4th Global Conference, Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Monday 18th September – Thursday 21st September 2006 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project … CALL FOR PAPERS: MONSTERS AND THE MONSTROUS
A TWO-DAY International Conference hosted by the Centre For Criminological Research, University of Sheffield in association with www.surveillance-and-society.org on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th April 2006. In the UK the last decade has seen an unprecedented deployment of surveillance technologies and practices in the name of crime control. Drug testing, electronic monitoring, DNA testing and video … CONFERENCE: CRIME, JUSTICE AND SURVEILLANCE
Paedophiles are using offshore gold accounts as a new method to mask their identities when buying child pornography on the web, an internet watchdog said today. Individuals are buying gold using specialist websites and then using that as “currency” with illegal websites that have similar accounts. Read more.
More than a billion rands’ worth of suspected criminal assets have been frozen since the formation of South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Assets Forfeiture Unit (AFU) seven years ago. Vusi Pikoli, the NPA national director, has told a parliamentary hearing that this sum indicates the size of what he calls “the criminal economy”. Read … AFU HAS SEIZED BILLIONS OF RANDS SINCE FORMATION
The 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2005 and was released March 1, 2006. Volume I … INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
A course at Roma Tre’s faculty of law on the history and culture of the mafia is proving wildly popular with students Enzo Ciconte, former member of parliament for the Partito Comunista Italiano between 1987 and 1992, renowned mafia expert, historian and a consultant to the parliamentary anti-mafia committee, is sitting in his small but … STUDYING THE MAFIA AT UNIVERSITY
Thousands of pirate DVDs have been seized following an undercover police operation in the city. Plain clothes police officers carried out the operation in the Locksbrook Road area, where one officer was offered a pirate DVD for sale. Following this lead, officers raided a house and seized 4,000 counterfeit DVDs with a street value of … POLICE SWOOP ON DVD GANG
