25th Annual Edwards Memorial Lecture - What to Make Of (Border) Violence
Please note this lecture is sold out.
What to Make Of (Border) Violence
In this lecture, Professor Mary Bosworth will draw on material from a long-term, mixed-methods research project with staff in the UK deportation and short-term immigration detention system, to reflect on how criminologists and socio-legal scholars conceptualise, study, and understand institutional(ised) violence.
This event is presented by the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and co-sponsored by Woodsworth College and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
The annual John Ll. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture is delivered in honour of the Centre’s founder, Professor John Llewellyn Jones Edwards.
Accessibility
The Canadiana Gallery main entrance is served by a ramp and the entrance door features an automatic no-touch wave switch for door opening. The all-gender washroom on the main floor is accessible. The Criminology Library is accessible by vertical lift.
If you have any access needs, or if there are any ways we can support your full participation in this event, please email crimsl.communications@utoronto.ca and we will be glad to work with you to make the appropriate arrangements.
Professor Mary Bosworth
Mary Bosworth is a Professor of Criminology, and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. In 2013, she founded the international research network and website Border Criminologies which brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners working on the growing intersections between criminal justice and immigration control. Mary has published widely on immigration detention, deportation, punishment, race, and gender. She is currently writing a new monograph provisionally entitled Supply Chain Justice and the Logistics of British Border Control for Princeton University Press about deportation and short-term detention in the UK. Her research has been funded by The British Academy, the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, and Oxford University’s John Fell Fund. Mary is UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology, co-editor of Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship, co-editor of Clarendon Studies in Criminology at Oxford University Press, and a member of the editorial boards of Race & Justice, Punishment & Society, Incarceration, and the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.