Global crime trends and local impacts conference

The event related to two themes:

• reflections on Ian Taylor’s book Crime in Context: A Critical Criminology of Market Societies (1999) 15 years on

• reflections on the UK Government Serious and Organised Crime Strategy (2013).

Experts on aspects of organised/transnational or global crime presented on the broad trends and issues pertaining to their specialist area. Selected discussants picked up on the local impacts and implications from each presentation and then led a wider discussion on each topic.

The event attracted academics and local practitioners.

Organised Crime

Ruona Iguyovwe (Organised Crime Division)

Cross border frauds and victimisation

Mark Button (Centre for Counter Fraud Studies)

South East Asian organised crime networks

Dan Silverstone

Violence against women and girls: The most shameful and pervasive human rights violation

Paula Wilcox (SSPARC) and James Rowlands (VAWG Strategy Manager, Brighton & Hove City Council)

The night time economy, street pastors and order on the streets

Greta Squire (SSPARC) and Sylvie Collins-Mayo (Kingston University)

Bringing the border within; criminal justice, citizenship and punishment

Ana Aliverti (Warwick Law School)

The sub-prime, junk gun supply: the complex mixed economy of illegal firearms in the UK

Peter Squires (SSPARC) and Neil Fordham (ex-Sussex Police)