Examples of the topics expected to be explored include:

• Police and Policing
  
• Provision of Safety and Security
  
• Crime Prevention
  
• Criminal Investigation
  
• Courts
  
• Juvenile Justice
  
• Attitudes towards Criminal Justice Institutions, etc.

For the full list of topics, please follow this link: Possible Topics

Abstract Submission Guidelines

The abstracts including the information on the »purpose«, »design/methodology/approach«, »findings«, »originality/value«, »keywords«, and paper/contribution type should be submitted in the Word-for-Windows format to the following e-mail address: gorazd.mesko@fvv.uni-mb.si
(Gorazd Meško, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Chairman of the Programme Committee).

Abstract Submission Form

Guidelines for Submission

Proposals to be submitted by May 15, 2012 must include a cover sheet containing the presentation's title and full particulars of the author: first and last name, affiliation, complete return address, telephone, fax, and the e-mail address to which relevant correspondence will be sent. In the proposal, the track and the presentation options of your choice should be clearly indicated. For a panel presentation, submit a 500-word abstract of your paper. For a poster session, submit a 300-word summary of the poster. For a workshop, submit a proposed title and a 400-word description of the topic. You should also indicate or suggest the names of other presenters in the workshop. For a roundtable, submit a proposed title with a 400-word description of diverse viewpoints that the roundtable is to address and indicate or suggest the names of other discussants at the roundtable.

To create a high-quality program reflecting state-of-the-art ideas and results in a particular field, the Program Committee shall evaluate the proposals received according to the criteria of originality, quality, significance, relevance to a broad audience of police researchers and/or practitioners, and clarity of presentation. The Program Committee's final decision regarding acceptance of proposals will be mailed to authors no later than June 15, 2012.

The authors should be prepared to personally present their papers/posters/workshops at the Conference, while the authors of proposals for a roundtable are expected to assume the role of the moderator.

All authors will receive the information regarding their participation at the conference (travel information, hotel options, social events, etc.), and/or this information will be published on the conference home page in June 2010 at the latest. All abstracts will be published on the conference web site.

The working language of the Conference is English. Abstracts, as well as all any relevant correspondence, should be written in English.

Organisers:

• The Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
• the European Group of Research into Norms, Guyancourt, France,
• the Department of Criminology, Leicester University, the United Kingdom,
• the College of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University, USA,
• School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA,
• Transcrime - The Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime ofthe Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and the University of Trento, Italy,
• ACUNS - The Academic Council on the United Nations Systems and
• the Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Detailed information on the conference, including call for papers, guidelines for submission, possibility of publishing, and registration is available on a conference website: www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2012.

Source: Email by Tominc Bernarda, University of Maribor

Date:
From: 19 September 2012
To: 21 September 2012