15th International Symposium of the World Society Victimology
 

Conference program

A wonderfully high level of interest in presenting at the 15th International Symposium of the World Society of Victimology has resulted in a packed program. The Program Committee is pleased to announce that the conference program has been finalised.

Please click here to download a copy of the Program Schedule.

You can also download a copy of the Program Handbook.

This program will be subject to change right up to the event - so please keep checking the details.


05/07/2015
4:00 pm - 4:45 pmWelcome to Country
Riverside Theatre
4:45 pm - 5:15 pmIntroduction
Riverside Theatre
5:15 pm - 5:35 pmRabia Siddique
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5:35 pm - 6:05 pmChallenging Orthodoxies: Victimology, victims’ rights and victim assistance
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6:00 pm - 7:30 pmWelcome Reception
Riverside Foyer

06/07/2015
8:45 am - 9:00 amIntroduction
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9:00 am - 9:30 amThe Honourable Michael Mischin MLC, Attorney General; Minister for Commerce
Riverside Theatre
9:30 am - 10:30 amJustice as reconciliation: A healing moment for victims?
Riverside Theatre
10:30 am - 11:00 amMorning Tea
Riverside Foyer
11:00 am - 11:30 am
11:00 am - 11:30 amUnderstanding children’s non-disclosure of child sexual assault
River View Room 4
11:00 am - 11:30 amThe one dollar rape trial: Testimony by a rape survivor on her 13 years seeking justice and how the justice system failed her
Meeting Room 2
11:00 am - 11:30 amImproving services to victims in the Western Australian criminal justice system, the role of the Victim-Offender Mediation Unit, Department of Corrective Services
Riverside Theatre
11:00 am - 12:30 pmCriminal justice responses to childhood sexual abuse: Is trauma-informed practice possible in a system that re-traumatises?
Meeting Room 3
11:00 am - 12:30 pmWhat will we tell the children? A conversation about recognising the psychosocial support needs of young people living in the presence of trauma
Meeting Room 8
11:30 am - 12:00 pmWorking together—Victim Centric Service Delivery
Meeting Room 1
11:30 am - 12:00 pmSexual Assault Disclosure Scheme: Supporting victims in disclosing historic child sexual offences to police
River View Room 4
11:30 am - 12:00 pmNew approaches to restorative justice: The interchanging roles of victims and perpetrators in Zimbabwe
Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 12:00 pmVictims of honour killing in Tamil Nadu, India: A critical analysis
Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmHonour-based violence and intrafamilial hate crime: Heteronormativity as an explanatory framework
Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmPolice as victims of crime: Building resilience in contemporary policing
Meeting Room 1
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmPutting children first? Law and policy for child victims of sexual offences
River View Room 4
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmVictim perspectives in creating change
Riverside Theatre
12:30 pm - 1:15 pmLunch
Riverside Foyer
1:15 pm - 2:15 pmSupporting survivors of institutional child sexual abuse: Learnings from the Royal Commission
Riverside Theatre
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmAfternoon Tea
Riverside Foyer
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmPreventing child victimisation: An analysis of the strategies adopted to reduce child marriage in Tamil Nadu
Meeting Room 1
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmBetrayal trauma: The abuse of children by religious institutions
River View Room 4
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmObligated to listen—obligated to act: Procedural justice for victims of crime
Riverside Theatre
2:45 pm - 3:25 pmSmart phones, social media, and new forms of victimisation
Meeting Room 2
2:45 pm - 4:45 pmVicarious trauma: Managing the inevitable
Meeting Room 3
2:45 pm - 4:45 pmPeer support groups for victims of crime
Meeting Room 8
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmHistorical institutional abuse: Exploring the long-term victimisation process
River View Room 4
3:25 pm - 4:05 pmTechnology as a vehicle for domestic and sexual violence against women
Meeting Room 2
3:25 pm - 4:05 pmChild victims of sex tourism: An international perspective
Meeting Room 1
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmVictims, enforceable rights and the criminal trial: International comparative approaches
Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmRestorative justice—applications to historic institutional child sexual abuse
River View Room 4
4:05 pm - 4:45 pmMen as victims of online crimes: An examination
Meeting Room 2
4:05 pm - 4:45 pmCompensation to child trafficking victims in Indonesia
Meeting Room 1
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmPre-recording of the evidence of children in criminal matters
Riverside Theatre
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmResponding to institutional abuse through restorative engagement
River View Room 4

