Twenty-Five Years of Successful Long-Term International Projects: Lessons Learned about Collaboration and Other Things We Did Not Know When We Started - Special Panel Celebrating 25 Years of ESC

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

The European Society of Criminology was formally established 25 years ago to institutionalize the exchange of ideas, facilitate networking, and research collaboration among (primarily) European criminologists. The establishment of the ESC in 2000 represents one clear example of the internationalization of the criminological enterprise, but it is not the only one. That is, the 1990s to early 2000s also witnessed the emergence and development of several international collaborative criminological projects that continue to exist and flourish today: the International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS), the International Self-Report Delinquency project (ISRD), the European Sourcebook of Crime and Justice Statistics, and the Eurogang project. The purpose of the panel is (1) to explore how these projects developed, created collaborations, and managed to survive long-term; and (2) to highlight the substantive insights produced by these projects. The panel participants are scholars who have been involved in these projects from their early beginnings.

Subtopic

• ESC

Chair

• Ineke Haen Marshall, Northeastern University

Discussants

• Jan van Dijk, NSCR

• Marcelo F. Aebi, University of Lausanne

• Frank Weerman, NSCR & Erasmus University Rotterdam