Council of Europe issues guidelines to prevent radicalisation in prisons

The Council of Europe today issued a set of guidelines to its 47 member states to prevent the radicalisation of prisoners and people under probation, and rehabilitate individuals who have already become radicalised. CEP has taken part in its advisory role at the PC-CP and through out the discussions at the Directors General meeting held in The Hague, last November 2015.

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Conferences you shouldn't miss

Offender Supervision in Europe: building bridges between research, policy and practice (Brussels, 11 & 12 March 2016)

This two-day international conference reports on the final work of an international research network (COST Action 1106) on ‘Offender Supervision in Europe’

 

Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Treatment of offenders (Timisoara 31 March & 1 April)

The 5th SPECTO edition will focus strongly on relevant and practically useful interdisciplinary scientific knowledge with regard to interventions aiming at social reintegration of offenders.

 

10th CEP Conference on Electronic Monitoring in Europe (19 -21 April Latvia)

Over the years the CEP EM conference has become known as the platform par excellence for being updated about the newest technical developments in EM, to hear the latest experiences with EM from the different probation services, and to exchange ideas on the topic.

 

CJPe Conference on Radicalization and Violent Extremism (26 April, Barcelona)

Radicalization and Violent Extremism – Mentoring, Religious Care, Inter-Agency Cooperation

On 26 APril  the partners of the Criminal Justice Platform, EuroPris EFRJ and CEP and with support of the Centre for Legal Studies of the Ministry of Justice of Catalonia a conference on radicalisation and violent extremism

 

One day conference: Working with young adult offenders (31 August, Lillestrøm, Norway)

In close co-operation with the Directorate of Correctional Services of Norway (KDI) and the Correctional Service of Norway, Staff Academy (KRUS), CEP will organise a one-day conference on working with young adult offenders. 
Final conference STEPS II project

On 3-5 February 2016 the final conference of the “STEPS 2 Resettlement” project  took place in Bucharest. Delegates from all over Europe gathered in the impressive Crown Plaza hotel of the Romanian capital to discuss the effective delivery of the Framework Decision 909 on the transfer of prisoners, and to launch ideas for the “handbook for offenders”  – a publication aimed to be produced as one of the results of the project.

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Effective Alternatives to Pre-trial and Detention and Post-Trial imprisonment in terrorism-related cases

The Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) organised a workshop on effective alternatives to pre-trial and detention and post-trial imprisonment in terrorism-related cases. CEP’s President Marc Céron attended the workshop and gave a presentation.

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Workshop on the use of e-learning

CEP and EuroPris are happily and proudly looking back on a successful workshop in Dublin (Ireland) on the use of e-learning for the training of Prison and Probation staff. The workshop presented a mixture of presentation from experienced e-learning providers to the ones that just took the first steps with e-learning. In combination with a market place where the e-learning programs could be seen and 'touched' the workshop provided for useful guidance for the participants.

Download here notes and presentations.

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Have Community sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems?

Community Sanctions and Measures (CSM) were created to reduce the prison population and to improve offenders reintegration. Having analyzed data from 29 European countries the authors of the article want to determine whether CSMs are used as an alternative to prison or as supplementary measures.

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International Anniversary Symposium of Probation in Turkey

The Turkish General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Probation Service with a Symposium that was held from 8-10 December in Istanbul.

The aim of the symposium; in order to interchange the 10 year-experience of Probation with the stakeholders in the international platform, especially with the countries in the region in its 10th year of establishment, to share the good practices in Europe and in the world, to evaluate the studies of the local and global academic circles in this area; is to gather the academics and professionals, share the latest studies in the world and exchange experiences in a negotiation climate.

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