CFP: Crime and Deviance in 20th Century Britain Conference--extended deadline

From: Christine Grandy [[email protected]]

**Deadline extended until FEBRUARY 7TH, 2014**

Conference: Crime and Deviance in 20th Century Britain

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Andrew Davies (University of Liverpool) and Dr. Matt =
Houlbrook (University of Birmingham)

Location: University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Date: Thursday June 26th and Friday June 27th, 2014
Supported by the University of Lincoln and the Institute for Historical Res=
earch
Conference organisers: Dr. Eloise Moss and Dr. Christine Grandy
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

The 20th century witnessed new terrains on which crime and deviance were en=
countered and understood by state and citizen. Imperial expansion and decli=
ne, warfare, accelerated urbanization and suburbanization, gendered shifts =
in work practices, new cultural media such as film and television, and more=
 psychologically-informed types of marketing and advertising, created new c=
onditions for both the perpetration and evocation of crime. Popular and off=
icial attitudes towards those termed =91deviant=92 were in a constant state=
 of flux as the state, media, and market competed to shape dominant moral v=
alues and behaviours. Perceptions of crime=92s effect on society and the li=
ves of individuals in this period were orientated as much around practices =
of consumption and imaginative fulfilment, as direct experiences with crimi=
nals, the police, and judiciary systems. Prevailing forms of domestic and i=
mperial citizenship, cities and homes, and expectations of everyday life we=
re shaped by fear of victimization, even as contemporaries also appeared in=
creasingly attracted to narratives that extolled the =91excitement=92 of a =
criminal life or a deviant lifestyle.

Thus the complexities of the 20th century have prompted scholars interested=
 in using crime and deviance as a vehicle for examining broader social, cul=
tural, and political shifts to engage with new materials and approaches alo=
ngside, and sometimes outside, established paths within legal and penal his=
tory. Historians now draw on the fields of Geography, Cultural Studies, Eng=
lish, Media, Film, and Gender Studies, amongst others, with often provoking=
 results. This conference aims to bring together scholars from a variety of=
 disciplines working on crime and deviance, broadly construed, in the 20th =
century in order to prompt new discussions about recent work, approaches, a=
nd the future of this field. Possible topics include, but are not limited t=
o:

Empire and the concept of crime
War crimes/crimes committed during war
Theft and racketeering
Sexual deviancy
Victims of crime
Financial or political crime
Crime and poverty
Transnational cultures of crime and surveillance
Police and protest in imperial or domestic settings
Theorizing crime and deviancy
Villainy in mass culture: Press, fiction, theatre, film, and television
Shifting geographies of crime
The language of eccentricity
Teenage troublemakers
Celebrity and crime
Obscenity and censorship
Urban and suburban crime or deviance

We invite established scholars and post-graduate researchers to contribute =
abstracts of 300 words, as well as panel submissions, for consideration. Pl=
ease send abstracts to [email protected]<mailto:CADconference@lin=
coln.ac.uk> by FEBRUARY 7TH, 2014. Feel free to contact the conference orga=
nisers ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or Eloise.Moss@=
st-hildas.ox.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>) to discuss poten=
tial topics. Applicants will be notified by the end of February 2014.
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Dr. Christine Grandy
Lecturer in Modern British History
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
LN6 7TS
UK

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