Preliminary Programme

Showing: Criminal Justice (all days)
Wed 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 26 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 27 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 24 March 2004 8:30
N-1 CRI01 Domestic, Capital Punishment & Popular Culture(18th-20th C.)
Room N
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Séverine Auray : Marital violence in Geneva during the Nineteeth Century
Martin Bergman : Murder as a short cut to heaven - popular beliefs, debate and official reactions in Nordic and German states ca 1750-1850
Donald Fyson : Domestic Violence between Men in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1780-1850
Geoffroy Le Clercq : The courts and intra-family violences in the Namurois, 1830-1900
Richard Mc Mahon : Homicide, the courts and popular culture in Ireland 1800-1850



Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:15
K-3 CRI13 Crime and the Media in Historical Perspective I
Room K
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Haia Shpayer-Makov
Organizers: Clive Emsley, Haia Shpayer-Makov Discussant: Clive Emsley
Petula Iu : Failed Masculinity and Criminal Culpability: Sexuality and Criminality in the Leopold-Loeb (1924) and Hickman (1927) Kidnap-Murder Cases
Wilbur Miller : 'Police' Columns in Mid 19th Century New York and London Newspapers: Court Reporting as Literature
Judith Rowbotham : Reporting Reputations: Crime and the Law in the English Press in the Fin de Siecle
Martin Wiener : Public 'Judgement' of Murder Defendants in 19th Century Britain and the Empire



Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30
A-4 CRI14 Crime and the Media in Historical Perspective II Film clips will be shown during the session.
Room A
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Haia Shpayer-Makov
Organizers: Clive Emsley, Haia Shpayer-Makov Discussant: Clive Emsley
James Chapman : 'Sordidness, violence and corruption unrelieved': Critical and official responses to the postwar British crime film
John Drabble : 'A constructive, systematic, coordinated and total effort:' The FBI's Media Campaign against the KKK, 1964-1971



Thursday 25 March 2004 8:30
C-5 CRI05 Juvenile Crime & Justice I: European experiences (19th-20th century)
Room C
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jean Trépanier
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jenneke Christiaens : Youth crime redefined: The practice of scientific observation and diagnosis within Belgian Child Protection (1912-1965)
Margo De Koster : Girls' journeys to the juvenile court: Antwerp, first half of the 20th-century
Els Dumortier : The creation of the (Belgian) juvenile judge
Dietrich Oberwittler, Helmut Thome : Juvenile Crime in a Modernizing Society - An Aggregate-Level Analysis of Age- and Offence-Specific Conviction Rates in late 19th-Century Germany


T-5 CRI03 Early modern attitudes toward crime
Room U
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Donald Fyson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maria R. Boes : Criminal Injustice-Social Injustice: Victimization of Jews in Early Modern Germany. A Case Study
Gwenda Morgan, Dr Peter Rushton : Sources and Patterns of Exchange in the Formation of the 'Criminal Atlantic'
David Nash : Profane paradigms - theorising about blasphemy and hate crime in early modern and modern Europe
Pieter Spierenburg : Protestant Attitudes Toward Violence: The Early Dutch Republic



Thursday 25 March 2004 10:45
N-6 CRI06 Juvenile Crime & Justice II: Youth's sexual behaviour and the courts
Room N
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Eric Pierre
Organizers: - Discussant: Eric Pierre
Delphine Gruau : Courts' repression of clandestine prostitution by young girls in rural Maine-et-Loire at the end of the 19th century
Tamara Myers : Girls, Boys, Sex, and the Juvenile Court
David Niget : Venal sexuality, predatory sexuality, or pathological sexuality? Girls, boys and the juvenile justice system in Angers (France), 1914-1945
Ingrid van der Bij : The juvenile judge and the family supervision order; problematic sexuality in the Groningen juvenile court, 1922- 1940



Thursday 25 March 2004 14:15
N-7 CRI07 Juvenile Crime & Justice III: Institutional and judicial responses: Montreal, 1850-1950
Room N
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jeroen Dekker
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeroen Dekker
François Fenchel : From punishment to reform : Youths in prison and juvenile reform institutions, 1853-1912
Janice Harvey : 'At-Risk' Children and the Montreal Ladies' Benevolent Industrial School, 1883 - 1921
Sylvie Ménard : The Montreal Juvenile Delinquents Court and the Saint-Antoine Institute for delinquent boys
Jean Trépanier : Children and their families in juvenile court : actors or spectators of their own fate?



