr. Amin Parsa Authors: Dr. Victoria Canning, Dr. Daniel Jiménez Franco and Dr.Katja Simončič, co-ordinators of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control On 18th July, Morgan Johansson, the Swedish Minister for Justice used his political platform and following…
Continue readingDear friends We hope this finds you well. We have been a little quiet of late, due to coordinator illness and the demands of 2020. What a year! However, we are really pleased to say that we are still working away in the background on building the new European…
Continue readingStanley Cohen passed away on 7 January 2013 at the age of 70 in London. For this, Stan’s intellectual and political ethic, we should continue to fight. Thank you again, Stan, and thanks to our colleague and comrade Professor Stratos Georgoulas for this contribution. See the English, Greek, Spanish, Slovenian,…
Continue readingEG News & Plans – Coordinator Team [p.3] I. EG Annual General Meeting 28 April 2021[p.4] II. Greece’s Right-Wing Government is Massively Expanding Police Powers – G. Papanicolau & G.S. Rigakos [p.5] III. Military Coup in Myanmar – Liv S. Gaborit [p.10] IV. A Story of ViolenceRuymán Rodríguez (Anarchist Federation…
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