A two day workshop aimed at professionals with a background in treating sex offenders and sponsored by the Psychosexual Treatment Program of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health. The workshop will be held at the Department of Criminology, The University of Melbourne. Please click here for more information.

Pre-Conference Workshop

What's happening in the United Kingdom with regard to crime and other official statistics
Tuesday 20th February

For information on the one-day seminar to be given by Paul Wiles, Director, Research Development and Statistics, British Home Office please click here.

Post-Conference Workshop

Contemporary Issues in Forensic Assessment
Saturday 24th February 2001

The University of Melbourne Forensic Psychology program will be running a one-day workshop on Contemporary Issues in Forensic Assessment in February 2001. The course will be conducted by Professor Norman Poythress, a world authority on the psychological assessment of offenders and the author of a key text in the area. He is currently a member of the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida. Please click here for more information.

Post-Conference Workshop

Developing and Implementing Prisoner Reentry Programs and Policies:
Lessons from the US
Saturday 24th February 2001

This session will provide participants with a comprehensive over-view of new methodologies for developing, implementing and evaluating prisoner reentry programs and polices that serve to reduce prison populations, costs, failure on parole supervision and recidivism. The session will be presented by Professor James Austin, Director of the Institute on Crime, Justice and Corrections at the George Washington University. Dr. Austin's most recent book, Its About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge, (3rd edition) was published this year (co-authored with Dr. John Irwin). He also serves as the Chair of American Society of Criminology National Policy Committee. Please click here for more information.