Preet Nijhar - Other activities

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Conference Organization

Jan 2006- member of sub-committee of The British Society of Gerontology with responsibility for reviewing articles and conference submissions.

2003/4 – Crime and Ageing, one day conference at the Royal Statistical Society, for the British Society of Criminology – member of the organising committee

2003 – British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Wales, Bangor – co-organiser

Conferences Papers

(2010) ‘Resisting Policing: Race, Crime and the ‘Criminalisation’ of the non-Western in the Metropolis,’ Policing and the Policed: An International Workshop, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 29th - 30th April 2010, UK

(2008) Invited participant, Roundtable discussion on Ethnicity, Harm and Crime, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Kings College, London, 07 July 2008, UK

(2007) ‘NREGA 2006: Survival, Identity and Location’ Paper presented at the Churches Auxiliary for Social Action, Bhopal, India

(2006) ‘Imperial Crimes: the Case of the ‘Sansi’ Tribe of Colonial Punjab’ presented at the Critical Legal Conference: The Law of the Law in an Age of Empire, NALSAR, University of Law, Hyderabad, India

(2006) ‘Imperial Violence: the ‘Criminalisation’ of the non-Western in Victorian England’ presented to the Socio-Legal Conference, Stirling, UK

(2005) ‘Imperial Crossings: The Indian Diaspora in Victorian England’ invited speaker to the Centre for Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India

(2004) ‘Crimes of Private Space: the Elderly and Abuse,’ presented to the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Royal Statistical Society, London, UK.

(2004) ‘Resistance through Law: the case of the ‘Sansi’ community of Punjab’ presented at the Second International Conference of the Indian Society of International Law, Delhi, India.

(2004) ‘Imperial Reflections: Criminality and the Constitution of ‘dangerous classes’ in Colonial India and Victorian England’, Invited Plenary Speaker at the International Conference On Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation, DAV College of Education, Amritsar, Punjab, India

(2003) ‘Constructing a Criminal Identity: the Case of the itinerant ‘Sansi’ of Colonial Punjab,’ presented to the Socio-Legal Conference, Nottingham, UK

(2003) ‘Secondary Victimisation: Strategies of Survival,’ presented to the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.

(2002) ‘Crime and Aging,’ presented at the Open University, Hong Kong

(2001) ‘Dangerous Laws: Colonialism, Criminality and Identity,’ presented to the Socio-Legal Conference, Bristol, UK

Other

Jan 2006 - Member of Editorial Board of the Liverpool Law Review

2004 - Invited to evaluate Diversity Training Programme for the North Wales Police, North Wales

2003 - Member of the North Wales Equality Race Network (Wales)