Dear Sir/Madam,
The Victimology Society of Serbia-VDS is organizing the XI
Annual Conference entitled Victims and Contemporary Social
Context: Challenges and Perspectives, which will be held
online, on November 25 and 26, 2021.
This year's conference aims to enable the exchange of experiences and
knowledge and to point out the challenges, but also the directions of
further work and efforts related to the status of crime victims in
the modern social context and the development of victimology.
Plenary speakers at the conference will be:
Prof. Dr. Ezzat A.
Fattah: Justice for Crime Victims: Has the Time Finally for a Radical
Paradigm Shift?
Prof. dr Ezzat A. Fattah, one of the early pioneers
of victimology, is the founder of the School of Criminology at Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where he is professor emeritus. He
has been an inducted fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1990.
Among the honours he received over the years is an honorary doctorate (honoris
causa) from the University of Liege, Belgium (1995). Other prestigious
awards include the Konrad Adenauer Research Prize awarded by the German
government (1993); the Hermann Mannheim Award by the International Society
of Criminology (2007); and the Hans von Hentig Award by the International
Society of Victimology (2009). In 1999 he was awarded the - Nora and Ted
Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy in recognition of his
intellectual courage and for daring to express, air and publish
unconventional and unpopular views on a variety of topics related to
criminal law, criminology, victimology and criminal justice. And in 1992
he received the Commemorative 125th Anniversary of Canada Medal. Professor
Fattah served for several years as the vice-president of the International
Society of Criminology and is a foreign honorary member of the Japanese
Association of Criminology (JAC).
Prof. dr Jaishankar
Karuppannan: Cyber Victimology
Prof. dr Jaishankar Karuppannan is an Independent
Cyber Criminologist from India. He was a professor and head of the
Department of Criminology at the Raksha Shakti University, and also a
faculty member at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at
the Monomania Sundaranar University, India. He is the editor in chief of
the International Journal of Cyber Criminology and the founding father
of Cyber Criminology, an academic sub-discipline of Criminology.
Professor Karuppannan is the founder president of the South Asian Society
of Criminology and Victimology. He is also a co-founder of the Centre for
Cyber Victim Counselling. Professor Karuppannan is appointed by the
British Society of Criminology as an International Ambassador. He is a
United Nations Expert on matters related to Victims of Terrorism.
Prof. dr Shalva Weil:
Are elderly women particularly at-risk? Female geronticide as an
increasing phenomenon
Prof. dr Shalva Weil is Senior Researcher at the Seymour
Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. In
2021, she was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, England. In 2018
she was GIAN Distinguished Professor at Jawaharalal Nehru University, New
Delhi. She is an expert on ethnicity (in particular Indian and Ethiopian
Jews), and runs a women’s empowerment project for migrants from the former
Soviet Union in Israel’s slums. From 2013 to 2017, prof. Weil acted as the
Chair of the Cost Action on Femicide Across Europe, heading
a Management Committee from 30 countries. She addressed the Parliaments of
Portugal, Spain and Italy, and was invited to three UN meetings on
femicide. In 2018, she co-edited (with Consuelo Corradi and Marceline
Naudi) the book Femicide across Europe (Bristol University
Press, Policy). Her publications include a Special Issue on femicide in
Current Sociology, 2016; “Failed Femicides among Migrant
Survivors” and “Researching Femicide from a Qualitative Perspective” in
Qualitative Sociology Review; and “Femicide of Girls in Contemporary
India” Ex Aequo, 2016. In 2020, she published an article in the Journal
of Gender Studies on the killing of elderly women in Israel, and in
2021 an article (with Katerina Standish) in the same journal on femicide
and suicide during covid-19. In 2020, she established the Israel
Observatory on Femicide (www.israelfemicide.org).
Dr Uglješa
Zvekić and prof. dr Nando Dalla Chiesa: Victims of organized crime
and corruption: international perspective and Italian and Latin American
experience?
Dr Uglješa Zvekić is a Permanent Representative of the
Permanent Observer Mission of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO)
at UN in Vienna. He is a Senior Advisor with the Global Initiative against
Transnational Organized Crime. Dr Zvekić is an Adjunct Professor at the
School of Government, LUISS, Rome, and at the Law School, University of
Rome, as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Milan. In
addition to that, dr Zvekić is an honorary member of the Victimology
Society of Serbia. Dr Zvekić is a Member of the Advisory Board of the
“International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award”, Vienna. He is a Former
Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the UN in Geneva. He was also the
President of the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva (2011-2013), President of the
Executive Committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe UNECE) based
in Geneva (2011-2013), Head of the Strategic Planning Department within
the UN Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based in Vienna (2004-2009),
Deputy Director of the UN Office against Drugs and Crime for Regional
Office for Southern Africa (ROSA UNODC) based in Pretoria (1999-2004), and
Deputy Director of the UN Institute for Crime and Criminal Justice
Research (UNICRI) based in Rome (1984-1999).
