Added 4/25/2023 & 6/9/2023
14th Asian Criminology Conference
The 14th Asian Criminology Conference will be held from the 27th to 29th of October 2023 at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), Ratmalana, Sri Lanka. It is jointly organized by the Asian Criminological Society (ACS) and the Faculty of Criminal Justice, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University under the leadership of the most distinguished Professor-in-Law, Deshabandu Professor MADSJS Niriella, the Conference Chair, Vice President of ACS and the Dean of the Faculty of Criminal Justice, KDU. Since the original ACS conference, twelve annual conferences have been held in various countries and now the 14th Asian Criminology Conference will be held in Sri Lanka. This year the theme of the conference is “Crime and Criminal Justice: Sustainable Development, Peace and Security in Asia” which carries another 16 sub-themes. This time ACS Conference provides participants with a diverse range of presentation formats to showcase their research findings through Individual Paper presentations, Panel Discussions, Round Table Discussions and Poster Presentations to disseminate their research findings, future collaborations and drive advancement in Criminology and Criminal justice. For more details visit the website: https://14acs2023.com/Home.html.
Interested individuals are requested to submit an abstract of a maximum of 300 words in Microsoft Word document, Font style – Italic, Times New Roman, 12 Font Size, and single line spacing. The abstract may include keywords between 3 and 5. The abstract must include a clear indication of the objectives, research problem, methodology, findings, concluding remarks, and key references. The last day for abstract submission is 10th July 2023 before 11.59 p.m. Sri Lanka time (IST).
Added 2/7/2023
British Society of Criminology Meeting:
The British Society of Criminology Conference will be held from June 28 – 30 at the University of Central Lancashire. A Postgraduate conference will be held June 27. The title of the conference is ‘Sustainable futures: Remaking Criminology in an age of Global Injustice’. Registration for the conference is now open. The deadline for the Call for Papers is April 28. For more information, see https://www.uclan.ac.uk/events/conferences/bsc
Added 7/18/2022
The First International Conference on Forgiveness and Forgiving within an Inter/Intra Cultural Perspective
February 1-2, 2023
Bar-Ban University, Israel
Added 03/23/2022
Young Criminologists Forum
May 18 – 20, 2022
Criminal Law and Criminology in Response to 21st Century Crises
University of Bialystok, Poland
www.ofmk.uwb.edu.pl/Indexen.html
Added 03/02/2022
NGO CSW Forum: Feminist Approaches to Justice, March 21-24, 2022
CSW66 Parallel Events Flyer (002)
Added 04/26/2021
ECPR SGOC Online Summer School on Transnational Organised Crime June 7-26th 2021
Added 03/17/2021
Added 03/16/2021
INSTRUCTIONS FOR JOINING PANELS:
All attendees must register via the online platform, Pathable, Registration is free.Once you are logged into the system, you click either “See Schedule” at the center of the page or “Schedule” at the top of the page to search for events. Using the search field (in gray) near the top right of the screen (under the blue page banner), type in the panel title and click the “GO” button. If you click the 
to the right of the event title, it will be added to your personal agenda, which is retrievable from the top left of the page (directly under the NGO CSW logo).
Thursday, 18 March 11:00am – 1:00pm EST International Approaches to Coordinating Community Responses: Violence Against Women
Sponsored by American Society of Criminology – Division of International Criminology
Chair
Dr. Sheetal Ranjan, Member American Society of Criminology – Division of International Criminology; Professor, William Paterson University (USA)
Introductory Comments, Dr. Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Chair, American Society of Criminology – Division of International Criminology; Professor, Michigan State University (USA) and Dr. Ineke Haen Marshall, Editor, International Criminology; Professor, Northeastern University (USA)
Panelists
Theoretical Framework for Coordinating Community Responses: Violence Against Women
Dr. Sheetal Ranjan, Member American Society of Criminology – Division of International Criminology; Professor, William Paterson University (USA)
The European Victims’ Rights Directive (2012/29/EU): Reflections on Article 26 Cooperation and Coordination of Services
Lessons From the Implementation of UN-Women’s Integrated Global Initiative on Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls
Laura Capobianco, Senior Policy Advisor, Safe Public Spaces, Ending Violence against Women (USA)
Engaging Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence Through Community-Based Programs Clara Alemann, Director of Programs, Promundo-US (USA)
Reflections After 30 Years: Successes, Challenges and New Directions in Efforts to Address Men’s Violence Against Women
Dean Peacock, Director, Confronting Militarized Masculinities, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (SOUTH AFRICA)
Dr. Vasiliki Artinopoulou, Professor, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences; Director of the ‘Restorative Justice and Mediation’ Lab; Director of the Institute on Crime and Criminal Justice, European Public Law Organization (GREECE)
Our other co-sponsored panels are:
Tuesday, 16 March 10:00am – 12:00pm EST Feminist Approaches to Justice: International Responses to Sexual Violence
Sponsored by the International Sociological Association; Co-sponsored by Criminologists Without Borders
Chair
Dr. Rosemary Barberet, UN Representative International Sociological Association & Criminologists Without Borders (USA); Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (USA)
Introductory Comments, Sari Hanafi, President, International Sociological Association (ISA); Professor, American University of Beirut (LEBANON)
Panelists
1325’s 20th Anniversary: Feminism Should Drive the WPS Agenda
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN; Initiator of the conceptual breakthrough for UNSCR 1325 as the Security Council President in March 2000; Founder of the Global Movement for The Culture of Peace (GMCoP)
Important Efforts to Stop Sexual Violence in Sierra Leone
Dr. Mary Okumu, UN Women in Sierra Leone (retired) (SIERRA LEONE)
CEDAW and Gender-based Violence Against Women (GBVW)
Dr. Rhoda Reddock, CEDAW Committee Member; Emerita Professor, Gender, Social Change and Development, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago; ISA Executive Committee Member and UN CEDAW Committee (2018-2022) (TRINIDAD & TOBAGO)
Women and Girls as Victims of Sexual Violence: Consequences and Community Perceptions
Passy Mubalama, Women ́s Rights Activist; Founder of AIDPROFEN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and NGOCSW 2020 Woman of Distinction Awardee (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO)
Guaranteeing a Future for Girls Affected by Armed Conflict: Concerns Identified by the International Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict (UNETCHAC)
Dr. Laura Guercio, Member of the Coordination Committee of UNETCHAC (ITALY); Professor, University of Perugia; Head of International Relations for the International Criminal Bar Association
Best Police Practices Around the Globe: Improving Responses to Sexual Violence. Jasmine Hwang and Sebastián Galleguillos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (USA)
Moderator, Dr. Jan Marie Fritz, International Sociological Association (ISA) Executive Committee Member; ISA Representative to the UN; Professor, University of Cincinnati (USA); Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg (SOUTH AFRICA); and Visiting Professor at Taylor’s University (MALAYSIA)
Wednesday, 17 March 2:00 – 4:00pm EST Feminist Approaches to Justice: Addressing Incarcerated and Reentering Women Worldwide
Sponsored by the World Society of Victimology
Chair
Dr. Dawn Beichner, UN Representative World Society of Victimology; Professor, Illinois State University (USA)
Introductory Comments, Dr. Claire M. Renzetti, Editor, Violence Against Women, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women; Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Kentucky (USA)
Panelists
Bringing the “Invisible Population” to Light: Justice for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women Dr. Jennifer Cobbina, Associate Professor, Michigan State University (USA)
Feminist Approach to Addressing the Challenges Facing Incarcerated Women in Liberia
Atty. Mmonbeydo Nadine Joah, Executive Director/Legal Counsel, Organization for Women and Children (ORWOCH) (LIBERIA)
The Rampant Incarceration of Indigenous Women: The Aotearoa / New Zealand Experience
Prue Kapua, National President, Maori Women’s Welfare League; Trustee, Maori Women’s Development Inc. (NEW ZEALAND)
A Global View of Women, Prison, and Aftercare: Promising Practices
Dr. Dawn Beichner, UN Representative World Society of Victimology; Professor, Illinois State University (USA) and Dr. Otmar Hagemann, Professor, Fachhochschule Kiel (GERMANY)
final International Approaches to Coordinating Community Responses_Violence Against Women (1)
Added on 03/04/2021
13th Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe Conference
Perspectives of Rural Safety, Security and Rural Criminology
Ljubljana, Slovenia
September 13-15, 2021
Added on 02/11/2021
Preference will be given to scholars who are up to 5 years post-PhD and currently hold postdoctoral posts or faculty positions. Exceptional doctoral candidates in the final phase of their dissertation are also encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is April 2, 2021. We would appreciate if you could distribute the attached information to your network. Additional information about the 2021 Global Scholars Academy program and application process can be found on the IGLP website. http://iglp.law.harvard.edu/2021-global-scholars-academy/
Added on 02/01/2021
Working on a first book?
ADDED on 01/06/2021
McGill’s GLSA 2021 Conference Invitation
The call for papers for the 14th Annual McGill Law Graduate Conference “Law and the City” is now open. The conference will take place on the 6th and 7th of May 2021 in a hybrid format (primarily online).
GLSA welcomes all submissions from law and other disciplines relating to the conference theme (law and the city), as well as from the general area of international law. The full call for papers may be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/call-papers-law-and-city-annual-graduate-conference-326731; and more information on the conference may be found here (the page will be updated as more information becomes available): https://www.mcgill.ca/agcl/.
Please note that GLSA is accepting 250-350 words abstracts from students, PhD candidates and young researchers by 31st of January 2021 via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glsa2021.
We encourage applicants to consider various topics linked to the questions of law and the city, including, but not limited to:
- The historical and contemporary theoretical and philosophical approaches to law and the city, e.g. political and legal doctrines related to utopias of an ideal city;
- The local, national and international regulations regarding cultural heritage protection;
- The issues regarding urban design, which can be both beneficial (e.g. encouraging companies to move to a city) and discriminatory (e.g. leading to architectural exclusion and structural inequalities);
- Issues concerning Indigenous communities and rising urbanization;
- The urban space being a commemorative space (e.g. issues regarding monuments, street names, national monuments);
- The historical and contemporary legal status of independent and semi-independent city-states, e.g. Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau;
- The extent to which contemporary global cities (e.g. New York, Los Angeles, London) become actors in the international law discourse, surpassing traditional national boundaries;
- The various ways social changes interact with legal rules and instigate legal changes;
- The legal consequences of smart cities;
- Facial recognition technologies and mass surveillance;
- Predictive policing and the automation of the criminal justice system;
- Criminal policies leading to the criminalization of poverty in urban settings;
- Issues concerning discriminatory policies of the municipal police forces;
- Issues concerning the treatment and legal statues of the homeless;
- Issues concerning the prison system, with correctional institutions becoming dysfunctional ‘cities’;
- University cities becoming urban spaces co-created by local citizens and students, bringing various challenges to the legal system – and legal education;
- Issues regarding campuses, which are, in a way, mini-cities, and consequences studying on a campus may have on legal education;
- The various ways in which cities balanced the protection of public health and individual liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Dean Maxwell & Isle Cohen Seminar on International Law
We would also like to invite all contributions from the area of international law, which will be presented during the conference as a part of The Dean Maxwell & Isle Cohen Seminar on International Law. Aside from the 250-350 words abstracts sent via EasyChair until 31 January 2021 on the link above, the Seminar contributors will need to prepare 2,500-3,500 words blog posts to be sent until two weeks before the conference, i.e. by 22 April 2021. The blog posts should present the essence of the Seminar participants’ papers and will be published online by the Conference, serving as a base for discussions during the conference.
