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24 July 2010
The Council (NSfK) arranges annual thematic Research Seminars with 50—60 participants from all member states. These conferences rotate between the member states and are organized by the host country.
The themes of these seminars have included:
Economic Crime, Organised Crime and Corruption
Violence
Crime Prevention
Constructions and Reality
Ideology and Empirical Research
Theory and Methods in Criminology
Alternatives to Imprisonment
Drug Prevention Policy
Deviance in Historical Light
The Council arranges also Contact Seminars on specific topics with 15—20 Nordic criminologists and practitioners from specific areas of the administration of criminal justice. Such groups have included prosecuting authorities, judges, defence lawyers, prison authorities, and the police, as well as members of the judicial committees from the Nordic parliaments.
Reports containing the papers presented at Research and Contact Seminars are published in English or Scandinavian languages.