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Location: Halle (Saale)

14 – 16 February, 2018

Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,

Halle an der Saale, Germany

Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor John Pratt: “The end of penal populism; the rise of political populism?”

Call REMEP is a multidisciplinary research school that examines the concepts of retaliation, mediation and punishment from different theoretical and methodological angles, with a focus on their role on peace and social order. This conference looks at the social context of punishment. We start from the premise that punishment involves not only a handful of actors (i.e., members of the jurisdiction, perpetrators, victims, etc.) but a complex array of actors, including families, kin groups, and other polities that judge and punish; peers; associations; the audience(s) (including the media audience and the (mass) public); the punished (including, group-, surrogate- or proxy-punishment); and executive bodies such as states and private prison managements. We see punishment not only in the context of retaliation, deterrence, prevention, incapacitation and rehabilitation/retribution, but also as a reflection of society and as a constant negotiation of legitimacy, a renegotiation of social order and control. Populism, neoliberalism, misogyny, nationalism, and racism – to name just a few phenomena – are negotiated in the context of punishment. This conference will be anchored around three key issues:

1. Theory, legitimacy and history of punishment

In this section, we propose to concentrate on the development of a coherent framework and theories of punishment in order to elaborate the semantics of punishment. Topics within this include the purposes of punishment in various legal systems and the historical shifts that punishment has undergone. We further seek theoretical contributions related to the informal, micro, local, national, international, and global influences on punishment policies and especially the challenges that emerge when these levels interact. Both historically and in the present, challenges can be observed especially at the fringes of normativities, it is here where legitimation is scrutinized. This occurs, for instance, in cases in which the perpetrator is also a victim, e.g. in the case of (former) child soldiers. A less obvious example are trials that shift venues from local to national or to the International Criminal Court, including changes of prisons and favourable prison conditions. This can culminate in the evasion of mundane punishment, replacing it with divine punishment by shifting the discourse from a legal to a religious one. Secular, domestic, familial, religious, cultural, and human rights discourses interact and demand for a more complex understanding of criminality and punishment. Furthermore, these interactions result in a need to find alternatives to criminal procedures that include restorative justice.

2. Media audiences, mass publics, and group punishment

The contested term “penal populism” is at the centre of a debate that questions the involvement of “the public” in the criminal justice systems, based on the argument that the presence of the public tends to encourage symbolic actions which disregard the proportionality principle in favour of populist gain. Since populism targets political success in elections, it potentially leads to preventive policies that are detrimental to minority groups, increasing the likelihood of punishment becoming a matter of living on the wrong side of the street or having the wrong passport. Such populist measures further reduce the use of risk prevention in the form of social programmes, instead giving preference to repressive measures. We are seeking to unravel the interaction of media, populists, and the public that is said to have weakened the principle of equality before the law; simultaneously, we propose to move away from this approach and analyse the justice system now and in the past as a tool of and for governing and for the creation of social order and the exertion of social control, benefitting some but not necessarily all.

3. Interdisciplinary approach to punishment

To ensure different approaches to punishment and critical perspectives on our law- and socialscience-based analysis, we especially invite scholars from other disciplines – for example, neuroscientists who are working on understanding the relation of the brain to punishment and behaviour and investigating changes in the frontal cortex that occur during and before acts of crime. Such research puts questions of free will, social control, deviant behaviour, and crime at the forefront. Further, we invite political economists who are studying the effects, benefits, and disadvantages of private prisons and home-confinement technologies and how these increase the likelihood of mass condemnations; and evolutionary anthropologists who include the evolutionary effects of punishment in their studies.

Jaap De Waard - The Hague: Ministry of Security and Justice, Law Enforcement Department, Unit for General Crime Policy

This document presents a summary overview of knowledge on effective preventive and repressive criminal justice interventions and measures. The goal is to provide a systematic overview of recently published meta evaluations and synthesis studies of proven effective and ineffective measures and interventions. This will allow a policy to be pursued based on reliable facts, thorough analyses and useful concepts and insights from science and practice: so-called ’evidence based crime policies’. It will also provide a description of a number of core factors and characteristics which determine the efficacy and effectiveness of those interventions and measures.

A systematic classification is used via which the scientific knowledge is subdivided into three knowledge domains:

• Situational Crime Prevention (61 meta evaluations);

• Policing (51 meta evaluations); and

• Criminal Justice Interventions (147 meta evaluations). Within these three knowledge domains, some 259 recently published meta evaluations are summed up chronologically.

