AIC Domestic homicide conference

Sunday November 2, 2008

The Australian Institute of Criminology is hosting an international conference on the Gold Coast in about a month on domestic homicide. The conference, from 3-5 December, has speakers from around the world: US UK West Indies Canada Japan Netherlands South Africa New Zealand Papua New Guinea and of course Australia Topics to be covered include:… Read More »Custom Single Post Header

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AIC Domestic homicide conference

Sunday, November 02, 2008

The Australian Institute of Criminology is hosting an international conference on the Gold Coast in about a month on domestic homicide.

The conference, from 3-5 December, has speakers from around the world:

US
UK
West Indies
Canada
Japan
Netherlands
South Africa
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
and of course Australia

Topics to be covered include:

child homicide
domestic violence fatality review teams
intimate partner homicides
alcohol and gun related violence
women who kill
defence of provocation

An overview of the conference program is here and the full progam is here[PDF].

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