Control without Care: Drugs, Enforcement and Social Harm With Professor Julia Buxton
Wednesday 13 May 2026 from 5pm
This public, free event explores the research conducted by LJMU’s Professor Julia Buxton during a four-year British Academy Global Professorship. It seeks to explain dramatic shifts in the international drug trade, to analyse the harms which have emerged through established models of control, treatment and prevention, and to engage with some of the obstacles which currently hinder effective policy responses.
Julia is Professor of Justice Studies in the School of Law and Justice Studies at LJMU. She was previously British Academy Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Manchester, and Associate and Acting Dean in the School of Public Policy at the Central European University, Budapest.
Free refreshments will be available from 5pm on 13 May 2026 in John Foster Building, Room G03 with the talk and Q&A in G01 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm.
The session will be followed by a post event social with free refreshments and space for discussion.
Register for the Control without Care event
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Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box
The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation, and Social Exclusion (CCSE) is delighted to welcome you to this year's Annual Public Lecture event on 10 April 2024 - Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box.
Drinks/refreshments will be provided before and after the lecture, with the event running from 4pm until 9pm altogether (the scheduled speaker’s talks will run from 5pm until 7.30pm).
This event includes:
- Marking the publication of the new book Demystifying Power, Crime, and Harm introduced by the editors Dr David Scott and Professor Joe Sim.
- Insights from guest speakers (see below) discussing the practical application of the book’s key themes to real world campaigns for justice.
- Social event with refreshments and a chance to discuss the book with the editors and contributors and a call for future speakers continuing to explore the central concerns of this edited collection within the CCSE Seminar Series and beyond.
Please note
This will be a hybrid event for those who cannot attend in person.
Speakers include:
- Kathryn Chadwick (Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Becky Clarke (Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Janet Cunliffe (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association/JENGbA)
- Gloria Morrison (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association/JENGbA)
- David Scott (The Open University - Online)
- Joe Sim (Liverpool John Moores University - Online)
- Steve Tombs (The Open University)
- Lisa White (Liverpool John Moores University)
The event is public, free to attend, and all are welcome. Find out more info and register via Eventbrite.
September - International Annual Conference for the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control “Resisting the demonisation of ‘the Other’: State, nationalism and social control in a time of crisis”
