European Society of Criminology
The Society has established eighteen working groups:
Thematic working group on juvenile justice
The first meeting of this working
group took place at the Conference of the European
Society of Criminology in Helsinki in August, 2003.
is working group took place at the
Conference of the European Society of Criminology
in Helsinki in August, 2003.
The reports produced by the members of this group
led to the publication in 2006 of an International
Handbook of Juvenile Justice edited by Josine Junger-Tas
and Scott H. Decker (published by Springer). You will
find below the preface of the book as well as the
first two pages of each chapter.
The group invites national Juvenile
justice experts to present papers on the situation
in their own countries, answering if possible the
following four essential questions:
- What are the main policies in your country
in terms of the prevention of crime, the treatment
of young offenders, and the respect of children’s
and young people’s procedural and individual rights?
- Have there been in the last 15–20 years any
specific trends in these policies?
- What is known about the practical outcomes
of the present policies, both concerning the effective
reduction of delinquency and the respect of children’s
rights?
- Does your country have policies as well as
evidence based programmes to make prevention
and interventions more effective and individual
rights better respected?
Juvenile justice experts willing to make a contribution
to the working group, please contact .
International Handbook of Juvenile Justice (Josine
Junger-Tas and Scott H. Decker, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer,
2006)
If you want more information on this book, please
visit:
http://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?
SGWID=5-40109-22-107951447-0
ESC members with research interests in quantitative
criminology are invited to join the newly formed European
Quantitative Criminology (EQC) working group.
Apart from defining a pool of European criminologists
with quantitative orientation and promoting communication
among them, the EQC working group's shape and objectives
are open for discussion. Possible functions include
organizing quantitative criminology or research methods
panel sessions at ESC conferences or holding one-day
EQC workshops, establishing cross-national quantitative
criminology research ties to aid in competing for
European Commission funds, offering a student award
for the best quantitative paper submitted to the ESC
meetings, and drafting guidelines for quantitative
research methods courses, etc.
If you would like to join, please send your name,
position, affiliation, and (optional) quantitative
research specialization/expertise to andromachi.tseloni@ntu.ac.uk.
Your views and suggestions for short and longer-term
functions of the EQC group are greatly welcome. Please
include the group's abbreviation, 'EQC', in the subject
field of your e-mail message.
ESC European University Curriculum Working Group
(Chair: Gorazd
Meško)
The purpose of the working group is to foster high
quality European university programmes in criminology
as well as innovative teaching in this area.
The basic idea is to find a consensus on the substance
and processes of teaching (census, standards) while
"the challenges" concentrate on the results
of teaching (communication with policy and public).
Both aspects seem very important. However I would
suggest formulating something like goals of the working
group to initiate a discourse and to seek consensus/understanding
each other on issues of substance of teaching (place
for critical criminology, analysis of on-going processes
in politics and public), teaching process (innovation,
transfer of knowledge, mobility), and the results
of teaching (public and professional awareness, influence
over decision making processes). In some countries,
a very important issue is raising of understanding
of public and private sectors for which criminological
knowledge is important and useful, it is also important
to start a discussion on labour market for criminologists.
Due to a greater transferability of knowledge, mobility
and exchange of academicians in the field of criminology
plans of the working group for the period 2006-2009
are learning about programmes in criminology, criminal
justice, crime prevention and community safety, victimology,
etc.; obtaining research grants for creation of a
European Higher Education Directory consisting under
and post-graduate programmes in the mentioned areas,
institutions and professors (teachers) of criminology.
Everyone who is willing to participate in developing
the quality of teaching and contributing to the development
of standards of criminological programmes in Europe
is very welcome.
Members:
Stephen Case
Gordon Hughes
Adam Edwards
Anna Margaryan
Erich Marks
Algimantas Cepas
Aleksandras Dobryninas
Chris Eskridge
Gorazd Meško
New members welcome!
Do not hesitate to contact me at gorazd.mesko@fvv.uni-mb.si
Crime, Science and Politics Working Group (formerly
EUGPSRN) (Chair: Sirpa
Virta)
Origins of the Working Group
At its meeting during the ninth conference of the
European Society of Criminology in Ljubljana, the
European Governance of Public Safety Research Network
(EUGPSRN) agreed to reconstitute itself as the 'Crime,
Science and Politics' Working Group. This decision
reflects the evolving interests of working group members
from a specific concern with the kinds of politics
of control generated by partnerships of state, market
and civil society actors ('governance') to a broader
set of interests in interactions between politics
and crime control and political analysis and criminological
research. The focus on crime, science and politics
reflects current controversies around these interactions,
such as: the tensions between scientific inquiry and
popular-democratic representation in evidence-based
policy-making; the call for social scientists to become
'public intellectuals' with a duty to intervene in
and shape public controversies around crime and control;
disputes over the appropriate methodological frameworks
for evaluating 'what works' in crime control; and
disputes over the possibility and desirability of
demarcating science and politics in these controversies.
Aim and Objectives of the Working Group on Crime,
Science and Politics
Given these origins, the aim of the working group is:
"To facilitate research into the relationship
between scientific expertise and political action
in the formulation, implementation and evaluation
of public policy responses to crime and deviance".
Specific objectives in support of this aim are:
- To consider the relationship between scientific
inquiry and popular-democratic representation in
policy responses to crime and deviance;
- To examine the role of political analysis in criminological
research;
- To consider the possibility and desirability of
demarcating political analysis from scientific inquiry
in criminological research;
- To question the politics and ethics of the research
relationship between criminologists and those who
commission and use criminological research;
- To consider the role of criminologists in public
policy-making;
- To question the epistemological status of criminological
knowledge relative to other narratives about crime
and control.
Forthcoming Activities
The working group will convene panels of papers relating
to the above aim and objectives at annual meetings
of the ESC. The working group provides opportunities
for researchers interested in science-politics interactions
in criminology, crime and control to exchange ideas
for collaborative writing and research and further
stimulate comparative understanding in European criminology.
Membership of the Network
The
constitution of the working group is relatively informal
and participation in its activities is open to all
members of the ESC who share a research interest in
its aim and objectives. Offers of papers and suggestions
for themed panels to be convened by the working group
at the annual meetings of the ESC are welcome. Please
contact the chair, Sirpa Virta, at sirpa.virta@uta.fi,
for further details of the working group's activities.
European Society of Criminology
Postgraduate and Early Stage Researchers Working Group
(EPER) (Chair Jaime
Waters) - (vice-Chair: Michael
Vishnevetsky)
Origins and Progress to Date
The initial meeting of the European Postgraduate
Researchers Group took place at the European Society
of Criminology (ESC) Conference in Tubingen. The ESC,
the Centre for Criminological Research, University
of Sheffield, and the Scottish Centre for Crime and
Justice Research, University of Glasgow support the
Working Group. The Working Group is primarily aimed
at doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the early
stages of their career (up to 7 years research experience).
The Group provides the opportunity for members to
present their research, and provides information on
publishing work, pursuing academic/research careers,
applying for research funding and working collaboratively.