07/07/2015
8:50 am - 9:00 amIntroduction
Riverside Theatre
9:00 am - 10:00 am‘I am what I am because of who we all are’: A victimological exploration of the African values of Ubuntu
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10:00 am - 10:40 amWSV President's Plenary
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10:40 am - 11:00 amWSV Awards Ceremony
Riverside Theatre
11:00 am - 11:30 amMorning Tea
Riverside Foyer
11:30 am - 12:00 pmExploring and understanding violent victimisation: The Database of Victimisation Experiences
Meeting Room 1
11:30 am - 12:00 pmIn the Loop: Mitigating trauma, ambiguous loss and isolation in the lives of young people
Meeting Room 3
11:30 am - 12:00 pmReflections on victims rights as human rights
Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 12:00 pmInvestigating perceptions of family and friends concerning the risk factors for domestic and family homicide
Meeting Room 7
11:30 am - 12:15 pmPublic and police perspectives on conflict management and resolution strategies: Working together for a systemic reform?
Meeting Room 2
11:30 am - 1:00 pmUsing victim rights as a criterion for ranking human rights - A China case study
Meeting Room 8
11:30 am - 1:00 pmA Right to Safety—the South Australian collaborative approach
River View Room 4
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmOpening the can of worms: Victim counselling in prisons
Meeting Room 3
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmResponses of victims’ social network: A qualitative evidence synthesis
Meeting Room 1
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmAre human rights owed to victims of crime?
Riverside Theatre
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmCold case homicides: Respectfully keeping victims’ families informed
Meeting Room 7
12:15 pm - 1:00 pmNew South Wales (NSW) Police Force—Working to provide an improved equitable police response to victims of crime
Meeting Room 2
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmCampaigning for change
Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmRestorative justice and homicide: What do victims’ families gain?
Meeting Room 7
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmState of individual victimisation in the matrimonial structure of Garo and Khasia tribes of Bangladesh
Meeting Room 1
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmVictims’ rights as human rights
Riverside Theatre
1:00 pm - 1:45 pmLunch
Riverside Foyer
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm‘Strangely good afterwards’
Meeting Room 7
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmVictims of farm attacks in South Africa
Meeting Room 2
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmHow does restorative justice conferencing work? The relationship between readiness and interactional dynamics
Meeting Room 1
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmJustice for rape victims: Post-Nirbhaya developments in India—a critical analysis
River View Room 4
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmRestorative justice and intimate partner violence: A positive victimological perspective
Riverside Theatre
1:45 pm - 3:15 pmDisability Justice Plan—South Australia
Meeting Room 3
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmMaking sense of victims’ interests in communication with their offender
Meeting Room 1
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmThe effects of carjacking victimisation
Meeting Room 2
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmNeed for a victim-sensitive legislative reform in India
River View Room 4
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmCan restorative practices offer anything for victims of crime?
Riverside Theatre
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmImproving therapeutic, judicial and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people who have experienced abuse
Meeting Room 7
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmJustice to victims of crime in India: Current scenario
River View Room 4
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmDeveloping alternative understandings of justice and security in intercultural settings: A victim’s perspective
Riverside Theatre
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmChild Witness Service—20 years on
Meeting Room 7
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmNeeding to forgive: A survivor’s experience of restorative justice and victim offender mediation
Meeting Room 1
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmScope and challenges in studying secondary victimisation
Meeting Room 2
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmAfternoon Tea
Riverside Foyer
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmPostcodes without police, victims without protection: The murky waters surrounding cruise ship holidays
Meeting Room 2
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmA postcolonial victimology? Understanding the role of colonisation in making Indigenous victims
Meeting Room 3
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmBaited or trapped? An African victimological approach towards the protection of traditional knowledge in Africa
Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmVictims of transgender violence
Meeting Room 3
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmPrevention of sexual abuse in children of Mayan communities in Mexico
River View Room 4
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmParamedics and children exposed to domestic violence
Meeting Room 1
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmVictimisation of the families of terrorist suspects in Indonesia in the aftermath of the Bali bombing 2002
Meeting Room 7
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmAdvocating improved seafarer maritime crime victim-witness support
Meeting Room 2
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmThe role of violent victimisation in youth offending
Meeting Room 8
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmCurrent thinking and approaches toward the prevention and response to violent victimisation in South Asia: Victim of sexual assault
River View Room 4
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmTen years of victimological research on victims of terrorism in the Basque Country
Meeting Room 7
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmNor lazy crazy or stupid—a program for children of domestic violence and like trauma
Meeting Room 1
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmUbuntu philosophy in action: An African perspective on human empowerment
Riverside Theatre
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmResponding to LGBT victimisation: The commodification of difference in contemporary policing (a United Kingdom perspective)
Meeting Room 3
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmWSV Annual Membership Assembly
Riverside Theatre
6:30 pm - 9:30 pmConference Dinner
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08/07/2015
8:50 am - 9:00 amIntroduction
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9:00 am - 9:30 amFocusing on risk: Victims and criminal justice responsiveness
Riverside Theatre
9:30 am - 10:30 amWhat do victims/survivors tell us they need to help them heal?
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11:00 am - 11:30 amWhistleblowers as victims: The experiences of whistleblowers after reporting wrongdoing
Meeting Room 1
11:00 am - 11:30 amMeasuring access to justice: Government responses to victims of modern slavery in Jordan and Lebanon
Meeting Room 3
11:00 am - 11:45 amVictimisation of civilians in armed conflict: Response of international law
Meeting Room 2
11:00 am - 12:30 pmElder abuse in Asia and the United States
River View Room 4
11:00 am - 12:30 pmChildrens' violence to their parents
Meeting Room 8
11:30 am - 12:00 pmVictims of stalking and their legal protections in Japan
Meeting Room 1
11:45 am - 12:30 pmInterdisciplinary intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder and pain in war victims: A pilot randomised controlled trial in Kosovo
Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmReducing human trafficking by prostitution law reform
Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:15 pmUnderstanding reasons, attributions and motivations behind internet infidelity in India
Riverside Foyer
12:30 pm - 1:15 pmPost-trauma outcomes and victims’ wellbeing—the effects of restorative justice
Riverside Foyer
12:30 pm - 1:15 pmPreventing victimisation in married couple relationships in India: Understanding the role of intimacy
Riverside Foyer
1:15 pm - 2:15 pmThe Disappeared, Landmines, and Child Soldiers: Responding to Survivors and Communities
Riverside Theatre
2:15 pm - 3:15 pmFrom humanitarian assistance to social inclusion for victims
Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmVictims on ‘victim’: Understanding conceptions of victimhood
Meeting Room 1
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmYoung men’s understanding of consent for sexual intimacy: The risk of unwanted sex for women with a history of child sexual abuse
Meeting Room 2
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmSexual abuse of girl children in schools: Role of non-state players and judicial interventions in breaking the orthodoxies
Meeting Room 3
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmAnalysing help-accepting behaviour as a proxy for victim’s needs
Meeting Room 1
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmYoung adult perceptions of vulnerability to violence: An exploration of gender differences
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4:15 pm - 4:45 pmUnderstanding peer victimisation among secondary school students in Thailand
Meeting Room 3
4:45 pm - 5:15 pmVictimisation survey among adolescents of three districts in South India
Meeting Room 3
4:45 pm - 5:15 pmAdolescent violence towards parents in New South Wales: The challenges and perspectives of secondary education professionals
Meeting Room 2
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
5:15 pm - 5:45 pm
5:15 pm - 5:45 pmCrime victims’ self-medication: An empirical evaluation
Meeting Room 1
5:15 pm - 5:45 pmPeer support as mediator between school victimisation and psychological distress among high school students in Taiwan
Meeting Room 3

