2018

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…

This April Newsletter brings you two articles by us, Ida and Per. In our articles we intend to focus on both science and criminal justice’s inclination of producing the “other”. Per’s article focus on the interrelationship between the birth of a science on crime and the criminal and the gothic…

Just a couple of days ago people rallied to denounce US gun legislation. Marching under the banner March for Our Lives, this has been described as a peaceful protest for change and against school gun violence. The responses in the press and social media, even from political opponents as of…

In this months newsletter excerpts from brand new anthology on prisons. You can download this months newsletter here.

In this months newsletter you will find news from EG working groups as well as exciting new research on legal aid in the Nordic countries. You will find the newsletter following this link