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A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
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A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Orthodox Christian celebration of the birth of the Virgin Mary.
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
LAW AND CITIZENSHIP BEYOND THE STATE
Lisbon, Portugal
September 10 - 13, 2018
We will discuss, among other topics of sociology of law and justice, the contribution of law to the power of citizens, at a time of increasing competition between state law, once the main source of people’s rights, and multiple global and local normativities (see our call, open from 15 October to 15 December 2017).
The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL , which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra), CICS.NOVA (Braga, Lisbon), CIES (ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), and CRIA (Lisbon, Braga), as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science, for this meeting to be itself, as far as possible, an experience of citizenry beyond the states.
The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee.
For more information, please visit https://www.rcsl-sdj-lisbon2018.com/
Jewish New Year. A time of introspection, abstinence, prayer and penitence. The story of Abraham is read, the ram's horn is sounded, and special foods are prepared and shared Begins at sundown the day before.
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
LAW AND CITIZENSHIP BEYOND THE STATE
Lisbon, Portugal
September 10 - 13, 2018
We will discuss, among other topics of sociology of law and justice, the contribution of law to the power of citizens, at a time of increasing competition between state law, once the main source of people’s rights, and multiple global and local normativities (see our call, open from 15 October to 15 December 2017).
The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL , which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra), CICS.NOVA (Braga, Lisbon), CIES (ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), and CRIA (Lisbon, Braga), as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science, for this meeting to be itself, as far as possible, an experience of citizenry beyond the states.
The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee.
For more information, please visit https://www.rcsl-sdj-lisbon2018.com/
Jewish New Year. A time of introspection, abstinence, prayer and penitence. The story of Abraham is read, the ram's horn is sounded, and special foods are prepared and shared Begins at sundown the day before.
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
2018 Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference
“Making a Difference about Crime and Criminal Justice”
September 12-15, 2018
Pensacola Beach, Florida
It’s back to the beach! We will be going to beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida in 2018.
The Hilton – Pensacola Beach Gulf Front Hotel.
The deadline for proposals is July 15, 2018.
Program Chair: Dr. John Stogner (JohnStogner@uncc.edu)
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.southerncj.org/conference/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
LAW AND CITIZENSHIP BEYOND THE STATE
Lisbon, Portugal
September 10 - 13, 2018
We will discuss, among other topics of sociology of law and justice, the contribution of law to the power of citizens, at a time of increasing competition between state law, once the main source of people’s rights, and multiple global and local normativities (see our call, open from 15 October to 15 December 2017).
The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL , which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra), CICS.NOVA (Braga, Lisbon), CIES (ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), and CRIA (Lisbon, Braga), as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science, for this meeting to be itself, as far as possible, an experience of citizenry beyond the states.
The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee.
For more information, please visit https://www.rcsl-sdj-lisbon2018.com/
Jewish New Year. A time of introspection, abstinence, prayer and penitence. The story of Abraham is read, the ram's horn is sounded, and special foods are prepared and shared Begins at sundown the day before.
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
The emigration of Muhammad and his followers to Medina in 615 c.e
2018 Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference
“Making a Difference about Crime and Criminal Justice”
September 12-15, 2018
Pensacola Beach, Florida
It’s back to the beach! We will be going to beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida in 2018.
The Hilton – Pensacola Beach Gulf Front Hotel.
The deadline for proposals is July 15, 2018.
Program Chair: Dr. John Stogner (JohnStogner@uncc.edu)
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.southerncj.org/conference/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
LAW AND CITIZENSHIP BEYOND THE STATE
Lisbon, Portugal
September 10 - 13, 2018
We will discuss, among other topics of sociology of law and justice, the contribution of law to the power of citizens, at a time of increasing competition between state law, once the main source of people’s rights, and multiple global and local normativities (see our call, open from 15 October to 15 December 2017).
The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL , which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra), CICS.NOVA (Braga, Lisbon), CIES (ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), and CRIA (Lisbon, Braga), as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science, for this meeting to be itself, as far as possible, an experience of citizenry beyond the states.
The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee.
For more information, please visit https://www.rcsl-sdj-lisbon2018.com/
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A Hindu festival honoring the god of prosperity, prudence and success. Images of Ganesha are worshipped.
2018 Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference
“Making a Difference about Crime and Criminal Justice”
September 12-15, 2018
Pensacola Beach, Florida
It’s back to the beach! We will be going to beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida in 2018.
The Hilton – Pensacola Beach Gulf Front Hotel.
The deadline for proposals is July 15, 2018.
Program Chair: Dr. John Stogner (JohnStogner@uncc.edu)
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.southerncj.org/conference/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
Jain 8 day festival signifying human emergence into a new world of spiritual and moral refinement. Marked by recitations from Jain sacred writing and family exchange of cards and letters. Celebration of the natural qualities of the soul. The 8th day (Samvatsari) is most important and is focused on forgiveness.
2018 Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference
“Making a Difference about Crime and Criminal Justice”
September 12-15, 2018
Pensacola Beach, Florida
It’s back to the beach! We will be going to beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida in 2018.
The Hilton – Pensacola Beach Gulf Front Hotel.
The deadline for proposals is July 15, 2018.
Program Chair: Dr. John Stogner (JohnStogner@uncc.edu)
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.southerncj.org/conference/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
International Community Corrections Association Annual Conference - "Doing What Works!" The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Registratrion at: https://www.iccalive.org/icca/2018-attendee-registration/
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
International Community Corrections Association Annual Conference - "Doing What Works!" The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Registratrion at: https://www.iccalive.org/icca/2018-attendee-registration/
The International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners (ISCPP) Pre-Symposium events will present a three-day International Crime Prevention Specialist (ICPS) Training on September 17-19, 2018, that will culminate with the ISCPP’s ICPS Test. The training will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada.
The three-day Training will give attendees a solid foundation of crime prevention knowledge and the resources and network contacts to continue their study after the Training. It won’t make you an instant crime prevention expert – that takes years of study and fieldwork – but it will give you the basics and the resources so you can continue to learn and improve!
This training is open to anyone interested in learning more about crime prevention including crime prevention officers, crime prevention specialists, unit supervisors, volunteers, neighborhood watch coordinators, loss prevention managers and security professionals.
The cost of the training is $325 USD, 425 CAD per person and includes 3 days of training, testing & test fees, the 300 page ICPS Crime Prevention Curriculum and a one-year membership per attendee to the ISCPP.
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.iscpp.org/
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
International Community Corrections Association Annual Conference - "Doing What Works!" The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Registratrion at: https://www.iccalive.org/icca/2018-attendee-registration/
The International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners (ISCPP) Pre-Symposium events will present a three-day International Crime Prevention Specialist (ICPS) Training on September 17-19, 2018, that will culminate with the ISCPP’s ICPS Test. The training will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada.
The three-day Training will give attendees a solid foundation of crime prevention knowledge and the resources and network contacts to continue their study after the Training. It won’t make you an instant crime prevention expert – that takes years of study and fieldwork – but it will give you the basics and the resources so you can continue to learn and improve!
This training is open to anyone interested in learning more about crime prevention including crime prevention officers, crime prevention specialists, unit supervisors, volunteers, neighborhood watch coordinators, loss prevention managers and security professionals.
The cost of the training is $325 USD, 425 CAD per person and includes 3 days of training, testing & test fees, the 300 page ICPS Crime Prevention Curriculum and a one-year membership per attendee to the ISCPP.
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.iscpp.org/
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
International Community Corrections Association Annual Conference - "Doing What Works!" The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Registratrion at: https://www.iccalive.org/icca/2018-attendee-registration/
The International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners (ISCPP) Pre-Symposium events will present a three-day International Crime Prevention Specialist (ICPS) Training on September 17-19, 2018, that will culminate with the ISCPP’s ICPS Test. The training will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada.
The three-day Training will give attendees a solid foundation of crime prevention knowledge and the resources and network contacts to continue their study after the Training. It won’t make you an instant crime prevention expert – that takes years of study and fieldwork – but it will give you the basics and the resources so you can continue to learn and improve!
This training is open to anyone interested in learning more about crime prevention including crime prevention officers, crime prevention specialists, unit supervisors, volunteers, neighborhood watch coordinators, loss prevention managers and security professionals.
The cost of the training is $325 USD, 425 CAD per person and includes 3 days of training, testing & test fees, the 300 page ICPS Crime Prevention Curriculum and a one-year membership per attendee to the ISCPP.
