STEPS2: Resettlement Conference (Bucharest 4th & 5th February 2016)

The STEPS2 Ressettlement Conference will be held in Bucharest, Romania on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th February 2016. The Conference will disseminate the results of the STEPS2 Ressettlement project which is focused on the implementation of Framework Decision 909 in all EU Member states.

ECOR European Conference (Stuttgart, Germany, 10-12 February 2016)

The project European Communities of Restoration – in prisons and as alternatives to detention (ECOR) is concerned with the exchange and development of good practice in the improvement of detention conditions in prisons, and the promotion of alternatives to conventional detention and development of post-release integration programmes. 

At the project completion stage, a European conference will present the project to a wider audience of stakeholders, inviting key-note speakers from across the European judicial community to debate the issues raised by the project and to discuss the implementation of the project outputs on a wider scale.

Electronic Monitoring in Europe (Brussels 18th February 2016)

The conference will provide an opportunity to hear about, and engage with, the findings of the European Commission funded project entitled ‘Creativity and Effectiveness in the use electronic monitoring (EM) as an alternative to imprisonment in EU member states’. The research was carried out in five jurisdictions (Belgium, England & Wales, Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland) providing up-to-date analysis of current and future uses of EM in each jurisdiction as well as insights gained from the first comparative EM research in the EU.

Offender Supervision in Europe: building bridges between research, policy and practice (Brussels, 11 and 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’. 

This network of researchers across 22 countries promotes cooperation between institutions and individuals in different European states (and with different disciplinary perspectives) who are already carrying out research on offender supervision or who are attracted to that field. In the first year of its work, the network reviewed and synthesized existing knowledge about supervision across these jurisdictions. Since then, the network has been developing new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying supervision comparatively and seeking to stimulate policy, practice and public debate about supervision.

5th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Treatment of offenders (Timisoara, Romania, 31 March and 1 April 2016)

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.

The conference will cover important issues of scientific research under various sub-themes on the criminal justice system and specifically on probation. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from around the globe in order to present and discuss new trends in the fields of probation development and other alternatives to incarceration. PhD students and early career researchers are particularly welcome to attend the conference and present on their projects.

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Good outcomes for both Probation and Community Service

The fourth in a series of reports which examines the effectiveness of community sanctions in Jersey has been published.  The authors, Professor Peter Raynor of Swansea University, Dr Helen Miles of the States of Jersey and Brenda Waterman, found that two years after being sentenced 70% of Probationers and 85% of Community Service clients had not committed a further offence.  Many of those who had committed further offences had been convicted of minor matters such as careless driving, parking or nuisance type offences.

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Linking Theory and Practice in Probation - Structured Decision Support for Case Management Plans, by Jacqueline Bosker

In 2010, the Dutch Probation Service introduced a digital decision support system for case management plans, a so called fourth generation risk/needs assessment instrument. Does this system help probation officers in determining the appropriate interventions that should prevent recidivism for each individual client? And to what extent are the case management plans based on existing theories on desistance from crime? These are the central questions in the thesis of Jacqueline Bosker of the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht: ‘Linking Theory and Practice in Probation – Structured decision support for case management plans’. “Further development is still needed, but we can conclude that the use of digital decision support helps improve the quality of case management plans.”

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