Gender Crime and Justice: Looking Backwards, Forwards, and Around - Special Panel Celebrating 25 Years of ESC

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

In this roundtable celebrating 25 years of the European Society of Criminology, we reflect on 25 years of a focus on inequalities, powerless and justice, charting developments in theory, policy and practice and the ways in which feminist scholarship has reshaped the contours of criminology. As well as highlighting the contribution that the ESC has made to all this work, through the ESC Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice Working Group which emerged in 2010, we will reflect on developments in women's justice in different European countries over the past 25 years. We will also consider contemporary feminist research agendas, and the future prospects for feminism in criminology if it transitions towards a more humanist stance in relation to crime and justice.

Subtopic

• Topic 1: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / Feminist Criminology (Gender, Crime and Justice WG)

Chair

• Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge

Individual Presentations

• Looking backwards and forwards over 25 years of feminist research agendas in criminology - Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge

• 25 years of gender, crime and justice in the ESC - Michele Jane Burman, University of Glasgow

• Reflecting on 25 years of 'progress' in womens justice in England and Wales - Shona Minson, University of Oxford

• 25 years of changes and developments in gender and justice in Poland - Monika S. Płatek, Law Faculty, Warsaw University