Why criminology? Understanding a little more and condemning a little less

‌Wednesday 11th December 2013

6pm

Westminster Theatre, Chancellor’s Building

In February 1993 the then Prime Minister, John Major, told the Mail on Sunday that when it came to crime society needed to ‘condemn a little more and understand a little less’. Now, some 20 years later, it is clear that Major’s words struck a chord. Like many others, our society has made a virtue of vindictiveness. The search for insight is seen as at best a distraction, at worst a tacit endorsement of wrongdoing. In this lecture. Bill Dixon ‌

Professor Dixon will draw on his own experiences of condemnation and understanding, as well as research he has done on policing and racially motivated offending in the UK and South Africa, to argue that criminologists must make the case for doing the opposite: for understanding a little more and condemning a little less.


FREE

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