The working languages of the Conference and the Seminar are English and French. Contributions in both languages will be accepted.
The Conference Committee will inform the authors of both the Conference and the Seminar submissions on its decisions until the end of February.
For any and all questions, email gradlawconference.law@mcgill.ca.
ADDED on 01/06/2021
Are you a thriver who would like to share your experience? Have you completed research on topics of human trafficking or social justice? Do you have experience working in the field of social justice or human trafficking? If so, we want to hear from you!
We are now accepting presentation submissions for the 18th Annual International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference!
International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference hosted VIRTUALLY on September 22-24, 2021.
For more information visit https://www.traffickingconference.com/present-2021
ADDED on 12/29/2020
Save the Date for a Special 2021 Conversation Series
Join the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and The WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center for An Important Online Conversation
The criminal justice system in the United States has grappled for many decades with racial and ethnic disparities in its outcomes. Findings from studies of juvenile justice, policing, pretrial and bail decisions, sentencing, and corrections consistently indicate inequities in the experiences of Black, Native American and Indigenous, and Hispanic American people in the criminal justice system compared to those of white people.
The fundamental question that connects the work of researchers to that of policymakers and practitioners is, “What can we do to mitigate systemwide disparities?”
Join the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center for a series of engaging online conversations that will use scientific evidence to explore this critical issue.
This first discussion in the series will take place on January 12th, 2021 from 12:00 – 1:15pm EST and will feature leading scholars and experts who will examine whether training innovations in procedural justice, implicit bias, de-escalation, and community policing can lead to more equitable outcomes. Professors Robin Engel, Lorie Fridell, and Tracey Meares, as well as Deputy Chief Tarrick McGuire will share research, evidence, and operational practices to tackle this important question and promote systemwide change.
Learn more and register today!
ADDED ON 12/15/2020
International Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect
On behalf of the committee and staff of GPE, it is great pleasure and honor to extend to you a warm invitation to attend the next International Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect to be held from January 19 to 22 – 2021 in Washington, DC at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, DC 20001, the United States of America.
The second edition of the conference will be held from January 25 to 27, 2021 in Dakar Senegal, at the King Luxury Hotel Convention Center.
The CAN 2021 is been organize by “Global Partnership for Education” (GPE) in partnership with “End Violence Against Women International” (EVAWI).
Great speakers with being experts from around the world, come and learn new skills, be inspired by ideas, and walk away connected, informed, and better equipped to address the issue of human rights in your community.
CAN 2021 is a kind learning and networking platform from across the globe to discuss issues related to Child Abuse and Neglect, in a culturally and professionally diverse environment. This top research conference attracts more high-profile researchers from around the world than any other similar event in the United States & Africa.
Registration is free and delegates are entitled to free the United States Visa arrangements by the Organizing Committee, that including your round trip Air tickets… Delegates will only be responsible for his/her hotel accommodation at the host King Luxury Hotel.
Contact the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for details on registration via Email:(CAN2021@usa.com). Do inform them that Christina Chilimba, a staff member of (GPE), recommended you, and for further assistance do not hesitate to contact me at (christina.chilimba@aol.com).
ADDED ON 12/08/2020
Virtual Conference
Re-Imagining Agenda 2063: A Socio-Legal Foundation of the Africa We Want
June 21–25, 2021
Co-hosted by the Peter A. Allard School of Law (UBC) and the Liu Institute Network for Africa
Description:
Development has dominated the political-economic agendas of African states, both individually and collectively, since independence swept across the continent over 60 years ago. After the Year of Africa in 1960, however, African states have struggled to promote an independent and domestically sourced vision of development. While dealing with the aftermath of colonialism, African states have had to grapple with new forms of foreign corporate interventions, aid donor demands for structural adjustment and economic reconstruction, and development assistance predicated on non-local theories of development. During this time, African states have also come together to forge continental development programmes under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity and its successor, the African Union, including the 1980 Lagos Plan of Action, the 2001 New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the most recent 2013 Agenda 2063. Nevertheless, following more than 60 years of these efforts, several African countries continue to face daunting domestic and regional development challenges.
Today, Africa’s legal regimes are at a critical juncture as states seek to respond to mounting development challenges spurred by population growth, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, attempts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. Legal responses have consistently been a focal point for development, and yet they have often not facilitated stable and meaningful transformation in Africa. The development community’s emphasis on pure institutional and economic approaches has constrained more nuanced understandings of law’s effect on social change in the areas of governance, the economy, health, education, peace and security, and the environment. In particular, a lack of empirical and indigenous foundation for the conceptualization of Africa’s development challenges has meant that the use of legal pathways has not been sufficiently interrogated.
Submissions:
Using Africa’s most recent development formulation—Agenda 2063—as its lens, the conference organizers invite submissions that re-imagine the sociolegal foundation of development in Africa in order to rethink old challenges and find new pathways for transforming the continent. Scholars and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts on the theme of re-imagining Agenda 2063, with a particular focus on critical approaches to the development challenges identified in the plan. The specific goals and priorities included in Agenda 2063 are available at https://au.int/agenda2063/overview.
Please send your submissions via email to agenda2063project@allard.ubc.ca by January 31, 2021. Submissions should include the title of the paper or project and a 350-word abstract in English. Co-authored papers will also be considered. Submissions should also include a brief biography with the contributor’s full name, affiliation, and preferred email address.
Notice of accepted papers will be announced no later than March 1, 2021. At that time, participants will be expected to register for the conference to confirm their attendance. Selected applicants will be expected to submit a completed paper (not exceeding 10,000 words, including footnotes) and conference registration by May 31, 2021.
Virtual Conference and Publication:
Due to the travel and public health uncertainties related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will proceed virtually from June 21–25, 2021. To accommodate anticipated participation from around the around, the virtual conference will be organized thematically by different time zones. More information about the 2021 virtual conference will be posted online at http://blogs.ubc.ca/reimaginingagenda2063/ as it becomes available.
The conference organizers wish to publish selected articles in a peer-reviewed journal special issue or an edited book volume. More information will be provided once it becomes available.
Please submit any inquiries to agenda2063project@allard.ubc.ca.
CENTRAL VALLEY ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING (VIRTUAL)
January 27, 2021
LEPH2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
The Sixth International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health
Defying Boundaries
Philadelphia, PA
March 22 – 24, 2021
ASIAN CRIMINOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Kyoto, Japan
June 18 – 21, 2021
2021 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY CONFERENCE
Friday, November 5, 2021
The Historic Quaker Meetinghouse
2111 Florida Ave. NW, Washington DC
Emerging Threats in Domestic Violent Extremism: Building and Empowering Community Resilience is a free virtual conference on Friday, 10/30 from 12 – 5: 15 pm, ET. We have assembled policy and other experts from law enforcement, academia, government, civil society, religious institutions, and NGOs.
Panels will include:
- Department of Homeland Security – Community Awareness Briefing (CAB)
- The Current State of P/CVE: What Works? Prevention Strategies
- Higher Education Implications & Opportunities
- Religious Bias & Discrimination
Please consider joining for this exciting opportunity to learn and grow as professionals. Registration is free, but required for access. Conference agenda enclosed on the webpage as well.
Asian Criminological Society
Kyoto, Japan
The Understanding Inequalities research project is taking a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the direct and indirect causes and consequences of inequality, how it manifests in different ways across different social groups and a range of spatial levels.
Webinar Series Invitation with the Criminology in Europe Network
On behalf of the Understanding Inequalities (UI) project, you are invited to attend our webinar series exploring contemporary issues about the nature, origins and impacts of inequality.
Speakers include Peter Langmead-Jones (Greater Manchester Police), and Professors Mike Savage (LSE), Ingrid Schoon (UCL) and Patrick Sharkey (Princeton), as well as the UI Directors Professors Susan McVie (University of Edinburgh), Jon Bannister (MMU), Cristina Iannelli (University of Edinburgh), Gwilym Pryce (Sheffield) and Emer Smyth (ESRI Dublin).
Our first two interrelated webinars will uncover insights into some of the drivers of crime inequality and key lessons for policing policy and practice:
- Changing inequality in exposure to crime webinar | Thursday 1 October, 3pm – 4.30pm (BST) Event registration and further information: https://inequality-crime-webinar-1.eventbrite.co.uk
- Shaping policing responses to crime inequality webinar | Wednesday 14 October, 3pm – 4.30pm (BST) Event registration and further information: https://inequality-crime-webinar-2.eventbrite.co.uk
Further information:
- Watch our 1-minute crime webinars teaser: https://youtu.be/5f10xpDAJlU
- Visit our webinar events page: https://bit.ly/UIwebinar
ADDED ON 09/09/2020
Children, young people and the police: building confidence and trust’
Policing Authority Webinar Thursday 10/09/2020 2-4pm
The Policing Authority was established as an independent statutory body on 1 January 2016 to oversee the performance of the Garda Síochána in relation to policing services in Ireland. As part of its remit, the Authority regularly engages with researchers and academics working in the field of policing services or oversight, both to develop a better sense of current research outputs and capacity in the sector, and also to foster the development of policing research in Ireland.
In carrying out its statutory oversight role, the Authority has given sustained attention to issues relating to children and young people over the last number of years. Matters relating to youth justice have been raised in the Authority’s regular engagement with the Garda Commissioner and senior colleagues, with stakeholders, and at a number of public meetings during this period. The Authority is also currently funding research on children, young people and policing in Ireland.
In this context, we are pleased to invite you to our webinar this Thursday, the 10th of September from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, on the topic of ‘Children, young people and the police: building confidence and trust’.
