Institute of Criminology Public Seminars: 20th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture: Professor Candace Kruttschnitt

Speaker: Professor Candace Kruttschnitt, University of Toronto

20th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture: Challenging a Gender Response Approach to Female Offending: Does the Empirical Research Bear Out this Perspective? Women offenders have always been considered a distinct problem for policymakers and the correctional community: too small to warrant too much attention or too many resources, yet distinct enough to generate a different causal and restorative approach. The current gender responsive approach has gained considerable purchase in the correctional community but in this lecture, I question whether it actually reflects what we know about women’s pathways to prison and whether it can address the contexts that lead to offending and eventually imprisonment.

Candace Kruttschnitt is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

This lecture starts at 5.30pm, and will be held in the Seminar Rooms, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL: The IoC Public Seminar Series is open to all interested in attending, to book a seat please contact: Joanne Garner, on: jf225@cam.ac.uk