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16 July 2015: Director of Centre speaks at game changing conference

In early July, Director of the Centre for Criminology, Professor Nigel South, was invited to speak at the 2015 Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference hosted by the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.

As well as being part of a panel on Environmental Crimes and Responses, he chaired a session on the Social Supply of Drugs and contributed to the final plenary session on the development of a criminology more attuned to the issues and challenges facing the southern hemisphere.

The conference is seen as an innovative and ‘game-changing’ forum and drew together 300 participants from around the world including the presidents of the Asian Criminological Society, British Society of Criminology, the recent past president of the American Society of Criminology, and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.

The focus of the conference was on a diverse range of current criminological issues and topics, including violence against women, rural crime, online fraud, Indigenous justice, human rights, green criminology, and more. It is hoped that in the future, the Centre at Essex and the Centre at QUT can develop stronger links and new collaborative projects.