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Illicit drug user support, stigma and urban effects: debating injecting and consumption rooms in South Western Sydney Professor Stephen Tomsen, University of Western Sydeny, will present his research. Abstract: The wide consumption of illicit drugs such as he**in and crystal methamphetamine results in ongoing division about whether these practices are criminal law or public health matters. To date, Sydney’s MSIC ...

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Thoughts for UCL (and perhaps other) students about the pension strikes at universities Amid the continuing universities/USS strike I thought I should write a few reflections on what is going on to help you understand what this is all about, and why it is that some of us have sacrific…

CCCJ speaker - 18th April, 1-2.30pm University Place.

Prof David Decary-Hetu, University of Montreal, will give a paper entitled 'En route to more perfect crimes? On Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies’ anonymity and their use by offenders'

Illicit markets, whether online or offline, bring together offenders looking to buy and sell goods (ex. illicit drugs, endangered species, stolen financial information) and services (ex. hacking services, money laundering). One of the biggest challenge for illicit market participants is figuring out how to receive payments anonymously for the goods and services they provide. This challenge appeared to be solved when Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, launched in 2009. While marginal for years, Bitcoin’s use and value has grown over the past years to a point where billions of dollars worth of bitcoins are exchanged everyday. Bitcoin, like other cryptocurrencies, promised to offer irreversible, instantaneous and anonymous transactions that are outside of the scope of the monitoring by financial institutions. This seminar will discuss the limits of anonymity of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and show how intelligence can be gathered on offenders who have not adopted the best practices when handling their cryptocurrency. This will be achieved through a presentation and case-study of BitCluster, a bitcoin deanonymizing tool which can help track the flows of money across the bitcoin network. The case study will involve an online illicit market that was closed several years ago. Our results show that using Bitcoin does not provide all the anonymity offenders may want and need and introduce other alternatives to the Bitcoin that could change how offenders operate, enabling them to achieve so-called perfect crimes that leave no trace behind.

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Décary-Hétu David - Répertoire du département - École de criminologie - Université de Montréal Site web de l'école de criminologie de la Faculté des Arts et des Sciences de l'Université de Montréal

Letizia Paoli is speaking on Tuesday: Assessing the Harms of Crime: Rationale, Methodology, Findings & Policy Uses: Tues 16:30 20 Feb 2018 3.204, University Place. All welcome

Letizia Paoli | Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence (1997) | University of Leuven, Leuven | ku leuven | Faculty of Law | ResearchGate Letizia Paoli of University of Leuven, Leuven ku leuven with expertise in Qualitative and Multi-method Research, Public Administration, Law and Courts. Read 123 publications, and contact Letizia Paoli on ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.

Professor Ian Burney, Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Spatters and Lies: Technologies of Truth in the Sam Sheppard Case, 1954-1965

Tuesday 6th Feb, 2018: 16:00 - 17:30 2.220 University Place

In this talk I focus on the contrasting forensic regimes involved in the celebrated 1955 trial and 1965 re-trial of Dr Sam Sheppard for the murder of his wife Marilyn. The first regime cohered around the Cleveland Coroner Dr Sam Ge**er, who took charge of the scene investigation, conducted a highly publicized inquest, and provided sensational trial testimony which included his claim to have recognized the pattern of a ‘surgical instrument’ impressed on Marilyn’s bloody pillow. A second regime began to develop in the weeks following Sheppard’s conviction and centred on the eminent Berkeley criminologist Paul Leland Kirk. Kirk provided an alternative, but equally striking, reading of the blood evidence: where Ge**er saw qualitative, holistic shapes, Kirk deployed a pioneering (and since celebrated) exercise in spatial reasoning based on the emerging discipline of blood spatter analysis. The acquittal of Sheppard at his 1965 retrial could be seen as an instance of modern forensic technique as a catalyst for justice – with analytical and objective methods overcoming judgements based on mere common sense and local interest. I will suggest that this simple story obscures the more interesting – and surprising – route taken by those seeking to establish Sheppard’s innocence in the decade following his incarceration. In this campaign it was the polygraph rather than spatter analysis, and the detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner and the flamboyant defence attorney F Lee Bailey rather than Kirk, that took centre stage. This twist, I will suggest, allows us to reflect on the complex relationship between forensic knowledge and the broader context in which it is produced and deployed.

All Welcome.

Prof Ian Burney BA, PhD | The University of Manchester

Please note that next week's speaker (Giacomo Persi Poli) has cancelled and will be rescheduled.

Our next three speakers are as follows:

31 January 2018 15:30 - 17:00 , 4.204 University Place,
Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University
"Digital Punishment” Through Online Criminal Record in the U.S

6th Feb, 2018, 16.00 2.220 University Place.
Professor Ian Burney, Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University
of Manchester.
Spatters and Lies: Technologies of Truth in the Sam Sheppard Case, 1954-1965

20 February 2018, 16:30 - 17:30 3.204 University Place
Letizia Paoli, Levuen University
Assessing the Harms of Crime: Rationale, Methodology, Findings & Policy Uses

All welcome.

A reminder of Monday's CCCJ Speaker.

Jelle Jaspers, from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, will speaking on Controlling Business Cartels, 4-5.30pm 6.206 University Place Manchester,
All welcome.

(Jelle) J.D. Jaspers msc - People: EUR.nl Jaspers, J.D. (2017). Managing Cartels: how Cartel Participants Create Stability in the Absence of law. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 23 (3), 319-335. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10610-016-9329-7[go to publisher's site]

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How to do Social Network Analysis using Stata Social network analysis is one of the most rapidly growing fields of the social sciences. Social network analysis focuses on the relationships that exist between individuals (or other units of analysis), such as friendship, advice, trust, or trade relationships. Network analysis is concerned with th...

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2nd year BA Criminology students - don't forget it's the School of Law Employability Conference today from 11.30am at Kings House Conference Centre, with a keynote address at 12 from Sir Peter Fahy, former Chief Constable of GMP

Looking forward to seeing our final year BA Criminology students at King's House Conference Centre tomorrow from 9.30am for our Welcome Back event!