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Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 457

Teresa Cunningham, Bill Ivory, Richard Chenhall, Rachael McMahon and Kate Senior
ISSN 1836-2206
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, July 2013 

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/441-460/tandi457.html

Friday July 5th 2013, 13:00-18:00 (1:00 pm – 6:00 pm)

Universal Peace Federation Austria in cooperation with ACUNS Vienna and the Best of the World Network invites you to a conference which is organized as part of the cultural event "ÁUSTRIA BRASIL EM MOVIMENTO - CarnaVienna 2013"

by ABRASA, an Austro-Brazilian and Afro-BrazilianCultural Point in Austria

fostering education, cultural activities and social integration

Vienna International Center, C-Building, Boardroom D

http://www.weltfriede.at/CultureCreativEconomyUN201307.htm

 3. Juli 2013, 13:00 - 15:00 BST

The online seminar aims to raise awareness about the growing significance of social media in situations, where crowds come together – either pre-announced or spontaneous – and might create some work for police. Participants will learn about police-experiences good-practice examples where social media have gained a major role in how policing is conducted.

TARGET GROUP
Senior police officers, public order commanders, specialist police media staff, officers involved in policing public events

https://student.gototraining.com/r/3925005072323187200

 

The keynote presentations from the AIC’s Australasian Youth Justice Conference are now on the AIC’s CriminologyTV Channel

Professor Mark Halsey, Flinders University

Leaving the life: Notes on desistance from serious repeat offending

Judge Andrew Becroft, Principal Youth Court Judge of New Zealand

Key Trends within Youth Justice in Australasia - Seven Key Characteristics

Mr Juan Tauri, Queensland University of Technology

Crime Control, Politics and Policy Production – Critical Reflections on the Demonisation of Indigenous Youth

Dr Raymond R Corrado, Simon Fraser University

The Processing of Youth and the Sentencing of Young Offenders in a Federal System: Challenges and successes in the recent Canadian experience

Dr Tracy Westerman, Managing Director, Indigenous Psychological Services

Cultural Competence in Forensic Settings – what issues continue to impact?

Professor Kerry Carrington, Queensland University of Technology

Young women and crime


 

New psychoactive substances pose severe challenges to public health systems, says UNODC Chief at high-level launch of World Drug Report 2013

UCL Department of Security and Crime Science

July 31st 2013 is the deadline for applying to University College London's MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism (COCT), MSc in Crime Science and the new MSc in Crime and Forensics.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/scs/pg-taught

An exposé of the dark forces at work in British policing

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/3657/an-expose-of-the-dark-forces-at-work-in-british-policing?utm_source=MailingList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PSEurope030713 

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 458

Anthony Morgan and Peter Homel
ISSN 1836-2206
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, July

"Over the years, the Australian Institute of Criminology has worked with crime prevention agencies across Australia reviewing large-scale crime prevention delivery programs. This experience has shown that, despite good intentions and aspirations to evidence-based practice, both the level and quality of evaluations have been limited by several practical challenges.

In turn, the development of a body of good quality Australian evidence about what is effective in preventing crime has been hampered.

Using previously unpublished data collected as part of the reviews of two national Australian crime prevention programs, the authors examine the practical factors that impact on evaluation and make a number of important recommendations for the evaluation of projects delivered as part of large-scale community crime prevention programs.

Rather than persisting with traditional approaches that encourage local organisations to undertake potentially expensive and time consuming evaluations of their own work, the authors argue that program managers and central agencies must become more proactive and increasingly."

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/441-460/tandi458.html

Research and Public Policy Series no.123

Troy Allard, April Chrzanowski, Anna Stewart
ISBN 978 1 922009 40 1ISSN 1836-2079
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, July

 http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/rpp/121-140/rpp123.html

A National Survey of Criminal Justice Leaders

"A new survey, released today by the Center for Court Innovation with the support of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, shows that senior criminal justice leaders are following the lead of successful businesses and increasing their investment in research.

The first-ever study of its kind surveyed more than 600 police chiefs, state chief judges, elected prosecutors, and probation commissioners. Nine out of ten reported "always" (46 percent) or "sometimes" (43 percent) looking to research and data to guide decisions. Furthermore, many are putting their money where their mouths are, hiring in-house researchers (39 percent of those surveyed) or contracting with external researchers (50 percent).

The study also highlights links between research and innovation: criminal justice leaders who strongly embraced research in their agencies were more likely to rate themselves as innovative, to indicate that they work in an innovative agency, and to score higher on an index measuring the use of specific innovative practices at work.

http://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/Innovation_Survey_Report_0.pdf

shows that senior criminal justice leaders are following the lead of successful businesses and increasing their investment in research.

The American Journal of Psychiatry, AJP in Advance
July 12, 2013

 
"Objective:  Gang members engage in many high-risk activities associated with psychiatric morbidity, particularly violence-related ones. The authors investigated associations between gang membership, violent behavior, psychiatric morbidity, and use of mental health services.

Method:  The authors conducted a cross-sectional survey of 4,664 men 18–34 years of age in Great Britain using random location sampling. The survey oversampled men from areas with high levels of violence and gang activities. Participants completed questionnaires covering gang membership, violence, use of mental health services, and psychiatric diagnoses measured using standardized screening instruments.

