16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The Japan Federation of Criminological Associations welcomes you to particiipate 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

2. Models of State and Crime Prevention Strategies

3. Corporate and Business Crime

4. Frontiers of Clinical Criminology

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

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