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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:28:55 +0200
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Subject: IVW Newsflash - September 25, 2000
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Brought to you by the International Victimology Website
Your Gateway to Victimology on the Web
http://www.victimology.nl      date: September 25, 2000
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This Newsflash contains two messages!
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1) WANTED: INFORMATION ABOUT WORKPLACE VIOLENCE IN SOCIAL WORK
Your German colleague Gerd-Ferdinand Kirchhoff is looking for information
about workplace violence in social work, particularly training for social
workers in victimization-prone workplaces. Who has been or is currently
involved in research on workplace violence in social work or on prevention
of violence by clients against social workers? Who is aware of other work
in this area? What training programs are available to prepare social
workers for potentially dangerous confrontations? Please contact Gerd
Ferdinand Kirchhoff, Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and
Victimology, University of Applied Sciences Lower Rhineland, School of
Social Studies, Rheydter Strasse 232, 41065 Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Phone: [+49] 2161 186609, Fax: [+49] 2161 186633
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

2) RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS?
We would like to draw your attention to this one-day conference, Friday
December 1, 2000 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, organised by NSCR (Ministry
of Justice / Leyden University), Paul Scholten Instituut, Eggens Instituut
(Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam).
On paper, crime victims enjoy more and more rights. However, crime victims'
rights seem to lack clearly stated systematic backgrounds and such rights
are far from being fully realised as well. At the same time, meaning and
justification of criminal law and punishment are in a long-standing state
of crisis. May criminal law be better based on public solidarity with
victims' rights to reparation? Principles of restorative justice may be of
great importance in criminal law practice, as such principles may more
adequately guide officials' and others' conduct toward victims of crime.
Speakers (a.o): MARTIN WRIGHT (author of reference works like Justice For
Victims And Offenders en Restoring Respect For Justice: A Symposium), EZZAT
FATTAH (one of the founding fathers of restorative justice), MARC
GROENHUIJSEN (President of the Research Committee of the World Society Of
Victimology), YBO BURUMA (prominent skeptic concerning victims' rights in
criminal law), B.P.R. GERSONS (psychiatrist, specialised in crime victims'
traumas etc.), and a high representative of the YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL IN THE
HAGUE, + (forum) discussion.
Conference fee: 125 gulden / 65 EURO (book, to be published in 2001, is extra)
Information and booking (no guaranteed admission after November 15, 2000)
at the following e-mail address: [log in to unmask] or Tel. [+31] (0)20
5253410, Fax [+31] (0)20 5253307, University of Amsterdam, Eggens
Institute, P.O. Box 1030, NL 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Yours sincerely

The IVW Team
IVW - Your Victimology Knowledge Link

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