CFP: Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 6

***Submission Deadline August 1***

Call for Papers: Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 6.

THEME
“Placing Justice”: Place and space are foundational concepts across the humanities and social sciences. Ideas about justice shape and are shaped by place and space. Our definitions of justice, place, and space are broad and inclusive. We invite submissions representing historical, geographic, legal, cultural, feminist, philosophical, criminological, and artistic takes on justice, place, and space; reflections, research, and exhibitions on justice, place, and space; area-based approaches to justice and space including, but not limited to, social justice, ecological justice, urban justice, decolonization, and human rights; religion, place, and cities; proxemics and justice; spatial explorations of crime and fear of crime; virtual spaces of justice; zones of exclusion; as well as cartographic and photographic exposures of these topics. We invite works on cities and urbanization, rural criminology, the role of location and geography in criminal justice, crime prevention through environmental design, and the use of spatial methods in the justice disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds, as well as from students, community organizations, justice professionals, artists, activists and anyone who wishes to partake in an intellectual engagement with justice, place, and space.

AIMS AND SCOPE

The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (IJR) is a double blind peer review journal that publishes articles dealing with thematic issues in law and justice, and related disciplines. The idea began in response to our first conference, “Theorizing Justice”, when Fernwood Press and some members of  CIJS collaborated in publishing a peer reviewed collection of academic papers as a reader entitled Thinking About Justice. Subsequently we have published five annual volumes engaging the themes of our conference calls.

We welcome submissions from across the disciplines and beyond. Past contributors have been notable academics, theorists, policy specialists, activists, justice practitioners, lawyers, and graduate students. The topics of the papers we have published span the disciplines of law, criminal justice, criminology, constitutional theory, sociology of law, psychology of law, politics, culture and media analysis of justice, poverty and its intersection with justice issues, Indigenous issues of justice, law and justice and economic justice.

PEER REVIEW

Regardless of the source of the submission, we embark on a double blind peer review process to ensure that the quality of our publications meets the requisite academic standards. Articles are anonymized and then submitted, after editorial review, to three anonymous expert reviewers. Articles will be accepted, accepted with revisions, encouraged to revise and resubmit, or rejected.

SUMMARY OF GUIDELINES

Normally, manuscripts should range between 6000-7000 words including all references and notes. You should remove all identifying information from the body of the manuscript and your identifying information should appear on a cover page, along with contact information, including your email address. Your work should include an abstract of under 250 words and a title.  Please email submissions in MS Word file format. 

More detailed submission guidelines can be found on our webpage: http://www.cijs.ca

We encourage those submitting artistic works to submit a short reflection of 500-1000 words on their work.

Please email your manuscripts to:

Dr. Steven Kohm, Editor

s.kohm@uwinnipeg.ca  

Mailing Address:

Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research

Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies

University of Winnipeg

515 Portage Avenue

Winnipeg, MB R3B2E9

Digital Legal History Workshop before ASLH 2016

via Law & History - LSA Collaborative Research Network <LawandHistoryCRN@googlegroups.com> Thanks to Stephen Robertson for sending this out.

On 27 October 2016, a one-day pre-conference workshop will be held at the Osgoode Hall Law School to increase awareness of digital legal history, and encourage discussion of how digital methods and technologies can be used to analyze and present the legal past, and of new initiatives to undertake such projects. The workshop combines an extended showcase of four projects that each employs a different approach — O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family; The Lawyers’ Code: Tracking the Migration and Influence of the Field Code; Digital Harlem; and Voices of Authority: the Old Bailey Courtroom — and a set of hands-on workshops offering a beginner-level introduction to the methods used in those projects. The workshop is free and open to ASLH members. No experience in digital history is required. Registration is required as the workshop can only accommodate 60 participants. To register, select here.

For questions about the workshop, proceed to its website.

