Criminological Perspectives on Palestine

📢 Exciting News!
We invite you to join the upcoming conference "Criminological Perspectives on Palestine: Legal Responses and Academic Complicity in Times of Genocide", which will take place on 9–10 April 2026 at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and at the Institute of Criminology in Ljubljana.
✅ Participation in the conference is free of charge, but prior registration is required.
For more details and registration, visit: https://www.inst-krim.si/criminological-perspectives-on-palestine-legal…
This conference seeks to explore the ways in which criminologists can—and should—address state criminality; to consider how criminological scholarship may contribute critical analyses of violations committed by Israel in Palestine, including genocide; and to examine how the discipline might engage with ongoing debates concerning academic complicity and calls to boycott institutions implicated in such violations. Recent developments, such as the European Society of Criminology’s (ESC) silence on these matters and its decision to prevent a democratic vote on measures aimed at addressing institutional complicity in atrocity crimes, highlight the need for an academic forum in which these issues can be critically and openly examined. We therefore invite participants to join this space, dedicated both to analysing Israel’s crimes in Palestine and to reflecting more broadly on the responsibilities and potential of criminology in confronting atrocity crimes and other serious human rights violations.