BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20261005T164500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_42604_7ab9f6c619f550dc0fe2e3707d93a025@www.middletemple.org.uk SUMMARY:What is the point of criminal justice? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n < head>\n \n \n \n

< strong>Nick Ross is a radio and TV presen ter best known for hosting Crimewatch for 23 years and a founder of the Jill Dando Institute of Crim e Science at UCL.

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In this talk he ende avours to consider what is the point of criminal j ustice\, provoke thought on fundamental questions around criminal justice. He supposes that there ar e no metrics to show criminal justice makes much d ifference to crime rates and there’s only flaky ev idence on deterrence and rehabilitation and propos es the question\, why do lawyers bother?
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\n "In short\, to misquote Voltaire \, is the job of lawyers to keep the public amused while crime either rises or falls?"

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Student members (including t ransferring lawyers) must attend all elements of t he event in order to be awarded the Qualifying Ses sion. This includes any lecture/talk/reception/din ner/speeches.

\n \n DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n Nick Ross is a radio and TV presen ter best known for hosting Crimewatch for 23 years and a founder of the Jill Dando Institute of Crim e Science at UCL.\n \n \n \n In this talk he endea vours to consider what is the point of criminal ju stice\, provoke thought on fundamental questions a round criminal justice. He supposes that there are no metrics to show criminal justice makes much di fference to crime rates and there’s only flaky evi dence on deterrence and rehabilitation and propose s the question\, why do lawyers bother?\n \n \n \n He will also ask -\n \n \n \n \n Does criminal j ustice work for victims?\n Is it really as open a s it claims?\n Is a system inherited from medieva l times fit to judge 21st century evidence like st atistical probability and science?\n Has it hijac ked the police who were set up solely for crime pr evention?\n Is it cost-effective?\n \n \n \n \n " In short\, to misquote Voltaire\, is the job of la wyers to keep the public amused while crime either rises or falls?"\n \n \n \n \n Student members (i ncluding transferring lawyers) must attend all ele ments of the event in order to be awarded the Qual ifying Session. This includes any lecture/talk/rec eption/dinner/speeches.\n \n \n \n CATEGORIES:Domus Function CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T174500 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T174500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T203000 LOCATION:Sherrard Room\n Ashley Building\n Middle Temple La ne\n London\, EC4Y 9BT\n United Kingdom\n URL:https://www.middletemple.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=42604 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR