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Job Vacancy - Research Fellow
The Criminal Justice Centre (together with the Centre for Operational Police Research) is advertising for a post-doctoral research fellow.
More detail on the role and on the required qualifications and experience can be found at: and at
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Call for papers - Border Criminologies
with any questions.Foreign nationals in criminal courts to be investigated through British Academy award
's research on "Foreign nationals before the criminal courts: immigration status, deportability and punishment" has been awarded funding from the British Academy. Beginning in October the project wims to investigate the impact of immigration status on the treatment of defendants before the criminal justice system.
Alan Norrie to present 'Justice on the Slaughter-Bench' in Bogota
’s essay is being translated into Spanish and published as a short book (La Justicia en el banquillo de la muerte : El problema de la Culpa de la guerra en H. Arendt y K. Jaspers) by the Universidad Libre, Bogota.
He will discuss it at a seminar in Bogota on ‘Constitutions for Peace’ for law students, legal academics and practitioners on 25 September 2014. The purpose of the seminar is to think about the role of law in Colombia’s postconflict situation, following peace negotiations in Habana.
Alan Norrie to give keynote at ANZSOC 2014 Conference
will present a keynote address on ‘Criminal Justice and the Blaming Relation’ at the in Sydney, Australia from 1-3 October 2014.
Professor Norrie's address will expand upon his longterm research in criminal law and social theory as well as the development of a new project that will move from the standard legal form of criminal justice (“blaming relation”) to criminal justice's connection with social injustice, the problems of justice when societies perpetrate genocide, the nature of the preventive turn in recent criminal justice, and issues concerning law, transitional and restorative justice.