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Open workshop on diminishing conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
An event hosted by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), the parent college of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security.

From the Punjab to Aceh, from Bougainville to Pakistan, ethnic conflicts and insurgencies that once claimed many thousands of lives every year have, over the last decade, seemed to decline in intensity. This public discussion aims to tease out some of the explanations for what seems to be a broad regional trend, and to think about the exceptions.

More information is available from the ANU Billboard and ANU CAP website.

Friday, 30^th January: 9.00am – 10.30am.
Seminar Room, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Conservation criminology and electronic waste: Exploring opportunities for collaboration’

CEPS Visiting Scholar Assistant Professor Carole Gibbs, School of Criminal Justice, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Studies, Michigan State University.

Professor Gibbs will be presenting on a general research/education program called ‘Conservation Criminology’, that is being developed at MSU, as well as one of her research projects on international shipments of electronic waste. Her main goal is to explore opportunities for collaboration.

Friday, 30^th January: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room C, 3rd floor, H. C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘The Canadian Observatory: An international research network on justice system responses to intimate partner violence’

CEPS visitor Dr Carmen Gill, Director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (MMFC), University of New Brunswick, and Principal Investigator of The Canadian Observatory.

The Canadian Observatory is a 4-year program of research networked across eight international sites (including two in Australia) examining specialist justice system responses to intimate partner violence. Dr Gill will talk about how the Observatory works and what it aims to achieve.

Monday, 9^th February: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Peace processes and prospects in West Papua and Aceh: A comparative assessment’
An event hosted by the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), the parent institution of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security.

Associate Professor Damien Kingsbury, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University.

During the 2004 presidential election campaign, the successful presidential aspirant, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said that resolving the three-decade-long separatist conflict in Aceh was one of his priorities. The war had to be ended to prove that Indonesia was indeed a viable state as constituted, that it was able to find political solutions to political problems, and because it needed to demilitarise the state, including reducing the military's role in business and criminal activities along with its political influence. A political resolution to this war was achieved 11 months after Yudhoyono took office. This political solution incorporated many elements of a previous declaration of ‘special autonomy’ for Aceh, but took them further, particularly around local decision making on local affairs. Despite some problems, to date this peace agreement has held.

Despite at the same time having declared ‘special autonomy’ for Indonesia's other troubled province of Papua, there has been no similar subsequent political resolution to separatist claims there. Despite a call from the Papuan separatist umbrella organisation for such a resolution, there has been no government expression of interest in doing so. This paper assesses both the parallels and differences between the options for a political resolution in Papua. It then considers possible steps towards a finalisation of claims that address the needs of both the Indonesian government and the indigenous people of Papua, and whether such an approach could be incorporated as a policy position into the 2009 Indonesian elections.

Tuesday, 17^th February: 12.30 – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Combatants to contractors: the political economy of peace in Aceh’

Dr Edward Aspinall, Senior Fellow, Indonesian Politics, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU.

One of the least-frequently remarked-upon features of the peace process in Aceh is the economic transformation being experienced by former combatants. Throughout Aceh, many former guerillas from GAM (the Free Aceh Movement) are becoming successful businesspeople. Specifically, most are becoming contractors working in the construction industry, building infrastructure (especially roads, bridges, and irrigation channels) or providing materials (sand, stones, and timber) for such work. They have entered one of the most politicized and corrupt sectors of the Indonesian economy. Throughout the country, construction contracts are often awarded on the basis of political connections, and large proportions of contract costs are lost to corruption. In Aceh, ex-GAM commanders are winning contracts funded by district development budgets or as part of post-tsunami reconstruction. They succeed not because of their experience, skills or capacities in construction, but because of their political influence and the intimidating muscle power of their followers. The Aceh experience thus throws light both on the predatory arrangements that dominate provincial economic life in Indonesia, and on the role that corruption can play in peace processes.

Dr Aspinall is the author of Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2009 (forthcoming)).

Tuesday 17^th February: 3.00 – 4.30pm.
Political and Social Change Reading Room, room 4.27, level 4, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Only in Canada, eh? Restorative justice the Canadian way’
An initiative of CEPS industry partner, the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Ms Robin Vandekleut, of Restorative Justice Canada, will lead a discussion about the evolution and current state of restorative justice in Canada, and the structures necessary to give restorative justice new application, both nationally and internationally. Those interested in listening and contributing to future possibilities for restorative justice, nationally and internationally, are invited to attend.

Visit the Australian Institute of Criminology Occasional Seminars page for full details.

Monday 23^rd February: 2.00pm – 3.00pm.
Australian Institute of Criminology, 74 Leichhardt Street, Griffith, ACT.

Schuman Lecture 2009: ‘The European Union's contribution to security in the 21st century’

Ms. Helga Schmid, Director of the Policy and Early Warning Unit of the Council General Secretariat of the European Union.

For an Abstract of the presentation and a Biography for Ms. Schmid, download an event brochure (PDF, 68KB). This seminar forms part of a broad ‘Europe Update 2009’ (PDF, 366KB) program of presentations by leading scholars and policy practitioners, which provides an overview of recent developments in the European Union and the challenges facing EU-Australia relations.

Thursday 26^th February: 12.00 – 1.00pm (RSVP by 10.00am Friday 20^th February via europe@anu.edu.au).
Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU (reference C4 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Networked security: A case study of how state and non-state security actors interact at the sub-national level in Indonesia’

David Jansen, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Political and Social Change, ANU.

The security sector reform that began with the end of the Suharto era has led to a significant withdrawal of the Indonesian military from the internal security sector. In an ironic break with their past, the Indonesian police (POLRI) have become the main element of security management in Indonesian today. Despite this reality, the weight of scholarly interest in the Indonesian security sector has been disproportionately allocated to the military, while interest in the much more practically significant Indonesian police has languished.

Another blind-spot in the analysis of the security sector in Indonesia has been our lack of focus on how security actors, both government and non-government, interact. As the United States has learnt painfully to its own cost, we cannot have a debate about security until we understand what American strategic thinkers call the “Interagency;” the area in which different actors jointly manage security. This has been an area little touched in the case of Indonesia. What my research does is examine this issue at the meso/operational level, looking at how security actors interact in a regional case study in Central Java.

Given the critical importance of POLRI to security management in Indonesia, this research analyses the security sector from the lens of policing. In particular it applies theories of networked policing to the Indonesian case study.

In this seminar I will thus discuss the findings of my fieldwork in Indonesia. I will set out to answer the following questions: who are the actors – state and non-state – in regional policing/security management? Are there workable boundaries of jurisdiction between the various security actors? Does high institutional autonomy (or competition or other factors) hinder the ability of the different actors to cooperate? If cooperation does exist between security actors, what is the reason for it?

Tuesday 3^rd March: 3.00pm – 4.30pm.
Political and Social Change Reading Room, room 4.27, level 4, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Regulatory Responses to the Cybercrime and Information Security Problem across the Taiwan Strait’

Lennon Yao-Chung Chang, Ph.D. Scholar, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU.

Thursday 5^th March: 10.00 – 11.00am.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Conference: ‘Making a Difference: Responding to Need in Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Correctional Programs’
An initiative of CEPS industry partner, the Australian Institute of Criminology.

This international conference brings together policy makers, practitioners, researchers, academics and others with an interest in correctional programs and services. The main objective of the conference will be to share current knowledge and directions in correctional programming. There will be a strong emphasis on evidence-based outcomes of correctional programs and improving reintegration/re-entry strategies. Key themes will be the rehabilitative needs of Indigenous offenders and young people, with a focus on developing programs, services and evaluation methodologies that incorporate content and techniques specific to their needs.

Visit the Conference website for full details.

Thursday 5^th – Friday 6^th March.
Department of Justice, level 27, 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.

2009 CEPS Policing Symposium: ‘New Directions for Policing Serious and Complex Crime’

The 2009 CEPS Policing Symposium aims to meld some of the key issues emerging from the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety held at Harvard University and currently convened in the United States, with issues relevant to the Australian and New Zealand policing and security environments. The program seeks to inform Australian policing reform agendas. Speakers will address:

Visit the Symposium website for full details, and for access to selected speaker presentations.

Tuesday 10^th – Wednesday 11^th March.
Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific, Manly, NSW.

Workshop: ‘The Australia-Japan Security Relationship and New Regional Security Architectures: Opportunities and Obstacles’

The International Security component of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security is hosting a workshop on the Australia-Japan security relationship. The workshop is being sponsored by the Australia-Japan Foundation within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and attendance is BY INVITATION ONLY.

Tuesday 10^th – Wednesday 11^th March.
ANU Canberra campus.

Dr Donna Weeks, Lecturer in Japanese Studies and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast; Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University (January to June 2009); Visiting Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at The Australian National University (March 2009), working with Professors William Tow and Rikki Kersten.

Japanese ‘security’ is under scrutiny. Article 9 of its 1947 ‘peace’ constitution articulates definable limits on its military capabilities. Yet, self-defence forces, usually in a humanitarian role, are now deployed to overseas operations. During the Cold War, the idea of Japanese ‘security’ was characterised by tremendous economic growth, a US defence umbrella and the so-called Yoshida Doctrine. In the post Cold War international security environment, much scholarship and commentary on Japan has focused on Japan becoming ‘normal’ – a contestable notion. Having established an economically secure role, the expectation grew that, in fact, Japan ought to be playing a stronger role militarily. In this discussion, the key terms ‘security’ (anzen hosho in Japanese) and ‘defense’ (boei) are used quite distinctly, at other times interchangeably. The first question this paper asks is whether or not we should pursue the difference between these two terms when it comes to understanding Japanese security. And secondly, when it comes to Japan's perception of ‘security’, does it have to choose one or the other? In the new security setting, can't the Japanese approach to security be ‘normal’?

Friday 13^th March: 4.00pm – 5.30pm.
Political and Social Change Reading Room, room 4.27, level 4, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Professor Hugh White, Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University and Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. This lecture is presented by ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and Canberra Skeptics.

We often behave as if national security is too important to think clearly about. Some risks are ignored, while others are exaggerated. Policies are adopted to meet threats without any clear idea of what exactly the threat is, how serious it might be, and how it could most cost-effectively be addressed. Major decisions are made on the most slender of bases: invading Iraq, rebuilding Afghanistan, toughening terrorism laws, buying battleships, have all been undertaken without due diligence by Governments, and the public seems hardly to expect any better. Yet it should be possible to think clearly about national security and defence questions, applying to them the same standards of evidence, argument and diligence that we would expect in other areas of public policy.

In this lecture, Professor White will explore some recent examples of unclear thinking about national security in Australia, attempt to explain why such lapses from common standards of rationality are so common, and suggest some ways we could do better. Along the way Professor White will talk about terrorism, bird flu, global warming and the rise of China.

Friday 13^th March: 6.00pm – 7.30pm. A dinner will follow the lecture.
Lecture Theatre 2, Manning Clarke Centre, Building 26a, Union Court (reference G3 on the ANU campus map).

For more information and to register attendance for the dinner please contact Canberra Skeptics on 0408 430 442.

Book Launch: ‘Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Law Enforcement Resources in the 21st Century’

It is with great pleasure that we at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security announce the launch of our latest book, Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Law Enforcement Resources in the 21st Century, just published by Cambridge University Press. The book is co-authored by Ms Julie Ayling and Professor Peter Grabosky of The Australian National University, Canberra, and Professor Clifford Shearing of the University of Cape Town, and is one of the first products from our new ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.

Based on research conducted in cooperation with our industry partners, the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police, and with input from the New South Wales Police, the book explores ways in which the capacity of law enforcement agencies can be enhanced, without jeopardising fundamental values such as accountability and equity in the delivery of policing services.

The book has already attracted international attention; the Chief Executive of the (UK) National Policing Improvement Agency, Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, has written the preface.

The book will be launched by The Honourable (Bob) Robert John Debus MP, Minister for Home Affairs. Following the launch, copies of the book will be available for purchase and morning tea will be provided.

Monday 16^th March: 9.45am for 10.00am – 11.30am.
Foyer, H. C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

For catering purposes, please RSVP to ceps@anu.edu.au by c.o.b. Tuesday 10th March.

The Illicit Organisations Project of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security will hold another working lunch similar to the one held in December 2008, for interested individuals to contribute to the project. The discussion panel will include international visitors Michael Stohl (Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara) and Benoît Dupont (Deputy Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the University of Montreal). Details of the discussion hypotheses will be emailed to those who confirm their attendance.

Tuesday 17^th March: 12.00pm – 2.00pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.13, ground floor, H. C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

For catering purposes, please RSVP to ceps@anu.edu.au by c.o.b. Tuesday 10th March.

Seminar: ‘Security Networks and Emergent Effects: Reconsidering the Coordination, Evaluation and Regulation of Security Provision’

CEPS Visiting Fellow and Partner Investigator, Professor Benoît Dupont, Deputy Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (CICC) at the University of Montreal.

The most recent developments in the study of the governance of security involve conceptual frameworks that seek to interpret the plural nature of security delivery and the proliferation of public-private partnerships, in what has traditionally been perceived as the exclusive realm of state sovereignty. Such theoretical innovations include the nodal governance framework advocated by Clifford Shearing and Jennifer Wood, the idea of anchored pluralism promoted by Ian Loader and Neil Walker, or the exchange theory developed by Julie Ayling, Peter Grabosky and Clifford Shearing in their latest book. In this seminar, Professor Dupont will adopt a bottom-up approach and present the results of a research project whose main objective was to map the structure of an urban security network and the interactions of its nodes. After having briefly introduced the features of the network, Professor Dupont will examine the rationalities at work and the emergent effects that result from this complex web of interactions. These emergent effects are predominantly linked to uncertainty, knowledge and trust. Professor Dupont will conclude this presentation by suggesting that some radical adjustments need to be made to existing security coordination, evaluation and regulation mechanisms if they are to maintain their relevance in the current environment.

Friday 20^th March: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

For catering purposes, please RSVP to ceps@anu.edu.au by c.o.b. Friday 13 March.

Seminar: ‘Antagonism, Regionalism and Cross-Border Cooperation Against Crime and Terrorism’

Professor Sandy Gordon, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.

Tuesday 24^th March: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Post-conflict state-formation in Africa: The role of traditional leadership in reconstituting state and governance in Somaliland’

Ms Louise Wiuff Moe, recent graduate of a Master of Arts in International Studies at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). Ms Wiuff Moe studied under an exchange agreement with the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) (Norway). Her studies focused on political economy and conflict dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, and she conducted fieldwork in Somaliland from mid-January to mid-May 2008. Ms Wiuff Moe also has a close association with the Academy for Peace and Development (APD), a Hargeisa-based research institute.

Ms Wiuff Moe will discuss the roles of traditional authorities in undertaking key governance functions in the case of post-conflict Somaliland. This case of emerging statehood is first and foremost presented as an impressive indigenous alternative to externally-driven, top-down attempts to revive centralised statehood. As for limitations, it is apparent that the conversion of power between the traditional authorities and the state profoundly transforms – and potentially has the risk of undermining – the basis of legitimacy and authority for both.

Friday 27^th March: 11.00am – 12.00pm.
Meeting Room 3.17, level 3, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Please register your interest with Dr Susan Harris Rimmer, Centre for International Justice and Governance, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), ANU.

Russell Brewer, Ph.D. Scholar, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet, ANU.

Tuesday 31^st March: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Conference: ‘Crossing Borders: Promoting Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives’
An initiative supported by CEPS in conjunction with The Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA), hosted by the National Europe Centre, Research School of Humanities, ANU.

This international conference brings together academics, public policy and legal practitioners, and law enforcement officials from Europe, Australia and the Asian-Pacific region, to review and discuss the pressing problems impeding cross-border policing and law enforcement. The conference will provide opportunities to review common problems and to explore innovative solutions from around the world.

Details are available from the conference website and the conference brochure. Conference presenters are exempt from paying registration fees (although they must register in order to provide their details to the conference organisers).

Wednesday 8^th – Thursday 9^th April.
Finkel Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU (reference C4 on the ANU campus map), and
Sparke Helmore Theatres 1 and 2, ANU College of Law, Fellows Road, ANU (reference E3 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Geopolitics and Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea: from Competition to Cooperation?’

CEPS Visiting Fellow, Associate Professor Ralf Emmers, Head of Graduate Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Biography:
Dr Ralf Emmers is Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He completed his MSc and PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests cover security studies and international relations theory, maritime security, international institutions in the Asia-Pacific, and the security and international politics of Southeast Asia.

Abstract:
Professor Emmers' presentation will examine the geopolitics of the maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea. He will look in detail at the Paracel Islands claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and the Spratly Islands involving Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Professor Emmers will argue that the territorial disputes in the South China Sea are influenced by three primary geopolitical considerations: the quest for territoriality and natural resources, as well as power competition, all impact on the disputes and broader regional relations. It is precisely the interplay of these geopolitical forces that can lead to a rapid escalation in the South China Sea or, reversely, to a diffusion of tensions. The presentation will also consider how the disputes in the South China Sea might be managed, and even resolved peacefully, despite the geopolitical conditions that make effective cooperation on these issues difficult to achieve. The prospect for conflict management and resolution will be analysed by identifying catalysts that might contribute to improving the climate of relations.

Thursday 9^th April: 1.30 – 3.00pm.
Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD) Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).
For enquiries please contact Dr Nicole George on tel. (02) 6125 0410 or email Nicole.George@anu.edu.au.

Listen to Professor Emmers' presentation » (MP3 29.7MB 01:41:39)

Seminar: ‘The use of Innovative Communication Technologies by Police and other Law Enforcement Agencies’
An event hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), a CEPS industry partner.

AIC visitor, Frans-Jan Mulschlegel, is a Project Manager for the International Police Expertise Platform (IPEP) – an international platform for police officers world-wide to exchange knowledge and experiences without the boundaries of time and place. In this seminar, Mr. Mulschlegel will draw on his extensive experience in web-based information to explore existing services and future possibilities in technological innovations.

Full details are available from the AIC website.

Wednesday 15^th April: 10.30am – 12.30pm (a light lunch will be served at the end of the presentation).
Australian Institute of Criminology, 74 Leichhardt Street, Griffith, ACT.

Seminar: ‘Co-op Dividend: The Factors Affecting Successful Law Enforcement Cooperation’

CEPS Visiting Scholar, Mr Steven Brown, a qualified barrister who left the Bar to become a Metropolitan Police Officer in London.

Abstract:
According to Roger Gaspar (2008), we are entering a third era of policing that has evolved in response to the needs of a modern society characterised by globalisation and mobility. As a consequence, law enforcement strategies demand closer cross-border cooperation and a smarter infrastructure for information handling. In many places these attributes are at best asymmetric and, at worse, significantly lacking. Drawing on the experience of a non-federal Europe and on that of developing states, this seminar will explore the principle challenges in building transnational law enforcement cooperation and propose some common factors for success.

Thursday 16^th April: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Mr Alastair Milroy will speak about his role as the CEPS Executive-in-Residence and will give a presentation on criminal organisations, with specific examples including Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.

Read Mr Milroy's biography » (PDF 45KB)

Monday 20^th April: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Please RSVP your attendance by emailing the CEPS Project Manager, Ms Tanya Mark (Tanya.Mark@anu.edu.au) for catering purposes.

Associate Professor Fiona Haines, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.

Tuesday 21^st April: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

CEPS Visiting Scholar, Professor David Wall, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds.

Biography:
David S. Wall (BA, MA, M Phil, PhD, FRSA, AcSS) is Professor of Criminal Justice and Information Society at the University of Leeds. Formerly Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (2000-2005) and Head of the School of Law (2005-2007), he conducts research and teaches in the fields of criminal justice and information technology (Cybercrime), policing, cyberlaw and intellectual property crime. He has published a wide range of articles and books on these subjects which include: Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age (Polity, 2007), Cyberspace Crime (ed. Ashgate/ Dartmouth, 2003), Crime and the Internet (ed. Routledge, 2001) and The Internet, Law and Society (ed. with Y. Akdeniz and C. Walker, Longman, 2000). He has also published a range of books and articles within the broader field of criminal justice, including Policy Networks in Criminal Justice (ed. with M. Ryan and S. Savage, McMillan Press, 2001), The British Police: Forces and Chief Officers (with M. Stallion, Police History Society, 1999), The Chief Constables of England and Wales (Ashgate/Dartmouth, 1998), Access to Criminal Justice (ed. with R. Young, Blackstone Press, 1996), Policing in a Northern Force (with K. Bottomley, C. Coleman, D. Dixon and M. Gill, Hull University, 1991).

Abstract:
The debate over the relationship between organised cybercrime and the internet continues to run. One of the key assumptions underpinning it is that the internet is increasingly being used by traditional and non-traditional organised crime groups and some terrorist groups to generate large amounts of income and in some situations further their own ends. The problem with the debate is that its participants tend to simplify the relationship between organised crime and the internet in order to present it to the public with old stereotypes prevailing. Furthermore, it is a debate that is largely normative and without much hard evidence put forward either to prove or disprove the theories being pursued in the discussion. Yet, the arguments are culturally and intuitively powerful and can shape public demands for security, the formation of policy and also the allocation of resources.

There are clearly some empirical challenges to unravelling the various issues in play which will need to be overcome if the debate is to be taken forward. Before that, however, it will be argued in this paper that the various issues and tensions in the debates first need to be mapped out, especially as a number of debates, such as those over organised cybercrime online and the organisation of crime online currently are currently being confused. The debate over organised crime online is overshadowed by conceptualisations of organised crime in popular culture (the Mafia command and control model). The debate over organisation of crime online has been framed by new tensions that are appearing in new online business models between the 'old-fashioned' control and customer hacking (prosumption) model. This paper will disaggregate the organised crime online debate from the debate over the organisation of crime online. It will argue that the two debates are separate but have become intertwined. It will also argue that the organisation of crime online (true cybercrimes) does not lend itself to traditional command and control models, if anything it opposes it. However, it will also be argued that there may be some possible overlap with certain types of crime.

Part one of the paper will look at the debate over organised crime, part two at the debate over the organisation of crime online. Part three will explore different types of crime organisation implicit in different types of crime online. Part four will conclude and also identify some of the research questions that need to be answered in order to take this debate further.

Download the notes of Professor Wall's presentation » (PDF 1.08MB).

Tuesday 28^th April: 3.30pm – 4.30pm (afternoon tea available from 3.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Community Policing and Crime Prevention in Practice: Lessons from a US Field Intervention’

CEPS Visiting Scholar, Dr Jeremy M. Wilson, Associate Director for Research and an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU).

Biography:
Dr Wilson recently founded and directs the MSU Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection Program and the Police Studies Consortium. Prior to joining MSU, Dr Wilson was a Behavioural Scientist at the RAND Corporation, where, in addition to securing and directing many influential law enforcement projects, he led the development of several successful initiatives, including the Center on Quality Policing and the Police Recruitment and Retention Clearinghouse, the latter of which he still serves as Director. He is a visiting scholar in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, he recently held the Willett Chair in Public Safety in the Center for Public Safety at Northwestern University, and was an adjunct professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr Wilson has collaborated with police agencies, communities, task forces and governments throughout the U.S. and the world on many of the most salient public safety problems. His recent books include Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment: Personnel Experiences and Promising Practices from the Front Lines, Recruitment and Retention: Lessons for the New Orleans Police Department, Human Trafficking in Ohio, Securing America’s Passenger-Rail Systems, Community Policing and Crime: The Process and Impact of Problem-solving in Oakland., Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland, Community Policing in America, Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati, State and Local Intelligence in the War on Terrorism, and Establishing Law and Order After Conflict. His research and commentary have also been featured in numerous professional journals and in various forms of national and international media. Dr Wilson received his PhD in Public Administration from The Ohio State University.

Abstract:
In response to rising crime and violence, Oakland, California voters passed Measure Y, the Violence Prevention and Public Safety Act of 2004, a 10-year initiative supported by a nearly $20M annual investment designed to foster violence prevention through community policing and social service programs. This seminar highlights the progress of the community-policing component of Measure Y over its first three years. In particular, it presents the process of implementation as well as offers evidence of an impact. Although progress has been made, significant obstacles challenged the implementation of the community-policing program, thereby illustrating that evidence-based strategies and resources are not enough. These obstacles are discussed in light of offering lessons about improving this and similar types of field interventions.

Wednesday 27^th May: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Lecture Room 3, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Islamist Extremism in Indonesia – Implications and the Road Ahead’

CEPS Visiting Fellow, Dr Bilveer Singh, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore.

Biography:
Dr Bilveer Singh is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the National University of Singapore. He is also the Vice President of the Political Science Association in Singapore and the Deputy National Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network (SEASCN). Dr Singh’s research interests are in International Relations and Comparative Politics. He teaches Government of Politics of Singapore; Singapore's Foreign Policy; International Security; and Contemporary Issues in Indonesian Politics. To date, he has authored nine books which include the following recent major publications: Indonesia in the Shadows of an Islamic State (co-authored with Munir Mulkhan, forthcoming); Papua: Geopolitics and Papua’s Quest for Nationhood (New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2008); The Talibanziation of Southeast Asia: Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists (Boulder: Praeger Security International, 2007); Politics and Governance in Singapore: An Introduction (Singapore: McGrawHill Education, 2007); ASEAN, Australian and the Management of the Jemaah Islamiyyah Threat (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 2003).

Abstract:
Since the Bali bombings in October 2002, Indonesia has been placed on the international radar screen as one of the areas of concern as far as Islamist terrorism is concerned. The fact that this was followed by a series of bombings as well as the evident presence of the Al Jemaah Al Islammiyah (AJAI), the most dangerous region-based terrorist organisation, tends to confirm the view that Southeast Asia has emerged as the 'second front' in the global war on terror. As the largest Muslim state in the world, and the presence of various radical Islamist groups, much has been said and written about the issue. The talk will attempt to review the main discourse on the issue, the strength of AJAI as well as the state of play as far as the Islamists are concerned. The fact that Islamic political parties fared badly in the 2009 general elections in Indonesia implied something – that the public has largely rejected them – yet, what does this mean for the Islamists as a whole? Who are the main groups and what are the likely courses of action will be briefly examined. What is the future for the Islamists and is Indonesia in danger of being taken over by these groups?

Thursday 4^th June: 1.30pm – 3.00pm.
Lecture Room 3, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

RegNet Bookclub: ‘Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the 21st Century’

The book Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Law Enforcement Resources in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press: 2009) was launched by The Honourable Bob Debus MP, Minister for Home Affairs, in March 2009 (see launch details).

The Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific will host a discussion of the book, featuring the book's CEPS-based authors, Ms Julie Ayling and Professor Peter Grabosky, in conversation with Associate Professor Clive Harfield of the Law Faculty, University of Wollongong, and Professor Rod Broadhurst, Associate Investigator at CEPS, ANU.

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Tuesday 9^th June: 12.30pm – approx. 1.30pm (lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to regnet@anu.edu.au. Seating is strictly limited and all participants need to register by 4^th June 2009 to ensure a seat.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Dr Malcolm Cook, Program Director, East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.

Biography:
Dr Malcolm Cook is Program Director of East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He completed a PhD in International Relations at The Australian National University. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the International University of Japan and an honours degree from McGill University in Canada, his country of birth. Before moving to Australia in 2000, Dr Cook lived and worked in the Philippines, South Korea and Japan and spent much time in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining the Lowy Institute in November 2003, he ran his own consulting practice on East Asian political and economic policy reform and risk analysis. He is the author of Banking Reform in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2008) in addition to numerous op-ed pieces, academic journal articles and policy reports.

Summary:
In this seminar, Dr Cook proposes a new agenda for multilateral cooperation between Australia and Japan. The ANU and Lowy Institute for International Policy, both recipients of Australia-Japan Foundation support, are collaborating on their respective projects by bringing Dr Malcom Cook to the ANU to present some of the preliminary findings of their project and to compare their findings to date, with each other.

The Asian Security seminar series is a joint initiative between the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU. This seminar is supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. AJF logo

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Friday 19^th June: 2.00 – 3.30pm. Enquiries: Dr Brendan Taylor (ph 02 6125 9928 or email Brendan.Taylor@anu.edu.au).
Lecture Theatre 2 (room 1.09), ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Ms Iris Wielders, PhD Candidate in the ANU Department of International Relations.

Biography:
Iris Wielders (BA/MA International Relations, University of Amsterdam; MA International Humanitarian Assistance, University of Groningen) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of International Relations at The Australian National University. Her PhD project investigates accountability dilemmas in international cooperative state building interventions. She has worked in conflict prevention and peace building in Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Pacific region more broadly. She combines her PhD studies with work in conflict-sensitive development; linkages between land and conflict; peace building; and modalities of aid and intervention in conflict affected/fragile states.

Abstract:
Questions surrounding the effectiveness and legitimacy of state building interventions are forming a growing global research agenda. Apart from a small number of transitional administrations, most state building interventions take the form of extensive longer-term state building partnerships between external actors and governments – they are 'cooperative state building interventions'. This partnership model has been criticised for its lack of transparency in terms of power relations and responsibilities, with claims that the partnership model is a deliberate attempt to escape accountability for aid policies. However, the question of how accountability can be constituted in these cooperative state building interventions remains under-investigated.

Cooperative state building interventions are neither actual institutions of global governance nor ordinary development assistance programs, complicating the question how accountability can be constituted in such interventions. Accountability mechanisms in these interventions cannot simply draw on existing accountability models in global governance institutions, and their constitution as comprehensive long-term partnerships with governments calls for more than conventional aid monitoring and evaluation to constitute accountability. In addition, the concept of accountability is itself contested. This paper investigates these complexities and suggests that the question of how accountability should be constituted in cooperative state building interventions involves the negotiation of a number of dilemmas.

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Tuesday 23^rd June: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Mr Silas Everett, Representative, The Asia Foundation, Timor-Leste, and Mr Thomas Parks, Regional Conflict and Governance Advisor, The Asia Foundation, Thailand.

Summary:
Mr Everett and Mr Parks will speak about The Asia Foundation's access to justice programs and community policing programs in Timor-Leste, in particular about empirical evidence TAF has gathered through perception surveys on policing, and law and justice in Timor-Leste.

Background:
As a country in transition from conflict to stability, Timor-Leste faces many challenges in ensuring access to justice for all. Many individuals' attempts to exercise fundamental rights through traditional dispute resolution mechanisms or through the nascent formal justice sector often fail due to limited financial resources, low awareness of options, and geographic isolation. The Asia Foundation, through the USAID-funded Access to Justice program, aims to bridge those gaps for vulnerable groups by funding pro bono legal aid services, supporting enhanced mediation services, increasing expertise to meet the particular justice needs of women, and increasing awareness of laws and legal procedures vital to secure livelihoods for vulnerable groups.

Still less than ten years old, the Timor-Leste National Police force (PNTL) continues to face a range of challenges. At its inception, only one in ten officers of the 3,000-strong PNTL had previous policing experience. Since then, considerable assistance has been provided for training police officers, developing policy, and reworking the structure of state security institutions. Although vital, these technical efforts have not incorporated community-level and civil society actors, and much less attention has focused on assisting ‘community-police’ relations. Experience has proven that technical assistance to police alone is insufficient for improving security, and that it is also essential to develop a set of community-oriented norms and practices for the conduct of policing functions. However, while the PNTL is committed to working in a community-oriented manner, it lacks both the material and the means to do so.

Friday 26^th June: 2.30pm – 4.00pm.
Seminar Room 1.13, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims of State Harm’

CEPS/RegNet visitor, Professor Kimberly J. Cook, Chair and Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Abstract¹:
The state crime literature has yet to consider how state officials exercise power to investigate, prosecute, and convict innocent people of crimes they did not commit. We adapt the victimology 'state harms' framework advocated by Kauzlarich, Matthews and Miller (2001)² to examine the post-exoneration experiences of 18 death row exonerees. The 'state harms' approach offered by Kauzlarich et al. more fully captures the human injuries endured by state crime victims, including death row exonerees, than the traditional legalistic and social harms approaches used to study state crime. Using the state harms framework, we discuss the array of traumas exonerees face as a result of their wrongful capital convictions and incarcerations, challenges exacerbated by their quest for state accountability. We conclude with a discussion of the value of using the state harms approach to understand the post-exoneration experiences of exonerees.

Notes:
1. Research conducted by Kimberly J. Cook and Saundra Westervelt.
2. Kauzlarich, David, Rick A. Matthews & William J. Miller, 'Toward a Victimology of State Crime, 'Critical Criminology, 10:173–194, 2001.

The authors anticipate that a paper will be published on this work in the near future. Electronic copies will be provided on request via ceps@anu.edu.au.

Thursday 9^th July: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘The Economic-Security Nexus and East Asian Regionalism’
This lecture is part of the 'Asian Security seminar series', a joint initiative between CEPS at the Department of International Relations and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

CEPS Visiting Scholar, T.J. Pempel, Professor of Political Science, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.

Biography:
Professor Pempel is renowned for his extensive work in the field of International Political Economy. His research focuses on comparative politics, Japanese political economy, and Asian regionalism. His most recent books include 'Crisis as Catalyst: Asia’s Dynamic Political Economy' (Cornell University Press, 2008), 'Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region' (Cornell University Press, 2005), and 'Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific' (Stanford University Press, 2004).

Abstract:
East Asia is becoming more regionalised. But it is doing so in fits and starts: two steps forward and one step back. At present, few Asian governments are bonded through an overarching regional vision; many are highly distrustful of one another; and the region evinces little of the sustained political leadership and conviction necessary to create the robust institutions that might deepen and regularise state-to-state cooperation across a range of complex issues. Yet even with its many halts and missteps, Asia has, beyond question, become a far more institutionally cohesive neighbourhood than it was one or two decades ago.

Commercial integration has been a powerful force in eroding some of Asia's walls of national insulation as cross-border production networks have forged a series of regional bridges leavening previously tight national economic boundaries and weaving a latticework of economic connections across large swaths of the region.

Economic globalisation has undoubtedly facilitated integration of large parts of the region. Nevertheless, particularly within East Asia, national governments have remained the ultimate repositories of power and the primary building blocks in international affairs. Territoriality and national governmental priorities continue to trump the forces of globalised economics. Regional governance continues to lag behind burgeoning corporate linkages. Nevertheless, East Asia’s national governments, as they seek to mediate the extremes of economic globalisation and to search for solutions to the growing number of intra-regional problems that defy solution by any single government, have come increasingly to define their self-interest as lying in greater cross-border cooperation through formal regional institutions. As a consequence, across the region, regional institutions have become increasingly utilised tools in the kits of still-sovereign governments.

Strikingly, even as regional ties have become more institutionalised, a marked imbalance continues between the steadily deepening connections in economics and finance and the much less robust bodies shaping events in the traditional security realm. To many who focus on security tensions, East Asian conditions suggest a region that, in the words of Aaron Friedberg (1993) is "ripe for rivalry." In contrast, however, economic linkages suggest a region "ripe for cooperation."

In this lecture, Professor Pempel will explore the nexus among rising regionalism, economic cooperation and security tensions. Key concerns will be the extent to which cooperation (or tensions) in one area spill over to others, making regional cooperation either easier or more problematic.

Thursday 30^th July 2009: 1.30pm – 3.00pm. No RSVP required.
Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD) Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

For enquiries please contact Dr Brendan Taylor, T: 6125.9928, E: brendan.taylor@anu.edu.au.

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Hosted by the Internet Safety Institute, Slattery IT and conference advisors Nigel Phair (CEPS Associate Investigator and member of the Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence) and Alastair MacGibbon (Trust and Safety Director, eBay Australia and New Zealand).

A one-day symposium in which key security experts will gather to discuss the impact of emerging threats for businesses operating online. Topics covered will include privacy and information protection, corporate responsibility, reputation and brand, emerging threats to online security, how to protect critical data as social media intersects with people's personal lives, and the latest developments in technology to fight e-crime.

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Tuesday 4^th August: 9.00am – 6.00pm.
Sofitel Wentworth Sydney, 61-101 Phillip Street, Sydney.

The 8th national conference and forum on security and resilience is hosted by Safeguarding Australia, and is partially supported by CEPS.

The conference will be relevant to those in the fields of national security strategy and policy; counter terrorism in an all-hazards environment; resilience; critical infrastructure protection; business continuity; and enterprise security, risk and safety.

A PhD National Security Workshop will take place on the first day of this conference. The PhD workshop is organised by the Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA), which is a multidisciplinary collaboration focused on strengthening Australia's research capacity for protecting critical infrastructure from natural or human-caused disasters, including terrorist acts. The PhD workshop aims to continue previous efforts by the RNSA to build a network of PhD researchers and match PhD researchers with national security staff who may be interested in their work.

For more information visit the conference website »

Wednesday 5^th – Thursday 6^th August.
Rydges Lakeside, Canberra, 1 London Circuit, Canberra City, ACT.

Seminar: ‘The roar on the other side of silence: A pre-fieldwork presentation for a multi-country research on sexual violence in conflict/post-conflict situation’

PhD scholar, Ms Joyce Wu of the Centre for International Governance & Justice (CIGJ), Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), ANU.

Biography:
Gender equality and the elimination of violence against women are issues which Joyce cares deeply about. Prior to undertaking postgraduate studies, Joyce worked in agencies including the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the East and Southeast Asia regional office and China country office of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the Australian Government Office for Women. Her PhD research is a multi-country study aimed at identifying good practices on engaging with men and boys to prevent sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations. The project also examines how the emerging trends of militarisation and privatisation of humanitarian aid have affected aid agencies' efforts to address sexual and gender-based violence, and the promotion of gender equality and women's human rights.

Abstract:
In recent years sexual violence during conflict and post-conflict periods, fuelled by the gendered dimension of armed conflict and the use of rape as a form of military strategy, has been receiving global attention. However, there have been few multi-country studies done which identify and compare the challenges, common themes, and good practices on prevention and intervention strategies in sexual and gender-based violence. In response, this PhD research will be a multi-country study conducted in Afghanistan, East Timor and Pakistan. The pre-fieldwork seminar will examine how the emerging patterns of conflict and peace reconstruction have affected the ways in which the international communities respond to this issue, the construction of gender identities during conflict situations, and the strategic value of engaging men in gender-based violence prevention activities within post-conflict settings.

Analysis will be undertaken on the impact of the "fast aid" approach to post-conflict reconstruction, where development projects are reduced to technocratic transfer without giving account to local specificities, the militarisation of humanitarian aid, and the challenge of working with men and boys on anti-violence prevention in ways which ensure the safety of women and project participants within a conflict/post-conflict setting. In addition, research methodology for fieldwork – from logistics to interview techniques – will be raised for discussion. This research project is supported by the Australian Government (Endeavour Research Fellowship), Oxfam and the Australian Red Cross.

Tuesday 11^th August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Organised crime in contemporary China: Fictional anecdote or factual existence?’

CEPS Visiting Scholar, Professor Jianming Mei, Chinese People’s Public Security University, Beijing, China.

Biography:
Download a CV for Professor Mei » (PDF 59KB)

Abstract:
English literature about organised crime in China usually reviews Triad in earlier centuries, and sometime explores variants in the contemporary time, whereas Chinese literature about organised crime mostly uses terms like Mafia-like organisational crime or underground-society crime. Similarly, Chinese law-makers also resonate with the Chinese academic community. Their discourse implies that there is no organised crime in contemporary China. In practice, Chinese police launches campaigns to crack down Mafia-like organisational crime.

The differences between the discourse in English and Chinese literature highlight some controversial questions: Is there organised crime in contemporary China? Is Mafia-like organisational crime a euphemism for organised crime? If not, what are the differences between Mafia-like organisational crime and organised crime in the Chinese context? If yes, what is the purpose of the users of this euphemism?

This presentation briefly reviews English and Chinese literature about organised crime, summarises relevant conclusions, focuses on Chinese academic research, law-making, and policing aspects of organised crime, outlines the basic spectrum of organised crime in China, explores the challenges of organised crime and pitfalls in Chinese law, and finally proposes measures to prevent and combat organised crime in China.

Friday 14^th August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
The Arndt Room (seminar room B), block 7, level 1, H.C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

RegNet visitor, Commander (PPF) Denis McDermott APM, former Deputy Commissioner to UNPOL – the UN Police in East Timor, and former Chief Police Officer of the Australian Capital Territory.

The Participating Police Force (PPF) is the overseas police contingent deployed through the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). Since its creation in 2003, the PPF has always been commanded by an officer of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), who is also sworn in as the Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Police Force (SIPF). Denis McDermott was commander of the PPF from July 2007 until June 2009.

Read a short biography of Denis McDermott APM » (PDF 44KB)

Monday 17^th August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘The effects of face-to-face restorative justice conferencing on crime and victim outcomes: A Campbell Collaboration review’

Dr Heather Strang, Director of the Centre for Restorative Justice, Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU; Deputy Director of the Police Executive Programme at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 18^th August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Support for violent and non-violent tactics among Australian activists’

CEPS visitor, Dr Winnifred Louis of the School of Psychology, University of Queensland.

Biography:
Dr Winnifred Louis is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology and co-director of the Centre for Research on Group Processes at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include intergroup relations and conflict, political decision-making, collective action and power. She has published recently on the role of identity in terrorism and conflict management.

Abstract:
This presentation examines the tactical choices of Australian activists, examining support for violence among these politically engaged actors. The research aims to identify social psychological processes underpinning endorsement of violent tactics, which are proposed to generalise to other contexts. In the Australian samples, there is an overwhelming rejection of violence as a tactic by most, as one would expect. Quantitative models are used to distinguish the handful who do not repudiate violence from the majority who do. The results support the critical importance of group identities and norms. The minority who did not strongly repudiate violence may be distinguished by their membership to particular activist groups, and by the combination of two beliefs: that democratic protest is ineffective, and that it is wrong to take action solely to assert a moral stance. The social psychology of this apparent defeatist embrace of violence within some activist groups is discussed, along with distinctions and similarities in the processes which might foster support for terrorism in Australia and abroad, and implications for conflict management.

Thursday 20^th August: 3.30pm – 4.30pm (afternoon tea available from 3.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? The War on Terror and Networks of Terrorism from George W. Bush to Barack Obama’

CEPS Partner Investigator, Professor Michael Stohl, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Abstract:
The "Global War on Terror" commenced with President Bush's address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, with his much-cited quote "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." This seminar will explore the implications of the Bush counterterrorism approach and its results, and what the new Obama administration has done to chart a new approach to counterterrorism. The seminar explores not only how Mr. Obama has challenged and discarded Mr. Bush's war metaphor and reasserted the primacy of a law and justice framework to conduct counterterrorism, but also, the almost neglected question of how Mr. Obama's approach differs from that of Mr. Bush on assumptions about the global network of terrorism that Mr. Bush identified as the target of the War, and what the implications are for a successful Obama administration counter terrorism approach.

Monday 24^th August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

The Illicit Organisations project of the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security will hold their third workshop, similar to the one held in March 2009, for interested individuals to contribute to the project. The discussion panel will include international visitor Michael Stohl (Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara), who will also be presenting a seminar prior to the workshop. Details of the discussion hypotheses for the workshop will be emailed to those who confirm their attendance.

Monday 24^th August: 2.00pm – 4.00pm (afternoon tea will be provided).
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H. C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

For catering purposes, please RSVP to ceps@anu.edu.au by c.o.b. Monday 17^thAugust.

Seminar: ‘In the heart of darkness? The ethics of defense funding for scholarly research on climate change and political fragility in Africa’

CEPS Visiting Scholar, Dr Catherine E. Weaver, Assistant Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Director of the Global Governance Program, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Biography:
Catherine (Kate) Weaver is currently an Assistant Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr Weaver received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. From 2001-2002, she was a Brookings Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and from 2002-2008 an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas.

Dr Weaver's research focuses on the organisational culture, behaviour and reform of international financial institutions, foremost the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Her book, ‘Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform,’ was published by Princeton University Press in November 2008. In addition to several book chapters, she has also published or will be publishing articles in the journals Global Governance, Journal of International Relations and Development, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy. Dr Weaver is also the co-editor or co-author of three forthcoming books, ‘The Politics of International Organizations: Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide’ (with Alex Thompson and Michael J. Tierney), ‘International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide’ (with Nicola Phillips), and ‘Theory and Practice of International Organizations’ (with Michael Lipson and Michael Mosser), and is currently a co-editor for the journal Review of International Political Economy, and serves on the editorial advisory boards for the journal Poverty and Public Policy, the New Millennium Books Series of Rowman & Littlefield Press, and the Routledge/University of Warwick Studies in Globalisation book series. Dr Weaver is currently working on a new book, entitled ‘The Paradox of Accountability: Transparency, Evaluation and the IO Learning Curve.’

In addition to being an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School, Dr Weaver is a Fellow and Director of the Global Governance Program for the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas. She is currently a core researcher in a $7.6 million U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Project Grant on Political Instability and Climate Change in Africa.

Dr Weaver received the Chadwick Alger Prize for Best Book on International Organizations and Multilateralism, International Studies Association in February 2009 for her book ‘Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform’ (Princeton University Press 2008).

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Abstract:
In 2008, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) issued a call for proposals to all US universities to solicit collaborative multi-year, multi-million dollar research programs on topics relevant to emerging threats to US national security (the Minerva Initiative). This coincided with the controversy surrounding the military's use of academic scholars (foremost anthropologists) in conflict zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. At a time when university budgets and grant resources were (and continue to be) drying up, the DoD’s call was met with responses ranging from guarded optimism to outrage. A heated debate erupted with academia regarding whether or not scholars should accept funding or work with the US military, how the resulting research would be used (and by whom), and whether or not the terms of the proposals would violate any scholarly ethics. Dr Weaver, a core researcher in one of the seven final Minerva Initiatives Awards, will discuss these difficult issues and the more general debate surrounding scholars' work with the military in the US. She will also present and solicit feedback on the USD 7.6 million five-year grant awarded to the University of Texas at Austin on “Climate Change and State Fragility in Africa.”

Tuesday 25^th August: 3.30pm – 4.30pm (afternoon tea available from 3.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Patterns of urban conflict in East Timor: The implications for peacebuilding and policing’

CEPS Visitor, James Scambary, has been researching gangs and urban conflict in East Timor since 2006 and has recently conducted an urban violence assessment there for the World Bank.

Abstract:
Informed by conversations with NGOs involved in mediation and also Australian peacekeeping forces in Dili, this presentation will focus on the patterns and dynamics of urban conflict in East Timor, with some practical implications for policing and peacebuilding.

Monday 31^st August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
The Arndt Room (seminar room B), block 7, level 1, H.C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

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The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) in partnership with the NSW Commission for Children and Young People, the NSW Attorney-General’s Department and the Australian Human Rights Commission will host a national conference on Indigenous young people, crime and justice.

This conference aims to identify and share the research and practice most relevant to addressing the problem of overrepresentation of Indigenous young people in the criminal justice system. It has a major focus on Indigenous children and young people who interact with the criminal justice system early and/or repeatedly, who are likely to have complex needs, and who require highly targeted and joined up responses across the justice and other interrelated systems such as education, child protection, family support, and cultural services.

Read more about this conference from the AIC website »

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Monday 31^st August – Tuesday 1^st September. Full price conference registrations are open until 27^th August.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 30 Phillip Street, Parramatta, NSW.

2009 ARACY Conference: ‘Transforming Australia for our children's future: Making prevention work’

This conference, hosted by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY), will focus on how we can best learn from one another and work together to innovate and take action to improve outcomes for young Australians. The conference aims to build links between international and national experts, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, social entrepreneurs, marketers, business and financiers. It will explore pathways to success, and showcase preventive innovations that are improving the lives of children and young people.

Confirmed speakers include:

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Wednesday 2^nd – Friday 4^th September. Call for abstract submissions is open until 7^th May. Standard registration is open 17^th July – 26^th August 2009; late registration applies thereafter.
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Normanby Road, Melbourne, Victoria.

CEPS visitor, Professor Mark Findlay, Director of the Institute of Criminology, The University of Sydney.

Biography:
Mark Findlay is the Director of the Institute of Criminology. Previously Head of Department of the Sydney Law School in 1998-1999, and Pro Dean in 1999, Mark currently holds a research Chair at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. He is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. An experienced socio-legal researcher, Professor Findlay has worked as a research consultant for international agencies, governments and private consortia in many jurisdictions. He has recently undertaken consultancy work for AusAID, reviewing the law and justice sector in PNG. Professor Findlay is the joint chair of the International Criminal Trial Project, which is helping shape the face of international criminal justice. His new book "Transforming International Criminal Justice" (Willan Publishing (UK), 2005) is contributing to the reconciliation of retributive and restorative justice paradigms internationally.

Abstract:
The presentation will discuss the recent business community crime survey administered in Port Moresby, against the background of a number of more general community crime surveys with ‘policing satisfaction’ components. This will give rise to discussion concerning:

It is anticipated that the experience of policing business crime within a dysfunctional business market serviced by a dysfunctional state policing service will provide a ‘worst case’ model for challenges to engagement.

Download a working paper on this topic: 'Policing Business Confidence? Controlling Crime Victimisation in Papua New Guinea' by Mark Findlay (PDF, 0.23MB).

Tuesday 8^th September: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.04, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘G2 but no EU? What a China-US strategic partnership would mean for Europe’

CEPS visitor, Dr Gudrun Wacker, Senior Research Fellow at the Research Division Asia, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin.

Download Dr Wacker's CV » (PDF 0.94MB)
Download an event brochure » (PDF 4.89MB)

Tuesday 29^th September: 2.00pm – 3.30pm. No RSVP is required.
Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU (reference C4 on the ANU campus map).

This one-day conference is being hosted by the ‘Integrate and Implement’ node of CEPS, which is based at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) at The Australian National University.

The conference aims to enhance policing effectiveness by catalysing research into the neglected area of how uncertainties are understood and managed in the policing of serious crime. The presenters are a select invited group of senior researchers and practitioners. The conference will help policing researchers, senior police and policing agency managers answer questions such as “How can police make effective decisions when information is limited?”; “How does confirmation bias affect investigations, and how can we overcome it?” and “Why do certainties in policing seem uncertain in court?”.

For more information and registration, download the conference brochure or visit the conference website.

Thursday 8^th October: 9.00am – 6.00pm. Early bird registration of $250 closes on 23^rd August.
Bob Douglas Theatre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), Building 62a, Eggleston Road, ANU (reference C3 on the ANU campus map).

CEPS visitor, Dr Norm Stamper, former Chief of the Seattle Police Department and one of the leading lights of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a drug-policy-reform group.

Dr Stamper is a major proponent of significant drug law reform, believing that the “war on drugs” has actually been a war on people. Having served as a police officer for 34 years, and Chief of the Seattle Police Department from 1998 to 2000, Norm Stamper is one of the strongest voices in the US advocating legalisation of illicit drugs.

Dr Stamper will be presenting his views on drug law reform, including:

Dr Stamper has also recently released a book entitled “Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing.”

Monday 26^th October: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room 1.13, ground floor, H. C. Coombs Building Extension, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

The Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at The australian National University, will host a 2-day conference in conjunction with the Institute of Child Protection Studies at the Australian Catholic University, Canberra, with the support of the Australian Research Council and the ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services.

Approaching child protection as a form of regulation is a fairly uncommon approach. By bringing together international and national child protection and regulatory scholars, this conference aims to elicit new thinking about the principles that governments and other actors might wish to endorse in their approaches to child protection. The conference seeks to stimulate debate about the aims of and justifications for intervening and the role of families and communities in child protection.

Download a flyer and program for this event » (PDF, 93KB)

Thursday 5^th – Friday 6^th November. This event is free of charge, and seating is limited to 50 so RSVP is essential. RSVP to Mary Ivec on mary.ivec@anu.edu.au or (T) 02 6125 4438.
Lecture Room 2, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Vulnerable people policing: inclusion or exclusion of target groups’
An event hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), a CEPS industry partner.

Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron is a lecturer in policing and applied criminology at Charles Sturt University, and currently also works on a community policing project with the Australian Institute of Criminology. Her most recent publications focus on participatory and restorative justice and community policing.

Full details are available from the event brochure (PDF, 42KB) and the AIC website.

Tuesday 17^th November: 11.00am – 12.00pm. Please RSVP by Monday 16 November to aic.events@aic.gov.au.
Australian Institute of Criminology, 74 Leichhardt Street, Griffith, ACT.

Seminar: ‘The limits of investigative examinations of suspects in criminal proceedings’

Group of Eight Fellow and RegNet Visiting Research Fellow, Professor Arkadiusz Lach, Department of Criminal Procedure, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland).

Read more about Professor Lach on the Visitor's page »

Abstract:
Both traditional and modern investigative methods and forensic tests used in criminal proceedings allow for extraction of plenty of information from the human body. This seminar will focus on the limits on acquiring information from suspects in the light of the privilege against self – incrimination and the right to privacy.

Thursday 19^th November: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
The Arndt Room (seminar room B), block 7, level 1, H.C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

2009 ANZSOC Conference: ‘Crime and justice challenges in the 21st Century: Victims, offenders and communities’

The 2009 Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) conference aims to encapsulate several enduring issues facing criminal justice researchers and practitioners in the early 21st Century.

For more information and registration, visit the conference website »

Sunday 22^nd – Wednesday 25^th November. Call for papers is now closed. Registration will be open until the close of business on Friday 20^th November, and on any day of the conference.
University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Seminar: ‘Deterring corrupt senior political figures through international anti-money laundering norms’

CEPS visitor, Dr David Chaikin, Senior Lecturer, Business Law Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney.

Biography:
Dr David Chaikin LLB/B Com (UNSW), LLM (Yale), PhD in Law (Cambridge) is a senior lecturer in business law in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney, and a practising lawyer specialising in transnational litigation. He has worked as a consultant with the Financial Action Task Force and the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, and has held senior positions in the Australian Attorney-General’s Department and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Dr Chaikin spent seven years assisting the government of the Philippines in tracking and recovering the illicit assets of former President Ferdinand Marcos. His book, “Corruption and Money Laundering: A Symbiotic Relationship,” co-authored with Professor Jason Sharman, was published in 2009.

Abstract:
Corrupt political elites are one of the most significant obstacles to economic development and good governance. Financial institutions in a globalised economy may facilitate grand corruption by providing money laundering services. A new idea is that International Anti-Money Laundering systems may be used to prevent the laundering of corrupt proceeds. There is evidence of emerging international norms subjecting Politically Exposed Persons or Senior Public Figures to Anti-Money Laundering rules. The implementation and effectiveness of these norms will be assessed through state practice.

Monday 30^th November: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Lecture Room 3, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

Seminar: ‘Gatekeepers: The role of non-state actors in governance of the waterfront’

Mr Russell Brewer, PhD scholar at The Australian National University program of CEPS, and an Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Law at Flinders University.

Russell’s doctoral research examines current law enforcement responses to transnational organised crime on the waterfront. More specifically, his research investigates the governmental use of private sector 'partnerships' as a means of enhancing public policy, regulatory and law enforcement capacity. As such, this work explores the manner in which state actors (e.g. Customs, police and transport regulators) and non-state actors (e.g. port authorities, private security, stevedores and unions) come together to identify and respond to unlawful activities occurring at maritime ports.

This seminar constitutes Russell's 18-month candidature review, so audience feedback is encouraged.

Thursday 3^rd December: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room A, block 7, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Governing security in the global economy: A criminological framework’

CEPS visitor, Dr Alison Wakefield, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales.

Abstract:
Global political and economic transformations are changing the security landscape, and criminology has much to contribute to our understanding of contemporary security challenges and how these are to be addressed. The terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001 placed security at the top of public agendas worldwide, yet it was the abrupt end of the Cold War a decade earlier that swiftly removed the uneasy equilibrium holding together the international system, allowing a much more complex and interconnected set of risks to proliferate. Globalisation has simultaneously brought about a revolution in trade, communication and travel which has come increasingly to be shadowed by the expansion of transnational terrorist and criminal networks and an increasing vulnerability of states to regional conflicts, pandemics and other security challenges that national borders cannot contain. Such rapid social change has necessitated a fundamental and ongoing metamorphosis in international and national security architectures to address the proliferation of threats, blurring operational boundaries between agencies and requiring national and international agencies to work much more closely together. It has also confounded the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines, requiring criminology to engage much more closely with fields such as international relations and development studies in explaining, defining and addressing contemporary security problems in a global context. This paper will present the beginnings of a criminological framework for making sense of contemporary developments in security and policing from the international level through to the local.

Friday 4^th December: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Seminar Room A, block 7, ground floor, H.C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU (reference D2 on the ANU campus map).

Seminar: ‘Exploring terra incognita: Family values and prostitution acceptance in China’

CEPS Visiting Scholar, Dr Liqun Cao, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Biography:
Dr Liqun Cao, PhD (1993) is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology. His research interests include comparative studies, criminological theory, gun ownership, and policing. His research essays have appeared in many national and international journals, including the top journals of Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Policing. His co-authored paper won the Donal MacNamara Award of Academy of Criminal Justice Science in 2008. In addition, he published the monograph ‘Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement’ and co-edited the anthology ‘Lessons From International/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice’ in 2004. He also writes in Chinese and his co-authored book ‘The Empirical Status of Major Criminological Theories’ was published in Chinese with Professor Susyan Jou in 2007. He co-edited an anthology "Criminology" in Chinese with Professor Xin Ren in 2008.

Abstract:
One of the unexamined issues in China is the public attitude toward prostitution. Little is known about public opinion on prostitution in Asia and no work exists regarding the association between family values and public opinion on prostitution. Data from the World Values Surveys are used to explore social determinants of the attitudes toward prostitution with a focus on the relationship between family values and acceptance of prostitution in China. The results from the multivariate logistic regression show that pro-family values are a significant predictor of the attitude toward prostitution, independent of tolerance, feminism, authoritarianism, and employment. The effects of feminism and authoritarianism are inconsistent with the literature in the U.S. although the effect of tolerance is consistent. This article concludes with a call for reevaluation of the current Chinese policy in order to gain a better control of prostitution.
Liqun Cao, Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and Steven Stack, Wayne State University.

Tuesday 8^th December: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (sandwich lunch available from 12.15pm). RSVP (for catering purposes) to ceps@anu.edu.au.
Lecture Room 3, ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU (reference D2 on the campus map).

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