The 20th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture was held on 15 June 2017 at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Professor Candace Kruttschnitt (University of Toronto) spoke on the topic: "Challenging a Gender Response Approach to Female Offending: Does the Empirical Research Bear Out this Perspective?"

Candace Kruttschnitt is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.