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.iscpp.org/
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
Jewish Day of Atonement. This holiest day of the Jewish year is observed with strict fasting and ceremonial repentance.
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
International Community Corrections Association Annual Conference - "Doing What Works!" The Westin Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Registratrion at: https://www.iccalive.org/icca/2018-attendee-registration/
Our 34th International Crime Prevention Symposium being held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada September 20-21, 2018.
Register for one of our Symposium or a Pre-Symposium courses + Symposium Combo package here.
Pricing for the Symposium and Combo packages (prices listed USD/CAD)
ICPS Training - $325 / C$425
2-Day Symposium - Early Bird (thru April 1, 2018) - $250 / C$300
ICPS + 2-Day Symposium - Early Bird (thru April 1, 2018) - $500 / C$625
2-Day Symposium (after April 1, 2018) - $275 / C$350
ICPS + 2-Day Symposium (after April 1, 2018) - $600 / C$725
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.iscpp.org/2018SymposiumRegistrationandComboRegistration
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Our 34th International Crime Prevention Symposium being held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada September 20-21, 2018.
Register for one of our Symposium or a Pre-Symposium courses + Symposium Combo package here.
Pricing for the Symposium and Combo packages (prices listed USD/CAD)
ICPS Training - $325 / C$425
2-Day Symposium - Early Bird (thru April 1, 2018) - $250 / C$300
ICPS + 2-Day Symposium - Early Bird (thru April 1, 2018) - $500 / C$625
2-Day Symposium (after April 1, 2018) - $275 / C$350
ICPS + 2-Day Symposium (after April 1, 2018) - $600 / C$725
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.iscpp.org/2018SymposiumRegistrationandComboRegistration
Treatment of Illicit Drug Users (JICA Name: “Treatment of Offenders (Focus on Prison, Probation, and Parole)")
Duration and venue: Five-weeks in Tokyo, Japan
Target: Criminal justice or law enforcement officers (police, prosecution, judiciary, corrections, probation, parole, or other relevant agencies) who are involved in the treatment of offenders including drug users or who work in drug control agencies.
Main theme:Treatment of illicit drug users to prevent relapse Objective: To explore and share knowledge of effective measures and practices for desistance from drug use
Possible Topics:
1. Current situation of illicit drug use (types of drugs, number of drug users and legal framework to deal with drug users)
2. Background of drug use (risk/needs factors, social background etc.)
3. Measures for desistance from using illicit drugs (programmes for drug users in institutional and community settings and multiagency cooperation to treat drug users)
4. Legal framework and measures to address illicit drug use (various diversion programmes for drug users as alternatives to prosecution, treatment programmes in correctional facilities)
For more information please visit http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/
An Islamic optional one day fast. The Shia observance is based on the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's Grandson, Hussein, martyred on this date in 683/684 AD at the battle of Kerbala. Sunni observance is a recognition of Moses fasting in gratitude to Allah/God for liberation from oppression.
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Prison University Project
Call for Paper Proposals: Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reform: 21st Century Solutions for 20th Century Problems
San Quentin, CA
October 5, 2018
Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reform: 21st Century Solutions for 20th Century Problems On October 5, the Prison University Project will host an academic conference at San Quentin State Prison in which incarcerated students and outside scholars will exchange ideas about “Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reform.” We welcome proposals for individual papers (20 minutes in length) and full panels. As far as we know, this will be the first-ever academic conference located inside a prison in the U.S., and we are eager to broker a dialogue in which academic scholarship and those within the sphere of the criminal justice system support and improve one another.
For more information please visit http://www.asc41.com/caw-cfp%20attachments/ASC_CAW_PUP-2018.pdf or https://prisonuniversityproject.org/
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
TWELFTH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Criminal Justice and Security in Central & Eastern Europe
September 25 - 27, 2018
Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Biennial International Conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe is subtitled From Common Sense to Evidence-based Policy-making and will address current challenges related to policy-making in criminal justice and security. To ensure effective implementation of security and safety, reforms, strategies, and policies ought to be driven by knowledge, facts, identified problems, and research expertise. With the aim to identify good policy making and policing practices this years proposed Conference theme covers a wide range of topics related to the policing strategies and criminal justice policy development, implementation, reforms, and research.