A plan for joint action by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe for the period 2018-2019 was signed by UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna. The OSCE-UNODC Joint Action Plan 2018-2019 reflects the two organizations' contributions to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and allows for more streamlined technical collaboration in twelve subject areas.

Discussions around branding, marketing and points of sale are not often associated with the United Nations family, but they were a large part of the latest expert group meeting convened in Vienna this past week to explore UNODC's options for supporting a global scheme of prison products, made by prisoners in the context of rehabilitation programmes. UNODC's work on prisoner rehabilitation has been consolidating the ways in which prison-based rehabilitation schemes can be developed and harmonized at an international level.

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 14 Time: 2–3:30 p.m. ET

Many programs struggle to develop and maintain case plans that assist their participants in reducing their risk for recidivating and advancing their goals for recovery. However, the web-based tool Collaborative Comprehensive Case Plans: Addressing Criminogenic Risk and Behavioral Health Needs can help criminal justice and behavioral health professionals better integrate critical behavioral health and criminogenic risk and needs information into collaborative comprehensive case plans that actively engage the participant. The National Reentry Resource Center will host a series of webinars to discuss how corrections and behavioral health professionals can use this web-based tool and highlight different agencies as lead case planners that oversee the case planning process. The first webinar in this series will focus on a correctional agency as the lead case planner and will feature the reentry program of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The webinar will provide a conceptual overview of the FCSO reentry program and will discuss the program's processes in three key areas: 1) interagency collaboration and information sharing; 2) staff training; and 3) screening and assessment as part of their collaborative comprehensive case plan process.

Open Evening for the MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism, the MSc in Crime Science, the MSc in Crime and Forensic Science and the MSc in Policing.

"Our open evening is an excellent opportunity to meet some of the course tutors and ask questions. We will discuss in detail the content and logistics of our courses, as well as how the course fits into your future career plans. We will also discuss the 14 scholarships on offer.

Most of our courses now available via Distance Learning"

Wednesday 28th February 2018, from 6-8pm

Venue: ROOM B404 (LECTURE THEATRE 2), BASEMENT, CRUCIFORM BUILDING, GOWER STREET, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON, WC1E 6BT

To change criminal behaviour, motivation, time, attention, practice and feedback are the ingredients for success. Especially youngsters can find it difficult to change their behaviour. Many regions in their brain are still developing, meaning they have less cognitive control than adults when it comes to attention, thoughts and behaviour. Mayke Mol and Janine Plaisier, (GGZinGeest & Impact R&D) have conducted a pilot for an innovative automated and personalised computer system that probation officers can use to remind youngsters of their goals and give them exercises. We spoke to Mayke Mol about how they conducted the pilot.

Impact R&D is an organisation that focusses on research and development of methods for behavioural change. “In order to reduce recidivism, the prison system and probation organisations try to change the behaviour of offenders. Current methods that aim to do so, such as risk assessment instruments, probation supervision and behavioural interventions, are based on scientific insights. The results of these methods are fairly consistent, but limited. International research suggests that effective behavioural interventions for offenders generally lead to approximately 10-25% less recidivism, but sometimes also have no, or even negative, effects. As Impact R&D has extensive experience in researching the impact of behavioural interventions, we decided to investigate how current results could be improved.” This is when they came up with the idea for e-guidance.

According to Mayke Mol, until now, there has been no form of well-researched e-guidance developed that is aimed completely at the offender, is customisable and deals not just with practical matters, but is genuinely aimed at achieving goals and learning how to behave in a different way. The e-guidance system was tested on 46 boys, of which 35 were under supervision of juvenile probation services and 11 had voluntarily requested help at an institution for social work and child protection.

The European Journal of Parental Imprisonment is a bi-annual publication that seeks to broaden the study of issues relevant to children affected by parental incarceration and meet a burgeoning interest in the development, implementation and evolution of entitlements, policies and practices that promote their well-being. With a view to fostering new perspectives for children with imprisoned parents, the Journal features contributions by eminent scholars and experts in the fields of child rights, child welfare, criminal and social justice, psychology, penal affairs and other disciplines; published articles do not necessarily represent COPE’s opinions. Selected articles are editorial screened but not peer-reviewed. The editor is committed to reasoned ideological diversity and welcomes suggestions for special issues and contributions.

