EuFoReC Newsletter – December2005 (sent on 9 December 2005)
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Dear Committee Members,
Please find some news, references and an event calendar below that might be useful in your work.
I am a little bit sad to inform you that I have finished my work and a fantastic 1.5 year at the Secretariat of the European Forum for Restorative Justice in Leuven. I moved back to Budapest (Hungary) where I am currently working on my PhD.
You can reach me anytime at
But there are two good news as well:
1) the final report of our AGIS project on implementing restorative justice in Central and Eastern Europe will be soon available on the website of the Forum (you will be informed about it by email);
2) thanks to the internet, as the chair of the Research Committee I will continue my activity in the same way as I have done before.
I wish you good luck for finishing everything that you have planned to finish by the end of the year, and some calm & relaxing days before starting a very successful new year!
Warmest regards,
Borcsa
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NEWS:
Visiting Fellows - Centre for Criminology
The Centre for Criminology invites applications for visiting fellowships from active research scholars who wish to participate in the intellectual life of the Centre. Applications are welcome from scholars in any field of criminology, although preference may be given to applicants whose research is related to the research programmes of the Centre (
Visiting Fellows are given a workspace and related facilities in the Centre, but there is no financial support associated with this position. Visiting Fellows are required to present at least one seminar on their research.
Application is by letter, curriculum vitae, and statement of proposed research, sent to Ms Jo Armitage, Administrator, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, ManorRoadBuilding, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ
(email: ).Informal enquiries are also welcome and can be made to the Director, Professor Ian Loader (email:
). The deadline for applications is Friday 10 March
2006 for the period October 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007. Applicants must specify whether they propose to visit during one or more of Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity terms. Applicants should be aware that some Oxford colleges advertise fellowships which could be held in conjunction with the Centre's visiting fellowship and offer additional benefits. Details can typically be found on college websites -
JOURNALS:
1. The Politics of Risk and Young Offenders’ Experiences of Social Exclusion and Restorative Justice
Article by Patricia Gray
British Journal of Criminology
November 2005; Vol. 45, No. 6: 938-957.
Abstract:
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 sets out a new framework for the governance of youth crime, with the primary aim of preventing criminality among young people by addressing the risk factors associated with offending. One of the main technologies of risk management is that of responsibilisation through restorative justice interventions. But the ethos of restorative justice envisages more than just holding young people responsible for their offending; it also professes a commitment to the restoration of victim–offender relations and the reintegration of young offenders into mainstream community life. However, in the prevailing penal climate, the principles of restorative justice have been narrowly interpreted to give undue weight to the responsibilisation of young offenders by challenging perceived deficits in their moral reasoning. The exclusionary socio-economic constraints that limit young offenders’ choices and ability to reintegrate have been obscured. The end result is that restorative justice has become harnessed to the interests of reinforcing ‘moral discipline’ rather than engaging with ‘social justice’. The argument is elaborated through the use of a recently completed research study conducted in the South-West of England, in which young offenders share, through in-depth interviews, their experiences of restorative justice and social exclusion.
BOOKS:
1.Findlay, Mark and Henham, Ralph (2005). Transforming International Criminal Justice: Retributive and Restorative Justice in the Trial Process. Devon, UK and Portland, OR: Willan Publishing.
This book sets out an agenda to transform international criminal trials delivering the international criminal justice (ICJ) to victim communities through argument for the harmonization of retributive and restorative justice within the international criminal trial.
An abstract can be read here:
Also Reviewed in the British Journal of Criminology, 2006 (46): 155-157 by Louise Mallinder.
2. The Blackwell Handbook of Mediation - Bridging Theory, Research and Practice
Edited By: Margaret Herrman, The Herrman Group
Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Management
This handbook invites readers who are interested in mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution to share the perspectives of experts in the field.
3. The First Fifty Years of Peace Research - A Survey and Interpretation
by David J. Dunn, Keele University, UK
Published by: Ashgate Publishing
More information:
Peace research first emerged as an explicit academic area of study in the 1950s. Assessing the evolution, status and significance of peace research after fifty years, this novel and comprehensive book is relevant not only to students of peace research, but also to the developing debates within international relations and security studies.
4. A World View of Criminal Justice
by Richard Vogler, University of Sussex, UK
Published by: Ashgate Publishing
Series: International and Comparative Criminal Justice
Criminal justice procedure is the bedrock of human rights. Surprisingly, however, in an era of unprecedented change in criminal justice around the world, it is often dismissed as technical and unimportant. This failure to take procedure seriously has a terrible cost, allowing reform to be driven by purely pragmatic considerations, cost-cutting or foreign influence. Current US political domination, for example, has produced a historic and global shift towards more adversarial procedure, which is widely misunderstood and inconsistently implemented. This book addresses such issues by bringing together a huge range of historical and contemporary research on criminal justice in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. It proposes a theory of procedure derived from the three great international trial modes of 'inquisitorial justice', 'adversarial justice' and 'popular justice'. This approach opens up the possibility of assessing criminal justice from a more objective standpoint, as well as providing a sourcebook for comparative study and practical reform around the world.
