2025 ANNUAL MEETING FOR HOMICIDE RESEARCH WORKING GROUP
Each year, members from across the globe gather for HRWG’s annual meeting. To ensure that current findings and breaking issues find a place on the program, information can be presented in a variety of formats – formal presentations, panels, works in progress, demonstrations, tutorials, and practitioner discussion groups or case examples. Sessions are of varying length, dependent on how long it takes to present the topic at hand.
Each session has a “moderator” whose job is to stimulate a lively discussion, and a “recorder” whose job is to record the discussion for publication in each meetings Annual Proceedings. One result of these still-evolving “tribal customs” is that participant discussions build and develop over several days, with later discussions referring back to earlier presentations, and are often the most valuable part of the annual meeting.
The HRWG annual meeting is not your usual academic meeting. The group has developed a number of ways to discourage didactic lectures and encourage intensive group participation and problem solving on breaking issues. There are no simultaneous sessions. Participants are asked to attend the entire meeting, where they sit facing each other around a circle or open square. Making connections and creating partnerships is the best outcome from attending a meeting.
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