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Ladies and Gentlemen,
dear Colleagues!

Today I would like to alert you to a couple of recent publications, to some upcoming conferences, and to a new french Master Programme in Criminology.
Please find details below, after my signature.
With best regards,
Hans-J. Kerner
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Hans-Juergen Kerner
Listserv Mananger, Criminology_CriminalJustice_News
Professor and Director, Institute of Criminology
University of Tuebingen
Sand 7, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Phone: +49-7071-297 29 31 // Fax: +49-7071-29 51 04
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Homepage: http://www.ifk.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/
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(1) Drug Use among Youth in the U.S.A.: JuvJust Publication

Survey Finds Increased Youth Substance Abuse in Single-Parent Households
According to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, past year substance abuse for youth living in households with a single parent was greater than for youth living with two parents.

The report "Parent Awareness of Youth Use of Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Marijuana,"
which draws on data from the National Survey on Drug Use & Health, also noted that:

* Fathers in two-parent households were more likely than fathers in father-only households to be aware of their child's substance abuse over the past year

  • Within one-parent households, substance abuse for youth was generally higher in father-only households than in mother-only households.
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    (2) Recent British Studies on Perceptions of  Policing and on the Nature of Specific Crimes

    The following have been posted by RDS 

    "Home Office Statistical Bulletin 06/08 - Circumstances of crime, Neighbourhood Watch membership and perceptions of policing: Supplementary Volume 3 to Crime in England and Wales 2006/07"

    "Crime in England and Wales 2006/07: Supplementary Tables: Nature of burglary, vehicle-related theft, personal and other household theft, vandalism, and violent crime"

    and can be downloaded via http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html

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    (3) Australian Study on Compensation for Wrongful Convictions
     
    The Australian Institute of Criminology has recently released the following publication:
Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice paper. no. 356:
Compensation for wrongful conviction
Adrian Hoel
This paper, Compensation for wrongful conviction, examines the causes and effects of wrongful imprisonment, the prevalence of wrongful conviction in Australia, and the applicability of international approaches and conventions.
It can be downloaded via: 
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi356.html


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(4) COMPREHENSIVE  NEW STUDY CHALLENGING EXPERT CONSENSUS FINDS INCIDENCE OF TERRORISM DECLINING AROUND THE WORLD.
    Terrorism Fatalities Decline as Muslim Support for al-Qaeda Terror Network Plummets
    Number of Wars and Death Tolls in Africa Down Dramatically Since 1999


    NEW YORK, May 21, 2008—Challenging the expert consensus that the threat of global terrorism is increasing, a new report from the Canadian research team that produced the much-cited Human Security Report in 2005, reveals a sharp net decline in the incidence of terrorist violence around the world.

    The Human Security Brief 2007 demonstrates that:

    • Fatalities from terrorism have declined by some 40 percent, while the loose-knit terror network associated with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has suffered a dramatic collapse in popular support throughout the Muslim world.
    • There has been an extraordinary, but largely unnoticed, positive change in sub-Saharan Africa’s security landscape. The number of conflicts being waged in the region more than halved between 1999 and 2006; the combat toll dropped by 98 percent.
    • The decline in the total number of armed conflicts and combat deaths around the world that was reported three years ago in Human Security Report 2005 has continued.

    The Brief was produced by the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) research team at Simon Fraser University’s School for International Studies in Vancouver, Canada. The HSRP’s research is supported by the governments of Canada, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland and the UK.

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    (5) Inaugural Issue: Newsletter of the Centre for Criminal Justice, Queen Mary, University of London

    The inaugural issue of the newsletter of the Centre for Criminal Justice, Queen Mary, University of London contains contributions on the following topics: 

    Unaccounted Wealth and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by Peter Alldridge
    Miscarriages of Justice: A Tour d’horizon by Richard Nobles and David Schiff
    The Interview: Lord David Ramsbotham ‘Management, not Managerialism!’ by Leonidas K. Cheliotis
    Book Review: Who to Release? Parole, fairness and criminal justice Reviewed by Sally Chin

    In case you will be interested in this inaugural issue, or even eager to place a standing order for the newsletter, please turn to the editor, i.e.:
    Leonidas K. Cheliotis ( http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/cheliotis.html
     Lecturer (eq. Assistant Professor) in Criminology  & Deputy Director, Centre for Criminal Justice,   School of Law
     Queen Mary, University of London
    Mile End Road,
    London, E1 4NT, UK
    Tel: (+44) 020 7882 5134
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    (6) Justice Policy Journal, May 2008 issue
    This interesting electronic journal can be accessed under:

    http://www.cjcj.org/jpj/index.php

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(7)4th Annual North-South Conference in Criminology, 
Dublin, June 23 & 24, 2008
    Topic: Reflections on Irish Criminology North and South: Learning and Challenges for the Future.
    Information will be available on the website (www.dit.ie/nscc2008) in the next few days. Please note that we have limited places for this conference, so that while there is no registration fee for attending it is still important to register in advance in order to secure a place, and note that the closing date for registrations is Monday 9 June.

