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2010 Stockholm Criminology Symposium

June 14-16, 2010
Stockholm City Conference Center (Norra Latin)


The Stockholm Prize in Criminology will be awarded Tuesday, June 15 in a ceremony in Stockholm City Hall followed by a gala dinner

More details on the 2010 symposium coming soon

About the Symposium:

The Swedish Government has commissioned the Swedish National Council for Crime
Prevention (Brå) to arrange the Stockholm Criminology Symposium and to make it an annual event. Brå is an agency under the Swedish Ministry of Justice and functions as an expert body within the field of criminal policy. Brå arranges the symposium in collaboration with agencies within the Swedish criminal justice system, Stockholm University and University of Pennsylvania. The official language is English.

David Weisburd Wins 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology

David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, has been awarded the 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

The International Jury chose Dr. Weisburd for his groundbreaking work on hot spots policing and crime displacement and his series of experiments showing that intensified police patrol at high crime "hot spots" does not merely push crime around the corner.

In the video above, Dr. Weisburd presents on his work in this area in "The Crucial Question for Crime: Not Who Done it, but Where Done It?"

The full news release is available here.

About the Prize

The Stockholm Prize in Criminology was presented for the first time in June 2006. Under the aegis of the Swedish Ministry of Justice, the international prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in criminological research or for the application of research results by practitioners for the reduction of crime and the advancement of human rights. The prize amounts to at least 1,000,000 SEK.

The jury, an independent international body, selects and appoints the prize recipient(s) from the nominations submitted

More information on the prize is available here.