ISS 4th international conference: call for papers
Call for papers
The call for abstracts and proposals for
panel discussions for the 4th international conference: National and international perspectives on crime reduction and criminal
justice opens on 20 February
2013 and closes on 5 May 2013.The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rosebank, north-west of Johannesburg, South Africa on 21 and 22 August 2013.
Decisions about the acceptance of abstracts
will be communicated to authors by 30 May 2013.
Conference papers (approximately 3000 words) must be submitted by 9 August 2013.
We welcome abstracts for papers on the
following themes:
- Theme
1: Towards an understanding of crime and its causes
Papers should reflect current research on crime
trends; report research findings on particular types or crime, or reflect
research involving offenders.
- Theme 2: Tackling
corruption and promoting the rule of law
Papers
should reflect on current theories, debates, concerns and challenges that
various countries and regions face in building, consolidating and protecting an
adherence to the principles of the rule of law.
- Theme
3: Supporting the victims and perpetrators of crime
Papers reflecting new theoretical approaches, research
findings, or promising initiatives that provide support to victims or offenders
are encouraged; papers could also critique existing victim and offender support
initiatives.
- Theme
4: Assessing criminal justice policy and practice
Papers should reflect research and theory on inter alia police oversight; corruption
in the criminal justice sector; new innovative policies and practices in
criminal justice; how the criminal justice is or should be dealing with
particular types of crimes (e.g sexual
offending; robberies; fraud and corruption; and commercial crimes etc).
- Theme
5: Promising practices in crime and violence prevention
Papers should focus on situational and social crime
prevention initiatives that present evidence of promising practices and
innovations; papers could also focus on new theories of crime prevention.
We also welcome proposals for panel discussions.
If you would like to convene a panel please contact Hamadziripi Tamukamoyo ([email protected]) with
your ideas before 5 May 2013.
To submit your ABSTRACT please complete the abstract submission form comprehensively and email it to ([email protected])
Click here to download the abstract submission form
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