Preliminary Programme

Showing: Criminal Justice (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
F-1 CRI01 A Violent Force? Police and Weapons
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Guus Meershoek
Organizer: Bettina Blum Discussant: Joanne Klein
Bettina Blum : Arming the Force. Police Officers and Guns in West Germany 1945 – 1980
Jonas Campion : Weapons and Legitimate Violence: Belgian Gendarmes’ Practices and Debates from 1918 to 1957
Jos Smeets : Keeping a Step ahead. Enforcing Order in a Changing Society



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
B-2 CRI16 Crime History and the Life Course: New Findings and New Dialogues
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Social Inequality Chair: Marion Pluskota
Organizer: Helen Johnston Discussant: Marion Pluskota
David Cox : Pros and Cons - Researching the Lives and Offences of Victorian Convicts: Advantages and Limitations of a Prosopographical Approach
Pamela Cox, Zoe Alker : Young Criminal Lives: ‘What worked’ in Historical Youth Justice Systems?
Helen Johnston : Long-term Imprisonment and Release: the Impact of Imprisonment on the Life Course of Adult Offenders in Victorian England
Christine Kelly : The Development of Probation for Young Offenders in Early Twentieth Century Scotland


E-2 WOM02 Crime, Gender and Violence in a Historical Perspective - Roundtable
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Manon van der Heijden
Organizer: Marianna Muravyeva Discussant: Manon van der Heijden
Katie Barclay : (Emotions, Gender and Violence)
Marianna Muravyeva : (Spatial and Environmental Attitudes to Gender and Crime)
Raisa Maria Toivo : Gender and Religious Violence
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : (Gender and Crime in Archival Research)


F-2 CRI02 Abolition and Change to the Death Penalty in Europe and North America
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Donald Fyson
Organizer: Vivien Miller Discussant: Donald Fyson
James Campbell : Britain and the Death Penalty in Overseas Territories at the End of Empire.
Vivien Miller : Capital Punishment, Race, and Rape in the Post-war American South
Lizzie Seal : Safety, Fear and Social Change in the Public’s Pro-death Penalty Discourse in Mid Twentieth-century Britain
Caroline Sharples : 'Hang the Nazi Swine!' Capital Punishment for Convicted War Criminals in Allied-Occupied Germany.



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
B-3 CRI17 The Making of the Female Criminal in Modern Era: a Global Perspective
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Julia Torrie
Organizer: Vandana Joshi Discussant: Louise Jackson
Padma Anagol : Murderous Mothers and Midwives: Role of Information Gathering and Surveillance Techniques in the Emergence of the Female Criminal in 19th Century India
Marie Eriksson : Women Fighting. Amongst Assaults, Abuse and Affrays in 19th Century Sweden
Lynette Jackson : Without Mercy: the Race and Gender Politics of Executions in Colonial Zimbabwe
Vandana Joshi : Getting Intimate with the Captive Soldier in Nazi Germany: Unworthy Women and the Penal Decree of November 11 1939
Sharon Kowalsky : Trying the Female Criminal: State, Society, and Social Norms in Revolutionary Russia


F-3 CRI03 Crime and Domestic Space, c. 1860-1960
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Heather Shore
Organizer: Charlotte Wildman Discussants: -
Annmarie Hughes : Legal and Social Constructions of Child Sexual Abuse in Early Twentieth Century Scotland
Eloise Moss : 'Safe as Houses': Surveillance, Aesthetics, and Invisibility in the Design of the Burglar-Proof Home, London 1860-1939
Alexa Neale : ‘Ideal Home' or 'House of Horror’? Domestic Murder Scenes in Post-War London
Louise Settle : ‘Reformation begins at Home’: Probation and Prostitution in Scotland, 1907-1939
Charlotte Wildman : The Home as a Site of Criminality in Britain, c.1920-1950



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
B-4 CRI18 Crime, Law, Race and Responsibility in British Imperial Spaces
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Criminal Justice Chair: Diana Paton
Organizer: Diana Paton Discussant: Diana Paton
Catherine Evans : Cannibals and Culpability: Assessing Criminal Responsibility in Colonial Canadian Murder Trials
Stacey Hynd : 'Madness' v. 'Badness': Criminal Insanity and Cultural Defence Narratives in British Colonial African Murder Trials, c. 1920-50s
Jonathan Saha : Murder in London Zoo: Race, Masculinity and Empire in the Inter-war Years
Pieter Spierenburg : Did Violence Contribute to the Making of Race? A Hypothesis
Erica Wald : ‘Unremitting Drunkenness’: Race, Class and Alcohol Regulations in Nineteenth Century India


