This autumn Insight Conferences will be running their Exploring Crime Conference in the following Venues

Manchester Town Hall 5th November
Salford University 13th November
London Westminster Hall 24th November
Birmingham University 26th November

The cost is £20 per delegate

Teachers accompanying a school/college party attend free of charge.

Check out Insight Conferences for more details.

Insight Conferences have announced details of their forthcoming Exploring Crime Conference at the University of Leicester on 10 – 11 July 2008.

The aim of the conference is to give those students attending an insight into specialised areas within crime and help to enrich their studies and pursue future careers.

The cost for the conference is £95.00, which includes all conference presentations and materials, overnight accommodation, a full English breakfast and an evening meal. Refreshments will also be provided throughout the day for the students and teachers.

The conference should be an excellent opportunity for students to experience university life and explore areas within the world of crime relating to Psychology, Science, Sociology and Law along with meeting peers from across the country who share similar interests and aspirations.

Insight Conferences are now taking bookings and are able to hold provisional places for 10 working days for any students/schools interested in attending. They can be contacted via or email or phone (01509) 550832 to make your booking provisionally.

More details and their email address can be found on www.insightconferences.co.uk

Insight conferences have announced the dates for their spring Conferences which will take place during February and March 2008.

The Crime Conferences and the Applied Psychology Conferences listed below will be running at the same venues on the same date.

Dates for Crime Conference and Applied Psychology
Stourbridge Town Hall 5th March 2008
Bristol BAWA Centre 7th March 2008
Friends House London 12th March 2008

Further dates are to be confirmed.

Crime Conference
The Keynote Speaker is Nicholas Yarris, an exonerated Death Row Prisoner. The conference will include the topics of Offender Profiling, Eyewitness Testimony, Courtroom Psychology and Psycopathy.

Applied Psychology
Presentations will include Stress, Memory and Mental Health. During the afternoon students will be split into smaller groups and have the opportunity to speak to individuals who suffer with schizophrenia, a terminal brain tumour, addiction and depression. This session will give students an opportunity to gain an insight into conditions they would not necessarily come into contact with.

Insight Conferences have sent me an update on their November and December crime conferences. They still have some places available. The conferences will be suitable for students studying Law, Psychology, Sociology, Forensics etc.

Venues will include:

• Friends House, Euston Road, London, Friday 16th November 2007
• Gala Theatre, Durham Monday 26th November 2007
• Hulme Hall, University Manchester, Friday 30th November 2007
• Torquay Riviera Centre, Monday 3rd December 2007
• Portsmouth Friday 10th December 2007

Speakers will be people who work or research the areas they are speaking about and who have a true insight. The conference will consist of presentations with at least two during the day being interactive and requiring student participation.

The conference will run between 10am and 3.30pm and the cost will be £20.00 per student.

Areas covered include:

Death Row – Hear from a death row prisoner who was exonerated after 8,057 days. He was the first death row prisoner to use DNA science to prove his innocence. Hear his story ……

Psychopaths – Nature v Nurture – The concept of the psychopath (or more currently dangerous severe personality disorder) is central to many arguments on the nature and nurture of homicide and particularly serial homicide. These issues will all be explored with their relevance to the study of psychology in mind and illustrated by reference to case examples.

Female Offending – The way in which women are perceived within the criminal justice system. Traditionally and still apparent in current times, female offenders are viewed as “mad” rather than “bad”. Using the presenters own experiences of the culture in female jails followed by case studies of female prisoners she has worked. Students will be asked to get together in groups in order to discuss whether a particular offender is best viewed as mentally ill (mad) or psychopathic (bad). This will be linked to the topic of the media portrayal of prolific female offenders, specifically analysing the discourse used in newspaper articles.

Treatment needs of female offenders. Self-harm, arson, sexual offending areas for women in our prison system. Students will be asked why they think these are important areas for female offenders. Their reasoning shall be compared with explanations drawn from psychological theory.

Offender Profiling – The definitions and assumptions underlying offender profiling shall be discussed and a recent case involving fatal arson in which a psychological profile was undertaken shall be presented. The aim of the session is to encourage a critical assessment of what can be achieved by offender profiling and how this can be improved with scientific methods.

Eyewitness Testimony – This presentation will examine the fascinating subject of eyewitness testimony. Every year prisoners are released from prison after serving part of a prison sentence for a crime they did not commit. Often, the evidence used to convict these innocent individuals is eyewitness testimony; the testimony of a victim or witness claiming to remember the perpetrator and picking him/her out of mug shots or police line-ups. How fallible is human memory? When are we accurate and when are we poor at remembering scenes, faces and crimes?

For a copy of their brochure, email insight.conferences@ntlworld.com with your full postal address.

Insight Conferences are also running a number of in-house conferences across the country for the names of schools/colleges involved and to see if there is one in your area please contact them

Insight also have their Applied Psychology conference running in Torquay on 3rd December which will cover Stress, Memory, Attachment and in the afternoon students will have a presentation covering Mental Health and then have the opportunity in groups to speak to people suffering from Schizophrenia, Brain Tumour, Depression and Phobia.

Insight will be running both of these conferences again during March 2008 and anybody interested in dates and venues should contact them via email.

Insight conferences offer conferences/workshops relating to crime, psychology and forensics.

Their conferences/workshops can be delivered in your school/college and in a number of venues across the country.

During December, they will be holding an overnight Forensics conference at the University of Warwick and this will be aimed at years 12 and 13 students who have an interest in the world of forensics, either through Psychology or Science related subjects they are studying.

Areas they will cover will be Ballistics, Fingerprinting, Crime Scene Investigation plus mock crime scene, Reformed Prisoners, Forensic Photography, Major Incident Investigation, and Geo-profiling. During the day sessions are presentation based and in the evening students are split into groups for interactive sessions.

You can find more details on their website www.insightconferences.co.uk