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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.

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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 pm	Welcome to Country Riverside Theatre
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Introduction Riverside Theatre
5:15 pm - 5:35 pm	Rabia Siddique Riverside Theatre
5:35 pm - 6:05 pm	Challenging Orthodoxies: Victimology, victims’ rights and victim assistance Riverside Theatre
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Welcome Reception Riverside Foyer

06/07/2015

8:45 am - 9:00 am	Introduction Riverside Theatre
9:00 am - 9:30 am	The Honourable Michael Mischin MLC, Attorney General; Minister for Commerce Riverside Theatre
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Justice as reconciliation: A healing moment for victims? Riverside Theatre
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Morning Tea Riverside Foyer
11:00 am - 11:30 am
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Understanding children’s non-disclosure of child sexual assault River View Room 4
11:00 am - 11:30 am	The 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 am	Improving 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 pm	Criminal 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 pm	What 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 pm	Working together—Victim Centric Service Delivery Meeting Room 1
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Sexual Assault Disclosure Scheme: Supporting victims in disclosing historic child sexual offences to police River View Room 4
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	New approaches to restorative justice: The interchanging roles of victims and perpetrators in Zimbabwe Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Victims of honour killing in Tamil Nadu, India: A critical analysis Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Honour-based violence and intrafamilial hate crime: Heteronormativity as an explanatory framework Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Police as victims of crime: Building resilience in contemporary policing Meeting Room 1
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Putting children first? Law and policy for child victims of sexual offences River View Room 4
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Victim perspectives in creating change Riverside Theatre
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch Riverside Foyer
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm	Supporting survivors of institutional child sexual abuse: Learnings from the Royal Commission Riverside Theatre
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Afternoon Tea Riverside Foyer
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Preventing child victimisation: An analysis of the strategies adopted to reduce child marriage in Tamil Nadu Meeting Room 1
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Betrayal trauma: The abuse of children by religious institutions River View Room 4
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Obligated to listen—obligated to act: Procedural justice for victims of crime Riverside Theatre
2:45 pm - 3:25 pm	Smart phones, social media, and new forms of victimisation Meeting Room 2
2:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Vicarious trauma: Managing the inevitable Meeting Room 3
2:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Peer support groups for victims of crime Meeting Room 8
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Historical institutional abuse: Exploring the long-term victimisation process River View Room 4
3:25 pm - 4:05 pm	Technology as a vehicle for domestic and sexual violence against women Meeting Room 2
3:25 pm - 4:05 pm	Child victims of sex tourism: An international perspective Meeting Room 1
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Victims, enforceable rights and the criminal trial: International comparative approaches Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Restorative justice—applications to historic institutional child sexual abuse River View Room 4
4:05 pm - 4:45 pm	Men as victims of online crimes: An examination Meeting Room 2
4:05 pm - 4:45 pm	Compensation to child trafficking victims in Indonesia Meeting Room 1
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Pre-recording of the evidence of children in criminal matters Riverside Theatre
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Responding to institutional abuse through restorative engagement River View Room 4

