Offender Supervision
in Europe
COST Action IS1106
An international conference of COST Action IS1106
26th and 27th April 2013, Liverpool Hope University
This two-day international conference reports on the findings of the first
year of a new international research network (COST Action 1106; see www.
offendersupervision.eu) which exists to examine Offender Supervision in Europe.
Penal supervision has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in
recent years. Yet the emergence of ‘mass supervision’ (i.e. in the community) has
largely escaped the attention of legal scholars and social scientists more concerned
with the ‘mass incarceration’ reflected in prison growth. As well as representing an
important analytical lacuna for penology in general and comparative criminal justice
in particular, the neglect of supervision means that research has not delivered the
knowledge that is urgently required to engage with political, policy and practice
communities grappling with delivering justice efficiently and effectively in fiscally
straitened times, and with the challenges of communicating the meaning, legitimacy
and utility of supervision to an insecure public.
This network of researchers across 19 countries aims to remedy these problems by
facilitating cooperation between institutions and individuals in different European
states (and with different disciplinary perspectives) who are already carrying out
research on offender supervision or who are attracted to that field. Its first year has
involved a review and synthesis of existing knowledge about supervision across these
jurisdictions. The conference reports the findings of this review, as well as setting
them in the context of key developments on theory and research elsewhere.
In so doing, the network and the conference aims to provide a European forum
on offender supervision for academics, policymakers, practitioners and interested
citizens.
Confirmed speakers include:
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Miranda Boone (University of Utrecht)
Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford and Monash University, Melbourne)
Ioan Durnescu (University of Bucharest)
Christian Grafl (University of Vienna)
Annette Hennessy (Chief Probation Officer, Merseyside Probation Trust)
Martine Herzog Evans (University of Rheims)
Elena Larrauri (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Fergus McNeill (University of Glasgow)
Shadd Maruna (Queen’s University Belfast)
Reuben Miller (Loyola University, Chicago)
Christine Morgenstern (Greifswald University)
David Nelken (University of Macerata and Cardiff University)
Michelle Phelps (Princeton University)
Gwen Robinson (University of Sheffield)
Event Address
Arbour Room, EDEN building, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool, L16 9JD
Registration Open…
Cost Action Member Registration
For members of the Action with approval to attend the conference registration is through the
normal ECOST system (just reply to the invitation which will be sent to you) and the usual
accommodation and travel allowances apply.
Non COST Action Member Registration
Non COST Action delegates and those interested in becoming members of the Action should
register their interest by contacting Tim McBride at:
[email protected]
Conference Fees
COST Action Members:
€40 (£33) (reimbursed through COST expenses system)
Non COST action members
€200 (£175)
Concession for first 20 PhD students €175 (£150) (first come first served basis)
Closing date for applications is 12th of April 2013
Preliminary Programme
Friday 26th April 2013
9.00 Registration (Tea and Coffee)
10.30
Plenary I: From Mass Incarceration to Mass Supervision in Europe and the USA
‘Offender Supervision in Europe: A brief introduction’ (Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow)
‘The Paradox of Probation--Understanding the Expansion of an Alternative to Incar
ceration during the Prison Boom’ (Michelle Phelps, PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University and (from the fall of 2013), Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota)
‘Experiencing Carceral Devolution: Re-entry in Chicago’ (Reuben Miller, PhD candi
date, Loyola University Chicago)
12.00
Lunch
13.00
Plenary II European Policy and Practice and Offender Supervision (Elena Larrauri and Christine Morgenstern)
Respondents: To be confirmed
14.30 Break
14.45 Plenary III Decision-making and Offender Supervision (Miranda Boone and Martine Herzog Evans)
Respondents: To be confirmed
16.15
Break
16.30 Plenary IV Practising Offender Supervision (Gwen Robinson and Kerstin Svensson)
Respondent: Annette Hennessy (CPO, Merseyside)
18.00
Close
19.00
Drinks reception
20.00
Conference dinner
Saturday 27th April
9.30 Plenary V Experiencing Offender Supervision (Ioan Durnescu and Christian Grafl)
Respondent: Shadd Maruna
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Plenary VI Researching Offender Supervision: Developing Approaches
‘The challenge of European penology: comparing for standard-ising’ (David Nelken, Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change, Faculty of Political Science, University of Macerata and the Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Law, Cardiff University)‘Identity and penal power: punishment in a glob
al age’ (Mary Bosworth, Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia)
Respondent: Fergus McNeill
13.00
Close
13.15 Lunch