Tackling Hatred Head On: Working with Hate Crime Offenders and Extremism
Conference Programme
8.15 - 9.15
Registration
9.15 - 9.30
Welcome & Opening
9.30 - 11.00
Keynotes 1 & 2:
'What Do We Know About Hate Crime Offenders? Fundamental Questions for Offender Rehabilitation'
Paul Iganski, Lancaster University
'Preventing Terrorism: Risk, Rehabilitation and Community'
Basia Spalek, University of Birmingham
'Countering the Narrative of Hate and Threat: Responses to 'Communicative' Crimes'
Shadd Maruna (Discussant): Queen's University, Belfast
11.00 - 11.15
Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.30
Workshops with hate crimes focus, choose one from:
'Narratives in Groups: The ‘Violence Prevention Network’s’ Approach of Psycho-Dynamic Group Work with Young Hate Crime Offenders'
Harald Weilnböck, Violence Prevention Network
'Keeping Communities Safe: Working with Perpetrators of Hate Crime'
Elena Noel, Southwark Mediation, Liz Dixon, London Probation Trust & Mark Walters, University of Oxford
'Practice on the Frontline: From Rivers of Blood to 2010, My Journey'
Dev Barrah, Greenwich Council for Racial Equality
Hate Crime and the Link with Community Cohesion and Extremism
Paul Giannasi, Ministry of Justice & Association of Chief Police Officers
12.30 - 1.30
Lunch
1.30 - 2.45
Workshops with radicalisation focus, choose one from:
'STREET's Work in Combating Extremism'
Alyas Karmani, STREET UK - Strategy To Reach, Empower & Educate Teenagers
'What Works and What Doesn't in the World of Preventing Violent Extremism'
Hanif Qadir, Active Change Foundation
'Opening Pandora's Box:' Developing Practice Wisdom for Tackling Hate Crime and Violent Extremism with Young Offenders'
Gary Manders, University of Birmingham, & David Court, London Probation Trust
'Whose Identity? Taking Another Look: Emerging Approaches to Working with Extremist Offenders'
Chris Dean, National Offender Management Service
2.45 - 3.00
Coffee Break
3.00 - 3.45
Plenary Session/Keynote Speaker:
'Disengagement from Extremist Groups: Processes and Programmes'
Tore Bjørgo, Norwegian Police University College
3.45 - 4.45
Plenary Panel:
'The Crown Prosecution Service's Approach to Hate Crime'
Joanna Perry, Crown Prosecution Service
'Developing a Model of Intervention with Perpetrators of Hate Crime in the Context of Northern Ireland: A Societal Challenge'
Pat Conway, Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
'Preventing Racist Violence: Successful Interventions to Challenge Racist Attitudes and Behaviour of Potential Perpetrators'
Sarah Isal, Runnymede Trust
'Countering Terrorism: Preventing Violent Extremism'
Debbie Gupta, Prevent and RICU Lead, Home Office
4.45
Closing
This conference has been planned in partnership with London Probation Trust.
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