The Institute of Criminology, with the support of the Law Faculty University of Sydney, is holding a memorial gathering in honour of Gordon Hawkins, on Friday 19 March in the Assembly Hall (level 4), Sydney Law School, 173-175 Phillip St, Sydney, 5.30 for 6pm.  Refreshments will be provided.

Gordon Hawkins, internationally renowned criminologist and former Director of the Sydney University Institute of Criminology, died in Sydney on Sunday the 29th of February 2004 at the age of 84. He was well known for the "Honest Politician's Guide To Crime Control" (1970)  (with Norval Morris), and a series of studies on gun control (1987) and incapacitation (1995) with Franklin Zimring, and imprisonment in America (1981) with Michael Sherman.

Gordon Hawkins made a huge contribution to the establishment of criminology at the University of Sydney between 1961 and his retirement from teaching in 1984. Certainly the contemporary standing of the Institute of Criminology owes much to his initial work.

The program for the gathering is available.