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 and Øyvind Heen Ottesen
Session 1:
Randy BORUM (USA)
Understanding extremist violence in adolescents: A developmental risk–resilience model
&
Elizabeth HARNES (NOR)
Psychological vulnerability to violent extremism: Grooming of transnational youth
LUNCH
Session 2:
Kari ØVERLAND (NOR)
Developmental considerations in forensic evaluations of children and adolescents
&
Zemir POPOVAC (NOR)
Understanding and preventing serious violence in young people
BREAK
Zainab al ATTAR (UK)
Intersections between neurodiversity and crime: Relevance to youth and emerging adults
&
Atte OKSANEN (FIN)
Digital pathways to violence: Youth, fascination with violence, and online Influence
EVENING
Session 3
Lorraine JOHNSTONE (UK)
Overlapping risks in youth and emerging adults: Violence, victimisation and suicide/self-harm
&
Berit RITCHIE and Donna McEWAN (UK)
Between theory and chaos: Youth exploited by organised crime
BREAK
Michael CALDWELL (USA)
Evidence-based interventions for young people at risk of serious violence
&
Terje OGDEN (NOR)
Family-based and systemic treatment approaches to working with antisocial youth
LUNCH
Session 4
Kevin DOUGLAS (CAN & NOR)
Risk assessment and management with young people and emerging adults at risk of crime and violence
&
Linda GRÖNING (NOR)
Legal perspectives on children at risk: Child rights versus social safety concerns
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