The keynote speaker for this event will be Mr. Keith Fraser, recently appointed as Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and presenting a session on the topic of ‘Increasing trustworthiness of the police in the eyes of children by adopting a child-first approach’, which will be followed by a choice of one of 6 workshops:
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Room 1 |
‘Challenging the stigma of criminalised identity in young people’. |
Dr Jo Deakin |
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Room 2 |
‘Measurement and data in youth justice systems and programmes’. |
John Reddy |
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Room 3 |
‘The needs and voice of young people in contact with the police’. |
Ashling Golden |
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Room 4 |
‘Diversity, equality, integration and policing in Ireland’. |
Dr Lucy Michael |
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Room 5 |
‘Youth commissions on police and crime: partnerships between young people, police and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs)’. |
Rose Dowling |
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Room 6 |
‘Promoting police-academic research partnerships’. |
Prof Adam Crawford |
The biographies of each speaker are at the end of this email for your reference. The webinar will be structured as follows:
Welcoming speech and introduction: Ms Judith Gillespie, Member of the Policing Authority
Plenary session + short Q&A: Mr Keith Fraser, Chair of Youth Justice Board of England and Wales – ‘Increasing trustworthiness of the police in the eyes of children by adopting a child-first approach’ Discussion rooms
Workshops/breakout rooms (see above)
Feedback session
Closing remarks: Professor Ursula Kilkelly – ‘Children and policing: creating a dynamic research and policy agenda’
Registration
All workshops will be occurring simultaneously, so you can only attend one. We will do our best to accommodate your choice, but there is a limit to the number of participants in each workshop.
Please indicate your first and second preferred choice by email to Judy at research@policingauthority.ie before Wednesday as follows:
- Choice 1: Room number and speaker/title
- Choice 2: Room number and speaker/titleFor those who register Judy will be in touch with the login details.Please note that the main (plenary) session will be recorded for our website, but not the workshop and breakout rooms.We would like to encourage you to participate in the discussion, and hope that all of us will gain something valuable from the event.Kind regards, Sophia CareyDr Sophia Carey| Knowledge and Research Manager | Policing Authority | 4th Floor, 90 North King Street, Dublin 7, D07 N7CV +353 1 8589029 | smcarey@policingauthority.ie| www.policingauthority.ie
ADDED ON 09/09/2020
“Law and Humanities in a Pandemic” will be hosted online by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. The program is now finalized and registration is open for the seminars.
Details can be found here: https://ials.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/directors-series-202021-law-and-humanities-pandemic
ADDED ON 8/29/2020
24-hour Conference on Global Organized Crime
Beginning Nov 10th, 2020
ADDED ON 8/21/2020
Seminar
Inside view on police misconduct in South Africa
Date: 26 August 2020
Time: 15:00 to 16:30 GMT+2 Venue: Online via Zoom, registration required Enquiries: Andrew Faull, afaull@issafrica.org
Added 07.29.2020
3- Day Webinar on Women in Law Across Africa
The German Development Cooperation’s (GIZ) regional project “Promoting the rule of law and justice in Africa” and The Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) would like to invite you to a 3-day webinar for lawyers. The main aim of this webinar series is to;
- Open dialogue on gender-related aspects of the legal profession across Africa
- Engage legal experts in sharing best practices for law firms in handling gender-related issues in the legal profession
- Provide an open forum for participant engagement in moving forward the agenda of the United Nations and African Union for gender equality
Theme: Unveiling Subalternity: Women and the Legal Professions Across Africa.
Topics (see attached flyers):
Gender-Based Discrimination in the Legal Profession (Wed, 29)
Shifting the Burden of Care (Thur, 30)
The Role of Law Firms, and Women in Law and Leadership (Fri 31)
Date: 29th – 31st July 2020
Time: 1pm GMT/Gh – 2pm GMT+1/Lagos – 3pm SAT/Johannesburg – 4pm EAT/Nairobi
Place: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
(Please click link to join)
- Click on theJoin Microsoft Teams Meeting link provided
- Choose between three options
- Continue on this browser
- Downloaded the Windows app
- Open your MS Teams app if you already have it
- Join the webinar
Trouble Joining? Contact magnus.tedeku@giz.de
Rules of Engagement
- Mute your microphone – To help keep background noise to a minimum, make sure you mute your microphone when you are not speaking.
- Be mindful of background noise – When your microphone is not muted, avoid activities that could create additional noise, such as shuffling papers.
- Limit distractions- You can make it easier to focus on the conference by turning off notifications, closing or minimizing running apps, and muting your smartphone.
- Utilize Chat function – please use the chats functions to ask questions
Added 07.27.2020
ACJS
In-Person Conference
2021, April 13th to the 17th.
https://www.acjs.org/page/CopyofOverview2021AM
Added 07.27.2020
Criminology Consortium
Online Conference
2020, November 18th to the 20th online.
Added 01.16.2020
The Sexual Politics of Freedom Conference
May 22nd & 23rd 2020
Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway
Keynote speakers: Prof Ratna Kapur (QMUL) and Prof Linda Martín Alcoff (CUNY)
At stake in framing the theme of this conference in terms of ‘the sexual politics of freedom’ as opposed to ‘the politics of sexual freedom’ is to draw our attention to the ways in which the politics of freedom has always been implicated in sexual politics (Bhattacharyya 2008, Butler 2016, Kapur 2018). Such a sexual politics is rooted in the histories of colonialism, secularism, and progress and attuned to a temporality and geography of European “civilization” and liberalism (Mohanty 1988, Spivak 1993). Such a political logic has onto-epistemologically placed limits upon our capacities to imagine a politics of freedom. The hegemonic account of liberal feminism which pervades discourse on human rights, justice and equality, both within and outside the academy, has meant that much of our scholarship and theorising has taken place in the shadow of, and in response to this liberal rendering of feminist politics. Such a fact has meant, we have engaged in a logic of self-sabotage, preventing us from thinking critically about and articulating, on our own terms, new forms of feminist struggle for freedom (Phillips 2019).
With this conference, we hope to explore and begin to address this problematique, refusing the questions posed of women who do not conform to the liberal ideal of “female” freedom, as to why they would “subject” themselves to a life within a so-called “patriarchal order.” Such an experience is one many of us who research and write about the lives of women living in the non European ‘World’ encounter on a regular basis in explaining and analysing why freedom for these women need not align with gender- and identity-neutral onto-political presuppositions of liberal subjectivity and the hegemonic paradigm of human rights discourse (Alcoff 2006). At stake, still, is the problem of subalterneity, and the location of such women in the place of “disappearance,” which Spivak (1988) describes as ‘the violent aporia between subject and object status.’
Taking our lead from the work of Saba Mahmood and Lila Abu-Lughod, we raise the question of the sexual politics of freedom from a non-Kantian conception of ethics as Idea (Colebrook 1998), exploring rather, the ethical lives and practices of women struggling for freedom. Such an approach, inspired by Mahmood (2005/12) and Foucault (1988, 1989) opens up a space for us to understand more clearly how practices – ethical, religious, social, and political – are concerned not simply with the regulation of life, but the constitution of an embodied form of agency and subjectivity which is particular to its own contexts and conceptions of freedom.
What can a feminist politics of freedom that centres and begins with the experiences, lives and struggles of women look like (Narayan & Harding 2000)? What would our thinking and research become if the work of post-colonial feminists and the experiences (cf. Alcoff and Potter 1993) of non-European women were not an afterthought (Bhambra 2014), a footnote, a feature of the Undercommons (Moten and Harney 2013), a final lecture to be rushed through before exam preparation? At stake in short, is an invitation to scholars and activists motivated by any of the concerns and provocations raised here, to assemble, accompany one another, think together, and engage in critique concerning the sexual politics of freedom.
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, at the National University of Ireland – Galway, invites potential participants from across the disciplinary spectrum to submit papers of 20 minutes duration.
Topics and themes which presenters may like to explore in their papers include, but are not limited to the following:
- Frames of recognition and apprehension
- Feminist Epistemologies
- Epistemic injustice
- The myth of “neutral objectivity”
- Re-thinking the basis of feminist solidarity
- Ethics, gender and embodiment
- Feminism in and outside of the “teaching machine”
- Challenges for contemporary human rights practice
- The politics of sexual time
- Feminist practice beyond Eurocentrism
- Sec(x)ularism and Islamophobia
- Theorising subject formation
- Refusing subjecthood
- Differential allocations of grievability
- Feminist conceptions of freedom
- Feminist solidarity
- Sex, gender and rights
Please submit abstracts (approx. 250 words) to sexualpolitics.freedom@gmail.com by the 21st of February 2020. The abstracts should be submitted as a world/pdf attachment, and contain the authors name, institutional affiliation, and a summary of the proposed paper.
For further information or queries contact conference organiser Hasret Çetinkaya (h.cetinkaya1@nuigalway.ie)
A registration fee for attendance and participation will apply for The Sexual Politics of Freedom Conference.
For more details see: https://thesexualpoliticsoffreedom.blogspot.com/p/registration.html
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4th International Conference on Contemporary Legal Issues 2020 – March 21, 2020
We at the School of Law, Galgotias University have always strived to achieve excellence in legal research and in that process have been organizing a host of events like seminars and conferences where legal experts, research scholars and industry experts are invited to deliberate on contemporary legal issues to stimulate research and establish a dialogue among the stakeholders to identify the various issues and try to find a solution in this regard.
Keeping this objective in mind we are organizing our 4th International Conference on Contemporary Legal Issues (ICCLI) on 21st March 2020. The Conference will usher discussion on contemporary development in multidisciplinary socio-legal, techno-legal and socio-economic issues and how its understanding in theory and practice can be enhanced where we are expecting experts not only from the legal field but also from other disciplines to put their heads together in identifying the issues and suggesting the means to overcome the challenges to have a holistic development.
We shall also be announcing the Best Research Paper Award of the conference and the Best Presentation Award for each of the technical sessions (one award per session) and the selected final papers will be published subsequently in a SCOPUS INDEXED PUBLICATION.
For further details please click the link: https://sites.google.com/a/galgotiasuniversity.edu.in/4th-iccli-2020
In case of any query, please click the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJP2iDJfS7xXy3JPidrWpbruoAAGYrcrU0TGPnNvovT1nDUw/viewform?usp=sf_link
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European Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2020
The next Annual Meeting of the ESC will be held from September 9-12, 2020 in Bucharest, Romania. The theme of the meeting will be (Il)legal Organizations and Crime. Challenges for Contemporary Criminology.
After centuries of research in which different theories had as a main goal to explain individual behaviour, it is a new challenge to take into account organizations’ “behaviours”. But is it possible to describe an (il)legal organization without looking into the peculiarities of the individuals comprising the said organization? It is a fact that lately more and more of the criminal legislation (domestic or international) provides for the accountability of organizations, but should such a criminal law perspective be seen as having consequences in criminological theories? The ESC invites you to reflect on such issues and many more linked to the theme of our 20th Annual Meeting.
