Prison Voices

British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to explore themes related to health and wellbeing.

This one-day conference is the culmination of the ‘Prison Voices’ project, which grew out of the educational work of the charity Philosophy in Prison. It explores how the criminal justice system may silence the voices of those within it, how this constitutes an injustice, and why this is a particular concern within the prison system. We consider how this kind of injustice affects its victims and its perpetrators, and ways in which, by education or management or training or by other means, it may be alleviated. The conference will be multi-disciplinary and open to a wide range of voices, including those of ex-prisoners, philosophers, criminologists, criminal justice professionals.

Conference convenor:

• Professor Mary Margaret McCabe FBA, King's College London

Speakers across the conference include:

• Miranda Fricker, New York University, University of Sheffield Philosophy
• Paula Harriott, Prison Reform Trust
• Alison Liebling, Cambridge Criminology
• Shadd Maruna, Queen's University Belfast Criminology
• Fergus McNeill, Glasgow Criminology
• Kirstine Szifris, Manchester Metropolitan University Criminology
• Sally Taylor, Koestler Arts
• Jason Warr, Nottingham Sociology

Conference ticket prices: free

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