since the last few years, criminal policy authorities of iran started to withdraw their previous emphasis on repressive approaches and under the impact of criminological studies and translation of policy initiatives in western countries new concept and vocabulary were entered into official discourse and criminal justice policy of iran. consequently, a list of community-based approaches to crimi...

While discussions of traffic problems and the search for solutions are typically focused on traffic behavior itself, the recognition that traffic safety is a fundamentally cultural issue suggests the utility of deriving lessons from other culturally defined problems in order to inform and provide an analytical reference point for traffic safety cultural change approaches. Accordingly, instead o...

New immigrants have already changed Philadelphia's cultural scene—particularly in urban neighborhoods. This brief uses three types of evidence— a small-area database of cultural participation, a survey of residents of North Philadelphia and Camden, NJ, and a survey of artists living or working in the metropolitan area—to explore migrant cultural engagement. Taken together, SIAP’s evidence on ar...

This conference provides a wonderful opportunity to see and hear about some very exciting examples )f how information about cultural heritage can be presented for public education and enjoyment. I1 would be tempting to take this time to explore arange of questions related to the technology itself. Whai works, what doesn't work? How have the needs of different users been taken into account? Wha ...

Introduction The Council of Europe's role in conflict prevention and crisis management is defined in its statute, adopted by the founding European governments in 1949, just after the Second World War. The Organisation's contribution targets a structural prevention of conflict through its multilateral tools, with the collection and analysis of information on the root causes of conflicts before t...