“As they examine how the rights of children of prisoners have evolved since the Treaty of Lisbon, the contributors to this first issue spotlight pathways to change, ways in which civil society can work together: through the development of child rights protection systems, the use of procedural safeguards, new complaints mechanisms and a strengthened jurisprudence, new avenues for child rights advocacy.” – Liz Ayre, director of Children of Prisoners Europe

Dresden, 14. of March 2018

New ways of working with delinquent and disadvantaged young people opens the international conference on socio-educational pilgrimages at the University of aplied science Dresden (FHD). With the pilgrim salutation "Ultreia - go beyond your limits", the conference will take you on the Jacobsweg to Santiago de Compostella and show you the possibilities that open monotonous walking for social work. In the framework of this project, social work and youth, companions and accompanying persons enter into a dialogue that opens up new paths and widens perspectives. Specifically, the conference will test the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion (KMDD) in a separate workshop and present it as an opportunity for moral dialogue. This builds on the experience with the methods of moral development (Kohlberg) during the socio-educational pilgrimage in Saxony. Scientists and practitioners from five European countries participate in the conference as speakers and discussion partners.

Catherine Insel, Erik K. Kastman, Catherine R. Glenn & Leah H. Somerville When pursuing high-value goals, mature individuals typically titrate cognitive performance according to environmental demands. However, it remains unclear whether adolescents similarly integrate value-based goals to selectively enhance goal-directed behavior. We used a value-contingent cognitive control task during fMRI to assess how stakes—the value of a prospective outcome—modulate flexible goal-directed behavior and underlying neurocognitive processes. Here we demonstrate that while adults enhance performance during high stakes, adolescents perform similarly during low and high stakes conditions. The developmental emergence of value-contingent performance is mediated by connectivity between the striatum and prefrontal cortex; this connectivity selectively increases during high stakes and with age. These findings suggest that adolescents may not benefit from high stakes to the same degree adults do—a behavioral profile that may be constrained by ongoing maturation of corticostriatal connectivity. We propose that late development of corticostriatal connectivity sets the stage for optimal goal-directed behavior.

Deadline: 4 May 2018

WHO's global mentoring programme, MENTOR-VIP, is designed to assist junior injury prevention practitioners to develop specific skills through structured collaboration with a more experienced person who has volunteered to act as a mentor. Since its inception in 2007, nearly 100 mentorships on a range of violence and injury topics have been undertaken.

Collaborations include:

• Policy development for child injury prevention in China;

• Gap/problem analysis of a national injury surveillance system and improvements to surveillance system design and implementation in Jamaica;

• Literature review of child injury and application of Haddon's Matrix to case series in Pakistan;

• Social acceptability of barriers to prevent drowning in children and publication of papers summarizing drowning prevention in the Philippines;

• Linkage of data on road traffic injuries using police and hospital data and development of a policy brief in Romania;

• Preparation of research proposal on psycho-social factors related to suicide in South Africa;

• School area road safety assessments for primary school children in Tanzania.

MENTOR-VIP is an excellent opportunity for committed injury and violence prevention practitioners to improve their skills and benefit from the guidance of a more experienced mentor.

Globally, up to 1 billion children aged 2-17 years - or one in two children - have suffered physical, sexual or emotional violence or neglect in the past year. WHO will be joining global efforts this week aimed at promoting solutions, and reinforcing global commitments, to end all forms of violence against children.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will participate in The Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, an event hosted by the Government of Sweden, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, and WePROTECT Global Alliance in Stockholm on 14-15 February. Also participating will be HM Queen Silvia of Sweden, 30 ministers, the heads of UNICEF and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as senior officials from development agencies, foundations and NGOs.

Violence is the second leading cause of death in boys aged 10-19 years, with a global homicide rate for that age group of 7 per 100 000 population. Across their lives, more than 1 in 5 children have experienced physical abuse, while more than 1 in 3 children have experienced emotional abuse. Around 18% of girls and 8% of boys have experienced sexual abuse.

Dr Etienne Krug, from WHO, says experiencing violence in childhood has lifelong impacts on the health and well-being of children, their families and communities.

"We must not tolerate that half of the world's children suffer violence each year," explains Dr Krug, Director of the WHO Department for the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention. "The sad fact is that we know what needs to be done, yet we do not do it. Violence is not inevitable. Its causes are understood and it can be prevented; only the will is needed."