It is an interdisciplinary group, with members from
various departments from across Europe who are involved
in criminological research, for example law and sociological
studies.
The second annual meeting of the EPER Working Group
took place in Bologna, 2007, and the third took place
in September 2008 at the European Society of Criminology
conference at the University of Edinburgh, held at
Murrayfield Stadium. At the meeting, the co-ordinating
committee for the group was finalised (see below).
The fourth annual EPER meeting took place in Slovenia
in 2009. For this meeting, three fellowships were
available for members based in Eastern European jurisdictions
to come to the meeting and present papers on their
research.
Aim
The aim of the Working Group is to provide a forum
to discuss, develop and collaborate on new and innovative
criminal justice research with other early stage researchers
and lead/senior academics on a European level.
Objectives
- Promote the dissemination of information on the
research projects undertaken and the methodologies
employed - by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers
across Europe who are in the early stages of their
careers.
- Establish a communication network between members
(e-mail distribution list, dedicated webpage, a
regular newsletter)
- Organize sessions at the annual ESC meetings
which provide for
° 1) the opportunity for early stage and
postgraduate researchers to present their work.
° 2) benefiting from the experience of Senior
Academics through sessions on 'Getting Published'
or 'Putting Together Research Proposals'.
- To consider further methods of providing tips,
advice, support and dissemination of current projects
for example through the web-site.
- Gathering support and promoting pan-European collaborations.
The website:
The website is currently being updated although
you can still access some details at www.sccjr.ac.uk/projects/European-Postgraduate-and-Early-Stage-Researchers-Working-Group/8
EPER Online Criminal Justice Database:
The working group committee was keen to initiate
some form of working project that would be of use
to our members. The Group decided to establish an
online database of information about the criminal
justice systems of each country represented in the
working group - the Criminology / CJS Fact Sheet project.
Members of the group are creating a brief overview
and critique of criminal justice procedures in their
own jurisdictions, including any current issues. A
pro-forma has been created to help members in this
task and to aid consistency across jurisdictions.
The plan is that this will eventually build into a
significant online source of information for all those
interested in criminal justice research.
5th Annual Meeting at the 2010 ESC Conference
in Belgium
The fifth annual meeting of the working group will
in September 2010 in Liege. As usual the meeting will
take place alongside the annual ESC conference. However,
this year the meeting will be held during the conference
itself and not on the registration day. At the meeting
we will be continuing our work on the online criminal
justice database and the website, as well as providing
an opportunity for members to present their research.
This is an open meeting and all ESC members are welcome
to attend. If you would like more information about
the meeting or would like to register your interest
in attending, please email Jaime Waters (J.Waters@shu.ac.uk).
The Working Group is currently coordinated by
the EPER Working Group Organising Committee
Jaime Waters Chair
(j.waters@sheffield.ac.uk)
Michael Vishnevsky Vice-Chair / Recruitment (East
Europe) (vishmish1@gmail.com)
Matthew Hall Communications/Newsletter (m.p.hall@sheffield.ac.uk)
Ryan Davenport Network Officer (r.davenport@sheffield.ac.uk)
Aiden Sidebottom Peer Review/Contacting Editors
(uctqasi@ucl.ac.uk)
Tanja Link Peer Review/Contacting Editors (tlink2@email.ukj.edu)
Matthew Bacon PhD Liaison
(lwp07mjb@sheffield.ac.uk)
Joanna Shapland Senior Academic Rep (Associate
Member)
(j.m.shapland@sheffield.ac.uk)
Michele Burman Senior Academic Rep (Associate Member)
(m.burman@lbss.gla.ac.uk)
Jenny Johnstone Senior Academic Rep (Associate
Member) (j.k.johnstone@ncl.ac.uk)
Membership
Members
Members
are doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the
early stages of their career (up to 7 years research
experience).
Associate Members
Associate members will be Senior Academics who have
experience of leading research projects and who would
like to offer their support to the Group. Professor
Joanna Shapland, Professor Michele Burman, and Jenny
Johnstone are currently Associate Members of the Group.
Joining the group
All ESC-members who would like to be part of this
group, either as Members or Associate Members are
invited to join. Please contact either Lisa Burns
at the The Centre for Criminological Research, University
of Sheffield, Crookesmoor Building, Conduit Road,
Sheffield, S10 1FL UK. E-mail: l.k.burns@sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 6859 Jaime Waters, E-mail:
j.waters@shu.ac.uk
Please
feel free to contact any of us with questions or ideas
for taking the group forward.
European Development and Life-course Criminology
(EDLC) (Chair: Arjan
Blokland & Paul
Nieuwbeerta)
Origins
The development of antisocial behaviour within individuals'
lives is the focal point of Developmental and Life-course
Criminology (DLC), an exciting and growing research
area in criminology. Much of the knowledge base on
the longitudinal patterning of delinquency and crime
over the life span has emerged from using data from
the United States, Great Britain and more recently
Australia. Yet, developmental patterns result from
the complex interplay between individual and contextual
factors, including societal and legal institutions.
Since these institutions differ cross-nationally,
developmental patterns may do so accordingly. DLC-research
from other - European - countries is thus inexplicable
to gain detailed knowledge on criminal careers and
test developmental criminological theories. Fortunately,
longitudinal projects on the development of antisocial
behaviour are underway in various European countries
and the number of European researchers on DLC-topics
is substantial and growing. In order to stimulate
DLC-research in Europe and to promote contact between
the various European research groups working on DLC-issues,
we have established the European Developmental
and Life-course Criminology working group. We
would like to invite ESC members involved in longitudinal
studies on the development of delinquency and crime
to combine their expertise and join the working group.
Aim
To facilitate research on developmental and life course
criminology and maximize international dissemination
of DLC-research results.
Objectives
A number of specific objectives in support of this aim
have been established:
promote communication between European DLC-researchers
organize thematic DLC-sessions at the annual ESC
meetings
establish cross-national research ties and promote
international collaboration on DLC-topics
offer a 'best European paper' award for outstanding
research in the DLC-field
Membership
The working group is chaired by and its activities
coordinated by Arjan Blokland and Paul Nieuwbeerta.
All ESC-members involved in longitudinal research
projects are invited to join. If you would like to
join, please send your name, position, affiliation,
and a description of the research project you are
working on to edlc.esc@nscr.nl .
Contact address
Dr. mr. A.A.J. (Arjan) Blokland / Prof. Dr. P. (Paul)
Nieuwbeerta
NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime
and Law Enforcement)
P.O.Box 792 - 2300 AT Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)71 - 527 8527 (secr.)
Fax: +31 (0)71 - 527 8537
Email: edlc.esc@nscr.nl
European Homicide Research (EHR) (Chair: Marieke
Liem )
Origins
Homicide is one of the most dramatic and tragic offences.
It has very high priority in research, public opinion,
policy, and prevention in the European nations. Unfortunately,
it is one of the most difficult crimes to be studied
due to the low frequency and the high variability
of events.
