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Speakers
VAN DIJK, Jan M.
Curriculum
Jan Van Dijk, born in 1947, obtained his degree
in Law from the Leiden University in 1970. He received his Ph D
from the University of Nijmegen in 1977.
Professional status
Joined the United Nations in January 1999 as Chief,
Crime Reduction and Analysis Branch of the Centre for International
Crime Prevention in Vienna and acted as Officer-in-Charge of the
Centre until 5 June 2001.
Currently Chief of Crime Reduction and Analysis Branch of CICP.
Other international activities
President World Society of Victimology, 1997 - 2000
Member of the Executive Board of the Institute of Crime Science,
University College London, London, Great Britain
Previous functions
Director Crime Prevention Directorate, Ministry
of Justice, The Netherlands (1989-1994)
Director of Strategic Policy Planning, Ministry of Justice, The
Netherlands
(1995-1999)
Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, The
Netherlands
(1993-2002)
Honours
Recipient of the 1995 Stephen Schafer Award for
outstanding contributions to the Victims' Movement in the field
of research, of the National Organization of Victims Assistance,
Washington, USA.
Honorary Doctorate in Law of Terunelveli University, India, 2001
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Measuring
the Emotional Economy in Europe
Jan
van Dijk from the UN Centre for International Crime Prevention
helped to understand the policy-relevant use of victimisation
data. He also introduced the results of a recent scaling of
the countries according to levels of serious white collar
crimes, which include government corruption, mafia, other
forms of organised crime. He pointed out that this ranking
is closer to our common-sense understanding of global distribution
of crime.
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Selected References
http://www.victimology.nl/onlpub/other/vandijk.pdf
http://www.osce.org/press_rel/2003/pdf_documents/03-3130-sg2.pdf
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