The seminar will examine the historical and contemporary development of a range of initiatives both to rehabilitate the offender and to prevent crime and/or seek to draw insights for future application, particularly in the light of forthcoming legislation. For example, areas for discussion might include;

• the historical and contemporary relationships between voluntary and state organisations,
• the roles, scope and autonomy of professionals,
• the probation and after-care services, their paradigms, policies and practices,
• the relationships between rehabilitation and welfare.
• re-offending
• courts, lawyers, sentencing and the question of rehabilitation
• juvenile justice and youth crime
• restorative justice and the role of the victim

Speakers include: Sandra Walklate; Tony Kearon; Anne Schwan; Anne Logan; Bronwyn Morrison; Helen Self, Josephine butler society; Sian Thornthwaite, Derbyshire Magistrates; S, Tsogzolmaa. Mongolian Women Lawyers' Association

21st January, 2004; Galleries of Justice, Nottingham.

Funded by the ESRC
Organised by the Feminist Crime Research Network.