European Society of Criminology

Thomson Reuters have completed their evaluation of the European Journal of Criminology and will be including it in the Social Science Citation Index. Thomson evaluates around 2,000 journals every year and only the top 10-12% are accepted. The journal will be indexed from the start of volume 8 (2008). This means it will receive its first Impact Factor in 2010, since the IF is generated from the previous two years’ worth of content. Impact Factors are usually published in the summer of the following year – ie, the 2010 Impact Factors will be released in June/ July 2011.

The Local Organising Committee of the 2010 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology that will take place in Liege, Belgium, has agreed to extend the deadline for submission of abstracts until Wednesday 23 June (http://www.eurocrim2010.com).

The early registration for the conference closes on 30 June 2010.

3) New Working Group on "Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice"

At the Ninth European Society of Criminology conference held in Ljubljana in September 2009, it was decided to launch a new Working Group on 'Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice'.
Interested members should contact Loraine Gelsthorpe lrg10@cam.ac.uk at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge UK.In the first instance the plan is to identify, collate and circulate information on what people's interests are - with the hope that in time we can develop some cross-cultural comparative work and some streamed sessions in subsequent conferences or arrange other network meetings.

Call for papers

1) Announcing a New Book Series: Solving Social Problems
www.ashgate.com/sociology
Series Editor: Bonnie Berry, Director of the Social Problems Research Group, USA

Solving Social Problems provides a forum for the description and measurement of social problems, with a keen focus on the concrete remedies proposed for their solution. The series takes an international perspective, exploring social problems in various parts of the world, with the central concern being always their possible remedy. Work is welcomed on subjects as diverse as environmental damage, terrorism, economic disparities and economic devastation, poverty, inequalities, domestic assaults and sexual abuse, health care, natural disasters, labour inequality, animal abuse, crime, and mental illness and its treatment. In addition to recommending solutions to social problems, the books in this series are theoretically sophisticated, exploring previous discussions of the issues in question, examining other attempts to resolve them, and adopting and discussing methodologies that are commonly used to measure social problems. Proposed solutions may be framed as changes in policy or practice, or more broadly as social change and social movement. Solutions may be reflective of ideology, but are always pragmatic and detailed, explaining the means by which the suggested solutions might be achieved.