07/07/2015

8:50 am - 9:00 am	Introduction 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 Riverside Theatre
10:00 am - 10:40 am	WSV President's Plenary Riverside Theatre
10:40 am - 11:00 am	WSV Awards Ceremony Riverside Theatre
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Morning Tea Riverside Foyer
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Exploring and understanding violent victimisation: The Database of Victimisation Experiences Meeting Room 1
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	In the Loop: Mitigating trauma, ambiguous loss and isolation in the lives of young people Meeting Room 3
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Reflections on victims rights as human rights Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Investigating perceptions of family and friends concerning the risk factors for domestic and family homicide Meeting Room 7
11:30 am - 12:15 pm	Public and police perspectives on conflict management and resolution strategies: Working together for a systemic reform? Meeting Room 2
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Using victim rights as a criterion for ranking human rights - A China case study Meeting Room 8
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	A Right to Safety—the South Australian collaborative approach River View Room 4
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Opening the can of worms: Victim counselling in prisons Meeting Room 3
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Responses of victims’ social network: A qualitative evidence synthesis Meeting Room 1
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Are human rights owed to victims of crime? Riverside Theatre
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Cold case homicides: Respectfully keeping victims’ families informed Meeting Room 7
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	New 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 pm	Campaigning for change Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Restorative justice and homicide: What do victims’ families gain? Meeting Room 7
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	State of individual victimisation in the matrimonial structure of Garo and Khasia tribes of Bangladesh Meeting Room 1
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Victims’ rights as human rights Riverside Theatre
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm	Lunch Riverside Foyer
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	‘Strangely good afterwards’ Meeting Room 7
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	Victims of farm attacks in South Africa Meeting Room 2
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	How does restorative justice conferencing work? The relationship between readiness and interactional dynamics Meeting Room 1
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	Justice for rape victims: Post-Nirbhaya developments in India—a critical analysis River View Room 4
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	Restorative justice and intimate partner violence: A positive victimological perspective Riverside Theatre
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Disability Justice Plan—South Australia Meeting Room 3
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Making sense of victims’ interests in communication with their offender Meeting Room 1
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	The effects of carjacking victimisation Meeting Room 2
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Need for a victim-sensitive legislative reform in India River View Room 4
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Can restorative practices offer anything for victims of crime? Riverside Theatre
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Improving therapeutic, judicial and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people who have experienced abuse Meeting Room 7
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Justice to victims of crime in India: Current scenario River View Room 4
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Developing alternative understandings of justice and security in intercultural settings: A victim’s perspective Riverside Theatre
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Child Witness Service—20 years on Meeting Room 7
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Needing to forgive: A survivor’s experience of restorative justice and victim offender mediation Meeting Room 1
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Scope and challenges in studying secondary victimisation Meeting Room 2
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Afternoon Tea Riverside Foyer
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Postcodes without police, victims without protection: The murky waters surrounding cruise ship holidays Meeting Room 2
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	A postcolonial victimology? Understanding the role of colonisation in making Indigenous victims Meeting Room 3
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Baited or trapped? An African victimological approach towards the protection of traditional knowledge in Africa Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Victims of transgender violence Meeting Room 3
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Prevention of sexual abuse in children of Mayan communities in Mexico River View Room 4
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Paramedics and children exposed to domestic violence Meeting Room 1
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Victimisation of the families of terrorist suspects in Indonesia in the aftermath of the Bali bombing 2002 Meeting Room 7
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Advocating improved seafarer maritime crime victim-witness support Meeting Room 2
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	The role of violent victimisation in youth offending Meeting Room 8
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Current 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 pm	Ten years of victimological research on victims of terrorism in the Basque Country Meeting Room 7
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Nor lazy crazy or stupid—a program for children of domestic violence and like trauma Meeting Room 1
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Ubuntu philosophy in action: An African perspective on human empowerment Riverside Theatre
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Responding to LGBT victimisation: The commodification of difference in contemporary policing (a United Kingdom perspective) Meeting Room 3
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	WSV Annual Membership Assembly Riverside Theatre
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Conference Dinner No location