The Bucharest Conference, in addition to dealing with the usual topics criminologists are working on, that can be easily defined as crimes perpetrated by individuals, will also focus on offences committed within different organisational frameworks. While putting together organisational crime and organized crime may seem surprinsing, it is clear that both forms of crime require a certain extent of political, financial or social influence in order to be successfully perpetrated and generally, for both categories, money is the final goal. Nonetheless, the participation of individuals is mandatory. We therefore find the title “(Il)legal organizations and crime: Challenges for contemporary criminology” fitting for the ESC 2020 Bucharest conference, the Easternmost point of ESC conferences and the chosen place for their 20th Anniversary.
For more information, please visit us at www.eurocrim2020.com. You may also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
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EFUS Conference on Security, Democracy & Cities Conference
25, 26, 27 November 2020
Nice, France
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Domestic Abuse Conference
Theme: Multiple perspectives and interconnectedness of approaches in a context of domestic violence and abuse (DVA)
Nearly two decades ago, “What works in reducing domestic violence” was published in 2001 by Julie Taylor-Browne. This comprehensive work, aimed at professionals, summarised what was known about the successes of various initiatives and agencies in dealing with DVA, drawing on contributions from academic and non-academic experts.
Fast-forward to present day, conversations around evidence-based approaches continue to permeate discussions on DVA. Over the years, sophisticated and more pragmatic approaches have been marshalled to reduce/tackle DVA and to meet the needs of those experiencing DVA.
As an homage to this piece of work, the one-day conference aims to bring together professionals, students, trainees, and academics to further our understanding of domestic violence and abuse interventions; and by extension, how do multi-disciplinary approaches help in resolving the tensions surrounding the complexity of DVA? ‘Multidisciplinarity’ as a concept may be viewed as a pathway to advancing discussions and in achieving goals in research, policy and practice. Additionally, are there alternative interconnected approaches that provide richer understandings and greater public benefit?
We invite you to join us in this important conversation and look forward to welcoming you to Suffolk in 2020.
Confirmed Speakers include:
- Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales
- Gareth Wilson, Deputy Chief Constable of the Ministry of Defence Police
- Professor Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol
- Chantal Hughes, CEO Hampton Trust
- Bal Howard, BKH Training
- Alison Bird, Interim Services Director/Clinical Lead for the Independent Stalking Advocacy Service
- Dr Olumide Adisa, Research Fellow/Centre for Abuse Research (CARe), University of Suffolk
- Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, Founder/Director, Surviving Economic Abuse
And many more!
Conference Chair: Professor Emma Bond, Director of Research, University of Suffolk
Pre-arranged workshops: Stalking, Perpetrators, Economic Abuse, “Toxic Trio” – (DA, Mental Health, and Addiction)
Abstracts are invited from academics and professionals who work in the broad field of DVA. Of interest are submissions that fall under:
- Survivors’ voices and service provision
- Needs of children and young people
- Mainstreaming interventions
- Healthy relationships education
- Health service responses
- Therapeutic approaches
- Perpetrator interventions
- Effective policing and CJS responses
- DVA and Law
- DVA and CSA
- DVA and Tech
- DVA and Identity
- DVA and financial issues
- The needs of male victims
- Housing and accommodation
- DVA and stalking
- Restorative justice
- Outreach and advocacy
- Risk assessment
- Economic evaluations
Abstracts of proposed papers should be no longer than 250 words. This should be submitted to: research@uos.ac.uk
Papers (20mins) and printed posters are equally welcome. Poster format: Size is A0 (0.84 x 1.19m) (portrait orientation), you will be expected to bring your printed poster with you. Some presentations may be better suited for the parallel sessions (10 mins). Please state your preference on your abstract. We also welcome practice-based submissions in these identified areas which may be in an alternative format, for example, film, performance, photography etc
The abstract should be organised in the following ways: background, key argument/case, methods, findings or results and conclusions as well as the implications for research, policy and practice.
Submission deadline is 21 Feb 2020. This call may be closed early as submitted abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis.
Please contact Dr Olumide Adisa – Email: o.adisa@uos.ac.uk, if you have any queries regarding whether your work fits the conference theme.
There is an opportunity for selected papers to be included in an article to be published in Palgrave Communications (Interdisciplinarity) in 2020 as well as an edited book collection.
All Important Dates
Online registration opens (all): Wednesday, 4 December, 2019
Abstract submission deadline : Friday, 21 February 2020**
Notification of abstract review outcome: Monday, 9 March 2020
Deadline for accepted authors to register/confirm attendance: Friday, 27 March 2020
Registration closes: Friday, 8 May 2020
Registration fees: All: £45; *Student/Trainee/Unwaged: £25
*Student registration is available for those studying full time and who hold a current Student ID Card. You will be asked to provide a copy of your current student ID card.
**This call may be closed early as submitted abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis.
Covers:
- Attendance at all conference sessions and workshops
- Delegate pack
- All morning and coffee breaks and lunch
Tickets to the conference dinner are additional to the registration fees. Conference dinner (optional): 7pm – 10pm (£20). We have booked a local restaurant. Menu choices are unconfirmed, but they will cater for all dietary requirements.
More updates will be provided via: https://www.uos.ac.uk/content/conference
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The Stockholm Criminology Symposium
The 2020 Stockhom Criminology Symposium is held June 9–11 at the City Conference Center (Norra Latin) in the center of Stockholm.
The primary purpose of the Symposium is to create an environment where international criminologists, policy makers, practitioners and others engaged in criminal policy matters can take part of the latest research findings of importance for crime policy.
The participants will be able to discuss strategies, methods and measures to reduce crime and improve levels of safety in society. The Symposium is organized by the Swedish National Council of Crime Prevention (abbreviated Brå in Swedish) on behalf of the Swedish Government.The 2020 Symposium Program
The symposium program will, as previous years, follow two main tracks. One theme will be based on the work of the prize winner(s) and the other theme will be contemporary criminology. The program includes a large number of parallel sessions, a poster session in conjuction with the welcome reception, as well as the prize winners’ lecture.
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The 31st Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium
August 16-21, 2020
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Sponsored by THE MILITARY POLICE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
Theme: Street Policing: Crime Prevention in a Risky World
Sub-Themes for Panels, Roundtables, and Papers:
1.Evaluation of Crime Prevention and Everyday Policing
2.Innovations in Policing
3.Police Training in a Risky World
4.Police Response to International Organized Crime
5.Policing the Amazon: Challenges for Environmental Protection
Abstracts for papers, panels, and roundtables should be sent to the Program Chair: Dr. Vicente Riccio at ipes2020chair@ipes.info
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12th European Electronic Monitoring Conference 2020
From the 21st until the 23rd of April 2020, it is time for the 12th edition of the Electronic Monitoring Conference in Helsinki, Finland. This years theme will be ‘Electronic monitoring and probation goals: a symbiotic relationship’.
Electronic monitoring remains a relatively isolated example of the widespread deployment of technologies in probation practice and community sanctions more broadly. Technologies are already part of our everyday lives but, in common with other public services, are likely to effect on probation practice. As technologies develop and begin to penetrate into probation practices to a greater extent, the challenges of using them in ways which complement probation work grows.
The focus of the 12th electronic monitoring conference will be on developing understanding of how electronic monitoring can support probation practices and how other technologies may assist with the use of EM to meet probation goals.
Key questions which will be addressed are:
- what are the ethical challenges of integrating a range of technologies into probation practice;
- what novel technologies are available to support probation goals and electronic monitoring and how are they currently deployed;
- what are the possibilities of using Artificial Intelligence with electronic monitoring;
- how to maximise engagement of staff and service users with the help of electronic monitoring and other technologies.
More Information:
https://www.cep-probation.org/events/electronic-monitoring-conference-2020/
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Conference on Crime and Punishment
Eastern and Western Perspectives on Recent and Fundamental Criminological Questions
– Heidelberg, March 4th to 6th, 2020 –
The Institute of Criminology of Heidelberg University and the Faculty of Applied Psychology – Legal Psychology of SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, cooperating with Polotsk State University, Republic of Belarus, will host an international criminological conference, titled “Crime and Punishment”, from March 4th to 6th, 2020.
The conference’s main goal is to connect the highly separated spheres of criminological research in Eastern and Western Europe by providing insights into research culture, research projects and their results. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity for academic networking beyond the usual geographical scope. The conference focuses on seven topics. Each topic will be discussed by speakers from Eastern and Western Europe. Participants are invited to join the discussions after the presentations:
- Victimization within Families and Partnerships
- Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
- Cybercrime
- Expert Witness Testimony
- Human Rights
- Sanctions and Measures
- Effects of Punishment
Keynote talks will be given by Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kerner (Institute of Criminology, University of Tübingen, Germany), Prof. Dr. Yakov Gilinskiy (Criminal Law Department at Russian State Pedagogical University of Herzen, St. Petersburg, Russia), Prof. Irina Vegera, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law, Polotsk State University, Belarus), and Prof. Dr. Aliaksei Radziuk (Faculty of Law, Polotsk State University).
We also kindly invite researchers to participate in a poster session that will take place at the conference location. Please email crime.punishment@krimi.uni-heidelberg.de.
Registrations (until January 31, 2020) and further information:
https://www.jura.uni-heidelberg.de/krimi/Conference.html
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14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES
November 15 and 16 (Friday and Saturday) at Claremont McKenna College in California
The 14th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will be held Friday and Saturday, November 15-16, 2019. CELS brings together scholars from law, economics, political science, psychology, policy analysis, and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions.
CELS presents papers that engage empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues spanning all areas of empirical legal studies. Papers are selected through a peer review process for presentation at the conference. Papers are presented in panels, with assigned commenters for each paper, and opportunities for audience discussion.
CELS is co-sponsored by Claremont McKenna College and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS).
Registration Information
Registration for the conference is $195 ($55 for students). The registration fee includes membership in the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) and a subscription to the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) for 2020. Register here: https://online.cmc.edu/special-events/fy18-19/celsconference2019
Registration for the following optional events is now open. Please note that space at these events is limited and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
Field Randomized Control Trials Workshop
Thursday, November 14, 2019, Noon – 5pm and Friday, November 15, 2019, 8-10am ($100)
Conference Dinner
Friday, November 15, 2019 ($75)
The Conference Dinner will be held at the CMC Athenaeum immediately after the Poster Session and Reception. You will be able to register for the dinner when you register for the conference.
Women’s Breakfast
Introducing the CELS Women’s Breakfast! Come network with other women at the conference. The breakfast is sponsored by CMC, and open to all women in attendance. Please register for the women’s breakfast when you register for the conference.
