International Conference on Culture, Crime, and Global Challenges

On 16-17 April 2025, the Criminology working group of the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University organizes an International Conference on Culture, Crime, and Global Challenges. All submissions should be received before March 1, 2025 (see link below).

In recent decades cultural perspectives have become a central concern in the study of crime. Cultural differences (and according to some ‘clashes of culture’) interfere with Global North/South contestations over space, the environment, and mediated meanings. Moreover, cultural ‘meaning-making’ figures prominently in forms of resistance directed against neoliberal capitalism, corporate and state crimes, and other crimes of the elite. Such crimes, harms, and transgressions are ‘culture-in-the-making’, and in the same way our methods of tackling them are ultimately cultural projects. Acknowledging the role of culture is therefore crucial when developing global perspectives of contemporary crimes, harms, and social injustices. We hereby invite scholars from all disciplines to contribute to our shared understanding of cultural, criminological issues.

Since the beginning of the 2000s six cultural criminological conferences have taken place in Utrecht and Amsterdam. We seek to continue this tradition by providing a platform for international researchers from different disciplines to present and discuss their work.

Cost: Regular €50 | Student €25
Registration: https://forms.uu.nl/universiteitutrecht-rebo/rgl-ccgc-conference2025
Additional information: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/international-conference-on-culture-crime-and-global-challenges