24-29 September 2008 |
7th Biennal International Conference on 'Policing in Central and Eastern Europe - Social Control in Comtemporary Society - Practice and Research'
The Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia organises the 7th biennial international conference "Policing in Central and Eastern Europe - Social Control in Contemporary Society - Practice and Research" which will be held on September 24-26, 2008 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The main idea of the conference is to discuss modes of social control in contemporary society, especially from the perspective of cooperation in the fields of crime prevention, crime control and provision of safety/security.
More information is available at: www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2008 Chairman of the conference is Gorazd Meško (gorazd.mesko@fvv.uni-mb.si) whom you may contact for more information about the conference.
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Ljubljana, Slovenia |
21-22 October 2008 |
3rd International Juvenile Justice Observatory
On the 21st and 22nd October 2008, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) together with the County Council of Justice and Public Administrations of the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain), have the pleasure to organise the III International IJJO Conference, which will be titled: "Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: current situation, trends in applicable models and good practices".
The III International IJJO Conference (Valencia 2008) will allow carrying out an analysis of the juvenile justice systems, action models and intervention programmes which are applicable in the different Member States of the European Union. The objective is to be able to come to a series of final conclusions regarding the proposal of establishing an approximation framework between the different States on the subject of juvenile justice. The resolutions adopted in this field by organisms like the Council of Europe, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Parliament will serve as a reference, adding to this the final conclusions of the II International IJJO Conference "Juvenile Justice in Europe: a framework for the integration" (Brussels 2006).
The knowledge on the different systems will enable us to determine the divergence elements between the Member States regarding the treatment of minors in conflict with the law, based on political, economic, judicial and social diversity in the European Union. Over the last 15 years, juvenile justice systems in Europe have experienced considerable changes, especially in Eastern European countries. But Western European countries must also be mentioned because of new trends like the neo-correctionalist models and "minimum intervention" models as well as the implementation of restorative justice mechanisms and the coexistence of welfare models and responsibility models.
In this context, within the AGIS Programme, the European Commission has supported a comparative law study which analyses the most important issues regarding the treatment of minor offenders in all Member States based on the question: are there any possibilities to harmonise juvenile justice systems on a European level? This study has been led by the Department of Criminology of the University of Greifswald (Germany) together with the Don Calabria Institute (Italy) and Diagrama Foundation Psychosocial Intervention (Spain) and with the cooperation of the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (Belgium).
The aim of the research is to collect knowledge about the current situation of juvenile delinquency in the European Union, the existing juvenile justice systems, the reform processes, the reform proposals, the organisms involved in juvenile justice, ways of treatment, educational centres / confinement, alternative measures, recidivism and social integration. The main objective of this study is gather good practices in the field of juvenile justice.
Therefore the aim of the III International IJJO Conference "Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: current situation, trends in the applicable models and good practices", organised by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) together with County Council of Justice and Public Administrations of the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain), is for the different professionals and experts in the field of juvenile justice to share experiences and knowledge in order to promote new recommendations at a transnational level to the European Union. These recommendations are aimed at harmonising the applicable juvenile justice systems, the developed intervention measures and the dissemination of good practices in this field, contributing to the social inclusion of all minors and youngsters object of our study.
This International Conference will be developed according to the two following axes:
1. Comparative analysis of juvenile justice systems in Europe: current situation and trends in applicable models.
2. Good practices and recommendations applicable on juvenile justice systems.
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Valencia, Spain |
17-18 November 2008 |
EUCPN Good Practice Conference & European Crime Prevention Award 2008
Security issues are at the heart of the concerns of citizens as well as local and national authorities. In this context, the prevention of criminality in public spaces is a major issue that can be divided into three main components:
- the development planning of public spaces
- the implementation of video protection systems
- the daily actions of public space management
During the Best Practice Conference to be held in Paris on 17th & 18th November 2008, each of the three components will be the subject of a panel discussion and will be illustrated by one or two of the best projects in the competition for the European Crime Prevention Award 2008.
PLEASE NOTE - this is an EUCPN 'closed event' and is by invitation only. |
Paris |
