Abolition of Prison Visiting Committees

Howard League Scotland have written to all MSPs, expressing concern over the proposed replacement of Prison Visiting Committees with an advocacy service.

You can read the letter here

Prof. Mike Nellis recently gave a presentation entitled Prison Reform and the Quest for the Perfect Prison at the annual conference  of the Association of Prison Visitors (APV), held at the Stirling University Management Centre on 30 September. The theme of the conference was Making Prison Work  and took place in a background of concern as to whether the Scottish Government is giving its full support to APV. Click here for notes.

Who’s Who

Executive Committee Members of the Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland >>here

Howard League Scotland has most recently responded to the following consultations:

• Commission on Women Offenders
   
• Consultation on the Independent Monitoring of Prisons
   
• Scottish Government consultation on Rule 58 of the Mental Health Tribunal Rules

The Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland is an independent organisation whose members seek improvements to the criminal justice system in Scotland.

We believe it is time for criminal justice policy and systems to take a different direction, a direction with much more reliance on effective community approaches to reducing crime and dealing with criminality. A direction with much greater chance of success in reducing crime.

If you share the League's aims please join us. The subscription is a modest £15pa (households £25pa, and free for non-taxpayers) which together with donations are used to cover the organisation's running costs.

Public Lectures in Criminology
University of Edinburgh, School of Law

Should the Mob Rule?: Democracy and the Politics of Punishment.

Lisa Miller, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University

Wednesday 16 May, LT175, Old College 17:00 to 19:00

Lisa L. Miller is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and currently a visiting scholar at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. 

Her interests are at the intersection of law and social policy, specifically the politics of punishment and the legal and political mobilisation of racial minorities on crime and justice issues. She has written extensively on the development of crime and justice policy and legal frameworks in the United States and has also published research examining the inner workings of the federal criminal courts.  Her most recent book is The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty and the Politics of Crime Control. (2008, Oxford University Press).

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Fifteenth Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture

Riots, Revolution and Rehabilitation:The Future of Probation 

to be given by Steve Collett
Retired Chief Officer, Cheshire Probation Area/Trust (2001–2010)

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 1.00pm for 2.30pm at

The Institute of Criminology and the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

This is the fifteenth of a series of annual memorial lectures given in the spirit of Bill McWilliams’s work. In addition to individual invitations there will be a limited number of places available (on a first come first served basis) for others interested in attending. The 2012 lecture is to be hosted by The Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Mrs Joanne Garner,
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA

Telephone: 01223 335360; email: jf225@cam.ac.uk

The Fifteenth Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is supported by Dorset Probation Trust,
the Probation Chiefs’ Association, the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the late Hugh Sanders OBE