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Law enforcement agencies meet to discuss changing face of organised crime
AIC: Access the transcript and link to the ABC’s The World Today program with AIC Deputy Director Rick Brown and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director, Dan Ragsdale, on the challenges of organised crime.
UNODC NEWS - August online
Issue 51 | August 02, 2013
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/enewsunodc/2013/August/unodc-enws---02-augut-2013.html
The EU Drugs Strategy 2013-2020:
Dana Spinant: Head of Unit, Anti-Drugs Policy
DG Justice, European Commission
The Silken Berlaymont Hotel, Brussels
Wednesday 18th September 2013
http://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/DI18-PPE2
Rule of Law E-consultation, Phase 1: The Rule of Law and Sustainable Human Development – What are the Linkages?
UNDP has launched a virtual e-consultation – open from 26 July 2013 until 31 August 2013 – on the World We Want website. The purpose of the e-consultation is to provide a platform for discussion in preparation for the Global Dialogue on the Rule of Law and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The Global Dialogue event will take place in September 2013 and is intended to contribute to the global conversation on developing the post-2015 framework.
AIC publication - Mobile device forensics: A snapshot
Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 460
Christopher Tassone, Ben Martini, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Jill Slay
ISSN 1836-2206
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, August 2013
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/441-460/tandi460.html
What Lessons Can Business Teach Criminal Justice? Invest in Research
Huffington Post, 1 July 2013
In the Huffington Post, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox discuss how criminal justice can learn from business.
The 2013 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour - Call for Submissions
The Call for Submissions to the 2013 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award is now open.
The award was launched by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in 1989. It is currently the most prestigious human settlements award in the world. Its aim is to acknowledge initiatives which have made outstanding contributions in various fields such as shelter provision, highlighting the plight of the homeless, leadership in post conflict reconstruction and developing and improving human settlements and the quality of urban life. The deadline for submitting entries to the 2013 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour is 16 September 2013.
Register Now for Post-Release and Engagement Webinar
Reentry Planning to Support Post-Release Engagement and
Retention in Community Treatment
Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center
The webinar will discuss how jurisdictions can link multiple systems to increase participation and retention in community treatment. Specifically, participants will learn:
- to identify the positive impact of multidisciplinary staffing on the reentry planning process;
- methods for timing reentry with the completion of treatment;
- methods to address involving family in reentry process.
Date: Thursday, August 22, 2013
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET
To register for this webinar, click here.
Update on the National Community Safety Conference
The conference theme is ‘Challenges and Opportunities – how does Community Safety prepare for the future?’
NCSN conferences have been running successfully since 1996 bringing together community safety policy and practice and acting as a forum for discussion, debate and networking.
Confirmed speakers this year include:
- Mr Erich Marks, EFUS vice president, from the lower Saxony crime council in Germany, on the European Community Safety/Urban Safety and Civic Society manifesto
- Zoë Billingham, HM Inspector of Constabulary
- Tim Madgwick, Deputy Chief Constable, N. Yorks Police, ACPO
- Martin Surl, PCC for Gloucestershire
- Jacqui Doig, Scottish Community Safety Network
- Simon Gordon, Facewatch
- Emma Lowther, Internet Watch Foundation
- Rural Service Network
- London Fire & Rescue Service TBC
NCSN Conference takes place at Middlesex University, starting at 9.30 am on September 17th and ending at 4.30 p.m. on the18th
http://www.community-safety.net/events
Prevention Hub
A focal point for sharing research, policy and best practice - the Prevention Hub builds networks and supports the global drug prevention community.
Mentor International is the centre of knowledge and information about effective policy and practice, and the access point and disseminator of this learning. Mentor provides a communication link for others working in prevention policy and practice. The Prevention Hub is a central resource providing information on work in the field, effective prevention practice, prevention research, resources, news and events.
WHO is developing a report called “Health for the world’s adolescents”.
The report will look at the health and development of adolescents, present summaries of what is known about adolescent health – including what promotes or undermines their health – and how communities and countries are meeting adolescents’ needs for health and development.
This website is a platform for adolescents and health workers to get involved and contribute to the preparation of the report.
http://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/topics/adolescence/adolescent_health2014/en/
CSG Justice Center Launches New Website
The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center has launched its new website at csgjusticecenter.org. The overhauled site embodies the Justice Center’s efforts to provide data-driven, consensus-based strategies to increase public safety and strengthen communities.
The STREAM Project: Invitation to participate with good practice from your country
CEP: STREAM is a project of considerable importance to the European probation community and the research team need the support of this community to enable it to achieve its potential. STREAM (Strategic Targeting of Recidivism through Evaluation And Monitoring) is a major European research project, funded by the EU and involving criminal justice agencies, Ministries and universities in several European countries. It is led by the National Offender Management Service in England and Wales. The broad aim of the project is to support the development of effective practice across Europe in working with offenders in the community and to facilitate the sharing of evidence-based good practice.
A Restorative Justice Reader
2nd Edition
Edited by Gerry Johnstone
Willan – 2012 – 480 pages
"A Restorative Justice Reader brings together carefully chosen extracts from the most important and influential contributions to the literature of restorative justice, accompanying these with an informative commentary providing context and explanation. It includes works by both well known advocates of restorative justice and by some of the key critics of the restorative justice movement.
The new edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of the rapid expansion of the literature of restorative justice over the last decade. Classical readings are accompanied by more recent literature representing the most significant contributions to research, discussion and debate concerning restorative justice."
