Past events

📢 Applications Open: 10th GERN Summer School! 📢 The GERN Summer School invites PhD researchers and early-career scholars to explore the 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 "𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠" 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 and how vulnerable communities experience interactions with law enforcement.

Genodicial Surveillant Assemblage in  Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis We invite you to a new Law & Criminology Talk "Genodicial Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis" with Prof. Mais Qandeel and Prof.

Cities at the End of the World: Technology and Urbanism in an Age of Crisis Abstract As we enter an age of crisis, characterized by climate and environmental emergency, mass migration, accelerating inequality and an ongoing global turn to authoritarianism, our imagination of the futures of citie...

Op 25 november 2024 vindt het colloquium “Hervormingen en innovaties in het penitentiaire landschap” plaats in Brussel.

Together with La Voix des Sans-Papiers Bruxelles (VSP), our research group organises an exhibition on feelings of insecurity in public spaces among undocumented migrants. It is the result of a participatory process and starts from the initiative of the research partner (VSP).

Uitgeverij Politeia en de Vrije Universiteit Brussel nodigen u uit op de studienamiddag: Refund Community Policing! Nieuwe impulsen voor gemeenschapsgerichte politiezorg in België De politie en haar legitimiteit staan in vele landen onder druk.

Crime & Society Research Group (CRiS), BIRMM, and Brussels Centre for Urban Studies are getting together to organise an exciting workshop on the role of (public) space in migration research. The workshop focuses on exploring the role of (public) space as a site of social research and a sour...

We are eager to announce that Marijke Van Buggenhout will be defending her doctoral thesis in Criminological Sciences titled: ‘Paper Borders. Children and Young People Inside the Belgian Asylum Procedure.

We are eager to announce that Jasmien Bougrine will be defending her doctoral thesis in Criminological Sciences titled: ‘(Un)like the other(s): How urban youth (in Brussels) experience superdiversity & in- and exclusion'.  Following the defence, a reception will be held to celebrate the...

Municipal applications are becoming a commonplace feature of urban life, with citizens increasingly using mobile and web platforms to voice their concerns over incidents of urban disorder and minor offenses in public space.

  Politie. Je hebt er zeker wel een idee of mening over. Maar begrijp je ook hoe de politie werkt? Weet je hoe ze als organisatie gestructureerd is en waarom ze is wat ze is?

  Papieren Grenzen In samenwerking met vzw Abrusco en VUB  Plaats: Ciné Rio, De Koer, Meibloemstraat 86, 9000 Gent Tijd: woensdag 22 november 2023, 19.30  inschrijven via dit formulier Een groep jonge nieuwkomers beslist om samen een film te maken.