John Ll. J. Edwards Memorial Lectures
The annual Edwards lecture is delivered in honour of the Centre's founder, Prof. John Ll. J. Edwards. The lecture is presented by The Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, the Faculty of Law, and Woodsworth College, University of Toronto.
Fourteenth Annual Lecture: September 20, 2011
- Lecturer: Lucia Zedner, Oxford University
- Topic: "The Historical Origins of the Preventive State - or just how new is the new penology"
Thirteenth Annual Lecture: January 17, 2011
- Lecturer: Federico Varese, Oxford University
- Topic: "Current Challenges in the Study of Organized Crime"
Twelfth Annual Lecture: January 25, 2010
- Lecturer: Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University and University of Toronto
- Topic: "Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves' Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname"
Eleventh Annual Lecture: November 27, 2008
- Lecturer: Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, and Centre de sociologie européene, Paris
- Topic: "Reconstructing the Penal State"
Tenth Annual Lecture: October 17, 2006
- Lecturer: Susan Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Topic: "Governing Green Laboratories: Trust and Surveillance in the Cultures of Science"
Ninth Annual Lecture: March 3, 2005
- Lecturer: Professor Richard Ericson, Professor of Criminology, University of Toronto
- Topic: "Criminalization and the Politics of Uncertainty"
Eighth Annual Lecture: October 22, 2003
- Lecturer: Professor Martin Friedland, University Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminology, University of Toronto
- Topic: "Criminal Justice in Canada Revisited"
Seventh Annual Lecture: March 6, 2002
- Lecturer: Professor David Garland, New York University
- Topic: "The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society"
Sixth Annual Lecture: March 27, 2001
- Lecturer: Professor James Fyfe, Crime and Justice Research Institute, Temple University
- Topic: "Police Officers Involved in Career-Ending Misconduct"
Fifth Annual Lecture: March 23, 2000
- Lecturer: Professor John Beattie, University of Toronto
- Topic: "The Problem of Urban Crime: London 1660-1750"
Fourth Annual Lecture: February 25, 1999
- Lecturer: Professor Kent Roach, University of Saskatchewan
- Topic: "The Attorney-General and the Charter"
Third Annual Lecture: December 3, 1997
- Lecturer: Professor Janet Chan, University of New South Wales
- Topic: "Policing Accounts: The New Accountability and Cultural Resistance"
Second Annual Lecture: November 13, 1996
- Lecturer: Professor Pat O'Malley, La Trobe University, Australia
- Topic: "Criminology and the New Liberalism"
Inaugural Lecture: November 1, 1995
- Lecturer: Professor Andrew Ashworth, King’s College, University of London, England
- Topic: "Mens Rea and Statutory Offences"
