Wednesday 26th January 2005, 6:00pm

'The Drummond Hunter Memorial Lecture'

'A Hellhole of Unlawfulness'

Originally from England, Clive Stafford Smith went to the States to study journalism at age 18 but switched and qualified there as a lawyer. Founder of the Charity Reprieve, which assists poor people facing the death penalty, he has represented around 300 death row inmates to date including the Scottish born Kenny Richey and, since the US started detaining men in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of terrorism, he has taken up the cases of 45 of the men currently held there.

Playfair Library, Old College, Edinburgh

You can download Clive Stafford Smiths Power Point Slides, but please be aware that it is a LARGE file (28Mb).

Wednesday 23rd February 2005, 6:00pm

'Restorative Justice'

Addressing Needs not just Deeds

Niall Kearney works for SACRO (Safeguarding Communities Reducing Offending) as Team Leader in a diversion from prosecution service and also as a Development Officer with a remit to establish a service for those affected by severe violent crime based on the principles of restorative justice. He is Convener of the Practice & Training Committee of the European Forum for Victim - Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice. He is a qualified social worker and mediation trainer & SVQ assessor.

Lecture Theatre 175, Old College, Edinburgh

The full text of Niall Kearney's talk can be downloaded as a Word document.

Wednesday 9th March 2005, 6:00pm

'Anger Management for Moral Panickers'

Penal Reform in Punitive Times

Dr Shadd Maruna, Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Shadd Maruna's research focuses on how ex-convicts reform and rebuild their lives, including issues of resettlement, processes of self-change, and (most recently) public attitudes and responses to law-breakers. He has written widely on this subject in both books and articles.

Lecture Theatre 175, Old College, Edinburgh

Dr Shadd Maruna's overhead slides for this talk are available as a Word document. Additionally Dr Marna has kindly provided a chapter from his book, from which this talk was based. The chapter is from Maruna, S. and King, A. (2004). "Public Opinion and Community Penalties." In Bottoms, T., Rex, S. and Robinson, G. (Eds.) Alternatives to Prison: Options for an Insecure Society.

Wednesday 27rd April 2005, 6:00pm

'A Unique Punishment'

Sentencing and the Prison Population in Scotland

Jacqueline Tombs is Professor of Criminal Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University, a committee member of the Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland and Director of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice. For over twenty years she was responsible for criminological research in The Scottish Office. She previously held research and teaching appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania. She has also held appointments as a Visiting Professor and Scholar at Universities in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Europe. Her main research interests are in the relationships between criminological knowledge and criminal justice policy and she has undertaken a wide range of studies of criminal justice decision-making, most notably on prosecution, sentencing and imprisonment.

Royal Procurators' Library, Glasgow

The full text of Jacqueline Tombs's talk can be downloaded as a Word document.