| CTCP Director Associate Professor Doug MacKinnon (second row, second ... CTCP Director Associate Professor Doug MacKinnon (second row, second from right) pictured this week with representatives from 17 countries undertaking the Master of Transnational Crime Prevention program |
Transnational Crime Prevention Centre resembles a mini UN
5 Aug 2008 | Bernie Goldie
The Global Centre of Excellence for Transnational Crime Prevention (CTCP) based at the University of Wollongong certainly has lived up to its “global” tag this week.
There are currently nationals from 21 different countries engaged with studies through the CTCP.
Representatives from 17 countries have this week at Wollongong been undertaking the Master of Transnational Crime Prevention program alone.
And over and above these representatives New Zealand is involved in the Prosecutions Masters program and other countries represented through PhD offerings include the United Kingdom and Jordan. A Malaysian student is also due to begin a PhD in Spring session 2009, according to CTCP Director, Associate Professor Doug MacKinnon.
The CTCP is a flagship for the University of Wollongong highlighting one of the University’s special areas of research and teaching strengths.
It will soon be housed in its own building on the University’s Innovation Campus which was recently officially opened.
The University first established the CTCP in July 2000, recognising the need to establish an interdisciplinary research and teaching centre to address the problems of transnational crime.
The CTCP is actively involved in working with the Australian Government to help develop a cooperative and safe region in which to live and trade. It has developed appropriate national and international networks and works in collaboration with domestic government organisations, including the Australian Federal Police. The Centre also works with international institutions such as AusAID, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
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