About the conference

The Nordic Conference 'Victims of Violence – Our Responsibility' has met twice before. The first conference, in Oslo in 1999, was initiated by Norway where the Kompetansesenter for voldsofferarbeid wanted to take up the issue in the Nordic context. The second was held in Stockholm in 2002, and now Finland has the honour and responsibility of arranging the third conference.

The aim of the conference is to strengthen Nordic victimological research - still in its infancy - by creating a forum to spread new research and the interim results of on-going projects. Furthermore, the conference aims to encourage on-going experimental and development projects so as to increase our understanding of the crime victim's perspective within the public services - especially within the judicial system, social services, health services, and the administrations of non-profit organisations.

The format of the conference will follow an established tradition. The programme consists of seven lectures at the plenum by invited speakers. There is room in the programme for three sessions of parallel workshops. The number of workshops per session will depend, as will their respective topics, on the response to our invitations. A call for abstracts will be sent out with the invitation in October 2007. Workshop presentations will be chosen on the basis of the abstracts sent in. All conference presentations and papers will be published in the conference report.

Here you will find the Internet version of the Conference Report and all the available presentations as power point slides.

	Internet version of the Conference Report
	Keynote presentations
	Van Dijk: Nordic victim policies and victim satisfaction.		Eriksson: From witness to crime victim? Nordic approaches to children exposed to violence in their family.
	Farestveit: Centralisering av stödfunktioner för barnoffer.		Shannon: The sexual solicitation of children online. Online sex offences and online contacts leading to offline sec offences against children in Sweden.
	Ullvestad-Kärki: Violence and Injury Prevention. European Region.
	Workshop presentations
	Ellonen: Finnish Child Victim Survey 2008.		Hannus, Laaksamo & Salonen: Integrated work model in family violence prevention.
	Hradilova Selin: Polisanmälda våldtäkter mot personer 15 år eller äldre. Utveckling mellan 1995-2006.		Jonassen: Nye brukergrupper ved krisesentrene. Hvordan kan utviklingen forklares?
	Jägervall: Stöd till unga brottsoffer och vittnen – en mänsklig rättighet. (Support to young victims of crime- a human right! A national project to develop methods to find and support young victims of crime.)		Klingspor: Victims of violent hate crimes and the process of collecting statistical data in Sweden.
	Laiho: “Child pornography” on the net is depicting child sexual abuse in the reality.		Leviner: Legal requirements for child protection work.
	Martin & Healy: Secondary School Teachers´ Perceptions and Experience of Violence in the Workplace		Mossige & Stefansen: Forekomsten av vold, vitneerfaringer og seksuelle overgrep i et landsrepresentativt utvalg av norske ungdommer.
	Nordborg: Children “Witnessing” Violence in the Family. Legal interventions in Sweden.		Paavilainen: National Nursing Guidelines: Identifying and Intervening in Child Maltreatment.
	Palomäki: Children's Rights Have Been Forgotten in the Management of Domestic Violence in Finland – A View of a Former Domestic Violence Victim.		Perttu: Intimate partner violence and its routine enquiry at the maternity and child health clinics.
	Rantala: Eviction/barring orders: a means to protect elderly people?		Rantala: Eviction/barring orders: neglected children.
	Rust: Adolescent rapes – characteristics, consequences and psychological treatment.		Saur: Møte med familievold i socialtjenesten. Patterns in social workers’ understanding and way of action when clients in social welfare centres reveal domestic violence experience.
	Thornadtsson: Stöd på eget språk till brottsdrabbade.		Wergens: Crime victims and human rights.
	Wigerholt: Dubbel viktimisering? Brottsutsattas erfarenheter av rättsväsendets bemötande.