The Australasian Council of Women and Policing invites you to the Seventh Australasian Women and Policing conference being held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart from 21 to 24 August 2011.
The theme of the 2011 conference is: Police and Community: Making it Happen! It will explore how policing and community are connected and how policing done well can contribute to strong resilient communities. Areas of focus will include young women, the cyber community, and the wider Pacific community.
This conference is about the impact policing can have on the communities it serves and will explore how some of the innovative policing responses to communities can improve policing for women.
Women are active in their local and global communities but their capacity to engage and participate in those communities can be limited by violence, cyber bullying, and a lack of respect of the contribution women can make. There is much that policing can do to make sure that half the population - women and girls - participate in their various communities.
Young women in particular are an area that policing struggles to deal with. The apparent increase in reported violence and crime by young women; their increased victimisation as gender based violence remains unacceptably high and the use and abuse of technology to exploit and degrade women will be among the issues that will be explored by practitioners, researchers and activists.
Police, researchers, advocates, policy makers and practitioners from policing, law enforcement, criminal justice and emergency service areas are encouraged to consider contributing a paper to the conference.
The streams for the 2011 conference are:
- serving and uniting the community - the policing perspective on women and community engagement
- policing and young women - young women as victims, offenders, and as the future of policing
- women influencing organisations - leadership making a difference
- women and the cyber community
- policing diversity in the community
- pacific communities - women and policing in the pacific
- hate crimes and emerging trends in policing the community
- policing gender based violence
All women and men who are interested in improving policing and the criminal justice system for women are invited to this conference.
Women working in male dominated workplaces will also find it particularly valuable. Policy makers, police, law enforcement officers, senior police and law enforcement management, researchers, human rights activists, and women’s services are encouraged to attend this important event.
This will be the seventh conference in the Australasian Women and Policing series. It will provide an opportunity to share the innovations, challenges and successes of how policing is changing and is responding to women in the community and to women in policing.
This conference will hear from the practitioners who are changing policing and criminal justice and how the police and the community are making it happen!
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