"Evidence-based measures include those reflected in the WHO-led INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children, namely:

• Implementing and enforcing laws (e.g. banning violent discipline and restricting access to alcohol and firearms);

• Norms and values change (e.g. altering norms that condone the sexual abuse of girls, or aggressive behaviour among boys);

• Safe environments (e.g. identifying neighbourhood "hot spots" for violence and then addressing the local causes through problem-oriented policing and other interventions);

• Parent and caregiver support (e.g. through the provision of parent training to young, first time parents)

• Income and economic strengthening (e.g. providing cash transfers to families on the condition that their children attend school);

• Response services provision (e.g. ensuring that children who are exposed to violence receive effective emergency care and appropriate psychosocial support), and

• Education and life skills (e.g. providing children with life and social skills training, including the skills to manage emotions, maintain self-control, empathize with others and express themselves assertively).

Strong evidence shows that the consequences of violence go much beyond death and injury because children who are exposed to violence are more likely to smoke, misuse alcohol and drugs, and engage in high-risk sexual behaviour. They are also more likely to attempt suicide and endure a range of illnesses later in the life. These include anxiety, depression, cardiovascular disease, cancer and HIV.

WHO's work on violence prevention is reflected in its Global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system to address violence and in its 13th General Programme of Work 2019-2023.

"The Australian Institute of Criminology is pleased to announce the launch of our new website.

Our aim was to create an engaging website that is easily accessible, easy to use and better represents the AIC as a leading research institute. I believe we have achieved this.

The responsive design now makes it easy to view on smart phones, tablets and other devices. New and improved functions include an upgraded search engine on the homepage, where you can explore any and all AIC publications with filters sorting results by relevance, date and title. The individual research pages also place our publications into categories to further assist you in your search.

If you wish to look beyond our publications, you can browse the AIC library database, request books, receive alerts and speak directly to our librarians for further support.

The website features our awards and grants and upcoming and past events, providing a full picture of our enthusiasm for the criminology community and how we contribute to it, while keeping you updated on what’s happening next.

The site provides a wealth of information on the AIC but also connects you to other departments, agencies and research bodies to continue your education in the exciting world of criminology"

Finland and China, two completely different countries, with different cultures and criminal justice systems. Despite all these differences, the cooperation between their probation services goes back 22 years. The Finnish Criminal Sanctions Agency was one of the first European probation organisations that started working together with the Chinese probation service. After all those years, the connection between them is still very strong. The Finnish and Chinese probation services recently started a four year project for the improvement of community sanctions in the countries.

It is important for inmates to maintain contact with family members, but if an inmate is placed in a prison on the other side of the country, it can be too expensive for the family members to visit them. The National Probation Service Georgia found the solution for this problem. Together with the prison departement, they set up a video conference service for prisoners. Since 2011, inmates can video call with friends, family members or relatives, if they are not in the position to visit them in person. Irakli Chitanava, Deputy Head of the National Probation Service, explains how the system works.

To understand the ways in which different European jurisdictions arrange and deliver the case management of accused persons and convicted offenders within correctional systems, the CEP has created case management system maps. This month we uploaded a new system map of England and Wales. Designer Tony Grapes:” Those in European probation services will know that the probation system in England and Wales is the biggest in Europe (and, since the major reorganisation of 2014, by far the most complex.” He will continue with producing the case management system maps. New maps will follow soon!

A London homelessness prevention pilot project is seeing success in keeping people off city streets. A research project found that about 90 per cent of at-risk families diverted from homelessness with the help from the Rotholme Women's and Family Shelter remained housed about 18 months later. The Prevention of Homelessness Among Families research project looked at a pilot project at the shelter that was focused on preventing the use [...]

Training Programme: Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches 2018 Dates: Monday 18th June to Friday 22nd June Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

This annual IHRN training programme aims at enhancing the skills of justice sector personnel, consultants, managers etc., in applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Justice Sector Reform. The programme is designed for people working in the justice sector (with state or non-state institutions) or undertaking Rule of law/Governance assignments (e.g. UN, EC Framework Contract Lot 7 - Governance and Home Affairs) as well as justice sector personnel wishing to adapt their expertise for international consultancy work.

Knowledge and skills enhanced include:

• The legal principles, policies & practice underpinning human rights based approaches to justice sector reform

• The inter-linkages between justice sector roles (law enforcement, judiciary, corrections/rehabilitation, etc.)