Results:  Violent men and gang members had higher prevalences of mental disorders and use of psychiatric services than nonviolent men, but a lower prevalence of depression. Violent ruminative thinking, violent victimization, and fear of further victimization accounted for the high levels of psychosis and anxiety disorders in gang members, and with service use in gang members and other violent men. Associations with antisocial personality disorder, substance misuse, and suicide attempts were explained by factors other than violence.

Conclusions:  Gang members show inordinately high levels of psychiatric morbidity, placing a heavy burden on mental health services. Traumatization and fear of further violence, exceptionally prevalent in gang members, are associated with service use. Gang membership should be routinely assessed in individuals presenting to health care services in areas with high levels of violence and gang activity. Health care professionals may have an important role in promoting desistence from gang activity.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1712526

EFUS:

"The publication EU Street Violence: Youth Groups and Violence in Public Spaces presents the results of the project. It aims to give local decision makers a better understanding of the issues at stake and of the different policy options and strategies that are available for the inclusion of young people as individuals and members of groups.

The publication includes contributions from experts who summarise the insights they have gained from the project and share their analyses from the database along with their recommendations and practices. Experts from Efus and the Belgian, Spanish and French national Forums for urban security contribute, along with the sociologist, Marwan Mohammed, the expert in gender Marie-Dominique de Suremain (Psytel, France), Portuguese consultant Franciso Empis, experts from the region of Emilia Romagna (Italy), Andy Mills of the National Community Safety Network (NCSN, UK), and respected academics from the Universities of Tubingen and Amsterdam (VU) and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement."

http://streetviolence.eu/?p=668

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 461

Suzanne Poynton and Don Weatherburn
ISSN 1836-2206
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, July 2013:

Transitioning Youth from Out-of-Home Placement to the Community

Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Time: 2:00—3:30 p.m. ET
 
To register for this webinar, click here.  
 

The National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) and the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) are asking criminal justice practitioners to respond to a survey that will help policymakers in Washington, D.C., better understand the impact of federal budget cuts on state and local crime fighting programs. The survey asks about budget and staff cuts, and asks respondents to describe the impact of the cuts in their own words. The deadline for completing the survey is Friday, July 26, 2013. Click here.

  

The resource profiles the most popular jobs and breaks down employment numbers for a variety of different career fields.

"When you consider possible criminal justice jobs, you may think of police officers catching criminals or detectives unraveling a case. Though the criminal justice field does include police and detective positions, it expands far beyond criminal arrests. Criminal justice professionals can also work as probation officers, private investigators, or legal assistants. In fact, while police officer positions are seeing slow projected growth over the next few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), other criminal justice jobs are growing at a rapid rate".

http://oedb.org/careers/criminal-justice/

"The Center for Court Innovation, with the support of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, has launched an National Drug Court Online Learning System. The system offers free access to web-based drug court training, including video lessons by experts in the field, virtual site visits of drug treatment courts around the country, interviews with practitioners, and a resource library of documents and reference tools.
To access the system, click here 

2nd Edition; by Nathan Hall

Published 18th July 2013 by Routledge – 248 pages 

"Since the publication of the first edition of 'Hate Crime' in 2005, interest in this subject as a scholarly and political domain has grown considerably both in Britain and North America, but significantly also in many other parts of the world. As such, this second edition fully revises and updates the content of the first, but within a broader international context.

Building on the success of the first edition, this accessible, cross-disciplinary text also includes a wider range of international issues, and addresses new and emerging areas of concern within the field. The book will be of particular interest to academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, criminal justice practitioners, and policy-makers working within the area of hate crime and related fields of crime, social justice, and diversity. It will also be of value to others who may hold a more general interest in what is undoubtedly a rapidly evolving and increasingly important area of contemporary and global social concern"

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415540278/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3-jul13-jk-criminology%2Band%2Bcriminal%2Bjustice-scsn20

the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Vienna would like to inform you on the following interesting training of the United for Education and Sustainable Futures (UESF): CONFLICT ANALYSIS & INTERVENTIONS DESIGN IN HUMANITARIAN, DEVELOPMENT & SOCIAL PROJECTS 
4th - 5th October 2013, Vienna

More information at: http://www.uesfi.org/?q=news

....the sixth issue of the CFS Bulletin - with research, events and other news in the world of forensic science 

You can access the bulletin via the website:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/forensic-sciences/newsletter/past-issues

The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently developing a report, Health for the World’s Adolescents, that will outline recent research and the growing consensus on the importance of adolescent health; and the achievements of the health sector in improving and maintaining the health of the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years). The report will present WHO guidance across the organization; highlight the progress Member States have made in making their health sector more responsive to adolescents needs; strengthen and support global initiatives that have an impact on the health of adolescents; and provide a concrete follow-up to the World Health Assembly resolution 64.28 on Youth and Health Risks from 2011.

The report will be released in 2014.

In preparing the report,  they recognize that it is vital to incorporate the perspectives of adolescents themselves, as well as health care providers. A webpage has therefore been created through which  adolescents and people working to improve their health can make input into the report.

The link for this webpage: http://www.who.int/adolescent_health2014