And particularly enjoyed this at BSC2011

Ms Sarah Lamble
QUEER INVESTMENTS IN PUNISHMENT: SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE EXPANDING PENAL STATE

Arguing that LGBTQ activists sucked into Punitiveness. For instance some nearly tricked into an EDL fronted 'Pride' March that was just an excuse to march through muslim areas.


(see my entry on Queer Theory in Sage Dictionary of Criminology too)

More greenery at BSC2011

Ms Lieselot Bisschop
FLOWS OF TRANSNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME: CASE STUDY RESEARCH ON E‐WASTE AND TIMBER

Dr Gary Potter
RESISTANCE IS FERTILE

Environmental Activism as (potentially) criminal

Miss Hanneke Mol
SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE FROM AN ECOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE: A (RE‐)CONSIDERATION OF HARM

perils of palm Oil in columbia

A green session at BSC2011

Transnational Context of Local Environmental Crimes Professor Nigel South
WATER AS A LOCAL AND GLOBAL RESOURCE: ISSUES FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF GREEN AND CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGIES

Our locally bought water bottles unnecessary, potentially unhealthy and end up in pacific

Professor Rob White LOCALISM AND TRANSNATIONALISATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
HARM

Toxic Towns in Tasmania

Dr Tanya Wyatt
TRANSNATIONAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING IN OUR BACK GARDEN: A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF THE HEATHROW ANIMAL RECEPTION CENTRE

Heathrow a hub for legal and illegal animal trade and some animals end up imprisoned there without parole.

Obviously presented my own paper

MATTER ALL OVER THE PLACE: LITTER, CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

a contribution to green criminology that i hope will see the light of day in Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology

I argue criminology, including green criminology, fails to take litter seriously and that the 'litterature' is too punitive or unknowing of criminological issues etc.

And another session.

Arts, Sex Work and Sexual Exploitation: Visualising Sex Work
Professor Maggie O’Neill, Ms Rosie Campbell and Mr Michael
Atkins
SEX WORK, VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND PARTICIPATORY
METHODS: TOWARDS A RADICAL DEMOCRATIC IMAGINARY
Presentation of Dr Nick Mai’s film
NORMAL: FILM, ETHNOGRAPHY AND SEX WORK
Dr Teela Sanders
SEEING IS BELIEVING: LAP DANCING UNCOVERED

Another session attended at BSC2011.

Dr Jo Buckle and Professor Hazel Croall
CRIME AND THE ARCHERS: FROM POST‐WAR TO ‘FARM NOIR’ (But also see my work on this here)

Dr Angus Nurse
POLICING WILDLIFE: PERSPECTIVES ON CRIMINALITY IN WILDLIFE
CRIME (Glad to see this, I was his external examiner for PhD)

Sessions I attended included:

Creativity in the Criminal Justice System
Ms Laura Caulfield and Mr Dean Wilkinson
THE USE OF THE ARTS IN A THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY PRISON

Ms Charlotte Bilby and Ms Louise Ridley
IN/OUTSIDER ART: CRIMINOLOGISTS CURATING A PRISONER ART EXHIBITION

Here are some pictures.

Have just been at British Society of Criminology Conference at Northumbria Uni. Tweeted extensively as @criminology4u under hashtags #BSC2011 and #criminology. Over next few posts/days will post more reflective highlights.