CURRENT/RECENT EVENTS:
SOLON Conference Modern Activism 27-30 June 2012 Liverpool
This interdisciplinary conference is a joint initiative between SOLON at Liverpool John Moores, the Centre for Contemporary British History at KCL, ESRC, and Liverpool University, addressing a range of issues relating broadly to modern activism. The three broad stands are Activism, Rights and Conflict (managed by SOLON); Criminal Justice’s History, and Activism (managed by Liverpool); and Contemporary Activism and Its Impacts (managed by the CCBH) Speakers include Lesley Abdela, Pam Cox, Frances Crook, Barry Godfrey, Frank McDonaugh, Richard Monkhouse, Judith Rowbotham
Online registration www.ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/modernactivism
For booking enquiries please contact modernactivism@ljmu.ac.uk;
For programme enquiries please contact jrowbotham@gmail.com
Jose Pablo Baraybar, of EPAF (Peru), and one of the keynote speakers in SOLON's War Crimes conferences, has sent us this link to the first episode in a documentary series on forensic science, Among the Living. The series will follow the Peruvian forensic anthropology team (EPAF) as they travel the countryside, opening mass graves in an attempt to connect them with the thousands of 'disappearances' that occurred during the 1980s and 1990s. Among the Living will put a human face on what are otherwise incomprehensible statistics, and it will help us understand what drives the men and women of EPAF in the face of such an overwhelming task. Click here
SOLON is delighted to announce a new collaborative partnership with WACPS West Africa Centre for Peace Studies, based in Accra, Ghana to engage in joint and common projects and the exchange of ideas for the promotion and advancement of democracy, good governance, peace and development in Africa and more widely.
SOLON is delighted to announce that Routledge publishers in conjunction with the SOLON Network are currently seeking submissions for a new research series, Routledge Studies in the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. The aim of the series is to publish the very best in current research in the history of crime and criminal justice including legal and criminological perspectives with an academic readership in mind. Broad surveys rather than specific studies would be preferred. We would be happy to see proposals for monographs (including PhDs) and edited collections and are keen to welcome a broad and international selection of academics as authors and editors for books in the series. We hope to break new ground in research as well as offering fresh perspectives. If you have any ideas for outline proposals or general expressions of interest/ideas please contact either Kim Stevenson kim.stevenson@plymouth.ac.uk or the commissioning editor for Criminology at Routledge, Tom Sutton Thomas.sutton@tandf.co.uk .
SOLON is delighted to announce that the University of the West of England has now joined the SOLON consortium - Nottingham Trent, Oxford Brookes, Liverpool John Moores and Plymouth. SOLON is also finalising a number of international collaborative hubs - more information to be posted soon
ABOUT SOLON:
SOLON is a consortium of academics and professionals/practitioners based in a partnership between the Universities of Nottingham Trent, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, Liverpool John Moores and the West of England (listed in order of joining). SOLON has links to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH), in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, as well as to Rainer’s Communities That Care, and with a number of other universities, networks and centres interested in the themes of law, crime and history. SOLON has a network of over 350 members: academics, practitioners and students across a broad range of subjects and representing universities and institutions worldwide. The consortium also works in association with the NCCL Galleries of Justice, the nation’s Museum of Law, based in Nottingham and a holder of important archive resources for the history of law, crime and punishment (including the national Prison Service Collection). Managed by a Board of Directors drawn from the partner institutions, SOLON aims to bring together academics and practitioners across boundaries of disciplines and experience through its website, its conference series such as Experiencing the Law, plus occasional events such as seminars. It has sponsored a number of publications, notably its associated online Journal Law, Crime and History (formerly Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
SOLON represents an innovative form of cross-disciplinary academic-professional Partnership, which provides a focus for interdisciplinary research and application of that research to a range of issues and problems, past and present. SOLON’s original remit and strap line was Interdisciplinary Studies in Crime, Bad Behaviour and Deviance in Historical Perspective but because of the wider interest generated by the project in historico-legal research more generally the project seeks to enable and promote wide-ranging interdisciplinary research on the themes of Law, Crime and History.
SOLON promotes consciousness of the reality that there are fluid boundaries, changing over time in different societies, between the merely offensive and offences in the legal sense. This project seeks to enable and promote wide-ranging interdisciplinary research which will explore factors producing both change and continuities in attitudes towards such conduct, especially through use of the concept of social panics and resultant moral outrage, frequently publicly expressed and disseminated through media forms.
SOLON aims to place conclusions and solutions arising from its work in the public domain, through this website, through conferences, seminars and public lectures, as well as publications and other forms of popular dissemination.
SOLON is the acronym chosen for this major interdisciplinary and practitioner project. Solon, one of the Seven Wise Men of Athens, was a noted legal reformer.
SOLON = Society, Order, Law, Offences, Notoriety
DIRECTORS: The current SOLON Board of Directors consists of the two founder members, Dr Judith Rowbotham (NTU) and Dr Kim Stevenson (now University of Plymouth), plus Professor David Nash (OBU), Prof. Anne Marie Kilday (OBU), Dr Katherine Watson (OBU); Dr Richard Williams (Plymouth), Dr Zoe James (Plymouth); Dr Samantha Pegg (NTU); Dr Lorie Charlesworth (LJMU), Professor George Mair (LJMU) Jackie Jones (UWE) and Phillip Rumney (UWE). Dr Shani D’Cruze (formerly MMU, Honorary Fellow, Keele) is an Emeritus Member of the Board in the light of her role as Director of the Feminist Crime Research Network) The Board’s disciplinary expertise brings together the core SOLON disciplines of Law and History, and also links in criminology and sociology
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Associate networks and centres:
SOLON is delighted to announce a new collaborative partnership with WACPS West Africa Centre for Peace Studies, based in Accra, Ghana to engage in joint and common projects and the exchange of ideas for the promotion and advancement of of democracy, good governance, peace and development in Africa and more widely.
SOLON works with and hosts the webpages for the Feminist Crime Research Network (Director: Shani D’Cruze; Steering Group Members: Dr Louise Jackson (Edinburgh), Dr Judith Rowbotham; Dr Kim Stevenson). Focusing on crime and gender in the twentieth century, FRCN organised an ESRC-funded seminar series on this theme between 2002 and 2004.
SOLON is also associated with The Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crime (Hate Crimes Centre), based in the Criminology Section of NTU, directed by Dr Mike Sutton. This draws together academics and practitioners from across the globe to discuss issues and advance policy in this area. Its conferences and publications, including the Internet Journal of Criminology, all promote information on a series of initiatives in the highly topical field of Hate Crime.
SOLON Activities:
SOLON organises and hosts national and international conferences and seminars on a range of interdisciplinary themes associated with bad behaviour and crime, some with its associate networks, as well as developing funding bids for a range of projects, such as the cataloguing of the national Prison Service Collection Archive with the Galleries of Justice. It regularly arranges for the publication of papers given at SOLON-sponsored conferences, either in edited volumes or in special journal issues. SOLON maintains an active website (currently hosted by the University of Plymouth), which includes the SOLON Database of Victorian Crime Reporting, which is constantly being expanded.
Details of SOLON conferences are publicised on the SOLON website, which also provides access to a wide range of information about current and future events and resources connected with Crime and Bad Behaviour.
SOLON also encourages postgraduate research across interdisciplinary boundaries and seeks to promote opportunities for PHD work