Moreover, most statistical sources on homicide that
exist in European countries are hardly cross-nationally
comparable. Regrettably to date our knowledge and
information on homicide in Europe is rather limited.
Therefore, it is of importance to stimulate the study
of homicide in each of the different European countries.
Furthermore, there is a need to describe differences
in homicide patterns across European countries and
examine various explanations for the (cross-national)
differences in these patterns. Violent crimes result
from the complex interplay between individual and
contextual factors, including societal and legal institutions.
Since these institutions differ cross-nationally,
homicide patterns may do so accordingly. Cross-national
research thus is inexplicable to gain detailed knowledge
on homicide and test criminological theories on violence.
In order to stimulate homicide research in Europe
and to promote contact between the various European
researchers working on national homicide studies,
we have established the European Homicide Research
working group. Fortunately, homicide research
projects are underway in various European countries
and the number of European homicide researchers is
substantial and growing. We would like to invite the
ESC members involved in these homicide studies to
combine their expertise and join the working group.
Aim
To facilitate research on homicide in Europe and maximize
international dissemination of homicide research results.
Objectives
A number of specific objectives in support of this
aim have been established:
promote communication between European homicide
researchers
organize thematic homicide sessions at the annual
ESC meetings
establish cross-national research ties and promote
international collaboration on homicide research
offer a 'best European paper' award for outstanding
research in the area of homicide research
Membership
The working group is chaired by and its activities
coordinated by Marieke Liem. All ESC-members involved
in homicide research projects are invited to join.
If you would like to join, please send your name,
position, affiliation, and a description of the research
project you are working on to ehr.esc@nscr.nl.
Contact address
Marieke Liem
Leiden University
Law Faculty
Department of Criminology
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 71 527 7462
Email:
m.c.a.liem@law.leidenuniv.nl
ESC Working Group on Community Sanctions
Acting Chair: Beyens, Kristel Criminology
Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium,
Kristel.Beyens@vub.ac.be
Membership List
Members:
1. McNeill, Fergus, Professor of Criminology &
Social Work, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice
Research, University of Glasgow, UK (Scotland),
f.mcneill@lbss.gla.ac.uk
2. Annison, Jill, Senior Lecturer, Plymouth Law
School, University of Plymouth, UK (England) jannison@plymouth.ac.uk
3. Bauwens, Aline, PhD Student, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Department of Criminology, Belgium, aline.bauwens@vub.ac.be
4. Blay, Ester, Visiting lecturer, Law Department,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Spain, ester.blay@upf.edu
5. Boone, Miranda, Associate Professor of Criminology
and Criminal Law, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal
Law and Criminology, University of Utrecht, the
Netherlands, M.M.Boone@uu.nl
6. Burke, Lol, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice,
Liverpool John Moores University,
8. School of Law, UK (England), L.Burke@ljmu.ac.uk
7. Campion, Liz, Swansea University, UK (Wales),
liz.campion@btinternet.com
8. Canton, Rob, Professor, De Montfort University,
UK (England), RCanton@dmu.ac.uk
9. Carroll, Paul, University of Glamorgan, UK (Wales),
pcarroll@glam.ac.uk
10. Cid, Jose, Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminology,
Departament de Ciencia Politica i Dret Public Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, josep.cid@uab.es
11. Clonen, Kristof, University of Leuven, Belgium,
Kristof.Clonen@law.kuleuven.be
12. Colman, Charlotte, Scientific researcher, PHD
candidate, Ghent University, Department of Criminal
Law and Criminology, Belgium, Charlotte.colman@ugent.be
13. Contreras Roman, Maria, Autonomous University
of Barcelona, Spain, Maria.Contreras@uab.cat
14. Davies, Keith, UK (England) k.f.davies@herts.ac.uk
15. Dunkel, Frieder, Professor, Department of Criminology,
Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald,
Germany, duenkel@uni-greifswald.de
16. Durnescu, Ioan, Lecturer, School of Sociology
& Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania,
idurnescu@gmail.com
17. Fellegi, Borbala, Hungary, borbala@fellegi.hu
18. Fitzgibbon, Wendy, Middlesex University, UK
(England), W.Fitzgibbon@mdx.ac.uk
19. Gelsthorpe, Loraine, Institute of Criminology,
University of Cambridge, UK (England), lrg10@cam.ac.uk
20. Grafl, Christian, University of Vienna, Austria,
christian.grafl@univie.ac.at
21. Grosselfinger, Nancy, grosselfinger@hotmail.com
22. Healy, Deirdre, University College Dublin,
Ireland, deirdre.healy@ucd.ie
23. Herzog-Evans, Martine, Professor, Criminal
Law, Law Faculty, University of Reims, France, martineevans@ymail.com
24. Hucklesby, Anthea, Reader in Criminology, University
of Leeds, UK (England) A.L.Hucklesby@leeds.ac.uk
25. Hutton, Neil, Professor, University of Strathclyde,
UK (Scotland), n.hutton@strath.ac.uk
26. Kensey, Annie, Demographer, Prison Administration,
Associated Researcher at CESDIP/CNRS, France, Annie.kensey@justice.gouv.fr
27. Kereszi, Klara, Hungary, kerezsi@okri.hu
28. Lulei, Martin, Slovakia, mlulei@ukf.sk
29. McIvor, Gill, Professor, University of Stirling,
UK (Scotland), gillian.mcivor@stir.ac.uk
30. McCulloch, Trish, University of Dundee, UK
(Scotland), P.mcculloch@dundee.ac.uk
31. Maguire, Mike, Professor, Cardiff University,
UK (Wales), maguireathome@btinternet.com
32. Maguire, Niamh, Waterford Institute of technology,
Ireland, NMAGUIRE@wit.ie
33. Mair, George, Professor, Liverpool John Moore's
University, UK (England), G.Mair@ljmu.ac.uk
34. Margaryan, Anna, Yerevan State University,
Armenia, annamargaryan@hotmail.com
35. Maruna, Shadd, Professor, Queen's University
Belfast, UK (Northern Ireland), s.maruna@qub.ac.uk
36. Meek, Rosie, University of Southampton, UK
(England), R.Meek@soton.ac.uk
37. Menger, Anneke. Associate Professor at HU University
of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands, anneke.menger@hu.nl
38. Mills, Karen, Lecturer, School of Law, University
of Hertfordshire, UK (England) k.mills@herts.ac.uk
39. Morgenstern, Christine, Research Associate,
Department of Criminology, Faculty of Law and Economics,
University of Greifswald, Germany, mostern@uni-greifswald.de
40. Larrauri, Elena, Professor of Criminal Law
and Criminology, Law Department, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, 08005 Barcelona, Spain, Elena.larrauri@upf.edu
41. Nellis, Mike, Professor, University of Strathclyde,
UK (Scotland), mike.nellis@strath.ac.uk
42. O'Donell, Ian, University College Dublin, Ireland,
ian.odonnell@ucd.ie
43. Perez, Natalia, Spain, natalia.perez@rai.usc.es
44. Pirnat, Carlotta, Austria, carlotta.pirnat@univie.ac.at
45. Plaisier, Janine, janine.plaisier@mpct.eu
46. Ploeg, Gerhard, Senior adviser, Ministry of
Justice and the Police, Dept. of Corrections, Norway,
gerhard.ploeg@jd.dep.no
47. Ravagnani. Luisa, University of Brescia, Italy,
ravagnani@jus.unibs.it
48. Raynor, Peter, Professor of Criminology &
Criminal Justice, Centre for Criminal Justice and
Criminology, Swansea University, UK (Wales), p.raynor@swansea.ac.uk
49. Robinson, Gwen, Senior Lecturer, Department
of Law, University of Sheffield, UK (England), G.J.Robinson@sheffield.ac.uk
50. Romano, Carlo Alberto, Professor, University
of Brescia, Italy, caromano@jus.unibs.it
51. Schinkel, Marguerite, University of Edinburgh,
UK (Scotland), m.schinkel@ed.ac.uk
52. Senior, Paul, Professor, Sheffield Hallam University,
UK (England), P.G.Senior@shu.ac.uk
53. Snacken, Sonja, Professor, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium, ssnacken@vub.ac.be
54. Storgaard, Anette, Ass. Prof., School of Law,
University of Aarhus, Denmark, as@jura.au.dk
55. Svensson, Kerstin, Professor, Lund University,
School of Social Work, Sweden, kerstin.svensson@soch.lu.se
56. Tata, Cyrus, University of Strathclyde, UK
(Scotland), cyrus.tata@strath.ac.uk
57. Tigges, Leo, CEP, The Netherlands, sg@cep-probation.org
58. Tomasek, Jan, Czech Republic, jtomasek@iksp.justice.cz
59. Ugelvik, Thomas, University of Oslo, Norway,
thomas.ugelvik@jus.uio.no
60. Ugwudike, Pamela, Lecturer in Criminology,
Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, Swansea
University, UK (Wales), p.ugwudike@Swansea.ac.uk
61. Van Kalmthout, Anton, Professor, University
of Tilburg, the Netherlands, amvkalmthout@gmail.com
62. Van Vliet, Jaap, the Netherlands, VLIET.AKTIEF@TISCALI.NL
63. Van Zyl Smit, Dirk, University of Nottingham,
UK (England), Dirk.Van-zyl-smit@nottingham.ac.uk
64. Varona Gómez, Daniel, Senior lecturer,
Department of Public Law, University of Girona,
Spain, daniel.varona@udg.edu
65. Vogelvang, Bas, Professor of Probation Services
and Safety Policy. Center for Safety Policy and
Criminal Justice, Avans University of Applied Sciences
, The Netherlands, bo.vogelvang@avans.nl
66. Weaver, Beth, Lecturer, Glasgow School of Social
Work, University of Strathclyde, UK (Scotland),
elizabeth.fawcett@strath.ac.uk
67. Whyte, Bill, Professor, University of Edinburgh,
UK (Scotland) B.Whyte@ed.ac.uk
This working group (formed in December 2007) exists
to encourage networking, foster discussion, stimulate
empirical research, enable theoretical development
and encourage critical and comparative work on community
sanctions in European jurisdictions. Its specific
interests and concerns include:
1. The historical development of community-based
criminal justice sanctions in European jurisdictions,
how community sanctions in European jurisdictions
are currently configured (both as legal orders and
as related penal practices) and whether, in what
ways and to what extent they are subject to significant
ongoing reconfiguration or transformation
2. The emergence and significance of new
forms of community sanction, such as compulsory
drug treatment and electronic monitoring
3. The effectiveness of these sanctions and
their impacts:
a. on sentencing
b. on offenders
c. on victims
d. on communities
e. on other stakeholders
4. Public attitudes to and media representations
of such measures
The group will be formally launched at the ESC
conference in Edinburgh in September 2008 through
a series of themed sessions addressing the four
issues identified above.
ESC members interested in finding out more about
the group or in joining it, should contact Kristel
Beyens at Kristel.Beyens@vub.ac.be
Eurogang Network (Contact Person: Frank
Van Gemert)
ESC members with an interest in developing an understanding
of the scope, causes, nature and consequences of
gangs through systematic, comparative and multi-method
research are welcome to join the Eurogang Network.
The Network was formed in the late 90s and since
then has held 9 international workshops, developed
a set of protocols for comparative research, and
organized the publication of several edited volumes.
In spring of 2008 the Network became affiliated
with the ESC as a working group.
Our objectives are:
1)To develop conceptual and methodological
research tools for carrying out comparative gang research
2) To build a body of knowledge about the scopes,
causes, nature and control of gangs across Europe
3) To foster a constructive and amicable dialogue
between different theoretical, disciplinary and national
research traditions in the study of the relationship
between the group aspects of youth transitions and
offending
4) To offer support, mentoring, and training
to scholars interested in the comparative study of
gangs and generally assist European scholars interested
in the study of gangs
5) To facilitate transfer of knowledge from
academic research to the policy and practitioner community
in the area of youth street gangs
6) To develop specific funded research collaborations
between our members.
Membership remains informal and everybody that
shares our aims is welcome. Those interested in
active participation should email Frank Van Gemert
(f.vangemert@rechten.vu.nl)
for an initial contact. You will also need to contact
Professor Kerner (hans-juergen.kerner@uni-tuebingen.de)
for inclusion in the Eurogang distribution list.
The Eurogang Network is governed through a Steering
Committee composed of:
Frank Weerman
Frank Van Gemert
Juanjo Medina
Judith Aldridge
Finn-Aage Esbensen
Cheryl Maxson
For more details you can visit our website (http://www.umsl.edu/~ccj/eurogang/euroganghome.htm).
European Society of Criminology Working Group
on Policing (Co-Chairs: Nick
Fyfe and Alistair
Henry)
Current activities of the Working Group on Policing
The Working Group on Policing is looking forward to
the annual meeting of the ESC in Budapest, Hungary
in September 2013. As always, we would encourage members
to proactively put together their own themed panel
sessions for the conference (see below), and have
updated the Members' Hub (containing information and
contact details of working group members) to allow
members to do so. We hope to work closely with local
organisers to have policing-themed sessions timetabled
throughout the conference.
Themed panel sessions
Members are encouraged to put together themed panel
sessions for the conference. Putting together themed
panel sessions helps to ensure that sessions are
coherent and that they include papers that are relevant
to one another. This can make for more meaningful
discussion of papers in the session. Members can
use the Members' Hub (see below) to identify policing
scholars who share similar interests and who might
be willing to contribute to a themed session. Members
wishing to put together a themed panel session should
consider the following points:
Themed sessions should ideally contain no more than
4 presentations and, in the spirit of the ESC, must
involve scholars from more than one country.