D-4 ETH06a Exile, Deportation and Penal Transportation in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Centuries: Perspectives from the Colonies I
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Christian De Vito
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussants: -
Anabela Francisca do Nascimento Cunha : Stereotypes about Exiles in Angola, 1892-1932
Lorraine Paterson : Ethnoscapes of Exile: Political Deportees from Indochina in a Colonial Asian World
Katherine Roscoe : "Convict Mechanics", "Double-Dyed Malefactors" and "Aboriginal Offenders". Island Networks of Penal Expulsion in Colonial Australia
Minako Sakata : Unwilling Mobility: Labour Mobilization and Forced Relocation in the Japanese Empire, 1875-1945


F-4 CRI04 Crime and Gender, 1600-1900: a European Perspective
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Manon van der Heijden
Organizer: Marion Pluskota Discussant: Pamela Cox
Jeannette Kamp : Female Crime and Household Control in Early Modern Frankfurt
Sanne Muurling : Violence and Gender in the Mid-18th Century: a Comparison between Bologna and Rotterdam
Marion Pluskota : National Legal Systems, Regional Fears and Local Criminals: Explaining Gender Differences in Criminality in 19th Century Europe
Ariadne Schmidt, Jaco Zuijderduijn : Comparative Perspectives on Crime: London and Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period
Clare Wilkinson : Dutch Newspaper Reporting of Sex Crimes, 1918-1939
Jaco Zuijderduijn, Ariadne Schmidt : Comparative Perspectives on Crime and Gender: London and Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
F-5 CRI05 Denunciation in Periods of War, Crisis and Dictatorial Regime in Twentieth-century Europe: Definition – Interpretation – Prosecution
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Xavier Rousseaux
Organizers: Gertjan Leenders, Jan Julia Zurné Discussant: Xavier Rousseaux
Helen Grevers : The Demand for Prosecution in Liberated Belgium: Complaints against Collaborators
Jacqueline Ross : Undercover Policing in the United States and France: a Comparative Historical Perspective
Bas Von Benda Beckmann : Denunciation in the Netherlands in the Second World War: the Velsen Affair
Jan Julia Zurné, Gertjan Leenders : A Need for Malicious Intent? Defining Denunciation in Belgium during and after the World Wars


U-5 SOC04 Litigation, Popular Legalism and Contemporary Conceptualisations of ‘Poverty’ in Early Modern Europe
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Criminal Justice , Social Inequality Chair: Simona Cerutti
Organizers: Simona Cerutti, Griet Vermeesch Discussant: Tim Hitchcock
Alexandra Shepard : Worthless Witnesses: Marginal Voices and Popular Legal Agency in Early Modern England
Massimo Vallerani : Poverty and Supplications in Late Medieval Italy
Laurence Van Goethem : Premodern Impostors. Identity Fraud in the Ancien Regime in the Low Countries
Ans Vervaeke : The Great Litigation Decline Unraveled? The Impact of Changes in the Social Profiles of Litigants of Civil Courts in the Franc of Bruges (1650-1795)



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
B-6 CRI19 Re-reading 'the Past' in Redress Schemes: International Approaches to Historical Child Abuse
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizer: Johanna Sköld Discussant: Shurlee Swain
Margaret Jacobs : Indigenous Children, Forced Removal and Institutionalization, and Redress in Australia, Canada, and the United States
Eoin O'Sullivan : Redress in Ireland: Shifting Financing Responsibility and the (re) Construction of History
Johanna Sköld, Johanna Schiratzki & Bengt Sandin : Re-interpreting Past Experience of Severe Child Abuse in Current Redress Processes: a Swedish Case Study


F-6 CRI06 Feeling Secure. The Making of a Security Culture in Europe and Beyond, 1815-1914
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Beatrice de Graaf
Organizer: Beatrice de Graaf Discussant: Guus Meershoek
Constantin Ardeleanu, Joep Schenk : Securing Free Navigation on International Rivers. The Rhine and Danube Commissions' Battle against National Sovereigns
Erik de Lange : Menacing Tides. The Securitization of Mediterranean Piracy in the Wake of the Congress of Vienna, 1815-1817
Wouter Klem : Founded on Fear. A Case Study on Late 19th-century Police Networks and their Production of Security
Ozan Ozavci : Returning the Sense of Security. Fuad Pasha and the European Commission on Syria, 1860-62
Peter Rushton, Gwenda Morgan : Seized, Captured and Kidnapped : the Legal Fate of the 'Unhappy Americans' Brought to England during the American Revolution