09/07/2015
8:50 am - 9:00 amIntroduction
Riverside Theatre
9:00 am - 10:00 amChallenging present responses to victims: A case for long-term focus and research
Riverside Theatre
10:00 am - 11:00 amCybercrime victimisation: New wine into old wineskins?
Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 12:00 pmUnderstanding online fraud victimisation in Australia
Meeting Room 2
11:30 am - 12:00 pmWorking with victims of crime—vicarious trauma management
River View Room 4
11:30 am - 12:00 pmTelehealth without borders: Building capacity and monitoring practice in mental health care in the conflict-affected countries
Meeting Room 1
11:30 am - 12:00 pmThe capacities and the role of NGOs to support victims of crime in the Republic of Macedonia
Meeting Room 3
11:30 am - 12:00 pmThe NSW Domestic Violence Justice Strategy: A collaborative and responsive framework to address domestic and family violence
Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 1:00 pmJustice, rights and child victims? International perspectives
Meeting Room 8
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmVictims of advance fee fraud: Understanding the process of victimisation
Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmNew multi-agency domestic violence response model in NSW: Progress and challenges
Riverside Theatre
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmMental health recovery, is it possible? Lived experience speaks
Meeting Room 3
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmThoughts and actions: Parents as secondary victims of child sexual assault
River View Room 4
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmThursday Island Court Support Project
Meeting Room 1
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmVictims of fraud—support, recover and educate
Meeting Room 2
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmVictim representation in the courtroom: International approaches and the potential for change in Australia
Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmPoly-victimisation: Prevalence and associations with common mental disorders and suicidal behaviours among adolescents in Vietnam
River View Room 4
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmSpeaking the unspeakable: The link between trauma and hearing voices
Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:00 pmNew challenges for Macau in tackling domestic violence
Riverside Theatre
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmAgainst a culture of amnesia: The ideologies behind leprosy control, criminal law and social movements—a not only historical perspective
Riverside Theatre
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmCross-cultural trauma counselling in working with victims of refugee torture and trauma
River View Room 4
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmMuffled voices: Victims of witch-hunting in India
Meeting Room 1
1:45 pm - 2:15 pmThe why of reparative victim-offender mediation (VOM) in Western Australia’s adult criminal justice system
Meeting Room 3
1:45 pm - 2:30 pmAborigines, Aboriginal police, and illegal logging—A case study in Taiwan
Meeting Room 2
1:45 pm - 2:30 pmSystem responses to abuse: A young Western Australian’s perspective
Meeting Room 8
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmWomen from diverse backgrounds and domestic and family violence: Is access to justice just an illusion? Stories and lessons from the front line
Meeting Room 1
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmReflections from the ‘coalface’ as a mediation officer with the Victim-Offender Mediation Unit, Department of Corrective Services, within the Children’s Court Jurisdiction in Western Australia
Meeting Room 3
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmThe plight of repatriated Sri Lankan Tamil refugees: A victimological perspective
River View Room 4
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmCoping with the suicide of a loved one
Riverside Theatre
2:30 pm - 3:15 pmJustice for victims of abuse of power: A case study of victimisation of people in a tribal village in Tamil Nadu, India
Meeting Room 2
2:30 pm - 3:15 pmA difficult journey? Child victims and criminal justice in India
Meeting Room 8
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmVictims’ and offenders’ postures towards restorative justice practices
Meeting Room 3
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmWomen—the bottom-most rung of the subaltern ladder and the top-most rung of the secondary victimisation ladder
Meeting Room 1
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmOvercoming refugee and asylum seekers barriers to mental health services
River View Room 4
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmConceptualisation of and responses to sexual victimisation in India
Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmVictimology into the 21st Century: Insights from the Symposium
Riverside Theatre
4:15 pm - 6:25 pmIntroduction of the newly elected WSV President and announcement of the venue for the next symposium, Professor Dr Marc Groenhuijsen
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4:25 pm - 4:35 pmClosing Address
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