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Human Rights Alert (NGO) Seeks Worldwide Submissions on JUDICIAL CORRUPTION for the 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, KOBE, JAPAN, AUGUST 5-9, 2011.
Los Angeles, January 3 - Human Rights Alert (NGO) and Joseph Zernik, PhD, Released an international "Urgent Call for Papers" for a new section in the 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, KOBE, JAPAN, AUGUST 5-9, 2011 on JUDICIAL CORRUPTION; with a DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS - JANUARY 24, 2011. This year's meeting central theme is: GLOBAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS AND CRIME CONTROL POLICIES.
Human Rights Alert's call is for scholarly papers for presentation in a dedicated section on JUDICIAL CORRUPTION. The draft session outline (copied below) sought submissions from contributors worldwide, addressing the impact of Judicial Corruption on civil society and economic development, monitoring, crime detection, crime prevention, law enforcement, and proposed corrective actions: technological solutions, legislative actions, Truth and Reconciliation.
Of special interest are reports exploring the area of Judicial Corruption and its potential relationship to the collapse of large financial institutions, mortgage lenders, real estate foreclosures, failure of banking regulation, and the dynamics of the current economic/financial/integrity crisis.
New case management and online public access systems, which have been installed in recent decades in the banks, prisons, and courts worldwide will be explored, both as potential enabling tools for high-level fraud, Judicial Corruption, and dysfunctional regulation, and also as an area for new research opportunities, based on data mining methodologies. based on data mining methodologies. [iv,v]
Solutions will be explored, including legislative actions clarifying the unique role of various forms of certifications and publicly and legally accountable validation (certified, functional logic verification) of digital systems in areas that are crucial for the maintenance of a civil, law abiding society and international financial stability, peace and welfare.
CONTACT: Joseph Zernik, PhD: jz12345@earthlink.net
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URGENT CALL FOR PAPERS: JUDICIAL CORRUPTION, 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, KOBE, JAPAN, AUGUST 5-9, 2011; DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS - JANUARY 24, 2011.
1. Deadline for submission to Human Rights Alert: JANUARY 24, 2011.
Contact: Dr Joseph Zernik: jz12345@earthlink.net
2. Meeting Information and Deadlines:
Submission Deadline:
Registration Deadline:
Meeting web site:
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3. Proposed Session Abstract: Judicial Corruption
Judicial Corruption is well-documented as both individual and organizational crime in both developing and developed nations. [i,ii,iii] The session solicits scholarly submissions from contributors worldwide, addressing the impact of Judicial Corruption on Civil Society and Economic Development - monitoring, crime detection, crime prevention, law enforcement, and proposed corrective actions: technological solutions, legislative actions, Truth and Reconciliation.
Of special interest are reports exploring the area of Judicial Corruption and its potential relationship to the collapse of large financial institutions, mortgage lenders, real estate foreclosures, failure of banking regulation, and the progress of the current economic/financial/integrity crisis.
New case management and online public access systems, which have been installed in recent decades in the banks, prisons, and courts worldwide will be explored, both as potential enabling tools for high-level fraud, Judicial Corruption, and dysfunctional regulation, and also as an area for new research opportunities, based on data mining methodologies. [iv,v]
Solutions will be explored, including legislative actions clarifying the unique role of various forms of certifications and publicly and legally accountable validation (certified, functional logic verification) of digital systems in areas that are crucial for the maintenance of a civil, law abiding society and international financial stability, peace and welfare.
In the United States: A well-known constitutional scholar and law school dean compared already a decade ago - after conducting his own independent investigation - the conduct of the justice system in Los Angeles County, California, to "the most repressive dictators and police states...", [vi] another law school dean opined that "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit"; [vii] an official government report recommended in 2006 that the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles "must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system"; [viii] a well-known constitutional scholar and law school professor, acting in his capacity as Senior Counsel for the US Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, recently chided the Chief Justices of the several states that they may "become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations", [ix] and the highly-respected, long-term Chair of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary called already a couple of years ago for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission". [x]
References/Footnotes:
i. Fighting Judicial Corruption Tops Agenda- China Daily: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46157506/
ii. Judicial Corruption, Recommendation 1896, Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe: http://www.scribd.com/doc/46157398/
iii. The Human Rights Alert (NG0) Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2010 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States was incorporated into the UPR Staff Report with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession" in California: http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
iv. Zernik, J: Data Mining as a Civic Duty - Online Public Prisoners' Registration Systems, International Journal on Social Media: Monitoring, Measurement, Mining 1: 84-96 (2010): http://www.scribd.com/doc/38328591/
v. Zernik, J: Data Mining of Online Judicial Records of the Networked US Federal Courts, International Journal on Social Media: Monitoring, Measurement, Mining, 1:69-83 (2010): http://www.scribd.com/doc/38328585/
vi. "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted." Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School in: Chemerinsky, Erwin (2000) The Rampart Scandal and the Criminal Justice System in Los Angeles County. Guild Practicioner, 57 . pp. 121-133. http://www.scribd.com/doc/274339
vii. "Innocent people remain in prison... ...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..." Los Angeles Police Department Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
viii. Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in: Burcham, DW and Fisk, CL: Policing the Justice System, in: Symposium, The Rampart Scandal: Policing the Criminal Justice System, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review34:537 (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
ix. "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations." Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute: http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
x. Transcript of the Senator Patrick Leahy February 9, 2009 speech calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission: http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
