The international conference, hosted by the Law Department of American University of Armenia, and co-sponsored by the Penal Reform International and US State Department, aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and post graduate students from disciplines such as psychology, law, education, sociology, etc. to discuss the interconnections of law, psychology and other social sciences in such areas as offender rehabilitation and juvenile justice, rule of law, judicial and penal reforms. The working languages of the conference are English, Armenian and Russian.

The objectives of the conference are:

• To foster collaboration among academics from such disciplines as law, psychology, other social sciences and practitioners working in the fields of juvenile justice, offender rehabilitation, law reform, law-making and other applied areas;
• To facilitate discussions between scholars and practitioners from abroad and Armenia;
• To explore deviant behaviour from perspectives from psychology, law and other related disciplines;
• To discuss the current implementation of developmental and educational psychological knowledge into the legal system;
• To promote international academic collaboration and encourage publications in international peer reviewed journals;
• To help younger scholars and students to understand the process of submitting papers to international peer reviewed journals.