Edinburgh Law School attends the 24th EUROCRIM annual conference
Mon 7 October 2024
The 24th European Society of Criminology (EUROCRIM) annual conference took place in Bucharest, Romania from 11 September 2024 to 14 September 2024. Hosted this year by the University of Bucharest, this conference provided an opportunity for the Society’s members to present papers on the results of their own research projects as well as learn about the research being done in other areas across Europe and the field of Criminology.
Edinburgh Law School was represented at this conference by faculty members and research students who presented on a range of topics within the field. The faculty members who contributed to this conference were: Dr Andy Aydın-Aitchison and Dr Milena Tripkovic. The PhD students who contributed to this event were: Marya Al-Hindi, Annalisa Battista, María Fernanda Díaz Vidal, Leo Kritikos, Daniela Mardones Bravo, Oana Petcu, Jean-Pierre Roux, and Maéva Thibeault.
Within the European Society of Criminology, Dr Aydın-Aitchison is a member of the Steering Group of the Working Group on Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice. During the conference, he presented a joint project with PhD student Annalisa Battista to the working group that explored the emotional and ethical dimensions of teaching on the course Criminologies of Atrocity that is offered at Edinburgh Law School.
Dr Aydın-Aitchison said: “This conference is an immensely valuable event for catching up with colleagues from across the globe, and getting to know new people and their research. There’s always a strong contingent from Edinburgh and the wider Scottish criminology scene, and its an important part of the life of our scholarly community. It always leaves me full of enthusiasm for the academic year ahead.”
Dr Milena Tripkovic’s gave a presentation titled ‘No conviction, no consequences? Examining the consequences of the state’s failure to punish’, which is part of her emerging research agenda that concerns the failure of states to punish and global implications thereof. Dr Tripkovic said: “As the years pass, I am growing increasingly comfortable with the ESC Annual Conference’s enormous size: it invites the participant to emerge themselves and get entirely lost in a panel discussing things they previously knew nothing about. This sort of academic experience provides a challenge, but is at the same time inspiring and liberating: it allows us to reconsider what we know and think we know about what criminology is.”
About attending the conference, PhD student María Fernanda Díaz Vidal said: “Attending the EUROCRIM conference was an incredible experience. It provided an opportunity not just to share our research, but to dive into discussions that opened up new ways of thinking about criminology. I came away feeling energized and inspired by the diverse work being presented, and it reinforced how important collaboration is within our community.”
In 2008, the University of Edinburgh hosted the 8th EUROCRIM conference at Murrayfield Stadium. Next year’s conference will be hosted in Athens, Greece.
Learn more about the topics the Edinburgh Law School community presented on