Accommodations
Mobility – If you have mobility needs, please email cels2019@ClaremontMcKenna.edu as soon as possible.
Family – A lactation room will be provided.
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X International Congress on Psychology and Education
From Neural to Social Networks: Wellbeing and Convivencia
17-19 June 2020, Córdoba, Spain
Key Dates:
February 15th, 2020 – Abstract Submission Deadline
From March 20th, 2020 – Notification of Acceptance
April 14th, 2020 – Early Registration Deadline
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the 10th International Congress of Psychology and Education to be held in Cordoba in June 2020. After the resounding success of previous congresses, the Scientific Association of Psychology and Education (ACIPE, in Spanish) has promoted this new opportunity for an academic and professional meeting to exchange views, ideas, experiences and advances from the latest research in the fields of Psychology and Education.
The Scientific Committee is presided by Rosario Ortega Ruiz, and is made up of a team of leading national and international researchers. We have organised an attractive program featuring prestigious guest speakers and a wide range of scientific activities including conferences, panels of experts, invited symposia, oral communications and posters.
The six thematic areas are aimed at offering a response to current issues being discussed by researchers in Educational Psychology:
(1) Neuropsychology. Cognition and socialization;
(2) Educational Psychology. Guidance, intervention and assessment;
(3) Affective factors and social life in the classroom: convivencia in schools;
(4) Cyberbehaviour: from e-learning to social networks;
(5) Gender, sexuality and violence; and
(6) Family, education and society.
Through these topics, we would be delighted to receive the scientific and professional community members who aim to advance knowledge in psychology and education though their contributions to the Congress in Córdoba.
Córdoba is a friendly, welcoming city, with a blend of history, culture and tradition, backed up by efficient services and a delicious local cuisine. The City of the Three Cultures is an ideal setting in which to share, learn, enjoy, imagine and create knowledge, professional networks and bonds of friendship. In our exciting social program, we will show you the charming courtyards brimming with flowers known as the ‘patios’, the narrow winding streets with their surprising individual details, the impressive sights of the city, and above all, the kind-heartedness and great wisdom enshrined in the historical traditions of this city. Be ready to present your work in historic buildings, with over five centuries of history, situated in the heart of the Jewish quarter.
Please visit our website for more information:
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16th IATSO CONFERENCE
September 1st to 4th, 2020
Frankfurt, Germany
| Current Developments in Etiology, Assessment, and Prevention of Sexual Offending
On behalf of the Scientific and the Local Organizing committees, we invite you to the 16th conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) to be held in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) from September 1st to 4th, 2020. We are pleased to inform you about the preliminary list of workshops and keynote lectures. A continuously updated list can be found on our conference website: https://www.iatso.org/index.php/iatso-conferences/frankfurt-2020/frankfurt-2020 Martin Rettenberger, Conference President and IATSO Secretary General Sonja Etzler, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Reinhard Eher, IATSO President Elect Sabrina Eberhaut, Conference Organizing Committee KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PLENARY SESSIONS: • Peter Fromberger (Germany): Virtual reality applications for the treatment and risk assessment of child abusers • Alexander F. Schmidt (Germany): Recent developments in the assessment of pedohebephilic interest • Devon L. L. Polaschek (New Zealand): Understanding criminal persistence and desistance: Some implications for people identified as sexual offenders • Douglas P. Boer (Australia): Individualized treatment of sexual offenders with an intellectual or developmental disability • Robert J. McGrath (United States): Sex offender treatment in the United States: Lessons learned and future directions • Ross Bartels (United Kingdom): Distorted beliefs linked to sexual offending • Daniel Turner (Germany): Mental disorders in sexual offenders and their relevance for risk assessment. • Peer Briken (Germany): Does psychodynamic thinking still have any significance for the treatment of pedophilia? • Mark Olver (Canada): Measuring risk relevant change – implications for the therapeutic process and risk management in sexual offenders • Timm Rosburg (Switzerland): Neurophysiological correlates of pedophilia • Leigh Harkins (Canada): Incorporating sociocultural and situational factors into explanations of sexual offending • Markus Feil (Germany): The current state of psychodynamic treatment of sexual offenders • Wineke J. Smid (The Netherlands): Sexual and emotional self-regulation: A two wat street |
ICT 2020 LAW & CRIMINOLOGY IN THE NEW DIGITAL ERA (Added 10.02.19)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ANDALUSIA. 20-21 JANUARY 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
Scientific Committee
Tine Sommer (Professor of Law, Advisory Board Member of CREDI, Center for Law and Digitalization, University of Aarhus, Denmark); Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo (Associate Professor of Public International Law, University of Jaén); Fernando Miró Llinares (Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, Miguel Hernandez University, CRIMINA Research Center); Alberto Elisavetski (Professor Law, Untref University of Buenos Aires, Director of On Line Dispute Resolution Latinamerica); Michael D. Green (Professor of Law, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA); Marie-Cécile Escande-Varniol (Professor of Law, Universidad Lumière Lyon 2)
Co-directors
Manuel Paniagua Zurera (Professor of Commercial Law, Loyola University Andalusia); Gloria Fernández- Pacheco Alises (Assistant Professor of Criminology, Loyola University Andalusia); Maria Lubomira Kubica (Assistant Professor of Civil and Comparative Law, Loyola University Andalusia); Ana Mercedes López Rodríguez (Associate Professor of Private International Law, Head of the Law Department, Loyola University Andalusia); Jonatan Cruz Ángeles (Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Loyola University Andalusia); Rafael Aguilera Gordillo (Part-time Lecturer of Criminal Compliance and International Security, Loyola University Andalusia).
Scientific and technological knowledge is evolving rapidly, certainly contributing to important innovations, but also to great risks. In a time characterized by the continuous development of telecommunication networks (internet), new channels of distribution (the digital market), the development of artificial intelligence, blockchain or the processing and storage of data, it is important to analyze the impact of these changes on both society and the law. In this regard, it is essential to study whether and to what extent, the existing regulatory frameworks and traditional legal categories are adequate to respond to the new challenges raised.
To name just a few examples, new technologies may affect fundamental rights, in particular, freedom of speech, the right to information self-determination, as part of the right to privacy and the right to honour. They offer new opportunities such as the digital market, the use of new contractual instruments and electronic commerce and pose challenges to the labour market related to the irruption of new forms of work and the emergence of robotics.
Moreover, for Criminology new technologies have changed the way of understanding and addressing the criminal phenomenon. ICTs create criminal opportunities (phishing, sexting, cyberbullying, etc.) in specific and new contexts (cyberspace) while modifying the public authorities’ response to detect, prevent and control crime, whether using computer software, smart tags, video surveillance or electronic monitoring (RF/GPS).
Given the complexity of the problems posed, the study of the new technological reality must be necessarily done from an interdisciplinary perspective. With this in mind, the Department of Law of Loyola University Andalusia will be hosting an International Conference on 20-21 January 2020 to take stock of current issues in the field and to consider future challenges.
This International Conference will be a unique opportunity to discuss the new technological and digital challenges with an outstanding group of experts from different fields and a great venue to create and consolidate scientific and collaborative networks.
Professionals at all stages of their careers and senior and junior scholars (including Ph.D. students) are invited to submit abstracts on some of the following, fairly broad, topics or any other related issues of novel and ground-breaking character:
- THE IMPACT THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL AND DIGITAL REALITY ON CITIZENS, THE ECONOMY, THE PUBLIC SECTOR, BUSINESSES AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS.
- ABILITY OF INSTITUTIONS AND TRADITIONAL LEGAL CATEGORIES TO REGULATE NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
- THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND POSSIBLE TENSIONS WITH THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
- ICT AND CRIMINOLOGY. IN PARTICULAR, (a) Cybercrime: cyberattacks, phishing, sexting, ciberbullying, cybercrime on Web 2.0, cyberterrorism, computer systems and Internet (structures and vulnerabilities), police action against cybercrime, etc. (b) Electronic monitoring in several fields: early release, probation, parole, in cases of gender-based violence, facial and voice recognition systems, etc. (c) ICT in the prevention of crime: the application of video surveillance in the public spaces, geographic information systems (GIS), smart cities (smart policing), anti-theft systems (smart tags, GPS for tracking vehicles, etc.), mobile devices and/or Apps to prevent crime, etc.
- EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, JUDICIARY AND PRACTITIONERS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES: CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES
Selected papers will be presented at the Sevilla-Ciudad del Conocimiento campus of Loyola University Andalusia in Seville, on 20-21 January 2020.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE
- Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of a minimum of 800 words with the author’s name, affiliation and an updated CV including contact details to the conference directors, in the item “Documents” on the website: www.ict2020.es. All submissions may be written in either English or Spanish.
- The submitted abstracts will be assessed and selected by the Conference’s international scientific committee. In addition to the quality of the proposals, special consideration will be given to gender balance and the representation of professionals, associations and social partners in the different panels
- The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 October 2019.
- Authors of selected abstracts for the Conference will be notified by 30 November 2019.
- The deadline for submitting the final draft paper (3,000-5,000 words) is 10 January 2020. A ‘no paper – no podium’ strict policy applies.
- The Conference will be held at the Dos Hermanas campus of Loyola University Andalusia in Seville on 20-21 January 2020.
- Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to bear the costs of their own travel and accommodation.
- The Conference directors are planning to publish the most relevant papers presented in the conference. The deadline for submitting the final version of the selected papers (6,000-8,000 words) will 21 February 2020. Further information about the publication process will be conveyed to selected proposal authors in due course.
VENUE:
The Conference will be held at the Sevilla-Ciudad del Conocimiento campus of Loyola University Andalusia in Seville.
Loyola University Andalusia is a private university sponsored by the Society of Jesus, with campuses in Seville, Cordoba and Dos Hermanas.
The educative tradition of the Jesuits commenced with the beginning of The Society of Jesus itself in 1540. Today there are 238 universities and university centers in over 70 countries teaching more than 160,000 students of all religious affiliations.
Loyola University Andalusia centers its activities in eight areas of knowledge: Economy, Law, Political and Social Sciences, Communication, Psychology, Education, Engineering and Business. It is committed to dialogue between different cultures and the development of a more just and sustainable society.
In addition to the conference itself, participants will have the opportunity to get to know their colleagues through conference receptions, visits to local sites and encounters with local culture. For more information visit the official Conference website: www.ict2020.es
INVITATION TO THE 8 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VICTIM ASSISTANCE (Added 10.02.19)
21st – 22nd October 2019 at O.P Jindal Global University Sonipat-Narela Road, Sonipat-131001, NCR of Delhi, Haryana
The Centre for Victimology & Psychological Studies invites you to the 8 International Conference on Victim Assistance (co-organized with the Indian Society of Victimology). This conference will try to envisage different aspects of victimology by academicians, government officials, lawyers, social workers, policy makers and from students around the world. The main theme of the conference is Emerging Paradigms in Victimology.
