OPEN LECTURE

7th April 2004

OPEN LECTURE: DIFFERENTIAL JUSTICE? CRITICAL REFELECTIONS ON COMPARATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE POLICY

Edge Hill?s Research Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice is holding an open lecture entitled Differential Justice? Critical Reflections on Comparative Youth Justice Policy in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, to be held at the Ormskirk Campus on Tuesday 20th April 2004.

Dr Barry Goldson of the University of Liverpool will share his perspective on the most recent policy responses to youth justice in the UK.

The lecture is one of a series set to provide a focus for civil liberties, human rights and social justice issues and is open to anyone interested in attending.

Dr Goldson is author of Vulnerable Inside: Children in Secure and Penal Settings and Children, Welfare and the State, both published in 2002.

He said: "Nikolas Rose has observed that childhood is the most intensively governed sector of personal existence. However in the UK modes of governance and state intervention vary when applied to children and young people who transgress the criminal law."

The lecture will reflect upon the most recent policy responses to youth justice in the UK and examine whether, at a time of increasing political devolution, these responses mark further differentiation or divergence, or represent consolidation around a set of increasingly punitive interventions.

The lecture starts at 6.30pm in Room M39 in the main building at Edge Hill?s Ormskirk Campus. Admission is free and all are welcome.

For further information please contact Ann Jemphrey, Research Co-ordinator at the Research Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice on 01695 594055, email: jempha@edgehill.ac.uk ENDS

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