ICOPA XI
Held in Hobart, Tasmania. 7-11th of February 2006
Preface
The following were themes explored and expanded at the conference:
The Politics of Imprisonment
Northern Ireland, Palestine and the Middle East, (Post) Colonial
Justice Nigeria and West Africa, South Africa: ANC , Brazil, USA,
Canada.
Contemporary Forms of Penal Custom
Post Carceral Resettlement
Organising Inside: Prisoners' resistance and the Outside Community,
Writing and Art as Resistance, Barriers to Reintegration,
Surveillance, Organising in the Community - Exprisoners'
Organisations, Convict Criminology.
Action Now Proposals for the future.
ICOPA XI linked with the ANZSOC
criminology conference over 7-9th of February 2006 in Tasmania. They
held four plenary sessions around the theme of Human Rights:
Prisoners and Human Rights Refugees and Human Rights
State Crime and Human Rights
Terrorism, Racism and Human Rights
more information :
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink\bocsar\bocsar.nsf/pages/index
ICOPA XI - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND 2006!
Tasmania is an ideal place to discuss punishment. It used to be called
Van Dieman's Land, and was the place where most of the original
convicts were sent from England from 1788 until the 1850's. It was the
ultimate as a penal colony, was almost entirely a prison, and changed
its name to avoid the historic shame. It had penal settlements where
convicts were tortured - all well documented. And the convict responses
are very special learning experiences, still valid today.
Robert Hughes "The Fatal Shore"
ISBN 0 099 45915 9
- well worth the read.
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