13/No. The Society aims to bring together in Europe persons actively engaged in research, teaching and/or practice in the field of Criminology. This is a facebook group for members of the European Society of Criminology, or for those interested in joining ESC or just learning more about us. The Society aims to bring together in Europe persons actively engaged in research, teaching and/or practice in the field of Criminology. How far and in what ways has the Society supported capacity building in criminology across Europe? And we need to use our collective voice and our institutional capital to reach out to our wider publics, including politicians and policy-makers, to build the robust evidence-base which will enable us to engage, to challenge and to enlighten. Ressler, Karlo (2015), “Report from the closing conference of FIGAS Project ‘On the Future of National Rapporteurs on Human Trafficking in Europe”, Balkan Criminology News: Newsletter of the Max Planck Partner Group for Balkan Criminology 1/2015, pp. We invite you to browse these titles, specially selected by our editor Josie Taylor. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, sixth edition Oxford: Oxford University PressMcAra, L. and McVie, S. (2017), ‘Developmental and Life-course Criminology: Innovations, Impacts and Applications’, in in Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. As a matter of routine, funding applications must now include pathways to impact statements and identify a set of non-academic stakeholders; and impact case studies have become an extremely lucrative dimension of the REF, comprising as they now do a growing and significant proportion of the research excellence grant that flows to universities from the government. They are also of significant interest for practitioners and in criminal policy. Format. and in cases where researchers have reached out to communities to criminal justice institutions and government, what can we learn from our successes and failures (really important in a context when co-production and collaborative working with external partners become increasingly the norm). Criminology in Europe : newsletter of the European Society of Criminology.. Please note that the times are listed in Central European Time. what have we as a Society contributed to capacity building in criminology across Europe. Institutt for kriminologi og rettssosiologi > Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law > Research > Research networks > Immigration, Crime and Citizenship > News > Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology 2018/1 In our introduction to the most recent edition to the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2017), Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna and I highlighted the large number of specialist handbooks that have come on to the market on topics such as: rural criminology; policing; criminal justice; victims and victimology; juvenile justice; youth justice; quantitative criminology; punishment and society; crime prevention and so on. July, the European Society of Criminology in mid-September, and the biennial conference of the Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe, which typically follows only a few days after ESC. Criminology / Criminal Justice Related Journals & Newsletters The following is a partial list of journals that deal with criminology and criminal justice related topics. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. For the past two decades our Society has promoted scholarly exchange and cooperation, bringing disparate fields into creative convocation. International Year Language. European Society of Criminology Postgraduate and Early Stage Researchers Working Group (EPER): With Porto and a New Special Issue on the Horizon. THE RE-TREAT PROJECT AT THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY ANNUAL CONFERENCE News. PAGE 2 NOVEMBER 2007 EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY VOL. Fundamentally, how we conduct ourselves as criminologists and as a Society matters more than ever. The Newsletter of the Society, Criminology in Europe, is published three times a year. Findings will be reported at our annual conference in Bucharest. Under the umbrella of ‘Crime and Crime Control’, a key link of modern criminology, these topics form the plenary programme of All rights reserved. There are also a growing number of specialist journals – such as youth justice, quantitative criminology, developmental and life course criminology, crime media and culture, feminist criminology, punishment and society, qualitative criminal justice and criminology. European Society of Criminology (ESC) The theme for the 2017 meeting is “Challenging ‘Crime’ and ‘Crime Control’ in Contemporary Europe.” The theme of the conference explores four key challenges for ‘crime’ and ‘crime control’ as phenomena and criminology as a discipline. Plus, the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in November was postponed. Radzinowicz, himself a post second world war émigré, once wrote that the function of criminology was to produce ‘useful’ knowledge. Whilst criminology has always been a site of theoretical and methodological crossings and contestation, recent years have seen an increased fragmentation. Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology Publication date: 2006-01. The European Society of Criminology (ESC) Conference . The Newsletter is in the process of renewal. We live in interesting times! The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Publications . If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Scope. Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology, 15 (2), 16-17. This is in no way to be considered an endorsed or approved list. At the same time as the pressures associated with monetisation are building, so too is a populist counter-narrative denigrating academic expertise. This brings me to a second paradox: the salience of subject matter vs disciplinary specialisation. Within a UK context for example, this has been driven in part by the imperatives of the research funding councils and the so-called ‘Research Excellence Framework’ or REF (the periodic review process which assesses and ranks the quality of academic research across institutions of higher education). Currently all European jurisdictions and beyond are living in a political environment characterised by high levels of uncertainty and contestation. 3 NOVEMBER 2007 Criminology in Europe is published by the European Society of Criminology. As part of a stocktaking of the ESC at 20, I am going to be undertaking a project exploring the impact of the society, in collaboration with Lieven Pauwels. Although I started my career as a Criminal Law teacher at the University of Alicante, I have been more than 20 years at the Miguel Hernández University, where I have been Dean of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences for 8 years. what impact has our research had on policy and practice and on public debate. Keywords Criminal, Social. In spite of this denigration of expertise, our collective knowledge as criminologists continues to speak to many of the ‘wicked’ and complex issues facing humanity, such as: shifting norms of crime and gender-based violence; threats to human rights; patterns of enforced migration; money laundering and international terrorism; threats to the planetary eco-system; the untrammelled growth of surveillance capitalism and its capacity to undermine democratic processes and disempower citizens; state crime; the growth of cybercrime and the inherent fragility of core infrastructure. As criminologists have increasingly become, not just producers and consumers of social scientific knowledge, but crucially purveyors of that knowledge beyond the academy, so too has academic esteem become increasingly monetised. Print. 