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Ministry of Justice UK: "From today many more criminals will be made to pay towards supporting victims of crime. Currently offenders only contribute around one sixth of the funding that supports victims’ services. Hard-working taxpayers provide the rest. 

http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/features/new-rules-make-offenders-pay 

The European Society of Criminology awards annually two scholarly awards for career contributions by a European criminologist and for an outstanding article by a younger European criminologist.

Roger Hood: Research Associate, formerly Professor of Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College

His recent research has had three main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; and parole. The fourth edition of his book The Death Penalty: a Worldwide Perspective (with Carolyn Hoyle) was published by Oxford University Press in April 2008.

Bilbao acceptance speech:

The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center recently released this report. "It is written for policymakers, system administrators, and front-line service providers committed to improving outcomes for men and women with behavioral health disorders that cycle through the criminal justice system. The framework introduced in the report can be used at the corrections and behavioral health systems level to prioritize scarce resources based on objective assessments of individuals’ risk of committing a future crime and their treatment and support needs.

The report outlines the principles and practices of the corrections and behavioral health systems and a structure for state and local agencies to begin building truly collaborative responses. It dispels myths about the link between mental illness and violence, underscores that recovery and rehabilitation are possible, and calls for the reallocation of resources where they will be most efficient and effective."

download: http://consensusproject.org/documents/0000/1566/9.27.12_BH_Corrections_4-pager.pdf

Federal Grant Supports Anti-Violence Effort in Brooklyn

The Brownsville project uses evidence-based strategies to reduce recidivism among parolees

The Brownsville Anti-Violence Project—a multi-faceted, public-private partnership organized by the Center for Court Innovation—is one of 15 programs across the U.S. to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program." 

http://www.gregberman.org/2012/09/fighting-gun-crime.html

http://www.courtinnovation.org/research/department-justice-supports-brooklyn-anti-violence-project?url=research%2f2993%2Farticle&mode=2993&type=article

28 September 2012 - UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov presented a new UNODC study entitled Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment to country representatives from the region. 

The study examines the impact of major trafficking flows of cocaine; women and children coerced into the sex trade; migrants smuggled for labour; and firearms.

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2012/September/unodc-chief-presents-transnational-organized-crime-study-for-central-america-and-the-caribbean-to-member-states.html?ref=fs1

Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-12, 2013  

The other topic: Contemporary Criminology. Studies and practice from contemporary criminology and criminal policy.

All abstracts must be submitted by March 1, 2013. You will find guidelines for submissions at: www.criminologysymposium.com

The Academic Council on United Nations System (ACUNS) invite to the  Side Events on Human Trafficking, Lessons Learnt from Victims, Research on Human Trafficking Trends & Forced Labor, Firearms Control and the Role of NGOs in Other UN Treaty Bodies at the 

6^thSession, 15-19 October 2012, Vienna International Center (VIC)

What are the best ways to prevent disruptive, at-risk children from becoming tomorrow’s offenders? Even modest childhood interventions can prevent some disruptive kids from growing into adult criminals. These programs work – but how do they work? 

http://www.preventionaction.org/research/disrupting-pathways-disruptive-children/5884

October 11th, 2012 by Irvin Waller and Justin Piche

 "Statistics Canada released its report today on the use of prisons in Canada.  Federal and provincial-territorial governments are facing growing crises as their prisons swell to record numbers.  The solutions are not paying for more prisoners and prison spaces, but a Canadian action plan that prevents victimization, treats incarceration as a scarce resource and uses our taxes effectively".

http://www.gazette.uottawa.ca/2012/10/prevention-not-more-jails-needed-to-solve-prison-crowding-in-canada/

Technical and background paper series no.52

Tracy Cussen and Mathew Lyneham
ISBN 978 1 922009 15 9 ISSN 1836-2052
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, October 2012 

"This Technical and Background Paper reports on an AIC review of the Australian Capital Territory’s Family Violence Intervention Program (FVIP). The FVIP provides an interagency response to family violence matters that have come to the attention of police and then proceeded to prosecution. The scope of the review was to analyse the program’s activities and outcomes using 2007–08 data provided by participating agencies, supported by in-depth interviews with key stakeholders including victims whose matters had been finalised in court. After the completion of this report, additional data from 2008–09 and 2009–10 was made available by some FVIP participating agencies. Although not within the scope of this evaluation, these data pointed to some preliminary improvements in the FVIP."

