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Crime and Criminology are both in a perpetual movement. Crime is constantly evolving, in interaction with criminal policies and/or new opportunities. Criminology as a science and Criminologists as professionals have to follow these evolutions, trying to be as close ass possible to the criminal reality.

In the beginning of the 21st century, in Europe and anywhere else, crime could be committed by a single person or by individuals linked by various kinds of relationships. If the organizational dimension is more and more regularly integrated in criminological researches, it still sometimes appears as being opposed to a more “traditional criminology” that is focused on the study of the individual criminal behaviours. The ESC 21010 annual conference will try to overcome this opposition by fostering a Criminology that works on this double level of analysis (individual – organizational) and also by stimulating bridges between them.

Following the tradition of the European Society of Criminology, the 2010 Annual Conference will embrace most of the issues about crime, crime prevention and deviance. It will also try to enhance exchanges and cooperation between scholars, academics and other institutions (both public and private).