Professor Philip Stenning, Criminology at Keele University, will deliver a lecture titled “There is no away: crime control as waste management”, on Tuesday, May 6, as part of Keele’s Inaugural Lecture series for 2007/08.
In lecture
Prof Stenning will draw parallels between the way we respond to the problems of crime and waste, both of which have grown significantly during the last 50 years.
In particular, he will consider the respective roles of the state and civil society, and of prevention and ex post facto responses, in addressing both problems. He will conclude that criminologists and criminal justice policy-makers may be able to learn some useful lessons from environmentalists, but need to take more account of some major social developments which affect the efficacy of our responses to problems of crime and disorder.
Prof Stenning obtained Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral degrees in law from, respectively, Cambridge University (1968), Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) (1976) and University of Toronto (1983). He taught for 34 years at the University of Toronto, before spending three years as Director of the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Professor Stenning came to Keele University in January 2006. His principal research interests are: public and private policing; the administration of criminal justice; accountability in government; firearms abuse and gun control; Aboriginal (indigenous) policing and justice issues. He has been an adviser to governments in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Venezuela, Brazil and The Netherlands, as well as to the Council of Europe and the United Nations.
Start
The lecture starts at 6pm in the Westminster Theatre in the Chancellor’s Building on the university campus, are chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Janet Finch, CBE, DL. Admission is free; no ticket is required.
