The International Journal of Police Science (IJPS) is seeking articles for a special issue examining “Crises in Policing.” Policing is currently faced with an interactive set of crises. These crises are often global in scope and have the potential to erode public trust and legitimacy of police and law enforcement agencies worldwide. Individual crises include:

• Police-Community relations, perceived/actual inequity, and erosion of public trust,
• Police use of deadly force,
• Police recruitment, hiring, and retention of qualified officers,
• Police suicides, emotional trauma, and wellness,
• Police response to the mentally ill and homeless,
• Police response to active shooter and school violence,
• Police corruption and misconduct,
• Police response to riots, disorder, and public order incidents,
• Police response to transnational organized crime and gangs,
• Police radicalization and extremism (including police gangs).

These issues are not country specific. Crises of policing are found in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Australia, and elsewhere. The erosion of public trust is amplified by political division and the rise of authoritarian regimes. Extremism and radicalization occur within society and potentially among police ranks. The quality of police service suffers from the cumulative effect of these potentially interconnected threats. Past efforts at building public trust and sustaining effective police are often forgotten and past ills continue and are at times exacerbated by contemporary conditions (including social media, networked political action, and extremism). The special issue editors are seeking submissions from practitioners and academics on these topics. IJPS serves a global audience and seeks case studies from throughout the world on these topics. The cases can involve both contemporary descriptions of crises, model responses (such a police-mental health co-response), empirical studies using both quantitative and qualitative data, historical analyses of past episodes of police crises (such as during the civil rights movement), and potential policy and legal responses.

For details on submissions see the IJPS Submissions Page: https://ijps-journal.org/index.php/ijps/about/submissions for questions about potential scope of articles contact the Special Issue Editors via email.

Special Issue Editors 

John P. Sullivan, Associate Editor, IJPS, Lieutenant (ret.), Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, globalwarning1@gmail.com

Nathan P. Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Security Studies, Sam Houston State University, nxj008@shsu.edu

Key Dates

Abstract submissions to special issue editors: June 1, 2024 (250-word maximum)

Draft submissions for double anonymized peer review: October 1, 2024

Projected Special Issue Publication, March 1, 2025

In 2024, more than half of the world's population will live in countries holding nationwide elections, making it the biggest global election year in history. Around these electoral processes, lines of social conflict come to light with particular clarity. The public narrative paints a picture of an irreconcilable and fractious society, in which communication between increasingly fragmented sub-publics comes to a standstill and some groups abandon the common democratic project altogether. The latest sociological research offers a contrasting perspective by suggesting a trend towards greater unity, with only isolated “trigger points” (i.e., specific issues where emotions run high, such as migration and climate policy). Nevertheless, questions still arise as to the relationship between law and politics in a conflict-ridden world: To what extent is the legal system dependent on social consensus? Is the law itself a driving factor of social polarization? Can – or should – law mediate between conflicting interests and counteract polarizing tendencies? We look forward to discussing these questions in the 2nd Ars Iuris Legal Potentials Conference. The conference takes place on September 30th, 2024 and will be hosted at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Vienna.

We cordially invite young legal researchers (e.g., PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, research fellows) to share their ideas concerning “Law and Politics in a Polarized World” at this intradisciplinary conference. To amplify the impact of their contributions, our speakers will be provided with the opportunity to publish a written version of their presentation in the University of Vienna Law Review (VLR), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal.

We welcome contributions that deal with the function, tasks and limits of the law in a polarized world, in particular with regards to the question of whether and how law can and should mediate between conflicting interests and positions. We also welcome contributions that address the question of how a legal system is affected by eroding social cohesion and whether the law itself contributes to polarization. We specifically, but not exclusively, encourage submissions concerning the following subjects:

• Pillars of a legal system: Reliance on social acceptance and respect
• The law as a driving factor of polarization: Critical, historical and comparative reflections on the law
• Regulation of the public sphere: AI and its impact on political polarization, social networks as a source of political (mis-)information, hate speech and current challenges of media law
• National and international methods of legal conflict resolution: Organizations, treaties, courts of justice and alternative dispute resolution
• Democratic frameworks put to the test: Need and perspectives for reform
• Strengthening trust in social institutions: State, politics and science under pressure
  • (Citizen) participation in legislative and other decision-making processes
  • Perspectives on administrative communication and judicial public relations work
  • Scientific dialogue and (legal) science communication in a polarized world

The 2024 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2024) examines the economic foundations, behavioral elements, technological exposures, policy aspects and other dimensions that fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus, at its 19th annual eCrime symposium on September 24 – 26, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The selected peer-reviewed papers will be included in the conference’s presentations along with numerous panels and talks from other researchers selected from industrial and academic research centers correspondent with the APWG.

Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at apwg_events@apwg.org

The symposium’s proceedings are in English.

Please contact the APWG eCrime organizers for details via email at apwg_events@apwg.org.

Discount codes are also available for university researchers, government personnel and law enforcement professionals from pubic-sector agencies.