SUB-THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE:
- Theoretical Advances in Victimology
- Victims of Crime
- Fear of Crime Victimization
- Conflict, Oppression and Injustice
- Violence within Family (Includes: IPV, Child Abuse, Elder Abuse)
- Victims of Environmental Injustice
- Victimization of Immigrants/Refugees
- Victims of Political Violence
- Sex, Gender and Sexuality (including violence against LGBTQ)
- Human Trafficking
- Violence Against Women
- Violence Against Children
- Media and Cyber Victimization
- Mental Health and Victimization
- Secondary Victimization
- Victims’ Rights and the Criminal Justice System
- Victims and Restorative Justice
- Mediation and Support for Victims
- Role of NGOs in Victim Assistance
- Advancing Research Methodologies in Victimology
- Policies towards Prevention of Victimization
- Positive Victimology
REGISTRATION
- There is no registration fee for the conference.
- Registration is needed for all participants and delegates.
- To join us at the 8 International Conference on Victim Assistance, kindly fill out the registration form & submit abstracts at https://forms.gle/x7bkS6jBHXW5advH6
- Shuttle from Haiderpur Metro Station (Delhi) to JGU campus is provided on chargeable basis as per shuttle schedule.
FOOD AND ACCOMODATIONS
Boarding and lodging is complementary for all attendees of the conference. Accommodation will be provided on first-come, first-serve basis for maximum two nights. i.e. 20 and 21 October 2019. Limited accommodation is available.
If you have any questions related to the conference, please feel free to write to us at cvps@jgu.edu.in or to Mr. Vipin Vijay Nair, Conference Co-Ordinator at vvnair@jgu.edu.in Tel: +91 9711864687
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3- Day Webinar on Women in Law Across Africa
The German Development Cooperation’s (GIZ) regional project “Promoting the rule of law and justice in Africa” and The Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) would like to invite you to a 3-day webinar for lawyers. The main aim of this webinar series is to;
- Open dialogue on gender-related aspects of the legal profession across Africa
- Engage legal experts in sharing best practices for law firms in handling gender-related issues in the legal profession
- Provide an open forum for participant engagement in moving forward the agenda of the United Nations and African Union for gender equality
Theme: Unveiling Subalternity: Women and the Legal Professions Across Africa.
Topics (see attached flyers):
Gender-Based Discrimination in the Legal Profession (Wed, 29)
Shifting the Burden of Care (Thur, 30)
The Role of Law Firms, and Women in Law and Leadership (Fri 31)
Date: 29th – 31st July 2020
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ACJS
In-Person Conference
2021, April 13th to the 17th.
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Criminology Consortium
Online Conference
2020, November 18th to the 20th online.
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The Sexual Politics of Freedom Conference
May 22nd & 23rd 2020
Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway
Keynote speakers: Prof Ratna Kapur (QMUL) and Prof Linda Martín Alcoff (CUNY)
At stake in framing the theme of this conference in terms of ‘the sexual politics of freedom’ as opposed to ‘the politics of sexual freedom’ is to draw our attention to the ways in which the politics of freedom has always been implicated in sexual politics (Bhattacharyya 2008, Butler 2016, Kapur 2018). Such a sexual politics is rooted in the histories of colonialism, secularism, and progress and attuned to a temporality and geography of European “civilization” and liberalism (Mohanty 1988, Spivak 1993). Such a political logic has onto-epistemologically placed limits upon our capacities to imagine a politics of freedom. The hegemonic account of liberal feminism which pervades discourse on human rights, justice and equality, both within and outside the academy, has meant that much of our scholarship and theorising has taken place in the shadow of, and in response to this liberal rendering of feminist politics. Such a fact has meant, we have engaged in a logic of self-sabotage, preventing us from thinking critically about and articulating, on our own terms, new forms of feminist struggle for freedom (Phillips 2019).
With this conference, we hope to explore and begin to address this problematique, refusing the questions posed of women who do not conform to the liberal ideal of “female” freedom, as to why they would “subject” themselves to a life within a so-called “patriarchal order.” Such an experience is one many of us who research and write about the lives of women living in the non European ‘World’ encounter on a regular basis in explaining and analysing why freedom for these women need not align with gender- and identity-neutral onto-political presuppositions of liberal subjectivity and the hegemonic paradigm of human rights discourse (Alcoff 2006). At stake, still, is the problem of subalterneity, and the location of such women in the place of “disappearance,” which Spivak (1988) describes as ‘the violent aporia between subject and object status.’
Taking our lead from the work of Saba Mahmood and Lila Abu-Lughod, we raise the question of the sexual politics of freedom from a non-Kantian conception of ethics as Idea (Colebrook 1998), exploring rather, the ethical lives and practices of women struggling for freedom. Such an approach, inspired by Mahmood (2005/12) and Foucault (1988, 1989) opens up a space for us to understand more clearly how practices – ethical, religious, social, and political – are concerned not simply with the regulation of life, but the constitution of an embodied form of agency and subjectivity which is particular to its own contexts and conceptions of freedom.
What can a feminist politics of freedom that centres and begins with the experiences, lives and struggles of women look like (Narayan & Harding 2000)? What would our thinking and research become if the work of post-colonial feminists and the experiences (cf. Alcoff and Potter 1993) of non-European women were not an afterthought (Bhambra 2014), a footnote, a feature of the Undercommons (Moten and Harney 2013), a final lecture to be rushed through before exam preparation? At stake in short, is an invitation to scholars and activists motivated by any of the concerns and provocations raised here, to assemble, accompany one another, think together, and engage in critique concerning the sexual politics of freedom.
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, at the National University of Ireland – Galway, invites potential participants from across the disciplinary spectrum to submit papers of 20 minutes duration.
Topics and themes which presenters may like to explore in their papers include, but are not limited to the following:
- Frames of recognition and apprehension
- Feminist Epistemologies
- Epistemic injustice
- The myth of “neutral objectivity”
- Re-thinking the basis of feminist solidarity
- Ethics, gender and embodiment
- Feminism in and outside of the “teaching machine”
- Challenges for contemporary human rights practice
- The politics of sexual time
- Feminist practice beyond Eurocentrism
- Sec(x)ularism and Islamophobia
- Theorising subject formation
- Refusing subjecthood
- Differential allocations of grievability
- Feminist conceptions of freedom
- Feminist solidarity
- Sex, gender and rights
Please submit abstracts (approx. 250 words) to sexualpolitics.freedom@gmail.com by the 21st of February 2020. The abstracts should be submitted as a world/pdf attachment, and contain the authors name, institutional affiliation, and a summary of the proposed paper.
For further information or queries contact conference organiser Hasret Çetinkaya (h.cetinkaya1@nuigalway.ie)
A registration fee for attendance and participation will apply for The Sexual Politics of Freedom Conference.
For more details see: https://thesexualpoliticsoffreedom.blogspot.com/p/registration.html
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4th International Conference on Contemporary Legal Issues 2020 – March 21, 2020
We at the School of Law, Galgotias University have always strived to achieve excellence in legal research and in that process have been organizing a host of events like seminars and conferences where legal experts, research scholars and industry experts are invited to deliberate on contemporary legal issues to stimulate research and establish a dialogue among the stakeholders to identify the various issues and try to find a solution in this regard.
Keeping this objective in mind we are organizing our 4th International Conference on Contemporary Legal Issues (ICCLI) on 21st March 2020. The Conference will usher discussion on contemporary development in multidisciplinary socio-legal, techno-legal and socio-economic issues and how its understanding in theory and practice can be enhanced where we are expecting experts not only from the legal field but also from other disciplines to put their heads together in identifying the issues and suggesting the means to overcome the challenges to have a holistic development.
We shall also be announcing the Best Research Paper Award of the conference and the Best Presentation Award for each of the technical sessions (one award per session) and the selected final papers will be published subsequently in a SCOPUS INDEXED PUBLICATION.
For further details please click the link: https://sites.google.com/a/galgotiasuniversity.edu.in/4th-iccli-2020
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European Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2020
The next Annual Meeting of the ESC will be held from September 9-12, 2020 in Bucharest, Romania. The theme of the meeting will be (Il)legal Organizations and Crime. Challenges for Contemporary Criminology.
After centuries of research in which different theories had as a main goal to explain individual behaviour, it is a new challenge to take into account organizations’ “behaviours”. But is it possible to describe an (il)legal organization without looking into the peculiarities of the individuals comprising the said organization? It is a fact that lately more and more of the criminal legislation (domestic or international) provides for the accountability of organizations, but should such a criminal law perspective be seen as having consequences in criminological theories? The ESC invites you to reflect on such issues and many more linked to the theme of our 20th Annual Meeting.
The Bucharest Conference, in addition to dealing with the usual topics criminologists are working on, that can be easily defined as crimes perpetrated by individuals, will also focus on offences committed within different organisational frameworks. While putting together organisational crime and organized crime may seem surprinsing, it is clear that both forms of crime require a certain extent of political, financial or social influence in order to be successfully perpetrated and generally, for both categories, money is the final goal. Nonetheless, the participation of individuals is mandatory. We therefore find the title “(Il)legal organizations and crime: Challenges for contemporary criminology” fitting for the ESC 2020 Bucharest conference, the Easternmost point of ESC conferences and the chosen place for their 20th Anniversary.
For more information, please visit us at www.eurocrim2020.com. You may also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
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EFUS Conference on Security, Democracy & Cities Conference
25, 26, 27 November 2020
Nice, France
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Domestic Abuse Conference
Theme: Multiple perspectives and interconnectedness of approaches in a context of domestic violence and abuse (DVA)
Nearly two decades ago, “What works in reducing domestic violence” was published in 2001 by Julie Taylor-Browne. This comprehensive work, aimed at professionals, summarised what was known about the successes of various initiatives and agencies in dealing with DVA, drawing on contributions from academic and non-academic experts.
Fast-forward to present day, conversations around evidence-based approaches continue to permeate discussions on DVA. Over the years, sophisticated and more pragmatic approaches have been marshalled to reduce/tackle DVA and to meet the needs of those experiencing DVA.
As an homage to this piece of work, the one-day conference aims to bring together professionals, students, trainees, and academics to further our understanding of domestic violence and abuse interventions; and by extension, how do multi-disciplinary approaches help in resolving the tensions surrounding the complexity of DVA? ‘Multidisciplinarity’ as a concept may be viewed as a pathway to advancing discussions and in achieving goals in research, policy and practice. Additionally, are there alternative interconnected approaches that provide richer understandings and greater public benefit?
