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NEW DATE: Colloquium on safety, resilience and community
Colloquium: Safety, resilience and community: Challenges and opportunities beyond the city
NEW DATE! Originally planned for June 2020, the Symposium willnow be held on 29 September 2020
Säkraplatser (KTH), University of Plymouth and Uppsala University are convening a full day colloquium to be held in Stockholm on 29 September 2020.
The focus of the colloquium is safety, resilience and community:
We will focus on safety issues in all settings but in particular in rural contexts. We assess how the on-going Global-Local transformations affect everyday life of those groups living in most sparsely populated areas.
Keynote speakers are:
- Prof. Richard Yarwood, University of Plymouth, UK
- Prof Susanne Stenbacka, Uppsala, Sweden
- Prof Joseph Donnemeyer, Ohio State University, USA (and our ISSRC president)
Registration
https://www.kth.se/form/5e16065416c9aa4d1dfa2096
The colloquium will be held in English and Swedish.
This event is free-of-charge but registration is essential.
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Rural Access to Justice Roundtable
Rural crime and criminal justice practices and responses face different challenges from those experienced in urban contexts. Our new series of ISSRC Roundtables investigate challenges in international contexts and provide opportunities for participants to promote their research and practice and build collaborations for future initiatives. Follow on Twitter @RuCrimSociety with #ISSRC2020.
Our first roundtable will be held on 26 June, and will focus on rural access to justice. Mark the date in your diaries and come along!
To attend: Register via Eventbrite.
RURAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ROUNDTABLE – 26 JUNE 2020
Rural crime and criminal justice practices and responses face different challenges from those experienced in urban contexts. This Roundtable investigates challenges in international contexts and provides an opportunity for participants to promote their research and practice and build collaborations for future initiatives to promote access to justice.
To attend: Register via Eventbrite.
We ask:
- What are emerging issues in rural access to justice?
- What are potential responses or solutions to these problems?
- How can future research and practice enhance access to justice?
The panel:
Dr Danielle Watson
Senior Lecturer in Justice
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Liz Curran
Honorary Associate Professor
Australian National University and Principal Curran Consulting: Enhancing Justice & Human Rights
Emeritus Professor Joseph F. Donnermeyer
Acclaimed international rural criminologist
Ohio State University
Our expert scholars and practitioners will discuss emerging issues in access to justice. The audience will be invited to share and engage with our panel and other participants. We hope to develop agendas and build networks to advance access to justice in rural zones, internationally.
Time:
Friday 26 June 2020
8.20pm login for 8.30 pm start (Australian Eastern Standard Time) for one hour
Check your local time here.
Location:
Virtual – held via Zoom
Register via Eventbrite and access details will be provided
Cost:
Free of charge.
However, if you are able to make a donation this will be used to fund ISSRC awards for higher degree research students and early career researchers https://issrc.net/membership/donate-to-issrc/
To attend: Register via Eventbrite.
New book: Rural Crime Prevention
A new book entitled Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques, edited by our Secretary Alistair Harkness and published by Routledge, is now available. The book brings together 20 academic chapters and 12 practitioner perspectives, and critically analyses, challenges, considers and assesses a suite of crime prevention initiatives across an array of international rural contexts.
This book recognises the diversity and distinct features of rural places and the ways that these elements impact on rates, experiences and responses. Crucially, Rural Crime Prevention also incorporates non-academic voices which are embedded throughout the book, linking theory and scholarship with practice.
Proactive responses to rural offending based on sound evidence can serve to facilitate feelings of safety and security throughout communities, enhance individual wellbeing and alleviate pressure on the overburdened and typically under-resourced formal elements of the criminal justice system. This book provides an opportunity to focus on the prevention of crime in regional, rural and remote parts of the globe.
An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology and practitioners interested in learning about the best-practice international approaches to rural crime prevention in the twenty-first century.
Personal and instutional purchases of the book in either hard copy or e-book form can be made on the Routledge website, and a 20 percent discount is offered if using the code in this flier: Rural Crime Prevention flier
