The British Society of Criminology Conference 2011 was hosted by the Department of Social Sciences, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Northumbria University. The main conference commenced on Monday 4 July and continued to Wednesday 6 July 2011. The Postgraduate Conference commenced on Sunday 3 July. The venue was Northumbria University's City Campus East, an iconic, environmental friendly building which has become part of the dramatic city skyline and provides a perfect setting for conferences.

A number of the academics from the Department of Criminology attended the conference and gave papers on a range of topics.

• Tammy Ayres - 'Recreational drug use in hard times: Does purity and danger help to make sense of legal highs?'
• Adrian Beck - 'From Wall Street to the High Street: The Role of Moral Hazard in Generating Criminogenic Environments'
• Neil Chakraborti - 'Targeting Vulnerability: A Fresh Set of Challenges for Hate Crime Scholarship and Policy'
• Jon Garland and Mike Rowe (Newcastle University) - 'The Road to Nowhere? Assessing Two Decades of Ethnic Monitoring'
• Jon Garland and James Treadwell - 'Masculinity, Marginalisation and Violence: A Case Study of the English Defence League'
• Rob Mawby and Anne Worrall (Keele University) - 'Unlikely edgework: probation officers and voluntary risk-taking'
• Irene Zempi - 'Unveiling Islamophobia in Leicester: The victimisation of Muslim women in veil'