2011 English. THE “RE-TREAT” PROJECT IS JUST STARTED! For us … The message will conclude with some thoughts about the implications of these challenges for the future of criminology as both an applied and theoretically informed field of enquiry. THE FIRST NEWSLETTER OF THE “RE-TREAT” PROJECT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED! The 20th Annual Conference of the ESC that was to be held in Bucharest, Romania from September 9 – 12, 2020 has been rescheduled online for September 10-11, 2020. Box 792 2300 AT Leiden The Netherlands Tel: 31 71 527 8527 Fax: 31 71 527 8537 Email: slh30@cam.ac.uk President—Krysztof Krawjewski Prisons, policing, life-course criminology, economic crime and state crime are major issues at the macro-, meso- or micro-level of criminological research. Has any such innovation led to transformations in policy and practice beyond the academy? Contact Login. (eds.) No Print Issue, Greatly Enhanced Online Presence: The Renewed Newsletter is Coming Soon! Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology. 13-15. European Society of Criminology. The quality of criminological research is increasingly being measured by its capacity for impact including policy impact. The Society’s twentieth birthday provides an opportune moment to take stock and assess the impact which the ESC has had over the past two decades: For me, this stocktaking touches on a deeper set of normative and empirical concerns: is there a moral imperative for scholars (mostly paid out of public monies) to engage with policy-makers, practitioners and the wider public(s) on the implications and applications of theoretical and methodological innovation; how can we undertake such engagement without undermining our capacity for critical thinking and speaking truth to power; how should we measure the worth and impact of that engagement; and what implications does all this have for the types of criminological scholars that we need to grow and nurture over the next twenty years? 6, NO. Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. (2017), ‘Introduction: The New Vision’, in Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. Vojta, Filip & Carl, Sabine (2014), “ESC Working Group Reports: European Society of Criminology Postgraduate and Early Stage Researchers Working Group (EPER)”, Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology Vol. This, too, suffered delays due to the pandemic, but soon a new, enhanced website will go online, and the design will be renewed too. What has been the contribution of our members and working groups to innovation in theory and method? Case study: The European Society of Criminology Conference. European Society of Criminology (ESC) The ESC Working Group on Cybercrime is geared to the various aspects of cybercrime, including but not limited to: different forms that cybercrime can take (e.g., hacking, fraud, malicious software infections, sexting, cyber terrorism, etc. More broadly, local and central governments across Europe are also exerting pressures on universities to be demonstrably engaged with their wider publics, including communities both at home and internationally, with university research and innovation having an increasingly critical role to play in driving economic growth and creating jobs. Within ASC, there are also a growing number of groups whose members have a distinct international flare, such as the Korean Society of Criminology in America (KSCA), and the Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the U.S. (ACCCJUS). Browse all issues of European Journal of Criminology. how has the society helped to nurture the next generation of scholars and with what effects. Newsletter of the EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLEUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGYCRIMINOLOGY IN EUROPE-VOL. Contact Login, about Candidate for ESC President: Catrien Bijleveld, about Candidate for At-Large Board Membership: Fernando Miro. Arguably a key challenge facing criminology comes from our own tendencies to eschew eclecticism in favour of increased specialism. Find out more about the event which saw Cardiff University's school of social sciences host international delegates from all over the world for the largest criminology conference outside the US Please read more here or contact Josie directly.. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. The European Society of Criminology was founded in 2000. “Open Criminology.” Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology 2018 : 2–3. In this message I am going to offer some reflections on the past twenty years of the ESC, and the challenges which the global pandemic currently poses for theory and method within criminology. Newsletter archives News. Category Type. As one of the heirs to this legacy and as a Scot, I have never felt more European. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, sixth edition Oxford: Oxford University Press, Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology at the University of Edinburgh, Great Britain, Visit the homepage of the European Society of Criminology », © European Society of Criminology 2002–2011. • www.esc-eur Ocrim.Org Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology Crisis, Crime, Crime Control and Criminology This has been accompanied by a loss of civility in public life and a gradual debasing of the public sphere facilitated by new technologies: examples include social media trolling, the use of new technologies to disrupt electoral processes, the fog of information and the proliferation of fake news on the internet. The European Society of Criminology was founded in 2000. At the same time, the Executive Board has decided to the slash the print edition (though the pdf version will remain). I am currently a Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche, and I am the head of the CRÍMINA Research Centre for the Study and Prevention of Crime at the same university, a young but already leading research centre thanks to the tireless work of a magnificent human group with great research talent of which I am especially proud. I am deeply honoured to have been elected as President of the European Society of Criminology and, in particular, to be the incumbent at the time of the ESC’s twentieth anniversary in 2020. To our Newsletters © Copyright 2016-2021, European Society of Criminology I begin with some observations on the contexts of criminological knowledge production, with a focus on two sets of paradoxes which potentially inhibit the academy’s capacity for innovation and impact, before exploring in more detail their implications for the role and purpose of scholarship. 2011. All rights reserved. Interested in publishing with us? 3, pp. 1 EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY • | CRIMINOLOGY IN EUROPE 2012|2 • VOL. meetings organized by the European Society of Criminology and Asian Criminological Society. The programme book is available for viewing. As scholars we need to reflect on whether mono-methodological approaches and purity in epistemological framings narrow our frame of reference such that it becomes difficult to grasp the complex and messy nature of the subject matter which increasingly forms our core business. Unfortunately we will not be exhibiting at the European Society of Criminology's conference Eurocrim 2020 this year. The annual conference and our working groups provide places of critical engagement and inspiration for the theoretical imagination. 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