Criminology in Europe

I am deeply honoured to have been elected as President of the European Society of Criminology and, in particular, to be the incumbent at the time of the ESC’s twentieth anniversary in 2020.

It is a great honour for me to be the recipient of the 2019 ESC European Criminology Award for Lifetime Contribution to European Criminology. I would like to express my gratitude to the Award Committee for their work and to Frieder Dünkel for his laudation and for the long lasting co-operation in the field of comparative criminal justice research. I would also like to thank Michael Tonry – another person with unlimited energy in organising research projects – for all his support and for dragging me from the Nordic periphery into wider comparative circles.

Tapio Lappi-Seppälä is a professor of criminal law and criminology and the director of the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy at the University of Helsinki.

To be awarded the Young Criminologist Award took me by complete surprise and gave me childish joy this summer. The article took me almost three years to write, so that hard work occasionally pays off is just, well: swell. I had just begun my annual leave when I found out, which gave me a chance to pause, to hold it still—if only for a moment—and to consider what it meant to me, what it meant for me, to be seen and recognised—honoured even—by the European Society of Criminology.

The European Society of Criminology and SAGE Publishing invite applications for a new Editor in Chief for their flagship publication, the European Journal of Criminology. The European Journal of Criminology is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original research.

The European Society of Criminology Working Group on Cybercrime is focused on the various aspects of cybercrime, including but not limited to: different forms that cybercrime can take (e.g., hacking, fraud, malicious software infections, sexting, cyber terrorism, etc.), its causes and offenders, impact on victims, and our response to it at the individual, corporate, and governmental levels.

The European Sourcebook Group consists of experts in the field of crime and criminal justice statistics. Its central concern is to reflect the extent of criminal cases and their handling within different criminal justice systems and to improve international comparisons on that topic.

This working group was established only very recently by Steve van de Weijer and Veroni Eichelsheim. Its aim is to bring together ESC members who are specifically interested in studying intergenerational continuity and discontinuity of crime, (domestic) violence and related phenomena (e.g. parenting, parent-child relationships, economic hardship).