Igarapé Institute and NOREF launch a new report on youth violence prevention
The report assesses the state of the evidence on youth violence impact assessments in 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Youth violence is reaching epidemic levels in some parts of Latin America. It is also a top priority for the region’s policymakers, with growing investments in youth violence prevention and reduction. Yet the knowledge base on what works and what does not in terms of youth violence prevention is comparatively thin, and there is comparatively limited awareness of existing or planned impact studies.
The report is available at:
The report is available at:
Unexpected findings on child poverty and youth substance use
Submitted by Paulina Skladanowska on
This study threw up some surprising results on factors linked with youth substance abuse. Although child poverty did indeed predict smoking, less well off young people were no more likely to use marijuana, and less likely to binge drink than wealthier peers. Poverty was also linked with less self-control, leading to increased substance use, but greater self-control did not decrease the risk of binge-drinking. In fact this was associated with a slight increase in heavy drinking. Additionally, researchers found no correlation between economic problems and poor parenting. That means 'it is not necessarily poverty that affects parenting strategies, but poverty that affects children's self-control', said senior study author Bernard Fuemmeler. The study was based on a survey of 1,285 children and their caregivers.
http://preventionhub.org/prevention-update/unexpected-findings-child-poverty-and-youth-substance-use
Supporting Vocational Teachers And Trainers In E-Learning (Lifelong Learning programme, Action Leonardo Da Vinci
The course was adapted considering the needs and requests issued from a first research and analysis phase carried out in the seven partner countries involved (Croatia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Norway). The aim of the course is to support trainers and teachers in the field of Education and Vocational training in the implementation of dynamic, open and innovative methods. The course was adapted to the needs of different countries before being transferred, and it will be translated into 9 languages and tested in the seven partner countries. CESIE will be responsible for this testing phase and will coordinate this pilot phase from July 2013 to March 2014.
http://cesie.org/en/in-azione/europa/evet2edu-corso-elearning/
or visit the facebook page of the project!
EMCDDA: Best practice portal of drug-related prevention, treatment, harm reduction
The portal is a resource for professionals, policymakers and researchers in the areas of drug-related prevention, treatment, harm reduction. Its concentrates on illicit drugs and polydrug use and has a clear European focus. It is continuously updated as information and research on interventions emerges.
The Portal compiles quality standards and guidelines for the implementation of practices; provides details on a wide range of evaluated prevention, treatment, harm reduction interventions as well as interventions within the criminal justice system and is designed to help professionals and policy-makers
....to find out what works (and what doesn't) in the areas of drug prevention, treatment, harm reduction and social reintegration
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/best-practice
Human Trafficking - Research and Measurement: The 2012 update of the 3P Index is available!
Starting in 2010, the research group focuses on causes and consequences of human trafficking. An interdisciplinary project including economists, political scientists and criminologists worked together in order to increase the availability of data and gain insights into the determinants and consequences of trafficking on a global level.
Since 2011 they are located at Heidelberg University providing yearly updates of the 3P-Anti Trafficking Policy Index developed in Cho et al. (forthcoming). Increasing public awareness is one of the main goals in fighting human trafficking. On this webpage they provide information on their recent research results, the 3P-index and current trends in anti-trafficking policies.
http://www.human-trafficking-research.org/
Introduction to Criminal Justice: Lesson...
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Developing a Mental Health Court: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Council of State Governments Justice Center website
"This curriculum is an excellent tool for judges and courts interested in launching a mental health court or improving or refining their current court. It is full of valuable information, easy to use, and a resource we consult constantly. It is the practical ‘road map’ to improving the criminal justice system approach to persons with mental illness.”—Hon. Jan Jurden, Judge, Delaware Superior Court
Developing a Mental Health Court is a free multimedia curriculum with the information teams need to plan, implement, sustain, or simply learn about mental health courts based on research and best practices from the field. It is a crucial one-stop resource for judges, behavioral health treatment providers, court managers, judicial educators, probation officers, and many others.
Speaker Update: The EU Drugs Strategy 2013-2020 - 18th September 2013, Brussels
Wednesday 18th September 2013
The Silken Berlaymont Hotel, Brussels
KEY SPEAKERS FROM:
DG Justice, European Commission
The Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, UK
Trimbos Institute, The Netherlands
Europe Against Drugs (EURAD)
CORRELATION Network
http://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/DI18-PPE2.php
The 40th anniversary edition of The New Criminology is now available
For a Social Theory of Deviance, 2nd Edition
By Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young
Published 25th June 2013 by Routledge
AIC Seminar - Payment by results services in the UK criminal justice system
Kevin Wong, Deputy Director, Hallam Centre for Community Justice, Sheffield Hallam University
2 October | 11.00am-12.00pm | 74 Leichhardt Street Griffith, ACT
The geek shall inherit the earth?
Capacity and capability to commission and deliver Payment by Results services in the United Kingdom
http://www.aic.gov.au/events/seminars/2013/wong.html
Publication: International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 5
From: Marc Coester and Erich Marks (Eds.):
Contributions from the 6th Annual International Forum 2012 within the German Congress on Crime Prevention Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH 2013
http://www.gcocp.org/nano.cms/documentation/publications
Publication: Propaganda 2.0 - Psychological Effects of Right-Wing and Islamic Extremist Internet Videos
Rieger, Diana / Frischlich, Lena / Bente, Gary
In Cooperation with the Terrorism/Extremism Research Unit (FTE) of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)
2013 (154 Seiten)
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