Institute of Criminology Public Seminars: 'Psychopathy and Socio-legal Studies: Disorder of Language and Language of Disorder '

Speaker: Dr William Watson, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto.

Critical socio-legal studies and forensic psychology are usually viewed as inhabiting radically incomensurable epistemological paradigms, with socio-legal studies framed as a form of discourse wholly separate from, and able to critically analyze forensic psychology. Dr Watson challenges this separation, using the example of contemporary research on psychopathy to show how forensic psychology can call into question some of the founding intuitions of critical socio-legal studies.

Dr William Watson has an undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Leicester and completed his doctorate at Cambridge in Social and Political Sciences, but was closely associated with the Institute of Criminology. He teaches on the criminology programme at the University of Toronto. His criminological research focuses on psychiatric issues in criminal justice.

All seminars start at 5.30pm,and are held in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Ave, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

These seminars are free, and are open to all interested in attending, with no ticket required. If you wish to be added to the seminar mailing list, please contact: Joanne Garner, on: jf225@cam.ac.uk For full listing of IoC Seminars: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/ For directions: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/where.html