8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
• Thursday 25th August •

 

The following is a list of lectures given at the 8th International Symposium. Abstracts for those titles printed in blue are available from the Australasian Society of Victimology.  Please contact the Society by email to request any abstract.

 TRAGEDY & TRAUMATIC STRESS

 Professor Alexander McFarlane
 University of Adelaide
 Australia

 PREVENTING VICTIMISATION
 Police Commissioner David Hunt
 South Australian Police Force
 and
 Mr Andrew Paterson
 Director
 South Australian Victims of Crime Service
 TRAGEDY AND TRAUMATIC STRESS

 • False Memory or False Retraction: Memory Retrieval in Incest Survivors - Professor Ellen Jatrebske, Canada
 
• Therapeutic Aspects of Psychoanalytic Victimology - Dr Reimer Hinrichs, Germant
 
• Family Survivors of Homicide Victims: Allobiosis. A Theory - Mr Stephen Heydt, Australia
 
• Recovery Process From Difficulties Encountered by Victims and the Family Members of Murdered Persons - Professor Haruo
    Nishimura, Japan
 
• Victims of Governmental Torture - Recognition and Rehabilitation - Dr Doren Bojholm, Denmark

 FEAR OF CRIME

 • Victimisation Experience and Fear of Crime, A Contribution to the Victimisation Perspective - Professor Helmut Kury and Mr Michael
   Wurger, Germany
 • The Commercialism of Women’s Fear of Crime: Women, Danger and Personal Safety - Dr Elizabeth Stanko, United Kingdom
 • Myths and Facts About the Fear-Victimisation Relationship - Dr Wolfgang Bilsky, Germany
 • The Socialisation of General Fear Among 11-16 Year Olds - Ms Joanna Goodey, United Kingdom

 VICTIM SERVICES

 • Victims Court Assistants Scheme un 1993-94 - Ms Margaret Ora Thomspon, New Zealand
 • Japan’s First Crime victim Assistance program - Dr Takako Konishi, Japan
 
• Partners in Crime - Ms Robyn Jewell and Mr Rob Read, Australia
 
• Support to Victims by Community Groups in New Zealand - Mr Jeff Taylor and Chief Inspector Dave Smithm New Zealand
 
• Support Groups for Survivors of Crime - The South Australian Approach

 VIOLENCE & VICTIMISATION

 • Urban Violence, Mass Media and Victimisation - Professor Ester Kosovski, Brazil
 • Family in War Circumstances and Juvenile Delinquency  in Croatia - Ms Mira Tecilazic - Basic, Croatia
 
• Human Rights and Refugees in Croatia - Maja Kurent, Croatia
 • Juvenile Gangs-Perpetrators and Social Victims in Mexico City - Professor Dr Nestor Jose Mendez Gonzalez, Mexico
 
• Victimised Children of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families - Calcutta Study - Dr Sibnath Deb, India

 GRIEF RESOLUTION

 • Grief Begets Violence Begets Grief, Who Picks Up The Tab? - Ms Jan Hill, Australia
 
• Children’s Coping With Loss and Grief - Ms Nyrell Brooks, Australia
 
• Seven Year Old Shaun Phillips Was Murdered on 3 March 1988 and His Father’s Anguish Continues. This is an Account of
     His Grieving Process
- Ms Kate Hannaford, Australia

 FEAR OF CRIME II

 • Prevention of Crime in the Community from Victim’s Perspective - Ms Bunri Tatsuno, Japan
 • Crime Information and Prevention for the Elderly - From Theory to Practice - Ms Christine Walters and Ms Michelle Barrett, Australia
 • Tourists as Victims of Crime, Myth versus Reality - Dr Albert Hauber, The Netherlands

 HOMICIDE

 • A Profile of The Murder Victim on South Africa - Dr Rika Snyman, South Africa
 • Actual Situation of Victims of Homicide and the Methods of Victim Assistance in Japan - Professor Akira Yamagrami, Japan
 • Changes in Patterns of Criminal Homicide and its Victims in Japan - Mr Masayuki Tamura, Japan
 • Gay Homicides in New South Wales: The Social and Legal Construction of Illegitimate Victims - Dr Steve Tomsen, Australia
 • TBA - Ms Donna Spears, Australia

 POLICE & VICTIMS

 • Family Violence - Approach Taken by New Zealand Police - Mr Jeff Taylor and Chief Inspector Dave Smith, New Zealand
 • The Pheripheralisation of Policing of Domestic Violence: Its Impact on Victims - Dr Rosemary Wearing, Australia
 • The Decision to Call The Police: A Comparative Study of The United States and Venezuela - Professor Gary LaFree, USA
 • Victoria Police Responses to Victims of Personal Crime - Ms Nicole Spooner, Australia

 VICTIMISATION IN THE COMMUNITY - WORKPLACE

 • Violence and The Stress Response at Work - Dr John Toohey, Australia
 • Traumatic Stress: Implications for Rehabilitation Practitioners - Ms Leonie Nowland and Ms Sandy Policansky, Australia
 • Police Victims - Dr Roger Peters, Australia
 • Victimisation of Human Service Workers - Mr Vaughan Bowie, Australia

 VICTIMISATION IN THE COMMUNITY - GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY

 • The Violence of Heterosexism - Ms Gail Mason, Australia
 • Homophobia, Hate and Lesbian and Gay-Anti-Violence in New South Wales: A Community Responds - Mr Paul van Reyk, Australia
 • Homophobia: How it Impacts and How to Change It - Mahamati and Mr Kenton Penly, Australia
 • Lesbians, Gay Men and the Police in Osuth Australia - A Strategy for Change - Ms Barbara Baird

 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND THE VICTIM

 • Response of Health Professionals to Domestic Violence Victims in Emergency Departments - Ms Gwenneth Roberts, Australia
 • The Forensic Medical Examiner and The Victim - Dr Noel McCleav, Australia
 
• The Rights of Victims of Offenders with Mental Disorders - Dr Hisao Katoh, Japan

 STALKING

 • Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Stalking Behaviour: A Niche Marketing Phenomenon of the 90’s - Dr Debra Keenahan
    and Dr Allan Barlow, Australia
 
• Stalking, Crime of the 90’s - Mr Matthew Goode, Australia

 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

 • WORKSHOP ONE
    CRIME PREVENTION
    Ms Brony Walsh, Australia, Ms Hans Hoekman and Ms Debra Devlin, Australia, Mr David Singh, United States of America

 • WORKSHOP TWO
    TEACHING AND STUDYING VICTIMOLOGY
    Professor Gerd Kirchhoff and Mr Albert Hauber, Germany and Mr Michael O’Connell, Australia

 • WORKSHOP THREE
    YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE FAMILY: VIOLENCE EXEMPLARY PROJECT
    Hosted by South Australian Attorney-General’s Department, Australia

 • WORKSHOP FOUR
    TORTURE IN THE WORLD TODAY - MEDICAL, ETHICAL ISSUES
    Sr Soren Boijholm, Denmark