We invite you to join us in this important conversation and look forward to welcoming you to Suffolk in 2020.
Confirmed Speakers include:
- Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales
- Gareth Wilson, Deputy Chief Constable of the Ministry of Defence Police
- Professor Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol
- Chantal Hughes, CEO Hampton Trust
- Bal Howard, BKH Training
- Alison Bird, Interim Services Director/Clinical Lead for the Independent Stalking Advocacy Service
- Dr Olumide Adisa, Research Fellow/Centre for Abuse Research (CARe), University of Suffolk
- Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, Founder/Director, Surviving Economic Abuse
And many more!
Conference Chair: Professor Emma Bond, Director of Research, University of Suffolk
Pre-arranged workshops: Stalking, Perpetrators, Economic Abuse, “Toxic Trio” – (DA, Mental Health, and Addiction)
Abstracts are invited from academics and professionals who work in the broad field of DVA. Of interest are submissions that fall under:
- Survivors’ voices and service provision
- Needs of children and young people
- Mainstreaming interventions
- Healthy relationships education
- Health service responses
- Therapeutic approaches
- Perpetrator interventions
- Effective policing and CJS responses
- DVA and Law
- DVA and CSA
- DVA and Tech
- DVA and Identity
- DVA and financial issues
- The needs of male victims
- Housing and accommodation
- DVA and stalking
- Restorative justice
- Outreach and advocacy
- Risk assessment
- Economic evaluations
Abstracts of proposed papers should be no longer than 250 words. This should be submitted to: research@uos.ac.uk
Papers (20mins) and printed posters are equally welcome. Poster format: Size is A0 (0.84 x 1.19m) (portrait orientation), you will be expected to bring your printed poster with you. Some presentations may be better suited for the parallel sessions (10 mins). Please state your preference on your abstract. We also welcome practice-based submissions in these identified areas which may be in an alternative format, for example, film, performance, photography etc
The abstract should be organised in the following ways: background, key argument/case, methods, findings or results and conclusions as well as the implications for research, policy and practice.
Submission deadline is 21 Feb 2020. This call may be closed early as submitted abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis.
Please contact Dr Olumide Adisa – Email: o.adisa@uos.ac.uk, if you have any queries regarding whether your work fits the conference theme.
There is an opportunity for selected papers to be included in an article to be published in Palgrave Communications (Interdisciplinarity) in 2020 as well as an edited book collection.
All Important Dates
Online registration opens (all): Wednesday, 4 December, 2019
Abstract submission deadline : Friday, 21 February 2020**
Notification of abstract review outcome: Monday, 9 March 2020
Deadline for accepted authors to register/confirm attendance: Friday, 27 March 2020
Registration closes: Friday, 8 May 2020
Registration fees: All: £45; *Student/Trainee/Unwaged: £25
*Student registration is available for those studying full time and who hold a current Student ID Card. You will be asked to provide a copy of your current student ID card.
**This call may be closed early as submitted abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis.
Covers:
- Attendance at all conference sessions and workshops
- Delegate pack
- All morning and coffee breaks and lunch
Tickets to the conference dinner are additional to the registration fees. Conference dinner (optional): 7pm – 10pm (£20). We have booked a local restaurant. Menu choices are unconfirmed, but they will cater for all dietary requirements.
More updates will be provided via: https://www.uos.ac.uk/content/conference
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The Stockholm Criminology Symposium
The 2020 Stockhom Criminology Symposium is held June 9–11 at the City Conference Center (Norra Latin) in the center of Stockholm.
The primary purpose of the Symposium is to create an environment where international criminologists, policy makers, practitioners and others engaged in criminal policy matters can take part of the latest research findings of importance for crime policy.
The participants will be able to discuss strategies, methods and measures to reduce crime and improve levels of safety in society. The Symposium is organized by the Swedish National Council of Crime Prevention (abbreviated Brå in Swedish) on behalf of the Swedish Government.The 2020 Symposium Program
The symposium program will, as previous years, follow two main tracks. One theme will be based on the work of the prize winner(s) and the other theme will be contemporary criminology. The program includes a large number of parallel sessions, a poster session in conjuction with the welcome reception, as well as the prize winners’ lecture.
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The 31st Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium
August 16-21, 2020
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Sponsored by THE MILITARY POLICE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
Theme: Street Policing: Crime Prevention in a Risky World
Sub-Themes for Panels, Roundtables, and Papers:
1.Evaluation of Crime Prevention and Everyday Policing
2.Innovations in Policing
3.Police Training in a Risky World
4.Police Response to International Organized Crime
5.Policing the Amazon: Challenges for Environmental Protection
Abstracts for papers, panels, and roundtables should be sent to the Program Chair: Dr. Vicente Riccio at ipes2020chair@ipes.info
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12th European Electronic Monitoring Conference 2020
From the 21st until the 23rd of April 2020, it is time for the 12th edition of the Electronic Monitoring Conference in Helsinki, Finland. This years theme will be ‘Electronic monitoring and probation goals: a symbiotic relationship’.
Electronic monitoring remains a relatively isolated example of the widespread deployment of technologies in probation practice and community sanctions more broadly. Technologies are already part of our everyday lives but, in common with other public services, are likely to effect on probation practice. As technologies develop and begin to penetrate into probation practices to a greater extent, the challenges of using them in ways which complement probation work grows.
The focus of the 12th electronic monitoring conference will be on developing understanding of how electronic monitoring can support probation practices and how other technologies may assist with the use of EM to meet probation goals.
Key questions which will be addressed are:
- what are the ethical challenges of integrating a range of technologies into probation practice;
- what novel technologies are available to support probation goals and electronic monitoring and how are they currently deployed;
- what are the possibilities of using Artificial Intelligence with electronic monitoring;
- how to maximise engagement of staff and service users with the help of electronic monitoring and other technologies.
More Information:
https://www.cep-probation.org/events/electronic-monitoring-conference-2020/
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Conference on Crime and Punishment
Eastern and Western Perspectives on Recent and Fundamental Criminological Questions
– Heidelberg, March 4th to 6th, 2020 –
The Institute of Criminology of Heidelberg University and the Faculty of Applied Psychology – Legal Psychology of SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, cooperating with Polotsk State University, Republic of Belarus, will host an international criminological conference, titled “Crime and Punishment”, from March 4th to 6th, 2020.
The conference’s main goal is to connect the highly separated spheres of criminological research in Eastern and Western Europe by providing insights into research culture, research projects and their results. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity for academic networking beyond the usual geographical scope. The conference focuses on seven topics. Each topic will be discussed by speakers from Eastern and Western Europe. Participants are invited to join the discussions after the presentations:
- Victimization within Families and Partnerships
- Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
- Cybercrime
- Expert Witness Testimony
- Human Rights
- Sanctions and Measures
- Effects of Punishment
Keynote talks will be given by Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kerner (Institute of Criminology, University of Tübingen, Germany), Prof. Dr. Yakov Gilinskiy (Criminal Law Department at Russian State Pedagogical University of Herzen, St. Petersburg, Russia), Prof. Irina Vegera, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law, Polotsk State University, Belarus), and Prof. Dr. Aliaksei Radziuk (Faculty of Law, Polotsk State University).
We also kindly invite researchers to participate in a poster session that will take place at the conference location. Please email crime.punishment@krimi.uni-heidelberg.de.
Registrations (until January 31, 2020) and further information:
https://www.jura.uni-heidelberg.de/krimi/Conference.html
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14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES
November 15 and 16 (Friday and Saturday) at Claremont McKenna College in California
The 14th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will be held Friday and Saturday, November 15-16, 2019. CELS brings together scholars from law, economics, political science, psychology, policy analysis, and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions.
CELS presents papers that engage empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues spanning all areas of empirical legal studies. Papers are selected through a peer review process for presentation at the conference. Papers are presented in panels, with assigned commenters for each paper, and opportunities for audience discussion.
CELS is co-sponsored by Claremont McKenna College and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS).
Registration Information
Registration for the conference is $195 ($55 for students). The registration fee includes membership in the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) and a subscription to the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) for 2020. Register here: https://online.cmc.edu/special-events/fy18-19/celsconference2019
Registration for the following optional events is now open. Please note that space at these events is limited and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
Field Randomized Control Trials Workshop
Thursday, November 14, 2019, Noon – 5pm and Friday, November 15, 2019, 8-10am ($100)
Conference Dinner
Friday, November 15, 2019 ($75)
The Conference Dinner will be held at the CMC Athenaeum immediately after the Poster Session and Reception. You will be able to register for the dinner when you register for the conference.
Women’s Breakfast
Introducing the CELS Women’s Breakfast! Come network with other women at the conference. The breakfast is sponsored by CMC, and open to all women in attendance. Please register for the women’s breakfast when you register for the conference.
Accommodations
Mobility – If you have mobility needs, please email cels2019@ClaremontMcKenna.edu as soon as possible.
Family – A lactation room will be provided.
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X International Congress on Psychology and Education
From Neural to Social Networks: Wellbeing and Convivencia
17-19 June 2020, Córdoba, Spain
Key Dates:
February 15th, 2020 – Abstract Submission Deadline
From March 20th, 2020 – Notification of Acceptance
April 14th, 2020 – Early Registration Deadline
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the 10th International Congress of Psychology and Education to be held in Cordoba in June 2020. After the resounding success of previous congresses, the Scientific Association of Psychology and Education (ACIPE, in Spanish) has promoted this new opportunity for an academic and professional meeting to exchange views, ideas, experiences and advances from the latest research in the fields of Psychology and Education.
The Scientific Committee is presided by Rosario Ortega Ruiz, and is made up of a team of leading national and international researchers. We have organised an attractive program featuring prestigious guest speakers and a wide range of scientific activities including conferences, panels of experts, invited symposia, oral communications and posters.
The six thematic areas are aimed at offering a response to current issues being discussed by researchers in Educational Psychology:
(1) Neuropsychology. Cognition and socialization;
(2) Educational Psychology. Guidance, intervention and assessment;
(3) Affective factors and social life in the classroom: convivencia in schools;
(4) Cyberbehaviour: from e-learning to social networks;
(5) Gender, sexuality and violence; and
(6) Family, education and society.
Through these topics, we would be delighted to receive the scientific and professional community members who aim to advance knowledge in psychology and education though their contributions to the Congress in Córdoba.
Córdoba is a friendly, welcoming city, with a blend of history, culture and tradition, backed up by efficient services and a delicious local cuisine. The City of the Three Cultures is an ideal setting in which to share, learn, enjoy, imagine and create knowledge, professional networks and bonds of friendship. In our exciting social program, we will show you the charming courtyards brimming with flowers known as the ‘patios’, the narrow winding streets with their surprising individual details, the impressive sights of the city, and above all, the kind-heartedness and great wisdom enshrined in the historical traditions of this city. Be ready to present your work in historic buildings, with over five centuries of history, situated in the heart of the Jewish quarter.
