Dr Leonidas K Cheliotis will give a guest lecture entitled 'Erich Fromm and the Political Economy of Punishment: A Freudo-Marxist Approach to Neoliberal Penality' at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science, on 7 December 2011. The lecture will draw on Dr Cheliotis' recent and ongoing work on Frommian scholarship and its applications to the study of state and public punitiveness today.