More information:
5. The Handbook of Dispute Resolution
By Moffitt, Michael L.(ed.) ; Bordone, Robert C.(ed.)
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The Handbook of Dispute Resolution contains the most current thinking about dispute resolution. It synthesizes more than thirty years of research into cogent, practitioner-focused chapters that assume no previous background in the field. At the same time, the book offers path-breaking research and theory that will interest those who have been immersed in the study or practice of dispute resolution for years. The Handbook also offers insights on how to understand disputants. It explores how personality factors, emotions, concerns about identity, relationship dynamics, and perceptions contribute to the escalation of disputes. The volume also explains some of the lessons available from viewing disputes through the lens of gender and cultural differences.
REPORTS:
1. The International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP)'s seventh international conference, "The Next Step, Building Restorative Communities, Part 1," was held November 9-11, 2005, in Manchester, England, and co-organized by the IIRP, Family Rights Group, and Real Justice UK & Ireland.
For the conference report, including a schedule, session descriptions and links to papers, please go to:
2. A report from the conference “Taking Fear Out of Schools” organised by the OECD, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, Directorate for
Primary and Secondary Education, and the University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway, 5-8 September 2004
The conference report edited by Elaine Munthe, Elin Solli, Elin Ytre-Arne & Erling Roland
(University of Stavanger, Centre for Behavioural Research) is now available.
Through the presentation of interesting projects conducted in Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, and Spain it reports about the potential of mediation in schools in preventing/handling school bullying and violence.
Please write to , if you would like to receive the full text of the report.
EVENTS:
1. COST Workshop on Data recording on Victim-Offender-Mediation and Restorative Justice cases in Europe
15–16 December 2005, Bremen
Organised by Prof. Dr. Arthur Hartmann
2. February 28, 2006, Annual Conference of the Mediation UK, Conversations on Difference and Diversity, Liverpool. communities.
For more information, please visit
3. March 3-6, 2006, Fourth Viennese Conference on Mediation, “Culture meets culture”
“The ‘new’ discontent with culture”, Europahaus, Vienna.
For more information, please visit
4. March 7-9, 2006, “International ConferenceonRestorative Conferencing - Shifting the power to young people, families, victims and neighbourhoods”. Venue: Hilton Hotel, Lanyon Place, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hosted by the Youth Justice Agency of Northern Ireland, Youth Conference Service.
5. Blueprints Conference to Disseminate Science-based Information
On March 13-15, 2006, inDenver, CO, the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence will hold the 2006 Blueprints Conference. The goal of the conference is to disseminate science-based information on youth violence, delinquency, and drug prevention programs.
Speakers will include J. Robert Flores, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Delbert S. Elliott, Executive Director, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence; and J. David Hawkins, Founding Director, Social Development Research Group.
Further information about the conference and to register online, please visit the conference web site at
6. March 16, 2006, PositiveConflict Resolution - Mediation and Community Development in Scotland, Edinburgh Conference Centre, HeriotWattUniversity, Edinburgh.
For more information, please visit
7. March 22-24, 2006, The Fourth American Symposium on Victimology, Sam Houston State University, USA.
For more information, please visit
8. March 29-31, 2006, "Peace-Based Development", a Seminar Presented by The International Education for Peace Institute (EFP-International) and Education for Peace Balkans (EFP-Balkans) at Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For more information, please visit or email to
9. May 3-5, 11th German National VOM Conference "Enhancing the Dialogue - Promoting Peace Under The Law", Mainz, Germany.
For more information, please visit
10. June 4-10, 2006, World Society of Victimology 12th International Symposium on Victimology "Victims and Diversity: Partnership and Synergism." at Fresno, California, USA.
For more information, please email to .
11. The Fourth Conference of the European Forum will take place in Barcelona on 15-17 June 2006.
More info:
12. First Annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium
The Symposium will be held June 15-17 at the University of Stockholm.
Registered participants in the Symposium will be invited to the Nobel Prize Banquet Room at StockholmCity Hall to witness the presentation of the First Stockholm Criminology Prize and the Prize-Winner's Address at 5 pm on June 15.
The Symposium welcomes panels and individual papers submitted on the theme of “recognizing knowledge to reduce crime and injustice”.
The registration fee is $50.
Further information:
13. August 20-25, 2006, The 12th International Symposium on Victimology, Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. The World Society of Victimology’s Symposium will encourage victimologists, victim service providers, and policy advisors from around the world to renew their commitment to understanding and serving victim needs.
For more information, please visit
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