This year's local organisers have provided explicit
instructions for submitting proposals for pre-arranged
panels (the same as what we have called 'themed
panel sessions') along with the instructions for submitting
abstracts. The Panel Chair needs to take the lead
here and to submit a Panel Session Overview, only
then requesting all other contributors to submit their
own abstracts in the usual way. Please follow these
instructions carefully.
http://www.eurocrim2013.com/call-for-abstract.php
If you wish your themed panel session to be identified
as a 'Working Group on Policing' session then please
make this clear to the conference organisers
when you submit the Panel Session Overview. Please
also notify the Steering Group of the working
group by sending details of the proposed session (names
and affiliations of contributors, titles of individual
abstracts, title of the themed session, name of chair)
to Alistair Henry (a.henry@ed.ac.uk)
by the 31 May 2013. We will then put a list of all
panel sessions together that we will submit independently
to the local organisers, asking them to timetable
them across the conference so that members can see
as many of them as they wish.
Please remember that all contributors need to be
fully registered for the conference if they are to
be included in the final programme. Please ensure
that you are registered in good time and contact the
conference organisers if you are in any doubt.
Members' Hub
Since the 2010 conference in Liege we have been
putting together some basic information about members
(contact information, affiliations, and main research
interests). It is hoped that Members will be able
to use this Hub as a means of contacting other policing
scholars through the working group. If any members
would like their details added to the Hub, please
email them to Alistair Henry. (a.henry@ed.ac.uk).
The
Hub will be updated from time to time and the current
version can be accessed here.
Some recent activities of the Working Group
on Policing
The Working Group organised a series of themed panel
sessions on policing and police-related topics at
the 2009 conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. One of
these sessions, organised by Jan Terpstra (University
of Nijmegan, The Netherlands), was later published
as a special issue of the Journal of Police Studies.
The Working Group continued to organise themed panel
sessions for the 2010 conference in Liege, Belgium.
Colleagues from Ghent University, University College
Ghent and the Free University of Brussels also organised
and hosted a pre-conference event for Working Group
members prior to the main ESC conference. The theme
of the conference was Police, Policing, Policy
and the City in Europe and a book of this name
was published by Eleven International Publishers from
the contributions to it. Jack Greene, Monique Marks
and Betsy Stanko contributed to an excellent pre-conference
event in Vilnius in 2011. This event was graciously
hosted by the local police service that also provided
helpful papers on aspects of policing in Lithuania.
At the Vilnius conference, Jan Tersptra and Nick Fyfe
also organised a panel on police reform in Europe
which has led to the publication in 2013 of a book
Centralizing forces? Comparative perspectives on
contemporary police reform in northern and Western
Europe, edited by Fyfe, N., Terpstra, J. and Tops,
P. and published by Eleven/Boom Legal Publishers.
Origins of the Working Group on Policing
This working group was established following the 8th
annual meeting of the ESC in Edinburgh in September
2008. All members of the ESC are very welcome to contact
the PWG chairs in order to sign up to the mailing
list.
Aims and objectives of the Working Group on
Policing
The proposed Working Group on Policing aims to realise
the central aim of the ESC in relation to the field
of policing and police research:
The Socity wishes to foster criminological scholarship,
research, education and training, and to encourage
scholarly, scientific and practical exchange and
cooperation among criminologists in Europe and
elsewhere. Its objective is further to serve as
a forum for the dissemination of criminological
knowledge at the European level.
To this end there are three inter-related aims
of the Working Group on Policing:
To facilitate the networking of scholars and practitioners
interested in the study of police organisations
and policing
To open up and develop lines of communication
and cooperation between nationally-based research
centres, institutes and academies with policing-related
interests and activities
To act as a hub through which scholars, practitioners
and the policy community can collaborate productively
together (e.g. through the development of comparative
research programmes, knowledge transfer events, visiting
scholarships/fellowships, or joint teaching and continuing
professional development ventures)
Steering Group of the Working Group on Policing
The following people have volunteered to act as a
steering group for the PWG in its early stages. The
steering group will take responsibility for coordinating
the activities of the working group and will also
act as points of contact for members or interested
parties wishing to contact and/or contribute to the
life and development of it. Steering Group members
welcome emails from members of the ESC.
Tore Bjorgo: Tore.Bjorgo@phs.no
Sofie De Kimpe:
sofie.de.kimpe@vub.ac.be
Elke Devroe: e.devroe@law.leidenuniv.nl
Thomas Feltes: thomas.feltes@rub.de
Nick Fyfe: n.r.fyfe@dundee.ac.uk
Alistair Henry: a.henry@ed.ac.uk
Detlef Nogala: detlef.nogala@cepol.europa.eu
Layla Skinns: L.Skinns@sheffield.ac.uk
Jan Terpstra: j.terpstra@jur.ru.nl
European Sourcebook Group (Chair: Jörg-Martin)
The European Sourcebook Group is a group of experts
that produces on a regular basis the European Sourcebook
of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics.
The first European Sourcebook project started in
1996. In that year the Council of Europe established
a committee to prepare a compendium of crime and
criminal justice data for its member states. Information
was collected from 36 European countries covering
the period 1990 to 1996. It included both statistical
data and information on the statistical rules and
the definitions behind these figures. This resulted
in the publication by the Council of Europe of the
first European Sourcebook in 1999. Also a 'Key Findings'
bulletin was published in 2000 and an issue of the
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
(Vol. 8, No. 1, 2000) was mainly devoted on some
results of the Sourcebook data.
A second European Sourcebook project sponsored by
the governments of Switzerland, United Kingdom and
the Netherlands was completed and the findings were
published in December 2003 by the Dutch WODC in
their publications series (nr. 212). The publication
reports on criminal justice data for 40 European
countries covering the period 1995 - 2000. A special
double issue of the European Journal on Criminal
Policy and Research (Vol. 10, Nos. 2-3, 2004) was
devoted to the results of the Sourcebook data.
In June 2006 the third edition, sponsored by France,
the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom,
was published again in the WODC publication series
(nr. 241). This edition is a limited one: not all
tables were updated. It covers the years 2000 -
2003 for 37 countries.
The fourth edition, covering the years 2003-2007,
will be published in 2009. It will be a full edition,
with the addition of some new crime types.
All editions of the European Sourcebook are available
in the group's Webpage:
http://www.europeansourcebook.org/
The European Sourcebook Group became an ESC Working
Group at the end of 2008. The current members of
the group are:
Martin KILLIAS, University of Zurich, Switzerland
(Chairman)
Marcelo AEBI, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Bruno AUBUSSON DE CAVARLAY, CESDIP / CNRS,
France
Gordon BARCLAY, Home Office, United Kingdon
Beata GRUSZCZYNSKA, Institute of Justice,
Poland
Stefan HARRENDORF, Georg-August-Universität,
Germany
Markku HEISKANEN, HEUNI, Finland
Vasilika HYSI, University of Tirana, Albania
Veronique JAQUIER, University of Lausanne,
Switzerland
Jörg-Martin JEHLE, Georg-August-Universität,
Germany
Ernesto SAVONA, Transcrime, Italy
Olena SHOSTKO, Yaroslav Mudry National Law
Academy, Ukraine
Paul SMIT, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
Rannveig THORISDOTTIR, The Reykjavik Metropolitan
Police, Iceland
ESC Working group on prison life and the consequences
of imprisonment (Chair: Anja
Dirkzwager)
Origins
Imprisonment is currently the most severe governmental
sanction imposed on criminal offenders in Europe.