Call for research Papers

APWG eCrime 2024: Taking Back Cyberspace from the Cybercrime Plexus

APWG eCrime 2024 contemplates the dawn of its third decade at the cybercrime frontier by delineating the challenges that await the interveners, investigators, policy makers and stakeholders from private and public sectors attempting to arrest — and reverse — the pandemic spread of cybercrime on our public and private internetworks and the World Wide Web.

The APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) therefore is issuing its Call for Papers to announce its 19th annual edition of its peer-reviewed publishing conference – and to celebrate the beginning of its third decade combating cybercrime. APWG eCrime 2024 will be a three-day event hosted in Boston by the directors of the APWG on September 24 to 26, 2024. eCrime conference venue will be posted soon in this space.

APWG eCrime 2024 combines a peer-reviewed conference with general sessions open to industry, government, law enforcement and multilateral organizations, featuring keynote presentations from global thought-leaders, as well as technical and practical operationally focused sessions, and interactive panels. The objective of eCrime is to foster practical collaboration and the exchange of catalytic ideas by academic researchers, industry security practitioners, and law enforcement professionals in the global struggle against cybercrime.

Important Dates:

Full Paper registration / submission due: June 23 

Notification of acceptance: July 7

Conference: Sept 24-26

Camera-ready paper due: October 25

Papers´ topics may include but are nor limited to:

Artificial Intelligence as criminal co-conspirator – and as defensive collaborator

Addressing challenges of cybercrime’s increasing complexity (e.g. digital infrastructures, crime-fighting/forensic techniques, and the structure of the crimes themselves)

Detecting and/or mitigating eCrime (e.g. online fraud, malware, phishing, ransomware, etc.)

Behavioral and psychosocial aspects of cybercrime victimization – and prevention

Measuring and modeling of cybercrime

Economics of cybercrime

Cybercrime payload delivery strategies and countermeasures (e.g. spam, mobile apps, social engineering, etc.)

Public Policy and Law for cybercrime

Cryptocurrency and related cybercrimes – and forensic tools and techniques for cryptocurrency related cybercrimes

Case studies of current cybercrime attack methods, (e.g. phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, crimeware, botnets, and emerging techniques)

Detecting/preventing abuse of internet infrastructure to neutralize cybercrimes

Detecting/isolating cybercrime gangs’ and attendant money laundering enterprises

Cybercrime’s evolution in specific verticals: (e.g. financial services, e-commerce, health, energy & supplies)

Cybercriminal cloaking techniques – and counter-cloaking tools and approaches

Design and evaluation of UI/UXs to neutralize fraud and enhance user security

Tanulmány

Tóth J. Zoltán: Az állami jelképek helye és védelme az európai alkotmányokban

Szalai Ákos: Kockázat, veszély, biztonság hiánya és a polgári jog. Joggazdaságtani viták

Szilágyi Ferenc: A fogyasztói személyes adatok hitelbiztosítékként való bevonása. Digitális vagyontárgy?

Török Éva: A vis maior fogalmának XXI. századi keretei a szerződési jogban

Jogirodalom

Horváth István: A munkajog lehetőségei és határai.

Kiss György székfoglaló előadása alapját adó tanulmányról

Brezovszki Anna Luca: Vert helyzetből győzelem? Büntetésvégrehajtásról egy világjárvány idején (Czenczer Orsolya könyvéről)

A digitalizációs folyamatok és az ahhoz kapcsolódó technológiai változások a gazdasági élet számos területére, így az adózásra is közvetlen hatást gyakorolnak. Konferenciánkon ennek egy szeletét, az általános forgalmi adót érintő kérdéseket járjuk körül a jogalkotás, valamint az adóhatósági és adózói jogalkalmazás szemszögéből.

Az Eötvös Károly Intézet és a Közép-európai Egyetem Demokrácia Intézete tisztelettel meghívja Sólyom László műve, az alkotmánybíráskodás kezdetei és az alkotmányosság ügye Magyarországon címen rendezendő konferenciájára.

A személyes részvétel regisztrációhoz kötött. Az esemény élőben látható lesz a Közép-európai Egyetem YouTube-csatornáján.

Április 25., csütörtök

9:00-10:45

Majtényi László: Megnyitó

Jakab András: Sólyom László alkotmányjogi öröksége

Chronowski Nóra: Normahierarchia az alkotmányban - Sólyom László olvasata alapján

Vékás Lajos: Az emberi méltóság védelme, a magánjogi személyiségvédelem

10:45-11:15

Kávészünet

11:15-13:00

Tölgyessy Péter: A magyar alkotmányosság helyreállításának záróköve – Sólyom László alkotmánybírói munkássága

Sonnevend Pál: Csatlakozás a közös európai alkotmányos hagyományhoz: európai minták az Alkotmánybíróság korai gyakorlatában

Jóri András: A sólyomi életmű és a magyar adatvédelem három évtizede

14:00-16:00

Kovács Kriszta: Egyetemes és partikuláris értékek az alkotmánybírósági ítélkezésben

