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SUMMARY:Guilt by Association: race\, culture and criminalization
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DESCRIPTION:In a recent controversial conspiracy case in Manchester sever
 al Black teenagers were found ‘guilty by association’ after prosecutors 
 used social media messages and references to drill lyrics to build a gro
 up case against them\, claiming they were all affiliated to a ‘gang’. Th
 is case crystallises certain broader trends in group prosecutions\, with
  a recent report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (‘The Usu
 al Suspects’\, 2022) on joint enterprise laws in England and Wales findi
 ng that young men of colour continue to be disproportionately swept into
  large group convictions. This event will reflect on the effects of cons
 piracy and joint enterprise laws in racializing and criminalizing partic
 ular communities and cultures\, and on how these laws increasingly raise
  questions about fairness and justice as they relate to the prosecution 
 of young Black and Asian men.\n\nChaired by Prof David Olusoga\, our spe
 akers will include Prof Eithne Quinn\, University of Manchester Chancell
 or Nazir Afzal\, founder of Kids of Colour\, Roxy Legane and Jan Cunliff
 e\, Director of JENGbA.\n\nThis event has been organised by the Creative
  Manchester Research Platform and is presented in partnership with the G
 lobal Inequalities research beacon.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nDavid Olusoga OBE is
  a British author\, historian\, presenter and BAFTA-winning film-maker. 
 He is Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester and wa
 s awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to history and community integrati
 on. He specialises in the British Empire and how we experience its lasti
 ng effects in modern society. David has presented historical television 
 programmes on the BBC. His television credits include Civilisations\, Bl
 ack and British\, Our NHS: A Hidden History\, A House Through Time and t
 he BAFTA award-winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners.\n\nNazir Afzal 
 OBE was Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England and formerly Director in L
 ondon. He was Chief Executive of the country’s Police & Crime Commission
 ers and most recently\, National Adviser to the Welsh Government. During
  a 30 year career\, has prosecuted the most high profile cases in the co
 untry & advised on many others and led nationally on several legal topic
 s including Violence against Women & Girls\, child sexual abuse\, and ho
 nour based violence. He had responsibility for more than 100\,000 prosec
 utions each year. His prosecutions of the so-called Rochdale grooming ga
 ng and hundreds of others were ground-breaking and changed the landscape
  of child protection.\n\nRoxy Legane is the founder of Kids of Colour\, 
 a Manchester-based project for young people of colour to challenge every
 day and institutionalised racism. She is a steering group member of Nort
 hern Police Monitoring Project and is studying for?her PhD at Manchester
  Metropolitan University?\, which explores the?impact of police in schoo
 ls in Greater Manchester on?racialised?young people.\n\nEithne Quinn is 
 Professor of Cultural Studies at The University of Manchester and was Le
 adership Fellow on the Arts & Humanities Research Council project Prosec
 uting Rap: Criminal Justice and UK Black Youth Expressive Culture (2020-
 21). She is the author of two books Nuthin' but a G Thang: The Culture a
 nd Commerce of Gangsta Rap (Columbia University Press\, 2005) and A Piec
 e of the Action: Race and Labor in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood (Columbia
  University Press\, 2019)\, which won the 2020 BAAS Prize for Best Book 
 of 2020 and was a finalist for the Wall prize.\n\nJan Cunliffe is one of
  the co founders of the campaign group JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guil
 ty by Association). Their tireless campaigning was undoubtedly instrumen
 tal in the 2016 Supreme Court victory\, where senior judges acknowledged
  the law had taken a wrong turn in 1984. That’s 32 years of injustice. N
 ow they have been vindicated the campaign leads the way in gaining acqui
 ttals for the wrongly convicted and achieving further legal reform in se
 veral different areas\, such as abolishing life sentences for children a
 nd the mandatory life sentence that takes away the discretion of the jud
 ge when it comes to sentencing.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, The Whitworth\, Manchester
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