Call for papers: International Society for Criminology - Japan 5-9 August 2011

The Japan Federation of Criminological Associations welcomes you to participate in the forthcoming 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology. Please do consider to take part in this very important and exciting event for the world of criminologists. Visit our website http://wcon2011.com for details.

The Congress will be held on August 5th-9th, 2011 in the Kobe Int'l Conference Center on Port Island, a man-made island off the coast of Kobe. Kobe is conveniently located in the close proximity to many tourists' attractions: we offer day tours to Kyoto, Nara, Himeji Castle, Osaka as well as overnight trips to Hiroshima, which can be a joyful event for your summer vacation 2011.

The general theme is "Global Socio-Economic Crisis and Crime Control Policies: Regional and National Comparison".

Internationally recognized experts are invited to make presentations on the following sub-themes;

1. Global Economic Crisis and Criminology

Speaker	John Braithwaite	Australian National University
Speaker	Johanna Shapland	University of Sheffield
Speaker	Dae-Keun Kim	Korean Institute of Criminology
Speaker	Shinichi Ishizuka	Ryukoku University

2. Models of State and Crime Prevention Strategies

Speaker	Frank Zimring	University of California, Berkeley
Speaker	Jose Luis Diez-Ripolles	University of Málaga
Speaker	Jui-Lung Cheng	National Chung Cheng University
Speaker	Hiroyuki Kuzuno	Hitotsubashi University

3. Corporate and Business Crime

Speaker	Peter Reuter	University of Maryland
Speaker	Stephan Parmentier	Catholic University of Leuven
Speaker	Lu Jianping	Beijing Normal University
Speaker	Kazumichi Tsutsumi	Chuo University

4. Frontiers of Clinical Criminology

Speaker	Cândido da Agra	University of Porto
Speaker	Luis Rodriguez Manzanera	National Auto University of Mexico
Speaker	Avshalom Caspi	Duke University
Speaker	Jinsuke Kageyama	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Speaker	Junko Fujioka	Osaka University

Submissions are called for Paper Sessions(Complete Sessions and Individual Papers), Roundtable Sessions and Poster Sessions. On-line submission, registration, hotel and tour bookings will commence on August 1, 2010. Languages for presentation are English, French, Spanish and Japanese. Simultaneous interpreters are provided for all plenary sessions. Single-language sessions may be proposed for paper and roundtable sessions.

Best regards,

Congress Secretariat

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Congress Secretariat

16th World Congress of the ISC

TTS Center 3F, 1-4-4 Mikuriya-sakaemachi Higashi-osaka, OSAKA 577-0036 JAPAN

tel: +81-(0)6-6618-4323

fax: +81-(0)6-6781-8883

E-mail: wcon@oucow.daishodai.ac.jp