EUROCRIM 2025: 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC)

EUROCRIM 2025: 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) is organized by Erasmus Conferences & Events S.A., European Society of Criminology (ESC), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and will be held from Sep 03 - 06, 2025 at American College of Greece, Athens, Attica, Greece.

Description:
The Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) is one of Europe's most significant gatherings of criminologists and professionals in related fields. It provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from all over the world to discuss and share their work on various aspects of criminology, criminal justice, and related social sciences.

List of Topics:
TOPIC 1
Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior

• Biological, Biosocial and Psychological Perspectives
• Critical Criminology
• Cultural Criminology
• Development and Life Course Perspectives
• Feminist Criminology
• Labelling and Interactionalist Perspectives
• Learning, Control and Strain Perspectives
• Rational Choice Perspectives
• Routine Activities and Situational Perspectives
• State and Political Crime
• Subcultural, Social Disorganization and Anomie Perspectives
• Theoretical and Epistemological debates in Criminology

TOPIC 2
Types of Offending

• Corruption
• Cybercrime
• Drugs and Crime
• Economic Crime and Property Crime
• Environmental/Green Criminology
• Gangs
• Gender-Based Violence and Domestic Violence
• Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes
• Hate Crime
• Homicide and Violent Crime
• Human Trafficking
• Organized Crime
• School Violence and Bullying
• Sex Crimes, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
• Terrorism and Terrorism Financing
• Transnational Crime
• White collar, Organizational, Corporate, Financial Crimes

TOPIC 3
Crime Correlates

• Artificial Intelligence and Crime
• Crime and Social Networks
• Ethnicity and Crime
• Gender and Crime
• Immigration / Migration
• Mental Health
• Neighborhoods and Crime
• Poverty and Structural Inequalities
• School and Peer Groups
• Substance abuse
• Weapons

TOPIC 4
Victimology

• Clinical Victimology
• Consequences of Victimization
• Patterns and trends in Victimization
• Policy and Prevention of Victimization
• Victims’ rights

TOPIC 5
Social Control and Criminal Justice

• Community Sanctions
• Courts and Sentencing and Penal Decision Making
• Crime and Immigration
• Crime prevention
• Criminal Justice Policy
• Criminal Policy, Criminalization, Policy of Criminal Sanctions
• Imprisonment, Prisons, Prison Life and Effects of Imprisonment
• Juvenile Justice and Children’s Rights
• Non-Criminal Justice Responses to Delinquency
• Penology and Theories Punishment
• Policing and Law enforcement
• Prosecutorial Decision-making and the Prosecutorial Process
• Restorative Justice
• Transitional Justice

TOPIC 6
Perceptions of Crime and Justice

• Attitudes about Punishment and Criminal Justice System
• Fear of Crime and Risk perception
• Media and social construction of crime
• Political and Social Discourses about Crime and Justice

TOPIC 7
Comparative and Historical Perspectives

• Cross-National Comparisons of Crime and Justice
• Historical Comparisons of Crime
• Transnational Crime and Justice

TOPIC 8
Methodologies in Criminology

• Advances in Clinical Criminology
• Advances in Comparative Methodology
• Advances in Evaluative Research
• Advances in Experimental Methods
• Advances in Qualitative Methods
• Advances in Quantitative Methods
• Advances in Teaching Methods and Curricula