• The relationship between the justice sector and related terms; 'security sector', 'rule of law', 'good governance'

• Human Rights Based needs assessment, programme design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation

• Programming tools & checklists (including benchmarks & indicators of human rights change)

• Case studies from national contexts as well as international field missions (including conflict and post-conflict)

• Teamwork, advocacy, strategic partnerships and international work opportunities in the sector

 

 

Date and time: 16.00 – 17.30 GMT - on Tuesday 27th February 2018

UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science; University College London

With growing urban populations we are seeing unprecedented demand for resilient infrastructure. Rapid ICT developments are moving us towards smart cities and infrastructure, utilising advances in areas such as pervasive sensing, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. With the gap between physical and digital assets narrowing, concerns about how to secure, protect and increase the resilience of new and existing infrastructure are mounting. The UK Government has an unprecedented forward demand of around £500 billion for new and improved infrastructure; yet, in almost all discussions of resilient infrastructure or smart cities, the issue of security and crime is invariably absent, or relegated to the status of afterthought. This risks both infrastructure and cities not being resilient to disruption or attack and missed opportunities to make them safer, particularly salient at a time that law enforcement budgets are shrinking.

UCL is thus bidding to establish a Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Transformation for Secure and Resilient Infrastructure. This CDT will create a generation of leaders, uniquely qualified in security and digital transformation, who will address the challenges of delivering resilient infrastructure in ways that both increase productivity and sustainability whilst also making cities safer. We are seeking partners from industry and the public sector who can provide a strong market context and focus for the research and training of each PhD student. Such stakeholders will benefit by accessing and shaping some of the brightest minds in the country working on areas of potential interest to their own agenda.

 

The Journal of Gender-Based Violence (JGBV), is the first international journal based in Europe to show case the work of scholars across disciplinary and topic boundaries, and from a range of methodologies.

The journal acknowledges both the breadth of gender-based violence (GBV) and its links to gendered inequalities. It aims to continue to document the voices and experiences of victims and survivors of GBV, to publish work regarding those who perpetrate GBV and of the varied and complex social structures, inequalities and gender norms through which GBV is produced and sustained. The journal recognises the intersection of gender with other identities and power relations, such as ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, faith, disability and economic status.

JGBV publishes high quality papers that contribute to understanding of GBV, policy, and/or activism, on sexual violence, domestic abuse, ‘honour’-based violence, prostitution, trafficking and/or reproductive violence and abuse in a wide range of intimate, familial, community and societal contexts.

The editors invite interest from scholars working across the social sciences and related fields including social policy, sociology, politics, criminology, law, social psychology, development and economics, as well as disciplines allied to medicine, health and wellbeing.

The Journal of Gender-Based Violence is published by Policy Press on behalf of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol.

What people are saying about the Journal of Gender-Based Violence

“The Journal of Gender-Based Violence is a welcome addition to feminist publication venues for research and commentary in this field. With an outstanding editorial team, the journal will provide a major service to academics, practitioners and policy makers through the dissemination of significant studies, as well as essays on policy and practice links and book reflections.” - Claire M. Renzetti, Editor, Violence Against Women: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal, and Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of Kentucky

"The Journal of Gender-Based Violence addresses a critical challenge for our world, that is ending gender-based violence and promoting violence-free relationships and communities.... This journal and its editor, Marianne Hester, bring an important perspective that deserves greater visibility." - Jeffrey L Edleson, PhD, School of Social Welfare, Berkeley, California

Grab a cocktail after work or head to the cannabis lounge? Unlike Colorado or Washington, California’s legalization allows local jurisdictions to license on-premises cannabis consumption. While this is nothing new to the Bay Area, an increasing number of Californians will confront the ‘bar versus lounge’ decision. How will legalization affect alcohol consumption? Will drinking go down because people substitute cannabis for alcohol, or will [...]

The ASC Division on Women and Crime is now accepting applications for the Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship.

It is designed to recognize an exceptional graduate student in the field of gender and crime. The scholarship is funded by the royalties from Feminist Criminology, an innovative journal that is dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology.

Published quarterly by SAGE Publications as the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime (DWC) of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime.

The DWC will award one graduate student annually a one-­time scholarship in the amount of US$5,000 to support a project involving original research.

The student must be the leader or principal investigator on the project.

Applications are due to the division by April 1, 2018. Winners will be notified by May 2018.

Will Be Held In VIENNA, AUSTRIA At The UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF DRUGS AND CRIME (UNODC) COMPLEX On August 19th – 24th, 2018.