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    (8) 

    BRITISH SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY

    DEADLINE EXTENDED! NOW MONDAY 2 JUNE 2008!

    The Brian Williams Prize 2008

    Nominations are invited from members of the British Society of Criminology for the Brian Williams Prize 2008. The prize has been established this year to honour the memory of Dr. Brian Williams, who was Professor of Community Justice and Victimology at De Montfort University, and who died tragically in 2007.  The prize reflects the desire of the British Society of Criminology to encourage and recognise the achievements of new members of the criminology profession. It will be awarded to a “new” scholar who is the author of a criminological article published in a refereed academic journal during 2007. The winning article will be adjudged by the judging panel to meet the criteria for the award and to be the best such article published in that year (see below for detailed eligibility criteria). The Society reserves the right not to make the award if the judging panel considers that no nominated article is of sufficient merit to warrant the award. The prize, £250 in cash, will be awarded at the British Society of Criminology Conference 2008, to be held from 9 to 11 July at the University of Huddersfield.

    The judging panel will be looking for a journal article which shows evidence of particular distinction and/or innovation in methodology or theorising in the general field of criminology, or in the application of criminological theory or research to crime policy or penal practice. In essence, the winning article must make a valuable contribution to the further development of criminology.

    The general criteria for eligibility are as follows:

    Nomination forms can be downloaded from the BSC website at http://www.britsoccrim.org/. Applications should include the nominee’s BSC membership number and a brief CV plus one electronic, or four hard, copies of the nominated article.  Electronic copies are preferred – please only send hard copies if electronic copies are not available. If the article is nominated by someone other than its author, that person’s BSC membership number must also be included.

    All nominations and copies of the article should be submitted by Monday 2 June 2008 to:

    Professor Philip Stenning

    BSC Williams Prize Organiser,
    Centre for Criminological Research,

    School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work,
    Keele University,

    KEELE, Staffordshire ST5 5BG

    Tel: (01782) 583-597

    Or e-mailed to: [log in to unmask]


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    (9) New Master Programme in Criminology  (in French) at the University of Franche-Compté

    UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE COMTE,     SECTION DE SOCIOLOGIE ET D’ANTHROPOLOGIE

     MASTER SOCIOLOGIE

     SPECIALITE

     CRIMINOLOGIE

     Année 2008-2009

    Contact :

    E. SANSEIGNE, Secrétariat de Sociologie : [log in to unmask] Tel : 03 81 66 53 39

    J-M. BESSETTE, Responsable Master Crim. [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] Tel : 03 81 58 36 83

    La spécialité CRIMINOLOGIE qui s’ouvre à la prochaine rentrée universitaire (septembre 2008) dans le cadre du Master SHS, mention Sociologie à l’université de Franche-Comté se veut résolument transdisciplinaire. Elle réunit autour de « l’objet » crime des enseignants-chercheurs et des professionnels spécialisés sur les questions de normes, de déviance et de criminalité venant d’horizons divers - juristes, historiens, médecins, psychologues, sociologues, anthropologues… mais aussi magistrats, avocats, policiers, ou travailleurs sociaux spécialisés. Il s’agit d’apporter aux étudiants et à d’éventuels candidats dans le cadre de la formation continue, des outils tant théoriques que méthodologiques pouvant s’appliquer aux problématiques relatives aux faits de déviance, de délinquance ou de criminalité.

    Les compétences spécifiques acquises dans le cadre du Master CRIMINOLOGIE peuvent ouvrir aussi bien à la recherche (thèse de doctorat) qu’à des applications dans le cadre des politiques publiques, sociales ou de la ville.

    La spécialité est enseignée principalement  lors du semestre 3 du master (1er semestre, 2ème année)

    Et comprends 5 Unités d’enseignements (comprenant 24h de cours et 12h de TD, regroupés) :

    - UE Transversale (au choix : humanités, langues, outils informatiques)

    - UE Le Crime : aspects historiques (Histoire)

    - UE Le Crime : aspects juridiques (Droit)

    - UE Le Crime aspects étiologiques (Psychiatrie, médecine légale, psychologie)

    - UE Le Crime aspects socio-anthropologiques  (Sociologie et anthropologie)

     

    Conditions d’admission

    En 1ère année :

    -Titulaires d’une licence de sociologie

    Sur dossier et après entretien pour les titulaires d’une licence de

    -psychologie, histoire, droit, philosophie, autres à examiner…

     

    En 2è année :

    -titulaires de la 1ère année de Master Sociologie

    Sur dossier et après entretien pour les titulaires d’une première année de Master de

    -psychologie, histoire, droit, philosophie, autres à examiner…

    Sur dossier et après entretien pour :

    -professionnels qualifiés, magistrats, avocats, policiers, travailleurs sociaux, autres…