Approximately one million persons are confined in
penal institutions across Council of Europe countries,
and prison populations have been growing in two
thirds of them. Therefore, substantial numbers of
people have had a prison experience and increasing
numbers of people are released from prisons back
into society. It is important to know the impact
of incarceration on these (ex-)prisoners and whether
there are long-term unanticipated consequences of
imprisonment on the further lives of ex-prisoners
and their families.
Despite its manifest importance in crime prevention,
there is surprisingly little knowledge on life in
prisons as well as the (causal) effects of imprisonment.
While some literature is available about prison
climate and the effects of imprisonment on recidivism,
far less is known about the effects of imprisonment
on more conventional life domains such as socio-economic
status (employment, living conditions), family formation
and disruption, social integration, and health.
Moreover, the methodological designs of most existing
studies are inadequate to overcome selection effects
and, therefore, cannot make causal inferences about
the relationships between imprisonment and the further
life course. Additionally, most prior studies did
not address questions regarding mechanisms that
might explain the effects of imprisonment on life-course
circumstances.
This means that basic questions regarding the (causal)
effects of incarceration on criminal behavior and
life course circumstances of convicted persons and
their family members remain largely unanswered.
In order to stimulate prison research in Europe
and to promote contact between the various European
research groups working on imprisonment, we have
established the ESC working group on imprisonment.
We would like to invite all ESC members involved
in studies on prison life and the consequences of
imprisonment to combine their expertise and join
the working group.
The specific interests of the working group
include:
1) Life in prison
2) The effectiveness and impact of prison sentences
on:
a. life courses of ex-prisoners (e.g. socioeconomic
status; labor participation; social networks; health)
b. future criminal behavior of ex-prisoners
c. life courses and criminal behavior of ex-prisoners'
families
3) Causal effects of imprisonment on the further
life course of ex-prisoners and their families
4) Mechanisms explaining the (causal) effects of
imprisonment
5) Theories and a theoretical integration of knowledge
on the effects of imprisonment
Aim
To facilitate and encourage research on life in
prisons and the consequences of imprisonment, and
to maximize international dissemination of prison
research results.
Our objectives are
1) To promote communication between European researchers
on imprisonment
2) To organize thematic sessions at the annual ESC
meetings
3) To establish cross-national research ties and
promote international collaboration on prison research
Membership
The working group is chaired by and its activities
coordinated by Anja Dirkzwager. All ESC-members
involved in research projects on prison life and
its consequences are invited to join. If you would
like to join, please send your name, position, affiliation,
and a description of the research project(s) you
are working on to: adirkzwager@nscr.nl.
Contact address
Dr. A.J.E. (Anja) Dirkzwager
NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime
and Law Enforcement)
PO Box 71304
1008 BH AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)20 - 598 5239 (secr.)
Fax: +31 (0)20 - 598 3975
Email: adirkzwager@nscr.nl
European
working group on Organizational Crime (EUROC) (Chair:
Gudrun
Vande Walle, Judith
van Erp and
Wim Huisman)
Origins
In order to stimulate research in the field of organizational
crime in Europe and to promote exchange and collaboration
between the various European research groups working
in this field, we set up a working group on organizational
criminology.
European criminology has traditionally focused on
the conventional offender and on conventional crime,
whereas organizational crime remains a theoretical
and empirical challenge. In recent decades there is
increased attention for the field, also in the European
context, and this working group intends to contribute
to this further theoretical and empirical underpinning
of the research domain.
The working group on organizational crime focuses
on crime, deviance or semi-legal "cosmetic compliance"
behavior, committed by corporations, firms, organizations,
or state actors or by individuals in an organizational
context. These acts can be financial-economic crime
(financial market fraud, cartels, corruption, etc.),
environmentally damaging or green crimes, product
safety violations, state-corporate crime, or war crimes.
This entails a focus on victims' and perpetrators'
perceptions on, and experiences with, corporate and
organizational crime. We pay attention to the etiology
of the phenomenon, by focusing on issues of criminalization,
motives and opportunities on macro, meso and micro
level.
Besides this etiological focal point, our focus goes
to the reactions and approaches (regulation, governance
and enforcement) to organizational crime from the
perspective of a variety of public and private actors,
such as various local, national and international
governments and state institutions (police, inspection
services, judiciary, policy makers, etc.), private
regulators such as NGO's and private security firms,
and internal regulatory forces such as compliance
officers, auditors and accountants.
Aim
To stimulate and facilitate research in the international
field of organizational crime.
Objectives
A number of specific objectives in support of this
aim have been established:
- to promote communication between European researchers
on organizational crime;
- to exchange experience with empirical research
in the field of organisational crime;
- to inform researchers on new fields of research,
new approaches, et cetera;
- to stimulate permanent discussion;
- to organize thematic EUROC-sessions at the annual
ESC-conferences.
Chair
Gudrun Vande Walle, Ghent University College
Judith van Erp, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Wim Huisman, Free University of Amsterdam
Secretary
Joep Beckers, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Becoming a member
If you are a researcher working on the topic of corporate
and organizational crime, we invite you to join our
working group. In order to join, please send your
name, position, affiliation, and a short description
of the research project you are working on to euroc.esc@gmail.com.
For further details you can also contact Wim Huisman
(w.huisman@rechten.vu.nl),
Judith van Erp (vanerp@frg.eur.nl),
Gudrun Vande Walle (gudrun.vandewalle@hogent.be)
or Joep Beckers (beckers@frg.eur.nl).
ESC Working Group on Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making
(Chair: Cyrus
Tata)
Background
At the Tenth Annual Conference of the European
Society of Criminology (ESC) held at Liege, the
Executive Committee agreed to accept a proposal
to create a new Working Group on Sentencing & Penal
Decision-Making. The proposal arose from two recent
small European symposia held at the University of
Strathclyde (2008); University of Leiden (2010);
and a stream of five pre-arranged panel sessions
(16 papers) organised for the 2010 ESC conference.
Aim
The aim of the Working Group is to bring together
scholars working in the field of sentencing and
penal decision-making (and others with a serious
interest in academic work in that field) in order
to: share research; ideas; and to encourage interest
in the field across Europe. The Working Group seeks
to foster discussion and fresh thinking; stimulate
research; encourage theoretical development of the
field; and critical as well as comparative European
work. Specifically the proposed ESC Working Group
on sentencing and penal decision-making is intended:
- To facilitate the collaboration and networking
of scholars, policy officials and practitioners
across Europe, including countries whose sentencing
and penal decision-making processes are not well-known
to international audiences
- To unlock the potential for cooperation among
individuals and groups across Europe so that there
is greater mutual knowledge and understanding
of national sentencing systems and European-wide
developments
- To provide a visible forum so that scholars,
policy
officials and practitioners can discuss research,
develop ideas, and disseminate knowledge to each
other and also those in the policy and/or practice
communities who might not otherwise be aware of
that research (e.g. through the ESC web-presence;
annual symposia; visiting fellowships; etc)
Ambit of 'Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making'
Because of its comprehensive focus on sentencing
as an exercise in decision-making, the Working Group's
remit extends well beyond those issues connected
solely with the judicial selection of punishment.
