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public places (funded by the Home Office). He is a member of the Conflict and SolidarityResearch Unit in the Psychology Department at Lancaster University.Tuesday 24 th November 2009 at 5 pm‘Death and Life of a Great European Standard:Crime Prevention by Urban Planning and Design’Dr Günter Stummvoll, Keele UniversityOn behalf of the Council of the European Union, the European Committee for Standardisation(CEN) produces norms and standards for quality assurance for products in a variety of economicfields such as transportation, pharmacy, electronics, food-production and the building industry.Supported by the industrial sector and driven by powerful businesses, market mechanisms havebecome increasingly influential in local governance in European countries. This presentationreviews the work process of an expert group in the CEN and draws some conclusions on theparticular outcomes: What kind of design-guidelines did they suggest to national urban planningauthorities? What kind of obstacles were they confronted with during their work? Did theysucceed? Was this project a failure? Is this form of crime prevention compatible with the strategyof “governance through norms and standards”? What is the future for design-led crime preventionin Europe?Guenter Stummvoll is Marie Curie European Research Fellow at the Centre for CriminologicalResearch, in the Institute for Law, Politics and Justice, at Keele University. He studied architecturebefore he changed to the study of sociology at the University of Vienna. His specialist field iscrime prevention and social control.Thursday 3rd December 2009 at 5.30 pmThe Frank Dawtry Memorial Lecture 2009‘The Future of Policing’Chief Constable Peter NeyroudChief Executive, National Policing Improvement AgencyPeter Neyroud was Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 2002 until 2006, when hebecame chief executive of the newly created National Policing Improvement Agency. He has beena police officer since joining Hampshire Constabulary in 1980. He rose through the ranks tobecome Detective Superintendent with responsibility for intelligence, covert operations and drugstrategy. He was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of West Mercia in 1998, reached DeputyChief Constable two years later and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2004. He is coauthorwith A. Beckley of Policing, Ethics and Human Rights (2001, Willan) and co-editor with T.Newburn of the Dictionary of Policing (2008, Willan).The text of Peter Neyroud’s lecture is reproduced in this Annual Report (see p. 42)33