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
B-7 CRI20 Unusual Suspects: Non-classical Categories of Delinquents Treated by the Military Justices and other Military Instances around the First World War
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Stanislas Horvat
Organizers: Mélanie Bost, Lawrence Van Haecke Discussant: Stanislas Horvat
Mélanie Bost : A New Entity for the Maintenance of Law and Order, a Consequence of the First World War: the Belgian Military Security Service
Emmanuelle Cronier : Fighters on Leave during WWI: Questioning Laws and Police Legitimacy
Christoph Jahr : Step Children of the Fatherland? The Case of the Soldiers from Alsace-Lorraine in the German Army, 1914-1918
Lawrence Van Haecke : The Postwar Treatment of the Belgian Officers and Soldiers Interned in the Netherlands during the First World War


F-7 CRI07 Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Paul Knepper
Organizer: Paul Knepper Discussant: Magaly Rodríguez García
Constance Bantman : Terrorism and its Policing: Anarchists and the Era of Propaganda by Deed, 1870-1914
Heather Shore : A Brief History of the Underworld and Organised Crime, 1750-1950
Daniel Siemens : 'Popular dramas between trangression and order: Criminal trials in 19C and 20C global perspective'
Per Ystehede : Contested Spaces: Crime Museums, Monuments and Memorials



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
E-10 WOM09 The Politics and Policing of Trafficking in Early Twentieth-Century France, Britain, Russia, and the United States
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Women and Gender Chair: Liat Kozma
Organizer: Elisa Camiscioli Discussant: Liat Kozma
Elisa Camiscioli : Coercion and Choice: Women’s Stories of Trafficking in Early Twentieth-Century France
Philippa Hetherington : Morality, Mobility and Masculinity: Constructing the ‘Ideal’ Pimp or Trafficker in Late Imperial Russia
Jessica Pliley : Sexual Surveillance and Moral Border Control


F-10 CRI09 Police, Justice and Populations
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: David Churchill
Organizers: Margo De Koster, Herbert Reinke Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Margo De Koster, Barbara Deruytter & Antoon Vrints : The Changing Relationships between Police and Population in Antwerp, 1825-1913
Donald Fyson, Florence Rousseau : Local Policing and Transnational Justice: Police, Police Courts, and the Control of Migrant Offenders in Quebec City, 1838-1908
Joanne Klein : Evolution of British Police Training: from the Notebooks of 20th-century Recruits
Herbert Reinke : "The Police Guide of the Fatherland" - the Rise and Fall of Police Governance of German Cities (Late 19th/First Half of the 20th Century)
Chris A. Williams : Deserving Victims and Impartial Assessors? Police, Administrative Power, and the 1886 Riot Damages Act



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
B-11 CRI21a Beyond Structures. Rethinking Arms, War and Violence Research in Global Contexts I
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Herbert Reinke
Organizer: Klaus Weinhauer Discussant: Herbert Reinke
Angelika Epple : Doing Comparisons in the Wake of 1898: the Practice Turn in Global History
Wolfgang Knöbl : The Use of Metaphors in Theorizing Macro-Violence: Problems and Pitfalls
Teresa Koloma Beck : War and Habituation: the Body Memory of Violent Conflict
Stefan Nyzell : Violent Police - Debates on Weapons and Violence in the Swedish Police Periodical 1903-1940
Klaus Weinhauer : Internal Wars - Strikes - Urban Riots? Collective Violence in the Americas and Europe between Local Networks and Global Change (c 1916-23)


F-11 CRI10 Political Crisis, Revolutions, Riots and Changes in Policing
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: René Lévy
Organizer: Vincent Denis Discussant: Pierre Karila-Cohen
Emmanuel Blanchard : Paris, February 1934: a Police Crisis Entangled in the Political Crisis
Vincent Denis : The Police of Paris in Revolution (1789-1794): Political Ruptures and Transitions in Policing
Arnaud Exbalin : How to Disarm the ‘Plebs’ Legislation against Stabbing Weapons in Mexico City in the XVIIIth Century
Vincent Fontana : Citizen Magistrates and Streets of Fire: Policing and Urban Riots during the Geneva Revolution (1792-1798)
Chiara Lucrezio Monticelli, Laura di Fiore : Facing the 1848 Revolutions: the Development of a Transnational Policing in Pre-unification Italy (Rome and Naples)



