Thursday 27 January 2011

The relationship between caffeine, sleep and productiveness in a PhD

I am currently doing loads of analyses with 2x2 tables, so this PhD comic came exactly at the right time:

Monday 17 January 2011

Submission deadline 16th World Congress - Japan approaching: 31 January 5pm Japan time

Following our earlier post about the  16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology in Japan from 5-9 August 2011; the deadline for abstract submission is fastly approaching. Abstracts are imited to 200 words and should describe the general theme, and where relevant, the methods and results. 



Friday 7 January 2011

Article by student at Institute of Criminology: relationship between parental imprisonment and offspring offending in England and the Netherlands

Sytske Besemer, a Ph.D candidate at the Institute of Criminology, has published an article in the British Journal of Criminology that she co-authored with Victor van der Geest (NSCR), Joseph Murray, Catrien Bijleveld (NSCR), and David Farrington. The article is based on research in England and the Netherlands. They investigated parental imprisonment and offspring offending and differences between the countries on this topic. 

Wednesday 5 January 2011

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

The JTPC has advertised a call for papers from graduates for a special issue to be published in March this year. Deadlines for submission is 1 February 2012. More details here:

http://www.jtpcrim.org/July_2010/Journal-of-Theoretical-Philosophical-Criminology-Call-for-graduate-student-papers.pdf