We are pleased to invite you to the next talk in our Online Academic Lecture Series, showcasing the ground-breaking research work of Worcester academics and Fellows.

For this lecture, we are delighted to welcome Dr Leila Ullrich, Fellow and Associate Professor of Criminology. She will be speaking to Old Members on ‘Should We Pay ‘Wages for Victims’?: Victim Participation as Labour in Domestic and International Criminal Justice’.

In this talk, Leila will discuss how victim participation in criminal justice processes is usually studied as a legal right or a restorative justice measure. Drawing on evidence from both international and domestic criminal justice, she will instead conceptualize participation as a form of unpaid labour. Building on Marxist-Feminist theory, she argues that we do not usually recognize victims’ labour because of the ‘who’ (victims), the ‘why’ (justice) and the ‘what’ (participation) of victim participation. She will then make the case for why we should consider paying ‘wages for victims’ drawing on the Wages for Housework campaign in the 1970s, not only to compensate victims for their labour time, but also to open up a broader political perspective on life-making, work and justice.

The lecture will be hosted online via Zoom on Thursday 19 June at 5.00-6.00pm BST, with a recording uploaded to YouTube after the lecture for those unable to join us live.

If you are interested in attending or receiving a link to the lecture recording, please book using the form below. Attendance is free for all Old Members. If you would like to register a non-alumnus for the event, please use this form.

Please note that your Zoom link will be sent to you the week of the lecture.