Many other decision-making processes which either
affect or are affected by judicial sentencing practices
are also of interest. So-called "back-door"
decisions, such as the grant of remission, parole
or other early release to sentenced prisoners, clearly
fall within this category. But so also do other
decisions, at earlier and later stages of the overall
criminal process, including prosecution charging
practices, plea decision-making and, where it exists,
plea bargaining, which may have a significant impact
on the sentence ultimately imposed.
An indicative areas of interest to the Working
Group include, for example: influences in the
sentencing decision process; the politics of sentencing
and penal policy-making; judicial discretion; the
use of non-executive penalties; judicial and penal
cultures; victims and sentencing; public opinion,
public attitudes and knowledge of sentencing and punishment;
multi-disciplinary courts; sentencing reform structures;
penal aims and justifications; (in)equality and punishment;
consistency and disparity in sentencing and penal
decision-making; legitimacy and decision-making; the
role of new technologies; release from custody; plea-bargaining.
However, it is stressed that these are indicative
examples only and this list is not intended
to be exhaustive.
In all of these areas the Working Group aims to
bring comparative perspectives and a focus on changes
in European law and policy, as well as theoretical
rigour and search for fresh approaches.
Rationale for the Working Group
Although sentencing and penal decision-making
is a long-established field which attracts numerous
papers to ESC each year there is no Working Group
dedicated to sentencing and penal-decision-making.
Developments at the levels of the Council of Europe
and the European Union provide further impetus for
the creation of the proposed Working Group. Throughout
much of its history, the European Court of Human Rights
did not deal very extensively with sentencing issues
as such, apart from matters connected with life sentences.
More recently, however, it has decided many cases
involving the extent to which prison conditions in
some member states comply with Article 3 of the Convention.
Meanwhile, European Union institutions are becoming
more closely involved in criminal law matters, particularly
through the creation of framework decisions on judicial
co-operation and mutual recognition of judicial decisions.
States may now, for example, refuse to surrender a
person under a European Arrest Warrant if, at the
time of the proposed surrender, he or she is at risk
of suffering a violation of his/her rights under Article
3 of the European Convention on Human Rights on account
of prison conditions (or, presumably sentencing practices)
in the requesting state. Here, then, we see the legislation
and case law of the two major European institutions
combining to have a potentially profound impact on
the sentencing and custodial regimes of member states.
Thus, the WG seeks to examine the legal, social and
policy implications of these developments also.
Activities
The Working Group builds on the stream of five
panels organised for Liege conference and continue
to organise a stream of panels for the annual ESC
conference. In addition, it is intended to organise
regular symposia examining European sentencing and
penal decision-making issues. The Working Group
warmly welcomes new members, (some of whom may not
otherwise become ESC members nor ESC conference
delegates), including from countries where sentencing
and penal decision-making scholarship does not have
a high international profile. The Working Group
will also seek to forge links with policy and practice
communities in different countries and also at EU
level. For instance, we actively seek to promote
our activities to a range of policy and practice
audiences, such as sentencing councils (eg that
in England & Wales, and in Scotland); judicial
studies organisations, etc.
Cooperation with the Community Sanctions Working
Group
The Community Sanctions Group refers to some aspects
of sentencing at its meetings in so far as it is
pertinent to community sanctions. To the extent
that there are some areas of common interest, the
two Working Groups have agreed to cooperate. The
Chair of the CS Working Group is also a member of
the Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making Working
Group, and the Chair of the Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making
WG is also a member of the CS Working Group. Similar
cooperation will be sought with other Working Groups
where appropriate.
Membership
Membership is open to anyone with a scholarly
interest in European aspects of sentencing and penal
decision-making. This includes those who are not
active academic researchers themselves but have
a strong interest in such research (e.g. policy
officials, NGOs, criminal justice practitioners).
We also warmly welcome the interest of early career
researchers (eg PhD students) and other post-graduate
students. We are also particularly interested in
contact with individuals from national jurisdictions
whose sentencing and penal decision-making is less
well known internationally.
If you are interested in joining the WG please
contact the WG Chair (Dr. Cyrus Tata). Cyrus.Tata@strath.ac.uk
Initial Members:
The following list of individuals is mainly composed
of those participating in the sentencing 'stream'
of pre-arranged panels for the 2010 ESC conference,
and others who others who have requested to join
at September 2010.
Cyrus Tata, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
(Chair of the WG)
Kristel Beyens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium Miranda Boone, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Andreia de Castro-Rodrigues, Universidade Fernando
Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
Ioan Durnescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
Hank Elffers, Netherlands Institute for the Study
of Crime & Law Enforcement
Eef Goedseels, Department of Justice, Government
of Belgium
Martine Herzog-Evans, University of Reims, France
Ville Hinkkanen, National Research Institute of
Legal Policy, Finland
Les Humphreys, University of Lancaster, England
& Wales
Jan de Keijser, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Fiona Jamieson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Elena Larrauri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Miklos Levay, Etos Lorand University, and, Constitutional
Court of the Republic of Hungary
Max D.P. Lowenstein, University of Bournemouth,
England
Niamh Maguire, Waterford Institute of Technology,
Republic of Ireland
Grazia Mannozzi, University of Insubria, Como, Italy
Tom O'Malley, University of Galway, Republic of
Ireland
Christine Morgenstern, University of Griefswald,
Germany
Julian Roberts, University of Oxford, England &
Wales
Ard Schoep, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Miroslav Scheinost, Institute of Criminology & Social
Prevention, Czech Republic
Veerle Scheirs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Marguerite Schinkel, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Pauline Schuyt, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Jean-Louis van Gelder, Netherlands Institute for
the Study of Crime & Law Enforcement
Rasmus Wandall, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gender, Crime and Justice Working Group (Approved
and launched in 2010) Convenor: Loraine Gelsthorpe,
UK
Origins
The idea for this Working Group emerged at the ESC
conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2009.
A number of those present indicated that they would
welcome the opportunity to share ideas on gender,
crime and criminal justice. Informal discussions then
led to a request to formalise the Working Group. Approval
was sought from the ESC Executive and granted in 2010.
We launched the Working Group at the 2010 conference.
Gender issues are central to the very conception
of crime insofar as there has tended to be gender
blindness or confusion about gender in both the
construction of the law and in criminological theorizing.
Gender issues are also important in considerations
of both pathways into and out of crime, and they
are pertinent to patterns of resilience and desistance.
There are also important gender-related issues to
consider in relation to social regulation and conceptions
of criminal and social justice, including both procedural
and substantive dimensions of this. Gender is thus
an important consideration in the creation, implementation
and operation of the law.