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.fvv.um.si/conf2018/index.html
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
TWELFTH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Criminal Justice and Security in Central & Eastern Europe
September 25 - 27, 2018
Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Biennial International Conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe is subtitled From Common Sense to Evidence-based Policy-making and will address current challenges related to policy-making in criminal justice and security. To ensure effective implementation of security and safety, reforms, strategies, and policies ought to be driven by knowledge, facts, identified problems, and research expertise. With the aim to identify good policy making and policing practices this years proposed Conference theme covers a wide range of topics related to the policing strategies and criminal justice policy development, implementation, reforms, and research.
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.fvv.um.si/conf2018/index.html
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
TWELFTH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Criminal Justice and Security in Central & Eastern Europe
September 25 - 27, 2018
Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Biennial International Conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe is subtitled From Common Sense to Evidence-based Policy-making and will address current challenges related to policy-making in criminal justice and security. To ensure effective implementation of security and safety, reforms, strategies, and policies ought to be driven by knowledge, facts, identified problems, and research expertise. With the aim to identify good policy making and policing practices this years proposed Conference theme covers a wide range of topics related to the policing strategies and criminal justice policy development, implementation, reforms, and research.
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.fvv.um.si/conf2018/index.html
The 2018 Midwestern Criminal Justice Association conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28, 2018. To submit your abstract for an individual paper presentation or roundtable session, please follow this link: https://www.mcja.org/abstract-submission.html.
Midwestern Criminal Justice Association Annual Meeting 2018
September 27-28, 2018
Hilton Garden Inn Chicago
Downtown/Magnificent Mile
10 E. Grand Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(312) 595-0000
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.mcja.org/annual-meeting.html
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
The 2018 Midwestern Criminal Justice Association conference will take place on Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28, 2018. To submit your abstract for an individual paper presentation or roundtable session, please follow this link: https://www.mcja.org/abstract-submission.html.
Midwestern Criminal Justice Association Annual Meeting 2018
September 27-28, 2018
Hilton Garden Inn Chicago
Downtown/Magnificent Mile
10 E. Grand Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(312) 595-0000
For more information or to register, please visit https://www.mcja.org/annual-meeting.html
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
It is our pleasure to invite you to the IX Annual Conference of the Victimology Society of Serbia New and Old Forms of Victimization: Challenges for Victimology Theory and Practice, which will be held on 29th and 30th November 2018 in Belgrade.
Within the main Conference topic, the focus will be on reconsidering and reimagining new and old forms of victimization, their characteristics and social responses to them, particularly in the context of the development of new technologies, globalization and fast social and economic changes.
The keynote speakers are:
Prof. dr Robert Peacock: Emerging victimisation patterns: A critical appraisal of conceptual theoretical frameworks with reference to the uniqueness of local context, generalizability and praxis in a globalized world
Prof. dr Anabel Cerezo: Understanding Cyber Teen Dating Abuse
Prof. dr May-Len Skilbrei: Transnational crimes, perpetrators and victims: How mobility challenges victim support and prosecution
Prof. dr Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović: Violence against women and teaching at higher education institutions in Serbia
Prof. dr Nevena Petrusic: Research of the practice of Serbian courts in the processing of domestic violence cases: methodological approaches and achieved results
Prof. dr Sladjana Jovanovic: New criminal justice responses of the Republic of Serbia on violence against women
Doc. dr Natalija Zunic: Research of the practice of Serbian courts in the processing of domestic violence cases: methodological approaches and achieved results
Dr Sanja Copic: Development of the legislative and institutional framework for the support and protection of women victims of violence
Dr Tanja Ignjatovic: Violence against women by child misuse: challenges in assessments and interventions
More information about conference, registration form and call for abstract you could find on the following link: http://www.vds.rs/DevetaGKVDS_RegistracioniListEng.htm and http://www.vds.rs/DevetaGKVDS_PozivZaDostavljanjeApstrakataEng.htm
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
It is our pleasure to invite you to the IX Annual Conference of the Victimology Society of Serbia New and Old Forms of Victimization: Challenges for Victimology Theory and Practice, which will be held on 29th and 30th November 2018 in Belgrade.
Within the main Conference topic, the focus will be on reconsidering and reimagining new and old forms of victimization, their characteristics and social responses to them, particularly in the context of the development of new technologies, globalization and fast social and economic changes.
