Probation and Community Corrections: Making the Community Safer

This conference will provide a platform for the dissemination of information about current and proposed practice and research in the wide field of community corrections.

Conference Themes
Specific themes of the conference will include community corrections' interface with:
Throughcare
Indigenous offenders and victims
Sentencing, and judicial confidence in community corrections
Women offenders and victims
Offending behaviour programs
Specialist courts
Use of technology, including home detention and curfews
Working with difficult populations, including driving offenders, fine defaulters and the mentally ill
Restorative justice and victim offender mediation
Involving offenders' families

Suggestions for additional themes will be welcomed.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send the following information to the address below by 30th of April 2002:

* A brief abstract (approx 150 words)
* A personal profile (two paragraphs)
* Contact details, including full mailing address and , if possible, an e-mail address.

Submissions of three or four related papers to form a panel session or workshop are particularly encouraged.

For further information