University of Limpopo All Africa Conference on Organized Crime (26-29 June 2012).
The 2012 University of Limpopo All-Africa Conference aims to bring together academia and practitioners in all fields of Criminal Justice to the event to hear from Africans about Criminal Justice problems in Africa and to present research findings on the specific topics on organized crime. We want to develop African solutions to our problems. The Conference aims to provide a crime and applied criminal justice research forum where academics, practitioners and researchers from the many disciplines that interact with the broader criminal justice system (such as police, courts, prisons’ officials, private security officers, victims of crime/trauma counsellors, social workers, probationers, lawyers, prosecutors and all other allied practitioners (crime prevention, CPTED, rehabilitation programmes, policy formulation, etc.) can present, discuss and share knowledge, research findings, works-in-progress, practical work experiences and theorise about issues concerning crime and all other related aspects (a multidisciplinary approach is welcomed). In addition we aim to establish an All-African Criminal Justice Society and an Interim Editorial Committee for an All-African Criminal Justice Journal.
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Filling the gaps: integrated approaches to crime prevention and safety
Author(s) : ICPC
ICPC is organizing its 10th Bi-annual Colloquium on the theme of “Filling the gaps: integrated approaches to crime prevention and safety”, in association with the South African government and South African Police Service (SAPS). This will be held in Cape Town from the 20th to 22nd February. The proposed focus of the 2012 Colloquium is on traditional and new sectors working on crime prevention, with debate and dialogue informed by international experts. This event aims to promote innovative partnerships to respond to community safety challenges.
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The 14th World Society of Victimology International Symposium - Justice for Victims: Cross-cultural perspectives on conflict, trauma and reconcilliation
From the 20th to the 24th of May 2012 at the World Forum, in the Hague (The Netherlands), the 14th World Symposium of the World Society of Victimology will be organised by the World Society of Victimology, the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT), Victim Support Europe as well as the Leuven Institute of Criminology.
The Institute for Security Studies invites you to a seminar on Thursday 19th April - 2012 - titled Urban Criminal Governance as an emerging Threat: Lessons for South Africa to be held in the seminar room at the ISS Cape Town Offices on Thursday, 19 April 2012. The seminar was conceptualized, planned and will be presented as part of a research study of criminal governance in African cities.
Growing urbanization in the developing world has outstripped the capacity of the formal economy to provide employment. The destruction of traditional livelihoods – by force of law, arms, conquest and environmental degradation – has inspired mass migration of the rural poor to settle in urban slums and shantytowns on the margins of society, without providing corresponding economic opportunity. (Podlashuc 2011) Urban Landmark recently estimated that while London’s population in 2015 will increase by 6 people per hour and Berlin’s not at all, 2015 will see Lagos grow by 58 people per hour, Kinshasa by 39 and Nairobi by 15. By 2025, Kinshasa and Lagos will be the largest cities on the continent with 20 million and 16 million inhabitants respectively, far surpassing Cairo, the current population leader. Cities across Africa are feeling the effects of this mass migration, characterized not by economic advancement, but by the reproduction of poverty and informality on a large scale (Parnell 2007, Pieterse 2008). Against this backdrop of massive migration and poor economic opportunity, much of this population growth will occur in the interstices of formal development and see the proliferation of residential ghettos. In these marginal urban spaces, a plurality of forms of social order are likely to mature – informal and sometimes criminal economies might continue to serve as the primary survival strategies for much of the population.
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