Prof. dr Nando Dalla Chiesa is a full professor at the University
of Milan in Sociology of Organized Crime, Sociology and Methods of
Lawfulness Education, Geopolitics and Organized Crime. Professor Dalla
Chiesa is the president of the CROSS, Observatory on Organized Crime of
the University of Milan. He is the delegate of the Rector for Organized
Crime and Anti-Mafia Education area at the University of Milan. Professor
Dalla Chiesa is the founder of the PhD Studies on Organized Crime at the
same University. He is also the founder of an advanced course on
International Scenarios of Organized Crime at the same university. He is
the chair director of the Cathedra Falcone-Borsellino in Mexico City.
Professor Dalla Chiesa is the honorary president of the Libera anti-mafia
association and the coordinator of the Antimafia scientific committee at
the Lombardy Region. In his career, professor Dalla Chiesa was deputy,
senator and undersecretary of the Republic of Italy. Professor Dalla
Chiesa writes columns for the newspaper "Il Fatto Quotidiano". He is the
author of about 35 books dealing with topics related to the mafia, the
judiciary, legal education and anti-mafia movements.
Dr Sanja Milivojevic:
Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet: Digital Frontier Technologies
and Criminology in the Twenty-First Century
Dr Sanja Milivojevic is a Research Fellow in Criminology
at La Trobe, Melbourne and Associate Director of Border Criminologies at
Oxford University. Sanja holds LL.B and LL.M from Belgrade University’s
Law School, and PhD from Monash University, Australia. Dr Milivojević is
one of the founders and a long-time member of the Victimology Society of
Serbia. Sanja’s research interests are borders and mobility, security
technologies and surveillance, gender and victimisation, and international
criminal justice and human rights. She is a recipient of Australian and
international research grants, and was NSW representative at the
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology’s Committee of
Management (2012-2016). Sanja has been a visiting scholar at University of
Oxford, University of Oslo, Belgrade University and University of Zagreb,
as well as a Public Interest Law Fellow at Columbia University’s Law
School in New York. Sanja publishes in English and Serbian. Her latest
book Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet: Digital Frontier
Technologies and Criminology in the Twenty-First Century is published
by Routledge (2021).
Angelica Pino: To
research or not to research? Ethical and practical issues related to
research on violence against women during Covid-19.
Angelica Pino is a grant manager and capacity building
specialist for the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (South Africa).
Mrs. Pino is a feminist lawyer with extensive experience in gender-based
violence and gender equality. She started her work in the human rights
field in Chile in the 1980s, while the country was under General
Pinochet’s dictatorship. As a law student, she worked in NGOs conducting
human rights awareness and training in disadvantaged communities, and at
the same time became involved in the feminist movement. She worked as a
lawyer in women’s rights NGOs providing counselling and legal advice to
women survivors of gender-based violence, as well as conducting training
and research on women and the law. After the democratisation of the
country, Ms. Pino joined the Ministry of Justice to work in a Legal Aid
Project, where she coordinated mobile Legal Information Centres
in townships. She moved to South Africa in 1994, where she has
worked in several women’s rights organisations and initiatives managing
programmes on feminist networks and on gender-based violence.
Dr Mirjana Dokmanović:
Appreciative Inquiry as a Catalyst for Developing Victimology of a Victor
Dr Mirjana Dokmanović is a Research Associate at the
Centre for Legal Research of the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade.
She has published a number of publications and research articles in the
fields of law, gender studies and feminist economics. Her work is based on
interdisciplinary studies, and her research interests include gender
aspects of globalization and transition, the impact of globalization on
the state of play of human rights, feminist economics and victimology. She
has a broad professional experience as a consultant in assisting the UN
agencies, the Council of Europe and governments to develop and implement
antidiscrimination and gender equality policies, as well as in gender
analysis of legislation and policies. She served as a Director of the
International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), London, UK
(2011-2012). Dr Dokmanović is a certified instructor for management in
global change and social innovation by using the method of ’appreciative
inquiry’ developed by Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Dr Dokmanović is a member of the
Executive Board of the Victimology Society of Serbia and deputy
editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Temida.
Prof. dr Slobodan Savić:
Current problems in protecting children from abuse and neglect
Prof. dr Slobodan Savić is a full professor at the
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. He is employed at the
Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Belgrade. Since 2009, he has been the president of the Victimology Society
of Serbia. For the period of 2000 to 2004, he was the head of the
Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical Faculty, University of
Belgrade, and from 2009 to 2012 he was also the Vice Dean of the Medical
Faculty, University of Belgrade. Prof. Savić is also teaches Forensic
Medicine at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He is a permanent
forensic expert in the field of medicine - specialization: forensic
medicine. He is a member of the Serbian Medical Society and the Section
for Forensic Medicine SLD, a regular member of the Balkan Academy of
Forensic Sciences, and was the president of this association for a
one-year term in 2006/2007. He is a member of the National Expert Group
for the Development and health of young people, established by the
Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia - a subgroup for the
protection of children from abuse and neglect. In the period from 2007 to
2019, he was the president of the Ethical Committee of Serbia. Prof. Savić
has been an extraordinary member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the
Serbian Medical Association since 2020.
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