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Enhancing Cross-Border Mutual Legal Assistance and Recognition of Decisions in Countering Terrorism and Preventing Radicalisation in Prisons – completed
2016 – 2018 Lead partner: ERA, Academy for European Law Partners: Centro de Estudios Jurídicos (CEJ), Spain, Studiecentrum Rechtspleging (SSR), The Netherlands Associate Partners: European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris), Confederation of European Probation (CEP), European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ), Ecole National de la Magistrature, France Co-funded: … Continued
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LIAISE 2 – completed
January 2016 – December 2017 Lead partner: European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS) Co-funded by the European Union Aim of the project: The project “Local Institutions Against Violent Extremism II” (LIAISE 2) seeks to strengthen the capacities of local and regional European authorities to prevent and tackle the issue of radicalisation leading to violent extremism. Co-funded by … Continued
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FORINER – completed
January 2016 – December 2017 Lead partners: VOCVO (Flemish support center for adult education) based in Belgium and also promotor of the project; VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), also a Belgian partner; Educatie Achter Buitenlandse Tralies or EABT (Education Behind Foreign Prison Bars) from the Netherlands; MegaNexus, an ICT company based in the UK Aim of … Continued
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COST Action Offender Supervision in Europe – completed
The work of COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe began on 27th March 2012 at a ‘kick-off’ meeting in Brussels and it concludes with the final conference, back in Brussels, on the 11-12th March 2016. This report reflects on the achievements over the course of four years of complex, challenging, creative and highly … Continued
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STEPS 2 Resettlement – completed
Lead partner: NOMS This project aims to support the effective delivery of Framework Decision (FD) 2008/909/JHA (transfer of prisoners) by investigating and analyzing the legal and practical obstacles that may hinder its implementation and execution in all Member States (MS). Funded by: Criminal Justice Programme of the European Union Click on the link to read … Continued
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Creativity and Effectiveness in the Use of Electronic Monitoring as an Alternative to Imprisonment in EU Member States – completed
Funded by: the European Commission. This research project is a partnership between professors from five Universities in Europe; Prof. Anthea Hucklesby (The University of Leeds), Prof. Gill McIvor (The University of Stirling), Prof. Kristel Beyens (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels), Prof. Frieder Dunkel (University of Greifswald) and Prof. Miranda Boone (Utrecht University). It focuses on the potential of electronic monitoring (EM) to provide a credible and workable … Continued
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Circles4EU – completed
Lead partner: Avans university of Applied Sciences (NL) Aim of the Circles4EU project: to further implement Circles of Support & Accountability across Europe, to increase the knowledge on successful (cross-national) implementation, to establish of a Knowledge Centre on Circles implementation. Countries involved: The Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Spain, UK (project associate Czech … Continued
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Desistance and restorative justice: Mechanisms for desisting from crime within restorative justice practices – completed
Lead partner: European Forum for Restorative Justice Aim of the project: to identify the contribution of Restorative Justice to desistance and why does it work. EU funding programme: criminal justice funding programme (JPEN) Countries involved: Belgium, Austria, UK Click on the link for more information about the project.
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Prisons of the Future – completed
Many countries are searching for alternatives to regular imprisonment, due to prison overcrowding or budget cuts. A current alternative to regular imprisonment is home detention, combined with electronic monitoring. Whereas imprisonment isolates offenders from society on almost all areas of life, home detention restricts only a few areas of life. A continuum of alternatives to … Continued
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