15th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) "Eurocrim2015" was organised and hosted by the Faculty of Law of University of Porto between 2-5 September 2015 in Porto. Approximately 1.200 participants from different countries of Europe shared the results of their studies in the field of criminology. 13 parallel sessions were held. 25 different sessions were organised in each of these parallel sessions and more than 300 sessions were held altogether throughout the conference. Some of the themes of the conference were as follows: migration, prisons, children’s rights, restorative justice, juvenile delinquency, women in prison, human trafficking, domestic violence, transnational organized crime, sexual violence, stalking and psychological abuse, domestic violence and risk assessment, social and economic costs of crime, hate crime, intimate partner homicide, prison and elderly people, victims in the criminal justice system, sentencing studies, domestic violence: prevention programs and victim support and homicide studies. 

Sevinç Eryılmaz from Istanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law Research Center presented the paper entitled “Universalism-Cultural Relativism Discourse in the Criminal Cases of Honor Killings in Germany by the Perpetrators Originated from Turkey” in the Conference in session entitled "Sentencing Studies". The other participants in the same session were Linn Katharina Döning from Germany (The Criminalization of Child Protection Professionals in Fatal Child Protection Cases in Germany and England), Anne-Marie Singh from Canada (Public Views of Sentencing and Race-Based Thinking: Canada) Elena Marchetti  from Australia (Nothing Works? A Meta-Review of Indigenous Sentencing Court Evaluations).

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