Ladies and Gentlemen,
dear Colleagues,
this time I am having 3 pieces of information for you.
(1) Crime and Culture:
Within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union Commission,
there is an ongoing International Research Project on "Crime as a
Cultural Problem". In the core the participants are dealing with the
phenomenon and the cultural determinants of corruption, including the
relevance of perceptions of corruption to crime prevention.
The project pertains to the "EU-Accession States Bulgaria and Romania,
the EU-Candidate States Turkey and Croatia, and the EU-States Germany,
Greece and the United Kingdom". On its main website you can have access,
inter alia, to interesting publications, a discussion paper series, and
the project Newsletter. If you are interested, please turn your browser
to: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/crimeandculture/
(2) Designing out Crime:
The European Desgning out Crime Association (E-DOCA) and the Dutch
foundation "Stichting Veilig Ontwerp en Beheer" (SVOB) are running,
inter alia, a special information service on events and publications,
partly in Dutch, partly in English. In particular, there is a section on
"International E-DOCA-news", e.g. relating the reader to news about
planning, crime and urban sustainability, or on promoting safer
communities through physical design, or on social inclusion and crime
prevention through environmental design. If you are interested, please
turn your browser to: http://www.e-doca.eu/files_uk/index_uk.html
(3) East Asian Value Surveys
Henk Vinken, working with ZUMA in Mannheim, has been publishing a
working paper on the topic of "East Asian Value Surveys. Making a Case
for East-Asian-Origin Values Survey Concepts" (ZUMA Working Paper No.
1006/05). Under comparative perspective he is dealing therein with the
complex problems of whether or not there is really a significant
difference between Western and Eastern values, and what this may imply
for comparative surveys. Fields of study dealt with in some detail are
Family Life, Work, Religion, Politics, Life Domains, Universalism vs.
Particularism, and Individualism vs. Collectivism. Maybe I think instead
of Collectivisms one could prefer the term Communitarism. However, if
you are interested to get a copy of that paper, you can download a
PDF-File under:
http://www.gesis.org/Publikationen/Berichte/ZUMA_Arbeitsberichte/06/AB_06_05abs.htm
As the individualism/collectivism issue is being concerned I took a
table in the working paper where Henk Vinken condenses data as collected
an then published by G. Hofstede in his 2001 book on "CultureĀ“s
Consequences. Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and
Organizations Across Nations" (Beverly Hills: Sage). There 20 nations
are being represented. For the sake of getting a kind of "rank ordered"
picture out of the alphabetically ordered data I transformed VinkenĀ“s
table into an Excel graph; you will find it as attachement.
In case you would like to discuss the matter, please do not address
myself. I am by no means a specialist. Please conctact directly Henk
Vinken. You will find his mailing address on the front page of
ZUMA-Working Paper 2006/05.
With best regards,
Hans-J. Kerner
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University of Tuebingen
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