Aims
The aims of the Working Group are to encourage networking,
foster discussion, stimulate empirical research, enable
theoretical development, and encourage critical and
comparative work on all matters relating to gender,
crime, and criminal justice. In particular, the Working
Group relishes the prospect of inter-disciplinary
working on topics relating to gender.
Objectives
1) To share information and ideas about gender, crime
and criminal justice across different European jurisdictions
2) To offer support to those in the ESC interested
in gender dimensions of crime and criminal justice
3) To identify some comparative research questions
- and, in due course, possibly to develop specific
funded research collaborations between the members
of the Working Group
4) To organize thematic discussions based around gender
at ESC conferences and meetings
European Historical Criminology (EHC) working
group Chair: Sverre Flaatten, University of Oslo
In order to stimulate research on historical criminology
in Europe, we invite all ESC members interested in
historical perspectives on crime and crime control
to combine their expertise and join the working group.
http://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english/people/aca/sverrefl/index.html
Chair: Sverre
Flaatten, University of Oslo
Historical research on crime, criminal law and
criminology has been conducted for a number of years
in various academic disciplines in Europe Fields
of interests for the network are; the history of
crime, the prison institutions, social work, police,
criminal law, the criminal justice system, the discipline
of criminology, institutional history, comparative
historical research, legal history, genocide and
war crimes.
The aim of the working group is to establish cross-national
research ties and promote international collaboration
on EHC-topics. The working group functions as an
arena for researchers interested in crime and crime
control in a historical perspective and as a communication
channel for historical studies and projects. It
also promotes the importance of historical research
in criminology.
The overall objective is to develop and strengthen
comparative historical research on crime, criminal
justice and criminology. The working group will
contribute to the development of interdisciplinary,
comparative methods of historical studies of crime,
criminal justice and criminology. This will be methodologically
and theoretically interesting for criminological
studies that analyze contemporary phenomena through
historical perspectives, or that somehow incorporate
it in an analysis of crime.
The working group provides opportunities for researchers
interested in historical criminology to exchange
ideas for collaborative writing and research and
further stimulate comparative understanding of European
historical criminology.
Membership
The constitution of the working group is relatively
informal and participation in its activities is open
to all members of the ESC who share a research interest
in its aim and objectives. Offers of papers and suggestions
for themed panels to be convened by the working group
at the annual meetings of the ESC are welcome.
Please contact the chair, Sverre Flaatten, at
sverre.flaatten@jus.uio.no,
for further details.
The victimology working group Chair: Jan
Van Dijk
Aims
The victimology working group aims to encourage networking
and exchange of ideas, research cooperation as well
as development of theoretical knowledge about victims
and victimology, and critical analyses of victim related
legislations and policies in Europe.
Its specific interests and concerns include:
1. Victim needs, rights and standing in criminal
procedure
2. International documents and national and European
legislations, as well as victim policies and their
evaluations
3. Media representation of victims
4. Victims of conventional crime, as well as victims
of gender-based violence, cross-border crime, terrorism,
war crime and gross human rights violation, white
collar crime etc.
5. Politics of victimisation, including particularly
political misuse of victims and victimisation
6. Finding balance between victim's and offender's
rights
7. Development and challenges of victim support
in Europe
8. Victimisations surveys
9. Victims and crime prevention
10. Victims and restorative justice
Members who so far accepted to be the part of
the group:
Ivo Aertsen, Belgium
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Serbia
Ljiljana Stevkovic, Serbia
Chair: Jan
Van Dijk, INTERVICT, Tilburg University
Contact: INTERVICT, Tilburg University
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/intervict/
European Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes
and Transitional Justice (Chair:
Susanne
Karstedt and Joris
van Wijk)
Europe as a region has been the site of unspeakable
mass atrocity crimes and genocide, and Europeans have
been involved as perpetrators in mass violence across
the globe. However, Europe was also the site of the
Nuremberg Trial, where for the first time perpetrators
were brought to justice, and it has been seminal in
the proliferation of legal instruments, and procedures
ever since then, including International Criminal
Tribunals and the International Criminal Court. The
world owes the term 'genocide' to Raphael Lemkin,
a Polish migrant in the US.
It is only recently that these crimes have become
the object of systematic criminological research.
Criminology is particularly well prepared to address
the changing landscape of mass atrocity crimes and
to study the mushrooming strategies and mechanisms
of transitional justice, given its multiple theoretical
and conceptual frameworks and extensive methodological
toolboxes. These include micro-level analyses of
collective violence, the contextual analysis of
state and organizational crime, and perspectives
from victimology. Criminologists are well equipped
to study the aetiology of such crimes, measure its
magnitude, e.g. with victim surveys and evaluate
the transitional post-conflict period.
These crimes are equally challenging for criminologists.
If 'ordinary men' commit such crimes, our theories
and tools do not fit. If mass atrocities are part
of deep-rooted conflicts, the institutions and instruments
of justice might hardly or not work at all. Is deterrence
of such crimes a useful concept? Criminological
engagement with these crimes will not only make
a valuable contribution to the field, but also cross-fertilise
our own theories and concepts of violence, state
crime and victimisation, or of criminal justice.
European criminology can draw on a wealth of historical
and contemporary research on mass atrocities committed
on its soil. European diversity therefore provides
unique opportunities to contribute wide-ranging
comparative perspectives to the global engagement
with research on these crimes and transitional justice.
European criminologists can rely on numerous in-depth
case studies. Widely differing approaches to transitional
justice offer unique insights as well as the possibility
to contrast different practices.
The European Criminology Group on Atrocity
Crimes and Transitional Justice will bring together
criminologists who are engaged in the research on
atrocity crimes and transitional justice in and
on Europe. We hope to enhance the contribution of
criminology and criminologists in this field, to
stimulate research in and on Europe and to promote
exchange between European and international researchers.
The group will collaborate with other networks and
research groups in the field. The Supranational
Criminology Network is represented in the Group
by its founder, Professor Alette Smeulers, Tilburg
University, Netherlands. Renowned criminologists
John Hagan and Joachim Savelsberg will join us as
a Honorary Member.
Our specific interests and concerns include:
To organise thematic sessions at the annual ESC
meetings as well as at other international meetings
To establish networks between established and young
researchers, in particular doctoral students
To enhance interdisciplinary and international
exchange through dedicated workshops and conferences
To develop collaborations with international
criminal justice institutions, international bodies
and NGOs those are active in the prevention of mass
atrocities, in the provision of transitional justice,
and in peace keeping
Our members include from the ESC:
Catrien Bijleveld, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
Susanne Karstedt, University of Leeds, United
Kingdom
Nandor Knust, Max-Planck Institute for Foreign
and International Criminal Law, Germany
Stephan Parmentier, Leuven Institute of Criminology
(LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium
Jon Shute, Centre for Criminology and Criminal
Justice, School of Law, University of Manchester,
UK
Joris van Wijk, VU University Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Estelle Zinsstag, Leuven Institute of Criminology
(LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium
Contact:
Susanne Karstedt, University of Leeds, United Kingdom,
s.karstedt@leeds.ac.uk
Joris van Wijk, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands,
j.van.wijk@vu.nl
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