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Presentations CEP Conference on Alternatives to Detention now online!
On 6-7 October 2016, following the 12th CEP General Assembly on the 5th, CEP organised a international conference on one of its core business topics, namely “Alternatives to Detention”.
The event brought together different perspectives and concepts regarding “Alternatives to detention” from various European countries: Romania, Northern Ireland, Belgium, Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden, Croatia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom and Germany. Also relevant European Institutions such as the Council of Europe and the European Commission-DG Justice took part in the programme, as well as professors from the Universities of Lausanne, Bucharest, Glasgow, Greifswald, Ulster, Timisoara and The Netherlands.
Presentations and summary
Summary conference on alternatives to detention Bucharest 2016
Plenary sessions
Speech Alina Barbu Legislative reform and the role of alternative to detention
Presentation Tim Chapman Radicalsiation and Restoration
Presentation by the EC Pre-trial detention in the EU
Presentation by Ioan Durnescu State of implementation Framework Decisions
Presentation Fergus McNeill The future of probation Europe
Workshops
Presentation Elly Westerbeek Looking beyond a case
Presentation by Kriminalomsorgen The Norwegian Drug Court Model
Presentation by Dutch Probation Service
Presentation by Gail McGreevy Changing lives app
Swedish Prison and Probation Service Technology in the process of alternatives to detention
Presentation by Frank Philippart and Angèle Geerts CJSW
Presentation by Generalitat de Catalunya on the Women workshop
Presentation by Jana Spero Working with offenders having ptsd
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