http://www.aic.gov.au/en/publications/current%20series/tbp/41-60/tbp052.aspx

"For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become." James Baldwin DC Lawyers for Youth (DCLY) has launched a capital-wide campaign to reach out to kids, families, policymakers

http://juvenilejusticeblog.web.unc.edu/2012/10/19/infographic-on-the-criminalization-of-poor-d-c-youth/

Second Edition 2012: In the second edition of the 'Juvenile Justice without Borders' International Award, the IJJO is honoured to give the Award to the following persons and institutions in recognition of their steady commitment and involvement in promoting a better situation and treatment of children and youth in conflict with the law"

http://www.oijj.org/index.php?alias=pag110402

....a European Union Erasmus Mundus funded doctoral training programme run collaboratively between the University of Kent, the University of Hamburg, Utrecht University and ELTE (Budapest). Recognised by the EU Education Audiovisual Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) as a programme of 'outstanding quality', the DCGC provides the opportunity to undertake excellent research, structured training and international mobility.  For further information about this exciting opportunity see the website  http://www.dcgc.eu/

"ICPC is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of its International Report in English, French and Spanish and, for the first time, an Executive Summary in 8 languages is available.

Author(s) : International Centre for the Prevention of Crime

The ICPC’s 2012 International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety presents key subjects on the international agenda regarding crime and violence, highlighting forms in which prevention can address these issues to generate more resilient and cohesive communities around the world."

read more: http://www.crime-prevention-intl.org/en/publications/report/report/article/translate-to-english-rapport-international-2012-sur-la-prevention-de-la-criminalite-et-la-secu.html

Prevention Action, 09 October 2012 l Research

Routledge Law; Edited by Ben Golder

Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in  English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for law.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415673532/

"The Human Security Report 2012 challenges a number of widely held assumptions about the nature of sexual violence during war and the effect of conflict on education systems. Both analyses are part of the  Human Security Report Project’s ongoing investigation of the human costs of war."

http://www.hsrgroup.org/human-security-reports/2012/overview.aspx 

Technical and background paper series no.53

Zhivan Alach and Charl Crous
ISBN 978 1 922009 19 7 ISSN 1836-2052
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, October 2012 

http://www.aic.gov.au/en/publications/current%20series/tbp/41-60/tbp053.aspx

"Digest of accumulated knowledge on transnational crime focuses on the criminal organizations and highlights the need to deprive them of their illegal profits"

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2012/October/unodcs-new-crime-fighting-tool-turns-lessons-of-the-past-into-policies-for-the-future.html

Digest of accumulated knowledge on transnational crime focuses on the criminal organizations and highlights the need to deprive them of their illegal profits

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2012/October/unodcs-new-crime-fighting-tool-turns-lessons-of-the-past-into-policies-for-the-future.html

Bureau of Justice Statistics,

Michael Planty, Ph.D., Jennifer L. Truman, Ph.D.

October 17, 2012    NCJ 239437  

Presents 2011 estimates of rates and levels of criminal victimization in the U.S. This bulletin includes violent victimization (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property victimization (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft).
Part of the Criminal Victimization Series

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4494
 

http://www.criminologysymposium.com/symposium/event-information/2012.html 

"The eighth consecutive Stockholm Criminology Symposium will be held June 10-12, 2013. Following the research interest of the prize winner David Farrington, the main theme will be Saved from a Life of Crime. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention. As usual, there is also a general theme on Contemporary Criminology. This theme covers a broad range of areas of criminology and crime policy and provides an updated overview of the current state of knowledge." Complete call for papers and guidelines on how to submit an abstract on  the website: http://www.criminologysymposium.com/symposium/participants/call-for-papers.html

The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC), a European Union Erasmus Mundus funded doctoral training programme run collaboratively between the University of Kent, the University of Hamburg, Utrecht University and ELTE (Budapest). Recognised by the EU Education Audiovisual Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) as a programme of 'outstanding quality', the DCGC provides the opportunity to undertake excellent research, structured training and international mobility.Funded by the European Union as an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate and recognised as delivering training of outstanding quality, the DCGC brings together the expertise of four leading universities:

• The University of Kent, UK
• Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary
• The University of Hamburg, Germany
•  Utrecht University, Netherlands.

http://www.dcgc.eu/