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The 7th Annual International Forum; 18th German Congress on Crime; Bielefeld:Prof. Dr. Jan van Dijk (Tilburg University), Prof. Dr. Nils Christie (Uni
On April 22 and 23 2013 the 7th Annual International Forum within the 18th German Congress on Crime Prevention will take place at the City Hall in Bielefeld.
The AIF will present lectures in English language of international crime prevention experts: Prof. Dr. Jan van Dijk (Tilburg University), Prof. Dr. Nils Christie (University of Oslo), Dr. Erik Wennerström (Swedish Council for Crime Prevention), Elizabeth Johnston (European Forum for Urban Security), Rubeena Esmail and Terence Smith (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), Dr. Caroline L. Davey and Andrew B. Wootton (Design Against Crime Solution Centre), Dr. Ok-Kyung Yoon (Kyonggi University) and Dr. Eugene Lee (National Youth Policy Institute Seoul), Belinda Wijckmans (European Crime Prevention Network).
International, non-German speaking participants, can also join the GCOCP: Hear the opening and closing plenum (English simultaneous translation), experience the exhibition (where over 150 institutions displaying their work), and take part in the evening reception. Since the GCOCP is one of the biggest congresses in crime prevention with over 3.000 participants every year since 1995 in different German cities, this is your chance to network and discover new approaches in crime prevention.
http://www.gcocp.org/nano.cms/program
The GCOCP Program can be downloaded here: http://www.praeventionstag.de/html/GetDoc.cms?ID=236
More information here: http://www.gcocp.org
Recidivism Reduction Checklists for State Leaders
A project of the CSG Justice Center
"The Council of State Governments Justice Center is pleased to announce the release of “Reducing Statewide Recidivism,” a series of three checklists for policymakers, state corrections administrators, and reentry coordinators to assess state recidivism reduction policies and strategies. The checklists are available at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/recidivism-reduction-checklists.
The recidivism reduction checklists are user-friendly sources of information on the many policies and practices that go into a comprehensive, effective reentry initiative. There are three checklists, each tailored to a specific audience: Executive and Legislative Policymakers; State Corrections Administrators; and State Reentry Coordinators".
EUCPN Toolbox 1: Local cooperation in youth crime prevention
EUCPN Secretariat, November 2012, Brussels
Toolboxes for Practitioners/Policy makers
http://www.eucpn.org/library/results.asp?category=32&pubdate
The latest UNODC and international drugs and crime news.
Issue 46 | March 6, 2013
UNODC News
•Wildlife crime firmly on the UNODC agenda in South-East Asia
•The first national drug use survey in the Maldives highlights urgent need for more drug use prevention and treatment
•The StAR initiative: Stepping up a gear
•Crystalline methamphetamine now Indonesia's "primary illicit drugs threat"
• Experts discuss the role of organized crime in the production and trade of fraudulent medicines
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/enewsunodc/2013/March/unodc-enews---06-march-2013.html
Upcoming Webinar: Mental Health Courts Research Roundup — Applying Research to Practice
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET
Hosted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center
New Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development website
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is a new online database designed to help public agencies, schools, community organizations and individuals easily identify cost-effective programs that meet the highest standard of evidence for helping young people reach their full potential. The new Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development website, formerly Blueprints for Violence Prevention, offers programs that address an expanded range of outcomes. Programs now address education, emotional well-being, physical health and positive relationships, in addition to problem behaviors.
http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/
webinar: Impact of Isolation Practices in Confinement Settings
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in collaboration with the National Center for Youth in Custody invites you to a two-part webinar exploring the impact of solitary confinement on youth and efforts to strictly limit isolation in confinement settings: "The Impact of Isolation Practices in Confinement Facilities".
