In challenging victimologists to employ more scientific techniques in their studies, one of the keynote speakers suggested that humanistic influences have taken victim issues too far without adequate inquiry and that many hypotheses cannot be sustained. Another keynote speaker looked at what crime surveys reveal about international populations. Other speakers considered the offender as a victim, the efficacy of teaching young offenders about the victim's experience, and effects of conviction in Japan on the offender's family and subsequent difficulties encountered by young offenders when trying to get work and resume a place in the community. Speakers also addressed family violence, stalking, juvenile justice, the scope of victimology, world victimology, abuse of power over women and children, and victim needs and support in New Zealand. 1 reference