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Meeting details
| Frequency | Fortnightly |
| Time | 10.00 am |
| Day | Monday |
| Duration | 1 1/2 hours |
| Location | Castle Street Centre |
| Coordinator | David Skinns |
Crime and Justice
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What we do
This Study Group will offer a chance to reflect on such topics as the patterns and causes of crime and the nature of responses to crime including prosecution (police, CPS, courts) and punishment (fines, prisons, probation).
Participants will be encouraged to approach crime and justice critically and from an evidence-based viewpoint. Beyond the first two introductory sessions devoted to a brief look at key issues connected to crime and justice, each session will consist of an open discussion of the topic defined at the end of the previous session.
For each of these sessions a note will be circulated by email to all participants indicating some key issues raised by the topic and suggesting possible hard copy and internet resources. A note of the key points raised will be made at each session and placed on the SLU3A website so that those who have missed a session can catch up or those who are not attending can get some flavour of the debate that occurs.
I envisage that this Study Group might lead to other groups with a more specialised subject matter in the future. There are a variety of possible areas including penal policy and how and why it is formulated and with what consequences; community penalties (probation, unpaid work, tagging) imposed by the courts; measures that exert control over the actions of the general population like surveillance in general and CCTV in particular; the police and policing; and finally, that ever fascinating topic, prisons.
Dr David Skinns, the coordinator, has some 30 years experience of running a variety of different educational courses in a variety of different HE institutions including most recently at Huddersfield University and the Open University. He has also been involved at a practical level undertaking crime prevention consultancy work for 15 years and now works for the Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons.
This is a new Study Group offered by a new SLU3A member. Come and join me and we can examine some fascinating issues together.