The keynote speakers are:
Prof. dr Robert Peacock: Emerging victimisation patterns: A critical appraisal of conceptual theoretical frameworks with reference to the uniqueness of local context, generalizability and praxis in a globalized world
Prof. dr Anabel Cerezo: Understanding Cyber Teen Dating Abuse
Prof. dr May-Len Skilbrei: Transnational crimes, perpetrators and victims: How mobility challenges victim support and prosecution
Prof. dr Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović: Violence against women and teaching at higher education institutions in Serbia
Prof. dr Nevena Petrusic: Research of the practice of Serbian courts in the processing of domestic violence cases: methodological approaches and achieved results
Prof. dr Sladjana Jovanovic: New criminal justice responses of the Republic of Serbia on violence against women
Doc. dr Natalija Zunic: Research of the practice of Serbian courts in the processing of domestic violence cases: methodological approaches and achieved results
Dr Sanja Copic: Development of the legislative and institutional framework for the support and protection of women victims of violence
Dr Tanja Ignjatovic: Violence against women by child misuse: challenges in assessments and interventions
More information about conference, registration form and call for abstract you could find on the following link: http://www.vds.rs/DevetaGKVDS_RegistracioniListEng.htm and http://www.vds.rs/DevetaGKVDS_PozivZaDostavljanjeApstrakataEng.htm
A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has established that gender is one of the strongest, and most persistent, correlates of criminal offending and victimization. This association holds across time and across space. Additionally, gender and gendered views can shape law making itself, influencing the criminalization and stigmatization of behaviors, which can further integrate gendered cultural structures and offending. Simply, if one wants to understand crime (be it offending, victimization, or criminalization), one must understand its gendered nature. [...]
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/Gender_Crime_Criminal_Justice
The submission deadline is 30 December 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (socsci@mdpi.com).
Social Sciences is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. We are very pleased to announce that Social Sciences has been accepted for funding by the Knowledge Unlatched initiative (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org). The Article Processing Charges (350 CHF) for papers published in the journal are fully covered via the Knowledge Unlatched crowd-funding mechanism. Please note this is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors in the humanities and social sciences fields publishing in open access format.
For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions).
Calls for Submissions to a Special Issue of the
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Making Rights Real: Rights Protection for Crime Victims
Special Issue Editors: Prof. Paul Cassell, Dr. Robyn Holder, A/Prof. Tyrone Kirchengast
Since the 1985 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, countries have legislated to recognize the special status of victims within criminal procedures and to set out the basic obligations of police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to respond. Alongside legislated legal reforms, civil society groups have pressed for greater recognition of and protections for specific victimized populations to enable access to justice. At their introduction, rights instruments were faulted as soft law and lacking enforcement provisions. Rights for victims, it was said, were not ‘real’. However, while there have been advances in many areas, there has been no comprehensive compilation of scholarship on contemporary practice in the promotion, protection, and enforcement of rights for crime victims.
The Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (IJCACJ) aims to fill this gap in the academic literature by bringing together research on these dispersed activities in one volume. It will comprise a comprehensive and comparative review of existing crime victims’ regimes, critical reflection on their efficacy, and suggestions for future reforms. Contributors from different countries and different legal systems are invited to submit articles (6000 words) that are conceptual and/or empirical. Data-driven pieces may be quantitative or qualitative or mixed. The Special Issue will pay particular attention to existing practices with a view to influencing future policy and law reform. In order to paint this comprehensive but pragmatic picture, contributions will examine (but not be limited to):
· Strategic litigation
· Human rights as framework for victims’ rights
· Civil society advocacy
· Statutory rights protecting entities
· Strengths and limitations of policy directives
· Deploying third-party legal mechanisms
· New roles for private counsel for victims
· Commissions of inquiries and law reform
Submission Instructions
Contributions should be submitted directly to the IJCACJ through ScholarOne with the subject line as Special Issue: Victim Rights. Each article will be reviewed by ‘blind’ peer assessors selected by the IJCACJ in their usual process. Guest editors will offer a preliminary review of contributions. Publication is not automatic. Contributions for the special issue will comply with the IJCACJ guidelines. The deadline for all contributions is 1st March 2019 with a view to online publication in December 2019.
Further information is available at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/rcac-si-making-rights-real
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Eleni (St. Helenea) in the 4th century a.d.
