Program

Download the Program Booklet [→Program] [→Appendices]

Download the Book of Abstracts [→Abstracts]

Following types of sessions were held during the Congress.

■Plenary Sessions[→Plenary Sessions]　 
Internationally recognized experts were invited to make presentations on each plenary sub-theme.
Simultaneous interpretation provided: Japanese, English, French and Spanish

■Sessions Organized by JFCA[→Sessions Organized by JFCA]    
JFCA , the local host, presented sessions which were open to the public.

■Sessions Organized by JFCA Member Associations[→Sessions Organized by JFCA Member Associations]
Each member association of JFCA held sessions specific to their interests.  Simultaneous or consecutive interpreters were provided for some sessions.  Some were open to the public. 

■Sponsored Sessions by Criminology-related Organizations[→Sponsored Sessions by Criminology-related Organizations] 
Criminology-related organizations held sponsored sessions specific to their interests.  Simultaneous interpreters were provided for some sessions.  Some sessions were open to the public.

■Sessions formed by general submissions [→Call for Papers]

Program

 　　　　　　　　Scientific Tours　　　　Harima A：09:00-16:30　　　　Harima B：10:30-16:30　　　　Nara：08:30-16:50

　　　　　　　　　Poster Sessions/ Exhibitions 09：00-17：30　 　　　　　　※　ISC Board Meeting　　17：30-19：30

　　　　　　　　　Poster Sessions/ Exhibitions 09：00-17：30　

　　　　　　　　　Poster Sessions/ Exhibitions 09：00-17：30　　
　　　　　　　　　Scientific Tours　　　Osaka A：09:00-16:50　　　Osaka B：09:30-16:50

　　　　　　　　Poster Sessions/ Exhibitions 09：00-15：00　
　　　　　　　　Scientific Tours　　Kobe：09:15-16:20

Plenary Sessions

Venue:　 Main Hall , 1st Fl Kobe International Conference Center

6101   Plenary 1: “Global Economic Crisis and Criminology”　　　10：00-13：15　Aug. 6　

　Japanese, English, French, and Spanish

How is criminology dealing with global economic crisis and structural changes in state and society? This plenary session examineds the current situation of criminology with regard to both crime and crime prevention strategies.

7101   Plenary 2: "Frontiers of Clinical Criminology"　　　9 ：00-12：15　Aug. 7　

　Japanese, English, French, and Spanish

Changes in crime related to structural changes in state and society must have presented new challenges to clinical criminology.  This plenary session examined frontiers in clinical criminology including approaches from psychology, social welfare, pedagogy, and criminology including approaches from psychology, social welfare, pedagogy, and medicine.

8101   Plenary 3: “Corporate and Business Crime”　　　9 ：00-12：15　Aug. 8　

　Japanese, English, French, and Spanish

The global economic crisis may have been both a cause and a result of corporate and business crime.  This plenary session examined corporate and business crime, such as market manipulation and fraud, from a new criminological perspective in current situation.

9101   Plenary 4: “Models of State and Crime Prevention Strategies”　　　9 ：00-12：15　Aug. 9

　Japanese, English, French, and Spanish

Different countries adopt different models of state, including welfare state, neo-liberal state, post-neo-liberal state, etc.  The relationship between state and civil society may vary from one model of state to another.  This plenary session examined the relationship between models of state and types of crime prevention strategies.

Speaker	Frank Zimring	University of California, Berkeley
Speaker	Jose Luis Diez-Ripolles	University of Málaga
Speaker	Jui-Lung Cheng	National Chung Cheng University
Speaker	Hiroyuki Kuzuno	Hitotsubashi University
Chair	Jose Luis de la Cuesta	University of the Bask Country
Chair	Jianhong Liu	University of Macau

 

Sessions Organized by JFCA

 

7219   "Citizen Participation in Criminal Trials: The Saiban-in System and Victim Participation in Japan in International Perspectives"　　　　 13 ：15-16：30　　　 Aug. 7　　　 　Japanese and English　
Venue: Room B302, Building B, Kobe Gakuin University　　　　　　　

 

Two forms of citizen participation have been introduced into criminal trials in Japan in recent years.  Trials by the Saiban-in, a mixed panel of three professional judges and six lay judges, was introduced in May 2009, while the system to allow active participation of crime victims or surviving families was introduced in December 2008.  These systems have given highly unique characteristics to the Japanese criminal justice in international perspectives.

This open symposium invited a scholar and a journalist from Japan, who have followed recent developments in the criminal procedure, and three scholars, one each from the US, Germany and Korea, each of whom reported on the following respectively: the American jury and victim participation systems, the German lay judge and victim participation systems, and the Korean jury system.  By dealing with questions and exchanging opinions from the audience, this symposium tried to find proper ways of citizen participation in criminal trials.

Panelist	Akira Goto	Hitotsubashi University
Panelist	Kyoko Tokunaga	Kobe Shimbun
Panelist	Valerie Hans	Cornell University
Panelist	Hans-Jürgen Kerner	University of Tübingen
Panelist	Jong-Sik Choi	Osaka University of Commerce
Chair	Setsuo Miyazawa	Aoyama Gakuin University

 

7129   "Disaster and Crime (1)： Major Earthquake of 1995 and Crime Prevention in Kobe"
17：15-20：30　　 Aug. 7 　　　 　Japanese and English　

Venue: Room 301, Kobe International Conference Center

Consecurive or simultaneous interpreting provided: English and Japanese

In this symposium, presenters discussed about crime problems after the major natural disasters, mainly after the Major Earthquake of Kobe in 1995. First, what were the characteristics of post-disasters of big scale?  Second, right after the East Japan Earthquake of 2011, foreign media reported with admiration the survivors’ patient and cool attitude without any looting and riots. This happened after the Kobe Earthquake in 1995. Was it due to traditional virtue of Japanese? Summing up the related researches of foreign countries, we shared the knowledge that crime decrease, as a rule, after major natural disasters. However there had been exceptions, of course, such as holocaust in Tokyo after Kanto Major Earthquake in 1923 and social disorder after Hurricane Katrina. What made the differences? 

Speaker	Toyoji Saito	Osaka University of Commerce
Speaker	Hideo Okamoto	Konan Women's University
Speaker	Mari Hirayama	Hakuoh University
Speaker	Hideyo Matsubara	Ehime University
Speaker	Emily Berthelot	University of Houston Downtown
Speaker	Robert White (canceled)	Tasmania University
Chair	Toyoji Saito	Osaka University of Commerce

 

9112   "Disaster and Crime (2): East Japan Major Earthquake and Tsunami, and Nuclear Power Plant Accidents as Man-made Disaster " 　13 ：15-16：30　　　 Aug. 9　 　Japanese and English　

Venue: Room 301, Kobe International Conference Center

3.11 major earthquake of East Japan which caused about 25 thousands of death and missing will be memorized for ages. A psychologist reported the crime problems after the disaster. The disaster caused also nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima. It was caused by total wrecking of cooling system of nuclear reactors. Was it inevitable result of natural disaster, or man-made disaster, even more unlawful negligence? Although such risk was pointed out occasionally in the Diet and courts, the government, electric power companies and nuclear power authorities just ignored. In this symposium, not only criminologist and criminal law scholar presented papers, but also joined as discussants seismologist, nuclear scientist, and lawyer involved in injunction cases to stop construction of nuclear power plant.

Speaker	Tsuneyuki Abe	Tohoku University
Speaker	Minoru Yokoyama	Kokugakuin University
Speaker	Noriyoshi Takemura	Toin University of Yokohama
Speaker	Michael Levi	Cardiff University
Speaker	Takaaki Matsumiya	Ritsumeikan University
Speaker	Masaaki Tateishi	Niigata University
Speaker	Hideki Aoki	Lawyer
Chair	Toyoji Saito	Osaka University of Commerce

 

Sessions Organized by JFCA Member Associations (alphabetical order) 

　Simultaneous Interpretation provided: Japanese and English

　Open Symposium

Association for the Study of Security Science
6105	Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: Securing Order in Japan through Multi-Agency Partnership
7107	General Development of Crime Prevention Policies: Lessons from Japanese Experience
Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology  - The 49th Annual Meeting of JACP -
6106	Techniques for Interviewing Offenders and Victims/Witnesses
6107	Support toward Offenders with Intellectual Disability
6108	Practice of Restorative Approach to Crime
7214	Developmental Courses in Juvenile and Adult Delinquency
7215	Assessing and Treating Sexual Offenders
7216	Current Situation and Issues of Offender Profiling

Japanese Association of Criminology
6112	The Role of Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation and Judicial Decisions
7112	Current Issues and Future Perspective of Criminal Psychiatry
Japanese Association of Social Problems
5101	Consideration of Openness and Security at School: Focusing on Security for Children in the School Property
5103	Surveillance and the Reorganization of Community
6112	The Role of Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation and Judicial Decisions
6113	Attempts to Explain Crime and Delinquency

Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology
5102	Understanding Low Crime Rate in Japan
8107	Economic Crimes at the Global Crisis
8111	The Death Penalty in East Asia and the United States
8133	Sentencing, Penal Welfare and Justice: International Comparison of the Use of Pre-Sentence Reports

Japanese Association of Victimology
7113	Past, Present and Future of Victimology and Victim Assistance
Japanese Society of Law and Forensic Social Services
8114	Collaboration of Law and Social Work in Japan: Focusing on the Juvenile Crime

 

Sponsored Sessions by Criminology-related Organizations

 

Simultaneous Interpretation provided: Japanese and English

Open Symposium

Japan Rehabilitation Aid Association and National Volunteer Probation Officers Association
7106	A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Community-Based Treatment of Offenders in Japan 　　 (Supported by Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology)
8102	Rehabilitation Support for Ex-Offenders and Crime Prevention Activities by Japanese Volunteer Probation Officers: An International Perspective

Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society R & D Focus Area “Protecting Children from Crime”, Japan Science and Technology Agency
8110	Evidence-Based Prevention of Childhood Victimization: Bridging Research and Practice

Special Education and Research Course on Criminology, Osaka University of Commerce
8132	Integrated System of Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice

Konan University
7111	Changing Business from Crisis to Challenge through Strategic Legal Compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Philosophies and Practices from Konan

Academic Exchange Association between Japan and Korea on Protection and Prevention Policies of Juvenile Delinquency
9113	Community-Based Treatment (Probation) to Juvenile Delinquents in Japan and Korea

The Institute of Amusement Industry Studies, Osaka University of Commerce and Council for Addiction Behavior Studies
6104	Crime and Social Cost at Gambling Sites

Kobe Design University and Osaka University of Commerce
9111	Defensible Residential Space through Environmental Design and Area Management

SSJ Corporation (Social Support Japan) and Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice
7218	Prison Management by Making Best Use of Private Sector's Networks and Know-How

Japan Federation of Bar Associations
7128	Video Recording and Trained Interviews with Suspects: How is the Video Recording of Interview Going to Change Them?

Kobe Gakuin University
7217	Support for Children with Developmental Problems

 

 

 

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