Please visit our website for more information:
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16th IATSO CONFERENCE
September 1st to 4th, 2020
Frankfurt, Germany
| Current Developments in Etiology, Assessment, and Prevention of Sexual Offending
On behalf of the Scientific and the Local Organizing committees, we invite you to the 16th conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) to be held in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) from September 1st to 4th, 2020. We are pleased to inform you about the preliminary list of workshops and keynote lectures. A continuously updated list can be found on our conference website: https://www.iatso.org/index.php/iatso-conferences/frankfurt-2020/frankfurt-2020 Martin Rettenberger, Conference President and IATSO Secretary General Sonja Etzler, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Reinhard Eher, IATSO President Elect Sabrina Eberhaut, Conference Organizing Committee KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PLENARY SESSIONS: • Peter Fromberger (Germany): Virtual reality applications for the treatment and risk assessment of child abusers • Alexander F. Schmidt (Germany): Recent developments in the assessment of pedohebephilic interest • Devon L. L. Polaschek (New Zealand): Understanding criminal persistence and desistance: Some implications for people identified as sexual offenders • Douglas P. Boer (Australia): Individualized treatment of sexual offenders with an intellectual or developmental disability • Robert J. McGrath (United States): Sex offender treatment in the United States: Lessons learned and future directions • Ross Bartels (United Kingdom): Distorted beliefs linked to sexual offending • Daniel Turner (Germany): Mental disorders in sexual offenders and their relevance for risk assessment. • Peer Briken (Germany): Does psychodynamic thinking still have any significance for the treatment of pedophilia? • Mark Olver (Canada): Measuring risk relevant change – implications for the therapeutic process and risk management in sexual offenders • Timm Rosburg (Switzerland): Neurophysiological correlates of pedophilia • Leigh Harkins (Canada): Incorporating sociocultural and situational factors into explanations of sexual offending • Markus Feil (Germany): The current state of psychodynamic treatment of sexual offenders • Wineke J. Smid (The Netherlands): Sexual and emotional self-regulation: A two wat street |
ICT 2020 LAW & CRIMINOLOGY IN THE NEW DIGITAL ERA (Added 10.02.19)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ANDALUSIA. 20-21 JANUARY 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
Scientific Committee
Tine Sommer (Professor of Law, Advisory Board Member of CREDI, Center for Law and Digitalization, University of Aarhus, Denmark); Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo (Associate Professor of Public International Law, University of Jaén); Fernando Miró Llinares (Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, Miguel Hernandez University, CRIMINA Research Center); Alberto Elisavetski (Professor Law, Untref University of Buenos Aires, Director of On Line Dispute Resolution Latinamerica); Michael D. Green (Professor of Law, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA); Marie-Cécile Escande-Varniol (Professor of Law, Universidad Lumière Lyon 2)
Co-directors
Manuel Paniagua Zurera (Professor of Commercial Law, Loyola University Andalusia); Gloria Fernández- Pacheco Alises (Assistant Professor of Criminology, Loyola University Andalusia); Maria Lubomira Kubica (Assistant Professor of Civil and Comparative Law, Loyola University Andalusia); Ana Mercedes López Rodríguez (Associate Professor of Private International Law, Head of the Law Department, Loyola University Andalusia); Jonatan Cruz Ángeles (Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Loyola University Andalusia); Rafael Aguilera Gordillo (Part-time Lecturer of Criminal Compliance and International Security, Loyola University Andalusia).
Scientific and technological knowledge is evolving rapidly, certainly contributing to important innovations, but also to great risks. In a time characterized by the continuous development of telecommunication networks (internet), new channels of distribution (the digital market), the development of artificial intelligence, blockchain or the processing and storage of data, it is important to analyze the impact of these changes on both society and the law. In this regard, it is essential to study whether and to what extent, the existing regulatory frameworks and traditional legal categories are adequate to respond to the new challenges raised.
To name just a few examples, new technologies may affect fundamental rights, in particular, freedom of speech, the right to information self-determination, as part of the right to privacy and the right to honour. They offer new opportunities such as the digital market, the use of new contractual instruments and electronic commerce and pose challenges to the labour market related to the irruption of new forms of work and the emergence of robotics.
Moreover, for Criminology new technologies have changed the way of understanding and addressing the criminal phenomenon. ICTs create criminal opportunities (phishing, sexting, cyberbullying, etc.) in specific and new contexts (cyberspace) while modifying the public authorities’ response to detect, prevent and control crime, whether using computer software, smart tags, video surveillance or electronic monitoring (RF/GPS).
Given the complexity of the problems posed, the study of the new technological reality must be necessarily done from an interdisciplinary perspective. With this in mind, the Department of Law of Loyola University Andalusia will be hosting an International Conference on 20-21 January 2020 to take stock of current issues in the field and to consider future challenges.
This International Conference will be a unique opportunity to discuss the new technological and digital challenges with an outstanding group of experts from different fields and a great venue to create and consolidate scientific and collaborative networks.
Professionals at all stages of their careers and senior and junior scholars (including Ph.D. students) are invited to submit abstracts on some of the following, fairly broad, topics or any other related issues of novel and ground-breaking character:
- THE IMPACT THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL AND DIGITAL REALITY ON CITIZENS, THE ECONOMY, THE PUBLIC SECTOR, BUSINESSES AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS.
- ABILITY OF INSTITUTIONS AND TRADITIONAL LEGAL CATEGORIES TO REGULATE NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
- THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND POSSIBLE TENSIONS WITH THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
- ICT AND CRIMINOLOGY. IN PARTICULAR, (a) Cybercrime: cyberattacks, phishing, sexting, ciberbullying, cybercrime on Web 2.0, cyberterrorism, computer systems and Internet (structures and vulnerabilities), police action against cybercrime, etc. (b) Electronic monitoring in several fields: early release, probation, parole, in cases of gender-based violence, facial and voice recognition systems, etc. (c) ICT in the prevention of crime: the application of video surveillance in the public spaces, geographic information systems (GIS), smart cities (smart policing), anti-theft systems (smart tags, GPS for tracking vehicles, etc.), mobile devices and/or Apps to prevent crime, etc.
- EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, JUDICIARY AND PRACTITIONERS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES: CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES
Selected papers will be presented at the Sevilla-Ciudad del Conocimiento campus of Loyola University Andalusia in Seville, on 20-21 January 2020.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE
- Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of a minimum of 800 words with the author’s name, affiliation and an updated CV including contact details to the conference directors, in the item “Documents” on the website: www.ict2020.es. All submissions may be written in either English or Spanish.
- The submitted abstracts will be assessed and selected by the Conference’s international scientific committee. In addition to the quality of the proposals, special consideration will be given to gender balance and the representation of professionals, associations and social partners in the different panels
- The deadline for submitting proposals is 15 October 2019.
- Authors of selected abstracts for the Conference will be notified by 30 November 2019.
- The deadline for submitting the final draft paper (3,000-5,000 words) is 10 January 2020. A ‘no paper – no podium’ strict policy applies.
- The Conference will be held at the Dos Hermanas campus of Loyola University Andalusia in Seville on 20-21 January 2020.
- Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to bear the costs of their own travel and accommodation.
- The Conference directors are planning to publish the most relevant papers presented in the conference. The deadline for submitting the final version of the selected papers (6,000-8,000 words) will 21 February 2020. Further information about the publication process will be conveyed to selected proposal authors in due course.
VENUE:
The Conference will be held at the Sevilla-Ciudad del Conocimiento campus of Loyola University Andalusia in Seville.
Loyola University Andalusia is a private university sponsored by the Society of Jesus, with campuses in Seville, Cordoba and Dos Hermanas.
The educative tradition of the Jesuits commenced with the beginning of The Society of Jesus itself in 1540. Today there are 238 universities and university centers in over 70 countries teaching more than 160,000 students of all religious affiliations.
Loyola University Andalusia centers its activities in eight areas of knowledge: Economy, Law, Political and Social Sciences, Communication, Psychology, Education, Engineering and Business. It is committed to dialogue between different cultures and the development of a more just and sustainable society.
In addition to the conference itself, participants will have the opportunity to get to know their colleagues through conference receptions, visits to local sites and encounters with local culture. For more information visit the official Conference website: www.ict2020.es
INVITATION TO THE 8 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VICTIM ASSISTANCE (Added 10.02.19)
21st – 22nd October 2019 at O.P Jindal Global University Sonipat-Narela Road, Sonipat-131001, NCR of Delhi, Haryana
The Centre for Victimology & Psychological Studies invites you to the 8 International Conference on Victim Assistance (co-organized with the Indian Society of Victimology). This conference will try to envisage different aspects of victimology by academicians, government officials, lawyers, social workers, policy makers and from students around the world. The main theme of the conference is Emerging Paradigms in Victimology.
SUB-THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE:
- Theoretical Advances in Victimology
- Victims of Crime
- Fear of Crime Victimization
- Conflict, Oppression and Injustice
- Violence within Family (Includes: IPV, Child Abuse, Elder Abuse)
- Victims of Environmental Injustice
- Victimization of Immigrants/Refugees
- Victims of Political Violence
- Sex, Gender and Sexuality (including violence against LGBTQ)
- Human Trafficking
- Violence Against Women
- Violence Against Children
- Media and Cyber Victimization
- Mental Health and Victimization
- Secondary Victimization
- Victims’ Rights and the Criminal Justice System
- Victims and Restorative Justice
- Mediation and Support for Victims
- Role of NGOs in Victim Assistance
- Advancing Research Methodologies in Victimology
- Policies towards Prevention of Victimization
- Positive Victimology
REGISTRATION
- There is no registration fee for the conference.
- Registration is needed for all participants and delegates.
- To join us at the 8 International Conference on Victim Assistance, kindly fill out the registration form & submit abstracts at https://forms.gle/x7bkS6jBHXW5advH6
- Shuttle from Haiderpur Metro Station (Delhi) to JGU campus is provided on chargeable basis as per shuttle schedule.
FOOD AND ACCOMODATIONS
Boarding and lodging is complementary for all attendees of the conference. Accommodation will be provided on first-come, first-serve basis for maximum two nights. i.e. 20 and 21 October 2019. Limited accommodation is available.
If you have any questions related to the conference, please feel free to write to us at cvps@jgu.edu.in or to Mr. Vipin Vijay Nair, Conference Co-Ordinator at vvnair@jgu.edu.in Tel: +91 9711864687
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