Friday 26 March 2004 8:30
K-9 CRI15 Police I: The police between local and central power, 18th-20th century
Room K
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jean-Marc Berliere
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Catherine Denys : The preserved autonomy of the municipal police forces versus the central power in the towns of France and of the Netherlands at the XVIII century
Nicole Dyonet : Working title : The 'Maréchaussée' in the 18th century : a tool in the service of the police forces. Its action in the field : between local and national dimensions.
Cyrille Fijnaut, G.Meershoek & R.V.D. Wal & J. Smeets : The centralisation of the Dutch police system in the 19th-20th century
René Lévy : Actors and stakes of the nationalization of the suburban police of Paris, 1934-1936


R-9 ORA01 The Holocaust: Survivor Memories a
Room S
Networks: Criminal Justice , Oral History Chair: Helga Embacher
Organizer: Steve Hochstadt Discussants: -
Steve Hochstadt : Personal Experiences of Persecution and Refugee Decision-Making: Jews Who Fled to Shanghai
Eric Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband : Jewish Experiences of Persecution and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany: Social Scientific Survey Evidence
Sabine Kittel : Ways of Coping in Different Countries: Two Jewish Former Prisoners of Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp Talk about Their Experiences Today
Selma Leydesdorff : Holocaust and Survivors memories



Friday 26 March 2004 10:45
K-10 CRI16 Police II: Police and the people, 19th-20th century
Room K
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: René Lévy
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Stefania Bernini : Educating the orphans of policemen: the work of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, 1870 to 1900.
Johanna Dahlgren : Women police in Stockholm 1908-1971
Anja Johansen : Good Burghers and Law Enforcement: Complaints against the Police in late nineteenth-century Tourcoing, Düsseldorf and Dundee
Paul Lawrence : The Police, Poverty and Criminality in France and England, 1850-1939
Chris A. Williams : The day-to-day control of policing in the UK, 1930-1980: from regulation to control room



Friday 26 March 2004 14.15
T-11 CRI17 Police III: Police and Public Order in Interwar Europe
Room U
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Jonathan Dunnage
Organizers: - Discussant: Jonathan Dunnage
Jean-Marc Berliere : 'A Republican Police?': Policing under the French Third Repubic
Gerald Blaney : Conditional Loyalty: The Civil Guard and the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1936.
Stewart Lloyd-Jones, Diego Palacios Cerezales : Guardians of the Republic? Portugal's Guarda Nacional República and the politicians during the 'New' Old Republic, 1919-1926'



Friday 26 March 2004 16.30
O-12 CRI04 Penal Policies & Incarceration
Room O
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Herbert Reinke
Organizers: - Discussant: Herbert Reinke
Clive Emsley : The nineteenth-century shifts in penal policy
Marie Gottschalk : Fall From Grace: Women's Groups, Feminists, and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
Maria João Vaz : Crime and Political Opposition in Portugal (1880-1910)
Alfred Weiss, Gerhard Ammerer : ... so that they do not grow mouldy in prison ... Penitentiaries and Workhouses, Sentencing and the Prison Discourse in Austria around 1800


T-12 LAT06 Police IV: Political Policing in 20th Century Latin America
Room U
Networks: Criminal Justice , Latin America , Chair: Michiel Baud
Organizer: Oliver Dinius Discussant: Michiel Baud
Oliver Dinius : Repressing Communists and 'communists': The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control
Marcia Guena : Paraguay's and Brazil's political polices under the Operation Condor
Marcus Klein : The role of the Chilean Carabineros in the Pinochet regime
Aaron Navarro : Policing Politics in Mexico: The Role of Intelligence in Electoral Transitions, 1940-1952



Saturday 27 March 2004 8:30
T-13 CRI08 Criminal Justice in Times of Political Crisis: Central Europe 1920-1950
Room U
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Eric Johnson
Organizers: - Discussants: Eric Johnson, Helmut Thome
Gabriel Finder : Retributive Justice in Polish Jewish Life after the Holocaust
Benjamin Hett : The Crisis of Justice in Weimar Berlin
Richard Wetzell : Criminal Justice between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Politics of Penal Reform from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi Regime



Saturday 27 March 2004 10:45
T-14 CRI10 War, Law and Violence (20th c.)
Room U
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Eric Johnson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Alex Jettinghoff : Dynamics of war and legal transformation
Benoît Majerus : Brussels in November 1918: a double process of leaving war.
Helene Sinnreich : ...I never missed an opportunity to steal : Theft as a Survival Strategy in the Lodz Ghetto
Antoon Vrints : Rites of liberation. Collective actions at the end of the Great War in Antwerp (Belgium)



Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15
T-15 CRI11 Drugs, Politics and Consumption from the 1950's to the 1970's: International Perspectives
Room U
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Herbert Reinke
Organizers: Detlef Briesen, Klaus Weinhauer Discussant: Herbert Reinke
Detlef Briesen : Juvenile Drug Culture in New York in the 1940/50s
Robert Stephens : Gender and the Politics of Drugs: Debating Drug Consumption in Hamburg, 1969-1975
Klaus Weinhauer : The London Drug Scenes in the 1960/70s



Saturday 27 March 2004 16:30
Q-16 CRI12 Crime, Law and Narratives of Sexuality in 19th and 20t Century Europe
Room R
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Judith Rowbotham
Organizers: - Discussant: Judith Rowbotham
Olivier Cyril : The pen and the scissors. Two prefecture's employee shaved during the Liberation in Poitiers (France) 1944
Shani Dcruze : Gender Murder and Middlebrow culture in interwar Britain
Louise Jackson : The 'White Slave Trade' as Cultural Myth: Narratives of Sexual Abuse 1870-1970
Domenico Rizzo : Invention of Private Sphere, Construction of Public Sphere: Sex Crimes in Liberal Italy Between the Church State and the Liberal State (Rome, 19. c.)


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