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| CEPS Seminar "Building a Commonwealth Network of Secure Laboratories to Enhance Crime Reduction Research" |
| Date: 28/02/2012 |
| The Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies at Simon Fraser University has developed a continuing relationship with police and government in British Columbia through a set of agreements, protocols and MOU’s that permit ICURS to hold and work with criminal justice information normally viewed as too sensitive or too detailed for release to researchers. This has permitted ICURS to deve... |
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| Professor Mark G Stewart presents "The Evidence of the Value of Counter-Terrorism Expenditure" |  |
| Date: 12/03/2012 | |
| The presentation will review key findings of a new book Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security (Oxford University Press, September 2011). The book uses risk-based decision theory to determine acceptability of risk which is crucial to prioritise counter-terrorism measures. Key points are: The cumula... | |
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| Dr Chris Michaelsen presents "Preventive Detention of Dangerous Offenders in Germany: Recent Judicial Developments and Policy Responses" |  |
| Date: 03/04/2012 | |
| Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have recently handed down several decisions on the legality of the controversial practice of detaining serious criminal offenders for preventive purposes after their original prison sentence had expired. Preventive detention, so-called Sicherungsverwahrung, has been part of German criminal law for ... | |
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