“WORKING WITH VIOLENCE IN ADULTS AND YOUTH 2019. Effective clinical, welfare and legal strategies”

is an international conference that brings together policy contributors, lawyers, clinicians, legal decision makers, advocates, and researchers to explore the phenomenon of violence from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

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WHEN: 30 September – 2 October 2019. Post-conference workshops on 3 October.

WHERE: Palazzo Vaj, the Monash University Centre in Prato, Tuscany, Italy.

Call for Abstracts: 1 MARCH – 30 MAY, 2019

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The conference will give particular attention to the following themes:

• Understanding violence and offending
• Exploring youth violence and anti-social behaviour
• Family violence and child welfare
• Gender and cultural effects
• Legal reforms for managing violent offending
• Advances in offending programs and approaches to desistance from violence
• Mental illness, trauma, personality dysfunction, substance misuse and violence
• Risk, intervention, diversion and decarceration approaches and policy

Please see the flyer below with details on keynote speakers.