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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). These researchers were - and are still- invited to join the new European Working Group on Intergenerational Criminology (EWGIC).
The idea of setting up this working group emerged when two of its steering group members brought together many international “intergenerational” researchers to work on an edited volume. This volume, published in the summer of 2018, brings together almost all intergenerational datasets on crime and offending from over the world (“Intergenerational Continuity of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour: An international overview of Studies”; Eichelsheim & Van de Weijer, 2018, Routledge). The workshops that were organized as a to this book were so inspiring that it formed the basis for a more formal “Working Group” under the European Society of Criminology (ESC). The basic idea of this Working Group is to facilitate exchange and cooperation among its members focusing on the study of intergenerational processes of criminal and related behaviour or phenomena from a variety of disciplines, using different sources of intergenerational data and by means of a diverse set of research methods. Together we aim to organize annual (preconference) meetings, organize events and preferable also work together on grant proposals, books, or special issues. Its membership may remain informal; however, active participation is encouraged.
This year, the steering group only organized a panel session at the annual conference. While still welcoming new members to the WG, we aim to organize a pre-conference event at next years’ ESC conference for our members or maybe even a pre-conference workshop or PhD training.
Veroni Eichelsheim is a Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Steve van de Weijer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands