Upcoming ICPC Colloquium: General Description, Preliminary Agenda and Registration

Crime prevention policies and programmes have long time recognized the importance of strategic and integrated partnerships in co-producing community safety.  Alongside the police and justice, diverse sectors from local, regional, and national government and organizations from civil society have played a role in producing and enhancing safety.  Over the years, these partnerships have become increasingly sophisticated, drawing on concrete tools such as community safety diagnoses, which involve the sharing of resources and responsibilities.

While the business sector has primarily been seen as restricting its interest to private security, it has had less involvement or acknowledgement for its role in community safety partnerships.  Nevertheless, over the years a number of important developments have occurred:

• The expansion of studies on private security
• An increase in private sector management of correctional and justice services
• The growth and spread of  security technologies, which is often generated by the private sector, such as closed circuit television (CCTV)
• An increasingly diverse range of conferences on the role of the private sector
• In some countries, the creation of specific mechanisms to increase private sector involvement
• A growing interest in public-private partnerships in sectors such as health and education, as well as prevention.

Over the course of two days of  plenaries, discussion panels, and case studies, ICPC’s Fifth Annual Colloquium will provide an opportunity for international experts, private sector representatives, practitioners, NGO's, and ICPC members to discuss the following questions:

- How can the private sector be mobilized to develop and sustain crime prevention policies and programmes?

- What kinds of practices govern and regulate the participation of the private sector in safety, especially private security?

-  What issues surround the development, spread and marketing of private security technologies?

- How can we support and facilitate strong and effective partnerships in crime prevention?

- What are some the problems, challenges or limits to involving the private sector in crime prevention?

Preliminary Agenda
 
We include here a copy of our Preliminary Agenda.

To register for this event, click here. 

(Note: ICPC Members need not register).

Some of our speakers include:

Claudio Beato is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Post-Graduate Program in Social Science at   the University Federal de Minas Gerais. He is a Researcher of the CNPQ (National Center of Research), and CRISP´s Coordinator (Center for Crime and Public Safety  Studies).  He is a consultant of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). With the Brazilian Government and Minas Gerais Government, he develops several public security and crime prevention. He has published widely, including some 25 articles, in addition to book chapters. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro. His areas of interest are criminology, public safety and the sociology of science.

Benoit Dupont is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, Québec. He received his Doctorate in Political Science from the Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse in 2001. holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toulouse. His research interests range from the evaluation of police effectiveness and efficiency, to the use of new technologies by the police, to the governance of security. He recently co-edited with Mike Enders ‘Policing the lucky country’, a collection of essays on the transformation of policing in Australia, and is the author of ‘Construction et réforme de la police: le cas australien’, to be published shortly in France. He has experience as an associate lecturer at the Toulouse Institute of Political Studies, a lecturer with the Australian Graduate School of Police Management, and as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University.  

Martin Gill is Director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International (PRCI) a spin out company from the University of Leicester where he is a Professor of Criminology.  The company specialises in the areas of security management, risk management, crime and crime prevention and has a specialist expertise in all types of evaluation not least those studies which seek to establish 'what works?' Martin has been actively involved in a range of studies relating to different aspects of business crime and security issues including, the causes of false burglar alarms, why fraudsters steal, the effectiveness of CCTV, the effectiveness of security guards, how companies protect their brand image, the generators of illicit markets and stolen goods,  to name but a few. He has published widely (11 books and over 50 articles). The latest two, Managing Security and CCTV were published in 2003, and is currently working on the 'Handbook' of Security'. Professor Gill is a Fellow of The Security Institute, a member of the Risk and Security Management Forum, the Company of Security Professionals (and a Freeman of the City of London), he is Chair of the ASIS Research Council and an overseas representative on the ASIS International Academic Programs Committee.

Barbara Holtmann is Programme Manager, Crime Prevention at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) where she has been since 2001. The Centre supports government policy and implementation of law enforcement and crime prevention strategies at national, provincial and local level as well as finding and applying appropriate technological interventions and innovative approaches to crime prevention. Barbara previously held a contract post Chief Director Communication, National Secretariat for Safety and Security. Whilst at the Secretariat Barbara managed the public consultation process for the Firearms Control Act of 2000. Previous to this she was a Project Director at Business Against Crime - Gauteng (BAC-G) where she was instrumental in the design and implementation of the Support Partnership for Police Stations and the Community Based Victim Support Programme. She holds an MM (Public and Development Management).

For more information on this upcoming event, contact us at:  cipc@crime-prevention-intl.org