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The Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland 2004/5 LECTURE SERIES The Howard League organises two series of public lectures in the Spring and Autumn of each year. Details of the Autumn 2004 Spring 2005 Lectures are given below. Links will be added to summaries of the lectures when these are available. The League also co-operates with the Sutherland Trust in the organisation of occasional lectures and seminars on subjects of mutual interest. To see details of the most recent of these click on this link. Lectures are generally held in the University of Edinburgh Law Lecture Theatre (LT175), Old College*, South Bridge, Edinburgh. The Drummond Hunter Memorial lecture is held in the Edinburgh University Playfair Library in old college by courtesy of the Principal. We arranged for the first time in recent years a lecture in Glasgow on 16th March 2004 when Professor Jim Murdoch was speaking. For 2005 we have one of our Committee Members, Professor Tombs giving a lecture on the results of recent research she has undertaken on sentencing in Scotland- see below. All HLS lectures are FREE and open to the Public. (The Sutherland Trust charge a modest fee to cover overheads for the joint lecture with the HLS.) There is a discussion at the end of each lecture, followed by refreshments. *(To see a map of the location of Old College click on this link - please note that this year 2004/5 there will be no parking places available in the quadrangle of old college) You can see the programme for previous series and download lecture texts by following this link: HLS lectures 2003 |
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The Drummond Hunter Memorial Lecture;
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Wednesday 27th October, 6:00pm, LT 175 Old College, Edinburgh ''Is it good for your health to be a prisoner ?' Dr Andrew Fraser, Dr Fraser has a background in Public Health Medecine. Before becoming head of prison health care at the Scottish Prison Service he was Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland |
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Wednesday 17th November, 6:00pm, LT 175, Old College, Edinburgh “Prison Without Bars” :the impact of imprisonment on the families of people sentenced to custody Angela Morgan, Director of Families Outside Angela Morgan has been Director of Families Outside since January 2003. She has spent most of her career working in mental health following a Hons degree in psychology and Masters in Social Work at the University of London. After a period working on one of the first psychiatric hospital closure programmes in London in the mid 1980s she moved to Scotland and worked for the Scottish Association for Mental Health in senior roles with responsibility for Scotland wide service management, new service development, policy and campaigning |
You can now download the full text of Angela Morgan's talk as a Word document and the associated powerpoint filee.
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Wednesday 15th December, 6:00pm, LT 175, Old College, Edinburgh 'The Urge to Punish' The Rt Rev Richard Holloway: former Bishop of Edinburgh
Dr Holloway is a writer and broadcaster. He has written numerous books, including GODLESS MORALITY and ON FORGIVENESS, and presented a number of television series, including HOLLOWAY'S ROAD and THE SWORD AND THE CROSS. In 2003/4 he chaired an independent panel on behalf of NCH which inquired into the Children's Hearings System in Scotland. You can see the report of this inquiry by following this link
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You can now download Dr Holloway's speaking notes as a Word document or as a pdf filee. |
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Wednesday 26th January 2005, at 6.00pm The Drummond Hunter Memorial Lecture entitled 'A Hellhole of Unlawfulness' will be given by Clive Stafford Smith
in the Playfair Library, Edinburgh University. It will be followed by (complimentary) drinks and light refreshment 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 Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of terrorism, he has taken up the cases of 45 of the men currently held there.
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Sorry, we don't have a copy
of Clive Stafford Smith's lecture that you can download but he has given us
a copy of the powerpoint slides he used. You
can now download the whole powerpoint file from the link that follows
but please -
BE AWARE IT IS A VERY LARGE FILE - around 29MB - and even with a broadband connection could take around 8 minutes to download. Without a broadband connection I hate to think how long it may take |
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Wednesday 23rd February 2005, LT 175 Old College, Edinburgh 5.30pm AGM (Members only) 6.00pm 'Restorative Justice - addressing needs not just deeds' Niall Kearney 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 servere 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 mediaton trainer & SVQ assessor.
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You
can now download the full text of Niall Kearney's talk as a
Word document
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Wednesday 9th March 2005, 6:00pm, LT 175 Old College, Edinburgh '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. |
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Wednesday 27th April 2005, 6:00pm, Glasgow 'A Unique Punishment: Sentencing and the Prison Population in Scotland' Royal Procurators' Library, Glasgow (see location map) Prof Jacqueline Tombs, 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.
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You can download this programme a) as an A4 poster b) as a pocket leaflet (folded A4) - just click on the links but allow up to a minute for the file to download. You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the file. The Howard League is being assisted in providing this series of lectures through a donation from the Robertson Trust and a grant from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation as part of its 'rethinking crime and punishment' initiative. The Playfair Library has been made available for The Drummond Hunter Memorial Lecture by kind permission of the Principal of Edinburgh University
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