1. ‘The Durham Crime walk: from the medieval to the modern’
Dr. Ivan Hill School of Applied Social Sciences
Inaugural teaching and learning conference September 2016

2. Introduction Genesis Creation Module incorporation and pedagogy
Presentation format:
Introduction
Genesis
Creation
Module incorporation and pedagogy

3. Introduction:
The crime walk is currently embedded in a 1st level Criminology module ‘The Criminal Justice Landscape’ and is also used in the MSc. Criminology and Criminal Justice programme.
Has also been used by schools/colleges/wider community

4. Genesis:
Prof. Maggie O’Neill (now at York University)and Dr. Ivan Hill collaborated in ‘Ghosts of the Future’ an Arts Council funded project with HMP Durham - see

5. Genesis contd.
The crime walk was developed, as part of the Ghosts of the Future project, to identify key spaces and places around Durham associated with the history of crime, punishment and justice through time; especially from medieval times to the current day.
The map developed takes the form of a treasure map and features the River Wear which runs through Durham. The main points of interest on the walk are associated with: the history of crime and punishment; the importance of education and prison education in particular; prison reform; the roles provided by the church, the state and landowners such as Lord Londonderry whose statue is located in the marketplace.

7. Durham Cathedral as a prison?

8. Judge leaving Palace Green to go to Assizes:

9. Key questions:
The route of the Crime walk is available in leaflet form and on the web site. The full narrative [available on the web site] tells a more comprehensive story of the places and spaces on the walk and the history of crime, justice and punishment in Durham City. It asks:
How do some things get defined as crime and others not?
How has society sought to reduce crime throughout history?
What are the causes of crime?
What is prison for?
How has prison and punishment changed over time and does prison work?

10. Creation:
Following a substantial amount of research and interviews an embryonic walling route around Durham City centre was created.
Maggie and I then ‘walked the walk’ and discovered more detail which added to the walk overall e.g. the Marketplace hairdressers and tattoo parlour… falling through a door to the 15th century and having coffee on top of a 16th century burial site….. everyday research encounters!
All of which proved very fruitful and continues to do so!

11. Module creation and pedagogy: making real!
There is substantial academic evidence to support the idea of making the student learning dynamic more of an interactive experience e.g. (Wacquant (2012); Menkhoff and Bengtsson (2012); O’Neill and Stenning 2013)

12. The development of the Durham walk illustrates this!
Contd.
Although there is a long tradition of walking in ethnographic and anthropological research, there was little in criminology.
Building upon earlier work that combines walking as a method alongside participatory, creative, biographical and visual research (O’Neill 2010 & Hubbard, O’Neill & Stenning 2013, O’Neill 2014) to generate knowledge and understanding, we suggest that walking can be a way of both knowing and understanding the history of crime, justice, punishment in city spaces.
The development of the Durham walk illustrates this!

13. Embedding it in the module:
Contd.
Embedding it in the module:
Fits with overall aims, objectives and learning outcomes of module yet offers a distinctly unique way to critically engage with the fluid and often contested nature of crime and criminal justice…. and it is a good walk as well!
Ps I am very happy to take you round…

14. References:
Menkhoff, T. & Bengtsson, M.L. Educ Res Policy Prac (2012) 11: 225. 
O’Neill, M. (2014)   ‘Participatory Biographies: Walking, Sensing, Belonging’ in O’Neill, M. Roberts, B. Sparkes, A. (Eds) Advances in Biographical Methods: creative applications, London: R Routledge
O’Neill, M. and Stenning, P. (2013). Walking biographies and innovations in visual and participatory methods: Community, Politics and Resistance in Downtown East Side Vancouver, in C. Heinz and G. Hornung (Eds) The Medialization of Auto/Biographies: Different Forms and their Communicative Contexts, Hamburg: UVH.
Pink, S. Hubbard, P. O’Neill, M. & Radley, A. (2010) ‘Walking across disciplines from ethnography to arts practice’ in Visual Studies, 25 (1): 46–58
Wacquant, L. (2010) ‘Join a gym or a stamp club, says boxing professor ‘in Network Summerhttp://loicwacquant.net/assets/Papers/JOINAGYMSTAMPCLUB.pdf [accessed: 15th February 2016]