THE CRIME CONFERENCE

Death Row, Psychopaths, Female Offending

Eyewitness Testimony, Offender Profiling

We are able to offer this conference both in school and college and also at venues around the country – please contact us for venues close to you.

Speakers will be people who work or research the areas they are speaking about and who have a true insight.  The conference will consist of presentations with at least two during the day being interactive and requiring student participation.

The conference will run between 10am and 3.30pm and the cost will be £20.00 per student.

Areas we will be covering include:

Death Row -Hear from a death row prisoner who was exonerated after 8,057 days.  He was the first death row prisoner to use DNA science to prove his innocence.  Hear his story …………..

Psychopaths – Nature v Nurture - The concept of the psychopath (or more currently dangerous severe personality disorder )is central to many arguments on the nature and nurture of homicide and particularly serial homicide.  These issues will all be explored with their relevance to the study of psychology in mind and illustrated by reference to case examples.

Female  Offending - The way in which women are perceived within the criminal justice system.      Traditionally and still apparent in current times, female offenders are viewed as “mad” rather than “bad”.  Using the presenters own experiences of the culture in female jails followed by case studies of female prisoners she has worked with we will ask you to get together in groups in order to discuss whether a particular offender is best viewed as mentally ill (mad) or psychopathic (bad).  We shall link this topic to the media portrayal of prolific female offenders, specifically analysing the discourse used in newspaper articles.

Treatment needs of female offenders.  Self-harm, arson, sexual offending areas for women in our prison system. You will be asked why you think these are important areas for female offenders.  Your reasoning shall be compared with explanations drawn from psychological theory.

Offender Profiling - The definitions and assumptions underlying offender profiling shall be discussed and a recent case involving fatal arson in which a psychological profile was undertaken shall be presented. The aim of the session is to encourage a critical assessment of what can be achieved by offender profiling and how this can be improved with scientific methods.

Eyewitness Testimony - This presentation will examine the fascinating subject of eyewitness testimony.  Every year prisoners are released from prison after serving part of a prison   sentence for a crime they did not commit. Often, the evidence used to    convict these     innocent individuals is eyewitness testimony; the testimony of a victim or witness claiming to remember the perpetrator and picking him/her out of mug shots or police line-ups.  How fallible is human memory?  When are we accurate and when are we poor at remembering scenes, faces and crimes?

For a copy of our brochure please email insight.conferences@ntlworld.com with your full postal address. 

We are also running a number of in-house conferences across the country for the names of schools/colleges involved and to see if there is one in your area please contact us.