International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR)
ICCCR is a unique multi disciplinary and cross-faculty Research Centre
Events
As well as holding regular staff meetings to discuss collaborative research and course production, the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) hosts an annual conference and regular research seminars.
The annual conference specifically aims to bring together academics from overseas, and from a variety of disciplines, into contact with practitioners, policy makers and the press. The research seminars usually include a number of papers focused on a single issue. Details of conferences and seminars (both past and future) are given below. To receive e-mail details about the events and activities of the ICCCR, please add yourself to the mailing list using our contact information.
Police Integrity
Capita's National Conference
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Central London
Capita’s National Police Integrity Conference comes at a time of unprecedented change in the policing landscape. Following a number of high profile investigations including the Hillsborough Stadium disaster and Leveson Inquiry, the Home Secretary announced the radical package of reforms aiming to improve police integrity and ensure consistency in standards of professional behaviour across police forces.
Attend this timely event to better understand policies and practices relating to organisational integrity in the police. Join expert speakers and leading practitioners from across the policing sector and learn about the importance of conducting a force-wide integrity ‘healthcheck’, ways to identify and manage potential integrity risks and how to achieve a culture change in your organisation.
Registration
For more information please contact Alex Esson on 0207 202 0557 or email at alexander.esson@capita.co.uk.
Witnessing Psychology
An event organised by the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR)
The Open University in London
Friday 31 May 2013, 18:30-20:30
The Open University in Scotland
Saturday 22 June 2013, 11:00-13:00
Saturday 22 June 2013, 14:30-16:30
The Open University invites you to consider whether witnesses to crimes can really remember 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth'.
In this interactive event, hosted by the Forensic Cognition Research Group, you will learn about research into attention, memory, and suggestibility. You will discover what witnesses can and can't do, and also learn how psychology and technology are being used together to improve police investigations and help witnesses to give the best possible evidence.
Speaker
Prof Graham Pike
Convenors
Dr Gemma Briggs
Location
The Open University in London
1-11 Hawley Crescent
Camden Town
London NW1 8NP
The Open University in Scotland
Jennie Lee House
10 Drumsheugh Gardens
Edinburgh EH3 7QJ
Registration
This event is open to anyone over the age of 18. There is no registration fee but spaces are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment.
Registration is now closed.
If you have any questions regarding your registration please contact SocSci-ICCCR-Events@open.ac.uk.
Past events
How Corrupt is Britain?
Friday 10 May 2013, 09:30-17:00
University of Liverpool
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies together with the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, is organising a conference entitled How corrupt is Britain?. The event will take place on Friday 10 May 2013, 09:30-17:00, at the University of Liverpool where campaigners, academics, key public figures and journalists will explore how we should tackle the corruption of public life in Britain.
For further information please visit the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies website.
International Conference on leadership and standards in the police service
14 January 2013
Portcullis House, House of Commons, London
Dr Louise Westmarland presented the Police Integrity Report to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee at the International Conference on leadership and standards in the police service.
Download the ICCCR Police Integrity Report (PDF document, 600 KB)
ICCCR Annual Conference 2012
Resisting the Eclipse
An International Symposium on Prison Ethnography
18-19 September 2012
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Are reports of the demise of prison ethnography exaggerated? Find out at this international gathering of prison researchers. Speakers, panels and workshops will explore what prison ethnography has got to offer in an era of mass incarceration.
Symposium organisers
Deborah Drake, Rod Earle, Abigail Rowe (ICCCR, The Open University)
Andrew Jefferson and Tomas Martin (Global Prisons Research Network)
Jennifer Sloan (University of Sheffield)
ICCCR Annual conference 2012
18-19 September 2012
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
At this International Symposium, prison researchers from around the world came together to resist the silencing and invisibilisation of marginalised people that the relentless growth of imprisonment attempts to accomplish.
Get in touch
If you would like to discuss your research or potential projects with someone from the Centre, please feel free to approach the Director, Dr Louise Westmarland by phone 01908 652462 or via email Louise.Westmarland@open.ac.uk.