Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE)

This week will find members of the RaRiE team sharing some of the ‘first fruits’ of our labour. We’ll be at the European Society of Criminology’s annual conference, this year hosted by the University of Warsaw.

We have spent the last few months exploring the nature and development of ‘the rehabilitative ideal’ in each of our countries (the Netherland, Norway and Scotland).

That work has spanned an examination of historical and cultural influences on how rehabilitation has been understood and pursued, of related legal and philosophical developments, of associated policy and practice discourses, of institutional arrangements, and of various forms of empirical research (evaluative, critical and comparative).

However, our panel (which takes place at 10.30am on Friday 11th September, in room 1.141) comprises four papers which focus on cultural resources for and representations of rehabilitation, not just within the countries we are focused, but in Europe more generally.

• Amy Cullen (Glasgow) will examine how rehabilitation was imagined in medieval European morality plays.
• Dina Kolliakou-Ginzburg (Glasgow) will explore the contemporary use of Stoic philosophy in and as prison-based rehabilitation in England.
• Fergus McNeill (Glasgow) will discuss how rehabilitation has been represented (and how it might be re-written) via Scottish folktales.
• Finally, Thomas Ugelvik (Oslo) will focus on how rehabilitation is addressed in three Norwegian novels.

By exploring these different constructions and representations of rehabilitation, we hope to discern both recurring threads and instructive divergences.

If you’re going to be in Warsaw, please do come and say hello! And if not, watch this space, as we’ll have much more the share very soon.

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First published: 7 September 2026