08/07/2015

8:50 am - 9:00 am	Introduction Riverside Theatre
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Focusing on risk: Victims and criminal justice responsiveness Riverside Theatre
9:30 am - 10:30 am	What do victims/survivors tell us they need to help them heal? Riverside Theatre
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Whistleblowers as victims: The experiences of whistleblowers after reporting wrongdoing Meeting Room 1
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Measuring access to justice: Government responses to victims of modern slavery in Jordan and Lebanon Meeting Room 3
11:00 am - 11:45 am	Victimisation of civilians in armed conflict: Response of international law Meeting Room 2
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Elder abuse in Asia and the United States River View Room 4
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Childrens' violence to their parents Meeting Room 8
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Victims of stalking and their legal protections in Japan Meeting Room 1
11:45 am - 12:30 pm	Interdisciplinary 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 pm	Reducing human trafficking by prostitution law reform Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm	Understanding reasons, attributions and motivations behind internet infidelity in India Riverside Foyer
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm	Post-trauma outcomes and victims’ wellbeing—the effects of restorative justice Riverside Foyer
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm	Preventing victimisation in married couple relationships in India: Understanding the role of intimacy Riverside Foyer
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm	The Disappeared, Landmines, and Child Soldiers: Responding to Survivors and Communities Riverside Theatre
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm	From humanitarian assistance to social inclusion for victims Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Victims on ‘victim’: Understanding conceptions of victimhood Meeting Room 1
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Young 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 pm	Sexual 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 pm	Analysing help-accepting behaviour as a proxy for victim’s needs Meeting Room 1
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Young adult perceptions of vulnerability to violence: An exploration of gender differences No location
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	Understanding peer victimisation among secondary school students in Thailand Meeting Room 3
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Victimisation survey among adolescents of three districts in South India Meeting Room 3
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm	Adolescent 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 pm	Crime victims’ self-medication: An empirical evaluation Meeting Room 1
5:15 pm - 5:45 pm	Peer 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 am	Introduction Riverside Theatre
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Challenging present responses to victims: A case for long-term focus and research Riverside Theatre
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Cybercrime victimisation: New wine into old wineskins? Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Understanding online fraud victimisation in Australia Meeting Room 2
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Working with victims of crime—vicarious trauma management River View Room 4
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Telehealth without borders: Building capacity and monitoring practice in mental health care in the conflict-affected countries Meeting Room 1
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	The capacities and the role of NGOs to support victims of crime in the Republic of Macedonia Meeting Room 3
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	The NSW Domestic Violence Justice Strategy: A collaborative and responsive framework to address domestic and family violence Riverside Theatre
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Justice, rights and child victims? International perspectives Meeting Room 8
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Victims of advance fee fraud: Understanding the process of victimisation Meeting Room 2
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	New multi-agency domestic violence response model in NSW: Progress and challenges Riverside Theatre
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Mental health recovery, is it possible? Lived experience speaks Meeting Room 3
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Thoughts and actions: Parents as secondary victims of child sexual assault River View Room 4
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Thursday Island Court Support Project Meeting Room 1
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Victims of fraud—support, recover and educate Meeting Room 2
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Victim representation in the courtroom: International approaches and the potential for change in Australia Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Poly-victimisation: Prevalence and associations with common mental disorders and suicidal behaviours among adolescents in Vietnam River View Room 4
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	Speaking the unspeakable: The link between trauma and hearing voices Meeting Room 3
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	New challenges for Macau in tackling domestic violence Riverside Theatre
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	Against 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 pm	Cross-cultural trauma counselling in working with victims of refugee torture and trauma River View Room 4
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	Muffled voices: Victims of witch-hunting in India Meeting Room 1
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm	The why of reparative victim-offender mediation (VOM) in Western Australia’s adult criminal justice system Meeting Room 3
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm	Aborigines, Aboriginal police, and illegal logging—A case study in Taiwan Meeting Room 2
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm	System responses to abuse: A young Western Australian’s perspective Meeting Room 8
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Women 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 pm	Reflections 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 pm	The plight of repatriated Sri Lankan Tamil refugees: A victimological perspective River View Room 4
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Coping with the suicide of a loved one Riverside Theatre
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm	Justice 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 pm	A difficult journey? Child victims and criminal justice in India Meeting Room 8
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Victims’ and offenders’ postures towards restorative justice practices Meeting Room 3
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Women—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 pm	Overcoming refugee and asylum seekers barriers to mental health services River View Room 4
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Conceptualisation of and responses to sexual victimisation in India Riverside Theatre
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Victimology into the 21st Century: Insights from the Symposium Riverside Theatre
4:15 pm - 6:25 pm	Introduction of the newly elected WSV President and announcement of the venue for the next symposium, Professor Dr Marc Groenhuijsen Riverside Theatre
4:25 pm - 4:35 pm	Closing Address Riverside Theatre