40th Annual Conference 13th - 15th November 2009 "From Kilbrandon to McLeish and Beyond: 2020 Vision?"
Conference Chair: The Rt Hon Elish Angiolini, QC, Lord Advocate
Keynote Addresses by Professor Dirk van Zyl Smith, Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law, University of Nottingham, Professor Bill Whyte, Professor of Social Work Studies in Criminal and Youth Justice and Director of the Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland, University of Edinburgh, Chief Constable Stephen House, QPM, Strathclyde Police, John Dunn, Deputy Crown Agent and Alan Baird, Director of Social Work and Health, Dundee City Council.
Saturday's interactive workshop, led by Professor Mike Nillis, explored the topic "Media, crime and punishment in contemporary Scotland" with media guests Lucy Adams (The Herald), Reevel Alderson (BBC Scotland TV), Elizabeth Cutting (Scottish Courts Service) and Tom Fox (Scottish Prison Service). Saturday's events closed with a round table dicussion, "Sentencing - whose business is it anyway?" chaired by Baroness Veronica Linklater, with guest panellists John Scott, Sheriff David Mackie, Paul Morron OBE and Dan Gunn OBE.
Following Sunday morning's keynote addresses, Professors Fergus McNeil and Lesley McAra provided a research perspective with presentations entitled "Recollecting the Past, Reforming the Present: Lessons from oral histories of Scottish probation" and "The future of academic research in Scotland" respectively.
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