We currently have confirmed the following speakers with their provisional speaking titles.
Speaker bios, abstracts and confirmed titles will be announced by our newsletter and updates on this website.
All speakers has been allotted a 50 minute plenary session.
Introducing a new framework: The Youth and Emerging Adults Risk and Strength System (YEARSS), a developmentally informed version of the HCR-20 V3
Kevin Douglas (CAN/NOR) and Øyvind Heen Ottesen (NOR)
10:00 Conference opening. Welcome to Bergen!
10:10
Randy BORUM (USA)
Understanding extremist violence in adolescents: A developmental risk–resilience model
11:00 – break
11:20
Elizabeth HARNES (NOR)
Psychological vulnerability to violent extremism: Grooming of transnational youth
12:10
Kari ØVERLAND (NOR)
Developmental considerations in forensic evaluations of children and adolescents
13:00 – Lunch
13:50
Zemir POPOVAC (NOR)
Understanding and preventing serious violence in young people
14:40
Zainab al ATTAR (UK)
Intersections between neurodiversity and crime: Relevance to youth and emerging adults
15:30 – break
15:50
Atte OKSANEN (FIN)
Digital pathways to violence: Youth, fascination with violence, and online Influence
16:40 – Closing remarks
17:00 – End of day
EVENING
09:10 Conference opening – Summary day one.
09:20
Lorraine JOHNSTONE (UK)
Overlapping risks in youth and emerging adults: Violence, victimisation and suicide/self-harm
10:10
Berit RITCHIE (UK) and Donna McEWAN (UK)
Between theory and chaos: Youth exploited by organised crime
11:00 – break
11:20
Michael CALDWELL (USA)
Evidence-based interventions for young people at risk of serious violence
12:10
Terje OGDEN (NOR)
Family-based and systemic treatment approaches to working with antisocial youth
13:00 – Lunch
13:50
Kevin DOUGLAS (CAN & NOR)
Risk assessment and management with young people and emerging adults at risk of crime and violence
14:40 – Break
15:00
Linda GRÖNING (NOR)
Legal perspectives on children at risk: Child rights versus social safety concerns
15:50 – Closing remarks
16:00 – End of conference
