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... and a Master's in Coordination of Urban Security Policies in Italy The Universities of Florence, Pisa and Siena are launching the second edition of the Master's in Coordination of Urban Security Policies, in conjunction with region of Tuscany. Lasting a year, this Master's links theoretical classes with a practical internship. For further information and registration.

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime: The Annual Report 2010 presents all the events, publications, evaluation missions and other activities led by the Center in 2010, as well as the evolution of its governance structure and of its members.

Will wasp spray really stave off an attacker? Can taking your keys to bed help to prevent a home invasion? Is running from an attacker with a gun your best option? The Internet is full of crime stories and tips that supposedly will help you avoid being the victim of crime.

The police are to be given new powers to 'test on arrest' for drug use, in a bid to combat use in the inner cities.

Under previous procedures, a police station had to apply to the Home Office to be able to drug test someone who had been arrested for a 'trigger offence' like burglary.

The federal government has announced $6.3 million in funding for 10 projects that aim to prevent crime among at-risk youth in Saskatchewan.

The Center for Court Innovation's new web site, http://www.courtinnovation.org/, is online and ready for visitors.

Master's in Urban Security: Eemus booklet... The project for the creation of a European Master's in Urban Security (Eemus) is now ended. Efus has published a booklet which details the Eemus teaching programme developed by the consortium's partner universities (the Universities Toulouse I Capitole in France, Maribor in Slovenia, Liège in Belgium, The Open University of Catalonia in Spain, and the Berlin Institute of Technology in Germany). The unique nature of this Master's project aimed as much at students as professionals, is that it factors in "field " internships in organisations happy to welcome interns in the member cities of the Forum.

Fri, Apr 29, 2011 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CEST
Presenter: Shrikant Bangdiwala
Professor of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Bangdiwala is professor of biostatistics at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and core faculty of the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of multi-center clinical and community-based studies, including global experience on studies of unintentional injury, child abuse and family violence. He is on the transportation injury teaching staff at the Indian Institute of Technology, and a Professor Extraordinarious at in the crime and violence programme at the University of South Africa. He's taught in the Karolinska Institutet's Safety Promotion doctoral programme and is a member of the Affiliate Support Center for Evaluation, supporting the WHO Collaborating Center on Community Safety Promotion at Karolinska. He is currently designated as a ‘Fulbright Senior Specialist’ in Global Public Health and is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, USA. He holds faculty positions in universities in Chile and South Africa and has taught over 150 courses and workshops internationally. His statistical research interests include nonparametric methods, clinical trial methodology, diagnostic testing, and graphical methods. He has over 180 publications. He is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Injury Control & Safety Promotion.

Chair: Dr David Meddings, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization

This webinar will provide another opportunity to see and hear the excellent State of the Art presentation from the London injury conference. 16h Geneva time corresponds to 22h Beijing, 1930h Delhi, and 11h Rio de Janeiro.

The 5 th Annual International Forum presents in sprecial cooperation with the federal Criminal Police Office as well as the Federal Office for Information Security: International Cyvercrime - Occurence, Developement, Prevention. The program flyer for the 5th Annual International Forum is download

A study of how social exclusion in youth continues to effect young people as they move into adulthood. Poor transitions looks at the lives of young people living in neighbourhoods beset by the worst problems of social exclusion. It follows up on participants in two earlier studies of socially disadvantaged 15- to 24-year-olds (see The impact of social exclusion on young people moving into adulthood), as they reach their mid- to late-twenties. The report: * Charts the longer-term effects of growing up with social exclusion; * Aids understanding of the key influences on social exclusion for this group; * Examines young adults' experiences of education, training and employment, family life, and crime and drug use; * Draws out the implications for policy and practice. The findings provide a detailed picture of the processes of poor transitions and throw into question common approaches to tackling to understanding and tackling social exclusion.

The 5th Annual International Forum with the issue International Cybercrime - Occurrence, Development, Prevention"  will take place 30. and 31. May 2011 in Oldenburg / Germany.  

Marc Coester and Erich Marks have published the third book in the series "International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 3 - Contributions from the 3rd Annual International Forum 2009". More information at Amazon.

A preliminary program of the Stockholm Criminology Symposium is now available on the website