A conference hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool
John Moores University on behalf of the British-Irish Section of the
European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.

2008 marks Liverpool’s celebration of its status as European Capital
of Culture.  In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical
and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as
private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the
local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in
crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of
policing and discourses of urban belonging.

Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban
regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose – undersides which
rarely figure in official and academic discourse.  Much of Liverpool
and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment,
and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to
criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the
victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually
non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent
and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing
practices of power, justice and the right to the city.

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