Issue 2011 | 2 Conference Edition
After Liège and Kobe before Vilnius
We are just days away from the next Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. However, a prominent event in criminology – though this one not organized by the ESC - has already taken place this year: the 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology between the 5th and 9th of August in Kobe, Japan.
Read more..European Working Group on Organisational Crime (EUROC)
The European Working Group on Organisational Crime was established in 2010 to stimulate research in the field of white collar crime and organisational crime in Europe, and to promote exchange and collaboration between the various European researchers and research groups working in this field.
Read morePrison Life & Effects of Imprisonment
Prison Life and the Effects of Imprisonment aims to facilitate and encourage European research on life in prisons and the consequences of imprisonment. Additionally, we want to promote communication between European researchers involved in prison research and to establish cross-national research ties.
Read moreESC Working Group in Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making
The ESC’s new working group on Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making is seeking to develop academic and policy thinking and encourage new European collaborations. In less than a year the Group has expanded to 46 members from 18 different European countries.
Read moreEurogang
Last year, in June the Eurogang working group met in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in southwestern Germany. Forty researchers from eleven different nations participated in an intensive and informative workshop.
Read moreEDLC will launch website this autumn
The European Developmental and Life-course Criminology working group is going digital! This autumn the EDLC will launch its website and provide its members and others interested in longitudinal criminological research a platform to share their publications, data and ideas.
Read moreFeedback on ESC meeting sessions
During the ESC conference in Liège I discussed the form of the session presentations with some of the participants. An appeal for comments was sent out in order to collect impressions and suggestions which could be disseminated in order to improve our conferences. This is a summary of comments I have received including some of my own observations.
Read moreVesna Nikolić-Ristanović - candidate for the next ESC president
I first met Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović when we both lived in the same country. She had been working in the field of victims' and gender studies. However, I really noticed her and her work during the decade after the breakup of former Yugoslavia. Her research on victims had become, unexpectedly, very topical and needed for all of us.
Read moreESC Executive Secretariat Annual Report 2010
One of the most frequent topics of discussion among the members of the Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) since the beginning of the world financial crisis in 2008 has been the potential impact of that crisis on the development of the ESC. The figures presented in this report for the year 2010 show that the crisis indeed has a slight impact on the growth of the ESC.
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