Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention
University of Wollongong
CALL FOR PAPERS
Illicit Networks Workshop
14-15 December 2009
The Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia is holding a workshop over two days to look at the subject of Illicit Networks. Paper abstract submissions are invited from scholars and practitioners interested in participating and presenting at the workshop.
A number of respected international academics have been invited and have agreed to participate as keynote presenters. Professor Carlo Morselli (University of Montreal) - the author of Contacts Opportunities and Criminal Enterprise (2005) and Inside Criminal Networks (2008) will provide one of the keynote presentations, as will Professor Michael Kenney (Pennsylvania State University), the author of From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation (2007).
The workshop aims to explore illicit networks adopting a multi-disciplinary perspective. It thus will draw on participant expertise in diverse areas such as criminology, political science, social network analysis, social psychology and sociology. The event will be open to interested parties from academia and government.
Themes on which papers can be submitted include
• Social network analysis – theoretical developments
• Methodological issues
• Case studies of criminal networks
• Case studies of terrorist networks
• Network evolution and new technologies
• Comparing terrorist and criminal networks
• Network analysis and intelligence-led policing
• Limits of network analysis for criminal intelligence and law enforcement purposes
Please submit your paper title and abstract (200 words max) to Professor Andrew Goldsmith, [log in to unmask]; telephone 02 4252-8025.
Please copy your submission to Ms Colleen Barton: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for title and abstract submissions: 20 September 2009. Successful presenters will be notified on/about 1 October.
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Professor David S. Wall,
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies,
School of Law,
University of Leeds.
Leeds.
LS2 9JT UK
+ 44 (0)113 343 5023 / 5033
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