CAPTURE: Doing time with objects

This evening of conversation invites a small group of specialists, from criminology and Pr*son reform, to talk with us about their experience of prisons prompted by objects. Whether a photograph, letter, or personal belonging, the guest speakers are invited to look and talk with their objects opening up a conversation about the Pr*son system past and present - what has changed and what needs to change.

Bath Art Depot has collaborated with the Pr*son Reform Trust to host this informal conversation on 31st May, 7-9pm. The event takes place at FORM-ICA, Unit 5, Lymore Gardens, Bath BA2 1AQ.

Please bring a drink and consider a £5 donation on the door (or via Eventbrite) to cover costs. Bread and cheese will be provided.

Speakers: Dr. David Maguire, Dr. Ruth Armstrong, Dr. Rod Morgan (short biographies below).

Dr. David Maguire (Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL, Institute of Education) has researched and managed projects for excluded groups across sectors that include housing, education, Pr*son and the wider criminal justice system. In 2016 he was awarded a D.Phil. (PhD) from the University of Oxford for research focusing on the interplay between masculinity, education, (un)employment, crime and imprisonment. David has written and published on Pr*son masculinities, and is the author of British Society of Criminology prize winning book: Male, Failed, Jailed : Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. He is currently the Director for the Pr*son Reform Trust’s Building Futures project, a five-year programme for prisoners who are serving or have served 10 or more years in Pr*son.

Dr Ruth Armstrong is a lawyer and criminologist with over 20 years experience in criminal justice nationally and internationally. Ruth has won many prizes for her writing, the impact of her research, and her criminal justice work. Ruth is the director of Justice Matters, a consultancy working with criminal justice leaders in government departments, charities, NGO’s and prisons and probation teams to put evidence at the heart of a relational approach to systems change. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, where she studied and worked for 20 years.

Dr. Rod Morgan was Criminology lecturer at the University of Bath in the early 1980s and is Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex. He is the former chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (2004-7) and prior to that was HM Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales (2001-4). He is the author of many books and articles on criminal justice and penal policy and was co-editor (with Mike Maguire and Robert Reiner) of the influential 'Oxford Handbook of Criminology' (5th Ed, 2012, Oxford University Press). He is a regular advisor to Amnesty International and the Council of Europe on custodial conditions and standards with particular reference to the prevention of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, being co-author (with Malcolm Evans) of the Council of Europe's official guide to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (Preventing Torture in Europe, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2001).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Lymore Gardens, Lymore Gardens, Bath, United Kingdom