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Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Colleagues,
this is to inform you
about some recent News, selected
from a larger pool of messages that have reached me during the
last weeks.
You will find these
pieces of information below, after
my signature.
With best greetings
Hans-J. Kerner
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(1)
International
Perspectives on Crime Prevention
The
next Annual
International Forum of Crime
Prevention, in English language, will take place in the
German City of
Magdeburg, http://www.praeventionstag.de/nano.cms/international
on
the occasion of the 21st
German Congress on Crime Prevention on the 6th and 7th of June
2016. General
Homepage in German: http://www.praeventionstag.de/nano.cms/jahreskongress
The GCCP has
published AIF
Conference Reports.
The PDF-Versions of the up to now
7 Volumes can be downloaded free of charge under the
following URL: http://www.praeventionstag.de/nano.cms/publications
(2)
What is “Big Data” all
about: Free of Charge recent
articles offered by Sage
Details are to be found in
the attached Word-File on
Big Data and Society
(3)
International US-Project
on Comparative Criminal
History Information Systems.
Details of the call for
participation are to be found
in the attached Word File on BJS-Solicitation
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(4)
Corrective
Services, Australia, December Quarter 2015 |
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has
recently released Corrective
Services, Australia, December Quarter 2015. This quarterly report presents
information for each state and territory. Information
available includes: sex; age; imprisonment rates;
legal status (sentenced, unsentenced); type of custody
(secure, open); sentenced receptions; federal
prisoners and type of community-based corrective
services orders. |
(5)
“Must-Read Articles”
2015 in Social Sciences,
Psychology, Education, and Philosophy
Springer Scientific
Publishing is offering free of
charge selected articles taken from some of its Scholarly
Journals in 2015.
More details are to be found under:
http://www.springer.com/gp/marketing/change-the-world/life-sciences-and-biomedicine/7820736
I hope this will run
correctly, irrespective of the seemingly
erroneous title of the hyperlink
(6)
International Law
Exchange Service: ILES in Tuebingen
Are you interested in
exchanging views about legal and
policy issues regarding criminal law, penal procedure, juvenile
justice,
criminal court organization, constitutional and human rights
questions of crime
control etc.?
Then you may like to join
the ILES-net under:
https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/juristische-fakultaet/einrichtungen/institut-fuer-kriminologie/forschung/iles.html
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(7) Digitized
Books and other Documents on Criminology, Criminal
Justice and other Issues |
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The division of
“DigiKrimDok” has been launched in Tuebingen as part of
the nation-wide literature dissemination and information
service FID-Kriminologie, as funded by the German
Research Association. It is a free of charge accessible
Repository on
out-of-print Publications, including Journals like
the International Annals of Criminology. You can find
there, and start also therein Full-Text Search
Procedures under: http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/digitue/krimdok/ For the time
being, only parts of the homepage´s surface are
available in English. If you would like, however, to
start a full-text
search in any of the volumes (also in whole series
of journal volumes) in English Language, please look for the bar
“Volltextsuche” and punch in your query there in English
terms! An additional
collection of electronic CCJ-documents in
PDF-Version can be accessed under: https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/56358?locale-attribute=en (8) KrimDok-Literature
Database: Launch of a fully overhauled new system The Tuebingen Criminology and
Criminal Justice Literature Database has for many
years been part of the German resp. Interregional
Information Exchange and Publication Loan Service
system, financially supported by the German Research
Association. Due to a special fund of the GRA for the
newly established FID-Kriminologie, the whole
database-system has been overhauled. You will find there some 240,000 entries,
concerning primordially publications in German and
English, but also publications in French, Spanish,
Italian and a few other languages. In case of interest,
please check the New KrimDok under: https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/ At the upper-right corner of the homepage,
you can click on the bar “Sprache” and change it to
the English language version. (9) Conferences,
Symposiums, Seminars, Workshops from May to November,
2016. See the attached documents / call for
papers on the topics of ·
Europol
Privacy, Encryption, Anonymity: May 2016·
·
Victim
Support in Europe:
May 2016 ·
Restorative
Justice in Europe:
June 2016 ·
Family
Violence and Child Victimization: July 2016 ·
Deviance,
Crime, Social Control and Criminal Justice: September 2016 (Doctoral Summer School
GERN) ·
Crisis,
Economy, Punishment:
September 2016 ·
Forensic
Science and Criminalistics Research:
November 2016
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