Research Seminar 2010

Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology are pleased to announce our 52nd Research Seminar. This year’s seminar will be hosted in Hønefoss (outside Oslo), Norway, from 10th to 12th of May 2010.

The preliminary topic of the seminar is "Globalization in Criminology". Changes in the program may occur. The seminar will contain a combination of plenary presentations related to the main topics, and a number of parallel group sessions.

View the updated premliminary program (8th of April 2010)

Globalization in Criminology
Globalization processes are expanding the scope of criminological scholarship and crime control interventions beyond the previously relatively contained world of the nation-state. Transnational processes demand perspectives which see the world as a shared analytical, social, ecological and ethical space. Globalization is also changing the role of the nation state and introducing novel dynamics of local crime control, social exclusion and prevention of harms against nature.

Crimes against nature and ecological justice: The link between environmental/animal issues and criminology finds its expression in environmental or green criminology. In this relatively new area of research and scholarship the concern is to stretch the boundaries of criminology to accomodate issues of eco-global significance, while also utilising criminological perspectives to illuminate ways in which to understand and respond to harms against nature. The seminar invites presentations on a variety of topics, such as ecological crime, environmental harm (illegal as well as legal), regulation of harms against humanity and nature, speciesism, animal abuse and global/ecological justice.

Globalization, crime and transnational control: Across the globe, the post-9/11 era of 'war on terror' is having a major impact on criminal policies and the expansion of international crime control measures and surveillance technologies. The seminar invites presentations on a variety of topics, such as comparative justice, migration, transnational policing and transnational organised crime, as well as human rights, war against terror, cybercrime, crimes against humanity, state crime and transitional justice.

Call for papers & Registration
The seminar has a capacity to host 50 participants. Accomodation and traveling expenses are covered for the 50 attendees that are chosen from among the applicants. We welcome all interested parties to apply for participation in the seminar! Applicants from the nordic countries that do presentations will be prioritized.

Extended application deadline
Registration, with the title of the presentation and a brief summary, must be sent us by Wednesday 7th of April.

More details about the program will be published shortly at www.nsfk.org. All who have registered will receive information by e-mail.

 Application form


- Read the norwegian version