Preliminary Programme

Showing: room F (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
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
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
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



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
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
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



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
F-8 WOM21 Women's Economic Spaces and Work
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Mccants
Gemma Colesanti, Paola Avallone & Raffaella Salvemini : Women and Money. Wealth Management Between Rights and Customs in the Kingdom of Naples (c. 16th – 18th)
Josef Grulich : Labour Migration of Rural Woman in South Bohemia from the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century to the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Åsa Gunnarsson, Lena Andersson-Skog : Between Family and Market – a Feminist Story about Swedish Business Taxation 1928-1977
Janine Lanza : Women’s Roles in Business Formation in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Nicole Robertson : ‘Business Misses’: the Working Lives of Female Clerks and Secretaries in Interwar Britain



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
F-9 CUL16 Cultural Infrastructures
Aula 3, Nivel 0
Network: Culture Chair: Nikos Potamianos
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Wim De Winter : Cultural Interactions and Exchanges of the Ostend Company in 18th Century Bengal: their Visual Colonial Recuperation and its Afterlives
Tomas Kacerauskas : Creativity and Happiness in the Environment of Culture Industries
Uta Protz : The Construction of New Cultural Elites: the Foundation of the Vereniging Rembrandt (1883), the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (1897), the Société des Amis du Louvre (1897) and the National Art Collections Fund (1903)
Dongjae You, Donggue Lee : Royal Academic Painter(Hwawon) System in the 18th Century, Korea And Royal Academic Painter Network of East Asia



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
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
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
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



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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