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
B-12 CRI21b Beyond Structures. Rethinking Arms, War and Violence Research in Global Contexts II
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Margo De Koster
Organizer: Klaus Weinhauer Discussant: Margo De Koster
Dagmar Ellerbrock : Gun-games Turning Violent: Using Actor-network-theory (ANT) to Understand Violence
Katharina Inhetveen : Tracing and Comparing Torture Practices in Local Cultural Settings: Methodological Considerations for a Body Sociology of Torture
Ulrike Ludwig : The Other Side of Honor: Conflict, Communicative Genres and Aggression in Early Modern Societies
Jacco Pekelder : Germany's Radical Left and the Spectre of Baader Meinhof: a Terrorist Constituency in the 1970s


F-12 CRI11 Private Security and the Modern State
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Haia Shpayer-Makov
Organizer: David Churchill Discussant: Guus Meershoek
David Churchill : The Security Industry, the Police and the Individual: Debating the Responsibility for Crime Prevention in Mid-Victorian Britain
Dolores Janiewski : Warring Committees and Wastebasket Snoopers: the Forging of Public-Private Surveillance Networks and State [De]Formation
Pieter Leloup : A History of Private Security Governance: the Development of the Private Security Industry in Belgium and its Consequences for Policing (1900-1950)
Wilbur Miller : Authority in America: a History of Private Policing in the US



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
F-13 CRI12 Speaking of Homicide
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Marion Pluskota
Organizer: Katherine Watson Discussant: Marion Pluskota
Krista Kesselring : Malice Expressed, Implied or Denied: Criminalizing Homicide in Early Modern England
Tyge Krogh : ‘Whoever sheds Man’s Blood, by Man his Blood shall be shed’: the Mandatory Death Penalty and the Enlightenment in Lutheran Europe
Roddy Nilsson : Love, Hate and Despair: Murderous Women in 19th Century Sweden
Katherine Watson : Investigating Homicide in England: the Medical Contribution in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
F-14 CRI13 The Influence of Lombroso in Policing, Judicial and Penal Environments
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Marion Pluskota
Organizer: Jonathan Dunnage Discussant: Guus Meershoek
Jonathan Dunnage : The Legacy of Lombroso in the Criminological Theory and Discourse of the Post-war Italian Police (1945-1960)
Paul Knepper : Lombroso’s Theory of History and the Study of Crime as an Historical Science
Emilia Musumeci : The Positivist School of Criminology and the Inception of Criminal Identification Techniques in Italy (1894-1940)
Anders Pedersson : A Science of Nature, a Science of Crime: the Reception and Embedding of Positivist Criminology in Sweden
Amandine Thiry, Veerle Massin : Criminal Anthropology and Belgian Prisons in the Early 20th Century. A Re-reading of the Lombrosian Legacy



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
F-15 CRI14 Police Session
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Criminal Justice Chair: Guus Meershoek
Organizers: - Discussant: Herbert Reinke
René Lévy : Policing the Metropolis: the Failed Attempt at Reorganising the Police in the Greater Paris Area (1891)
David Petruccelli : Policing the Illicit Drug Trade between the Wars
Haia Shpayer-Makov : The First World War and How it Changed Policing in London
Tommy van Es : Police Officer Perrick’s Ambition to Elevate the Dutch Police in the 20th Century
Jack Wever : The Fight against Drugs by the Dutch Police in the Period 1965-2000


L-15 EDU16 In the Name of the Child? Protecting and Educating Children ‘at Risk’ throughout the 20th – 21st Centuries
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Networks: Criminal Justice , Education and Childhood Chair: Johanna Sköld
Organizers: Els Dumortier, Aurore François Discussant: Tamara Myers
Véronique Czáka, Joelle Droux : In their Best Interest ? The Social and Educational Policies towards Illegitimate Children in French-speaking Switzerland (1900-1970)
Aurore François, Els Dumortier : Saving Shame? Belgian Children’s Courts and Early Motherhood (1912-1965)
Ilse Luyten : Looking Back on Youth Protection Interventions, a “Mark” of Indelible Ink?
Laura Merla, Jacques Marquet : Putting the Notion of 'Best Interest of the Child' into Practice: what Place for Children's Own Voices in Family Matters?



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
F-16 CRI15 Criminal Offending in the Nineteenth Century: New Studies in Digital History
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Chris A. Williams
Organizer: Mark Finnane Discussant: Chris A. Williams
Catrien Bijleveld, Susan Dennison & Thijmen Hendriks : Gender and Imprisonment: Patterns, Rhetoric and Policy in Queensland 1880-1899
Mark Finnane : ‘Not Guilty’: Before and After being Acquitted
Barry Godfrey, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart : Convict Transportation and Life Course Offending
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Barry Godfrey : Artful Dodgers Down Under?
Steve van de Weijer, Catrien Bijleveld : Military Service as a Bridging Environment in the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime


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