This Symposium will bring together professionals, researchers, policy, makers, students, and volunteers from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds. This interdisciplinary event will focus on the detection, prevention, investigation, prosecution and social responses to digital crimes and victimization. Classical and contemporary topics in Victimology will also be discussed, thus anyone interested in Victimology, digitalization or human rights issues, including environmental harm, is welcome to attend..

SUB-THEMES

Contemporary Perspectives of Victimology

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• Explanations/Theories of victimization

• Types of victimization

• Victims and the criminal justice processes

• Restorative justice     

• Transitional justice

Patterns of Digital Victimization

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• Violent and sexual forms of victimization

• Financial forms of victimization

• Digital poly-victimization

• Cyber warfare and cyber terrorism: Victimological perspectives

Effects/Impact of Digital victimization

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• Emotional/psychological impact

• Trauma of digital victimization

• Trauma in victims of digital terrorism

• Financial and social impact

Research, Theory, and Practice in Digital Age

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• Theoretical perspectives in Victimology

• Research methodologies in Victimology

• Technological approaches to victimological research

Criminal Justice and Legal Responses to Digital victimization

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• Investigation of digital crime

• Combating digital crimes and victimization

• Digital responses to crimes

• Ethical considerations for safeguarding victim privacy in a digital world