"Arresting Images": Historic mugshots from OPP collection to be exhibited at county archives

Media release (h/t Rosemary Legge):

June 9, 2016 - Lennox & Addington County) – This summer, the Lennox & Addington County Museum & Archives will be overrun with criminals of all sorts. But don’t worry, the museum isn’t being converted back into the County jail, and the police need not be called. It is all part of an exciting travelling exhibit courtesy the OPP Museum.

'Arresting Images' is an exhibit that features 100 historic mug shots from The OPP Museum’s permanent collection, dating from 1886 to 1908. The exhibition provides a rare opportunity for the public to view these historical photographic portraits collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection was assembled by the Niagara Falls “Ontario Police” - precursors of today’s Ontario Provincial Police.

Arresting Images highlights historical themes and social circumstances of the period addressing the subjects of crime and law enforcement as well as the emerging use of photographic portraits as a police identification tool. Represented in the collection are pickpockets, confidence men, escaped fugitives, shoplifters, horse thieves, burglars, safe blowers and others. These images are compelling, fascinating and thought-provoking.

The opening reception for the exhibit will coincide with the next edition of 'Tuesday Night at the Museum'. On June 21st at 7pm. Dave St. Onge, Curator of Canada's Penitentiary Museum, will speak on prison life in Kingston in the 19th century. The talk, entitled 'Admission & Discharge: The Early History of Federal Penitentiary Mug-shots in Canada' will also identify the practice of record keeping, and difference in methods used by both the federal penitentiaries and regional jails. Dave's talk ties in nicely with the launch of the 'Arresting Images' exhibit.

In addition, visitors to the museum throughout the summer will have the opportunity to have their own mug shots taken, no crime required. This light-hearted interactive display includes an original ‘County Jail’ cell that has been converted to a 'persons of interest' line-up wall. Complete with height markers and crime-boards, visitors can take selfies - or #cellfies - within the cell that can be shared on social media. Select visitor photos will also be displayed at the museum in much the same way as the real criminal mug shots found in the 'Arresting Images' exhibit.

Arresting Images is The OPP Museum’s inaugural travelling exhibition. Initially launched in 2009, it received an Award of Excellence from the Ontario Museum Association for its innovative approach, exhibition design and curatorial quality. The exhibit will be showcased at the L&A County Museum & Archives until December 15^th. For more information about Arresting Images display and other exhibits on display at the L&A County Museum & Archives, please visit www.CountyMuseum.ca or call 613-354-3027.

Local Historical Context of the ‘Arresting Images’ Exhibit

The building that houses the Lennox & Addington County Museum & Archives was once the County Gaol (jail). When Lennox & Addington separated from Frontenac in 1863 and Napanee was officially designated the County Town, a new courthouse and gaol were needed to properly fulfill their legislative duties. The gaol, built in 1864, operated until the Quinte Regional Detention Centre opened in 1971. The building continued to serve as the Napanee Town Police lockup until 1974. At that time, it was retrofitted for museum purposes from 1974-1976 and the Museum & Archives officially opened in their new space on October 6, 1976. the ‘Arresting Images’ serves as an ode to the building’s past and recognizes the museum’s 40th anniversary milestone.

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Media is invited to visit the museum to take advance photographs of the ‘Arresting Images’ exhibit and the ‘Mug Shot #Cellfie’ display. For more information, please contact:

JoAnne Himmelman

Curator, Museum & Archives

Lennox & Addington County

T. 613-354-3027

E. jhimmelman@lennox-addington.on.ca

Baker wins CLSA-ACDS article prize

Congratulations to Professor G. Blaine Baker, of the McGill Faculty of Law and University of Toronto Faculty of Law for his latest prize!

Among the prizes awarded at the annual meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association/Association Canadienne Droit et Société  held in Calgary last week, was the prize for the best English-Language article to appear in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society in 2015.

The prize was won by Blaine Baker for “Testamentary Archeology in Late-Victorian Ontario: William Martin's Little, Posthumous Legal System,”  which appeared in volume 30, issue 3.

Toronto blog readers may recall that Blaine presented a draft of the paper to the Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop.

Congratulations, Blaine!