Balázs Zoltán: Alkotmányos érzék és a mérséklet erénye

Fröhlich Johanna: A jogállamiság alkotmányvédő potenciálja - Latin-amerikai esettanulmány

16:00-16:30

Kávészünet

16:30-18:00

Halmai Gábor: A nem demokratikus liberális jogi alkotmányosságtól az autokráciáig

Kazai Viktor Zoltán: Az autokratikus (il)legalizmus alkotmányos felülvizsgálata

Április 26., péntek

9:00-11:00

Kis János: Jogállami átmenet – akkor és most

Győry Csaba: A mindennapi alkotmányosság és a jogállam helyreállítása

Majtényi László: Jogállami intézményépítés és autokrata intézménypusztítás, a rekonstrukció esélye

11:00-11:30

Kávészünet

11:30-13:00

Tóth Gábor Attila: A negatív alkotmányozás dilemmája

Polyák Gábor: A „homo constitutionis” illúziója

Kis János: Zárszó

8.50 – 9.00 Welcome by Rector Gergely Deli

9.00 – 10.00 Nature, Natural Law, Technology

H.G.T. Decker (Maastricht University): Between Dawkins and Aristotle: Finding Symmetries between Evolutionary Biology and Aristotelian Natural Law

Szabolcs Nyiri, Márton Oláh, Péter Szolcsányi (ELTE University): The (political) Problem if We Interpret Internet as Agora – An Insight from the Political Philosophical and Philosophy of Technology Viewpoints

10.00 – 10.20 break

10.20 – 11.40 Virtue and Politics

Kálmán Tóth (Ludovika University of Public Service): Is Self-Proclaimed Excellence a Political Virtue? Modern and Contemporary British Political Culture in the Light of Aristotelian Virtue-Ethics

José Maria Duarte (Lisbon University): Friendship as the Missing Ingredient in Modern Politics: Examining the Role of Friendship in Fostering Virtue in the Works of Aristotle and Cicero

Ferenc Hörcher (Ludovika University of Public Service): Virtue and Conflicts: Two Aspects of Aristotle’s Concept of Politics

12.00 – 13.00 Keynote I.

Erik Bootsma (Catholic Distance University): Architecture and the Culture of a Nation

13.00 – 14.00 break

14.00 – 15.00 Keynote II.

David McPherson (University of Florida): Does Neo-Aristotelian Virtues Ethics Need a Neo-Aristotelian Politics? (online)

15.00 – 15.20 break

15.20 – 16.40 New Readings of Aristotle, Neo-Aristotelian thought

Clifford Bates (University of Warsaw): Aristotle on Force, Fraud, and Consent: Re-evaluating the Importance of Politics 5, Chapter 4.

Tamás Nyirkos (Ludovika University of Public Service): The Tyranny of the Majority: an Aristotelian View

Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): How to be Neo-Aristotelian in Politics today?

16.40 – 17.00 break

17.00 – 18.20 Aristotle and Contemporary thinkers

António Capela (AESE Business School): Bridging Polarized Divides. A Comparative Analysis of Guardini’s Polar Philosophy and Aristotle’s Golden Mean

António Pedro Barreiro (Catholic University of Portugal): Make Aristotle Great Again: Measuring Fukuyama's 'End of History' and Nietzsche's 'Last Man' against a Neo-Aristotelian Framework

Ádám Smrcz (Ludovika University of Public Service): The Tragedy of the Commons as the Tragedy of the Private Sphere – Arendt’s Remarks on an Aristotelian Idea

We are happy to announce the conference “Legal discourses on international and EU migration/refugee law in Central and Eastern Europe: emerging new narratives or business as usual?” which will be held on 9-10 May, 2024 in Prague, Czechia.

The conference marks the 20th anniversary of EU's large "big bang" enlargement by revisiting and reflecting on CEE countries' engagement with international / EU migration law in past two decades. Central and Eastern European countries (especially the Visegrad countries) often have a somewhat different approach to migration and refugee law and policy than Western European countries. This was the case, for example, in 2015 and 2016, when Europe was divided politically and legally on how to deal with larger numbers of people seeking protection.

For further information: https://www.migration.prf.cuni.cz/conference

Az Országos Tudományos Diákköri Tanács (OTDT) 2024-ben ismét meghirdette a Roska Tamás Tudományos Előadást, amelynek megtartására az a doktorandusz/doktorjelölt/posztdoktor pályázhat, aki kutatómunkája során az általa választott szakmai területen kiemelkedő teljesítményt nyújtott, eredményeiről nívós publikációk, előadások, művészeti vagy tudományos alkotások formájában számot adott, valamint képes eredményeit magas színvonalú és élményt nyújtó tudományos, tudománynépszerűsítő előadásban szakterülete iránt érdeklődő, az Országos Tudományos Diákköri Konferencián részt vevő fiatalok és mentoraik előtt közzétenni.

A Roska Tamás Tudományos Előadás pályázati felülete, a pályázati felhívás, illetve a további tájékoztató dokumentumok is az OTDT honlapján érhetők el: https://otdk.hu/hallgatoknak/roska-eloadas

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