…delivered by my good friend Helen The Criminologist:

Manchester Metropolitan University

Lecture by HELEN CODD

Tuesday 9th May 12pm midday (ASW, room TBA). All welcome.
Helen Codd, Lancashire Law School, UCLAN

“The Slippery Slope to Sperm Smuggling:
Prisoners’ Families, Artificial Insemination and Human Rights”

At the invitation of the Gender and Sexuality Research Centre, and the Institute for Culture, Gender and the City at MMU, Helen Codd, Principal Lecturer in Law at Lancashire Law School and Law & Criminology Co-ordinator, will be coming to speak on her latest research. Her research has focussed on women, imprisonment and prisoners’ families, with a particular interest in older women and criminal justice.

Recent Publications include: Feminism, Ageism and Criminology: Towards an Agenda for Future Research’ (1996) Feminist Legal Studies Vol. IV, No.2, pp.179-194; Age, Role Changes and Gender Power in Family Relationships: The Experiences of Older Female Partners of Male Prisoners’ Women & Criminal Justice Vol. 12 Issue 2/3 2000.”

I heard an outline of the talk at the weekend, apparently the topic was touched-upon in The Sopranos, and after getting past the novelty aspect of the topic there are some interesting questions of rights, notably whether incarcerating a – presumably married – potential father, is denying a potential mother the right to a child and thereby infringing upon her rights… and thus the creative solutions which some couples come by (ahem) in order to side-step this restriction.