THEME: INTERNATIONAL POLICE COOPERATION

1. Cyber crime

2. Policing Flow (e.g. Immigration, Wild Life);

3. Drugs, Police & Harm Minimization (Police & Health Sciences);

4. Intelligence Sharing; Best Practices in Human/Drug Trafficking;

5. Police Performance Management Strategies;

6. Prevention & Control of Corruption (Organized crime & corruption of business; corruption of government officials) 7. Police Reform

8. Big Data

The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) brings police researchers and practitioners together to facilitate cross-cultural, international and interdisciplinary exchanges for the enrichment of the policing profession. It encourages discussions and writing on challenging topics of contemporary importance through an array of initiatives including conferences and publications.

"Whats the point of Stop & Search?"

by Prof Ben Bradford, director of the UCL Institute for Global City Policing (funded and managed in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service, and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC))

Wednesday 28th February 2018, from 6-8pm Venue: ROOM B404 (LECTURE THEATRE 2), BASEMENT, CRUCIFORM BUILDING, GOWER STREET, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON, WC1E 6BT

This talk is part of the joint Open Evening for the MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism, the MSc in Crime Science, the MSc in Crime and Forensic Science and the MSc in Policing.

"In August 2010, the director of the Danish Probation Service, Kriminalforsorgen, attended a presentation of a report about Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS) by Dr. James Bonta. This is where evidence based community supervision caught his interest for the first time. A report on the work of probation officers in Denmark showed that they were missing a uniform evidence based assessment procedure or supervision method for working with the most difficult clients. It was not possible to implement the STICS method at that time, therefore the Danish Probation Service decided to develop their own tool for offender supervision, Motivational Interventions in Probation Services (MOSAIK). Together with Marianne Fuglestved, from the Directorate of Prison and Probation Service Denmark, we look back at how MOSAIK was developed and implemented."

CSG Justice Center

© 2018 February 1, 2018

This report from John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Research and Evaluation Center reviews a number of prominent frameworks that are available to help youth justice systems rely on positive outcomes, rather than recidivism rates, to measure their effectiveness. These include the Developmental Assets model, the 5Cs model, the Youth Program Quality Assessment model, the Positive Youth Justice model, and the Youth Thrive framework. Each model or framework aligns with the key principles of positive youth development as well as the large body of research on desistance from crime, which is also presented in the report.

Date and time: 16.00 – 17.30 GMT - on Tuesday 27th February 2018

Background

"With growing urban populations we are seeing unprecedented demand for resilient infrastructure. Rapid ICT developments are moving us towards smart cities and infrastructure, utilising advances in areas such as pervasive sensing, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. With the gap between physical and digital assets narrowing, concerns about how to secure, protect and increase the resilience of new and existing infrastructure are mounting. The UK Government has an unprecedented forward demand of around £500 billion for new and improved infrastructure; yet, in almost all discussions of resilient infrastructure or smart cities, the issue of security and crime is invariably absent, or relegated to the status of afterthought. This risks both infrastructure and cities not being resilient to disruption or attack and missed opportunities to make them safer, particularly salient at a time that law enforcement budgets are shrinking.

UCL is thus bidding to establish a Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Transformation for Secure and Resilient Infrastructure. This CDT will create a generation of leaders, uniquely qualified in security and digital transformation, who will address the challenges of delivering resilient infrastructure in ways that both increase productivity and sustainability whilst also making cities safer. We are seeking partners from industry and the public sector who can provide a strong market context and focus for the research and training of each PhD student. Such stakeholders will benefit by accessing and shaping some of the brightest minds in the country working on areas of potential interest to their own agenda.

How you can get involved in this webinar

We will invite you to help address the following three points:

· Which areas of technology are most likely to shape the digital transformation (i.e. the application of digital technologies to all aspects of human life) currently taking place in the Built Environment?

· How can we best develop and communicate the value for money proposition of this CDT and how can we deliver it, e.g. types of engagement, location of work, methods of supervision, balance between industry and academia?

· Within the context of digital transformation, what competences are required to develop a truly Digital Built Environment?"

The next Stockholm Criminology Symposium takes place June 12–14, 2018. We hope to see you then. The main theme will be Models for successful policing

The training is primarily designed for team leaders, senior and junior political advisors and other support personnel engaged in various peace efforts and with prior professional experience in the field of peace and security. The training will be held in Uppsala on 4-14 June 2018