Centre for Crime Law and Society Events

Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Venue: 1.5 Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, BS8 1RJ

Juryless Trials Session where CCLAS members discussed the UK Government’s recent decision to scrap jury trials for offences with sentences of less than three years.

Work in Progress Session, where Dr Clare Torrible presented her new paper ‘Torrible, C. ‘The Casey Review, Institutional Racism and Police Accountability for use of force: How assessing police accountability systems by reference to axes of accountability clarifies the issues’ Legal Studies 2025 (in print).

Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers Manuscript Development Workshop

The Centre for Crime, Law and Society and the Social Harm, Violence and Crime Research Centre welcome Dr Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Editor of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Australia’s leading peer-reviewed academic journal on criminal justice, with a focus on criminology and criminal law.

Aimed at PGRs and ECRs, this dynamic workshop will help develop your research idea into a compelling journal article. Bring your project, at any stage, and gain supportive, practical guidance to sharpen your argument and move towards publication.

LGBTQIA+ trust and confidence in police and perceptions and experiences of police integrity: Insights from Australia

The Centre for Crime, Law and Society and the Social Harm, Violence and Crime Research Centre welcome Dr Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, specialising in the complex relationship between technology, discrimination and justice. Building on his research on LGBTQIA+ communities and policing, Dr Ellis presents findings from a 2025 mixed-methods nationwide survey of over 1000 LGBTQIA+ Australians on their trust and confidence in police and situates these findings in their political and social context.