In 2024 CEP launches a series of short webinars. We sincerely invite all probation practitioners, social workers, managers, policymakers, researchers, students as well as colleagues from partner organisations to join and share your knowledge with us.

The webinars will be held on the topics of alternatives to detention, radicalisation and violent extremism, technology, assessment and volunteers and it aims to open up a space for sharing and presenting good practices, relevant experience, latest developments from your jurisdictions.

What you need to know:
•   Every third Thursday of January, March, May, September and November
•   45 minutes of your time
•   Short yet full of information with an open space for questions, sharing and exchanging information
•   Engaging speakers and experienced practitioners
•   Online or on YouTube
•   The webinars will be held in English and will take place online from 2 pm (CET).
•   Registration is free of charge.

We sincerely invite those interested in delivering a presentation to contact us at mirka@cep-probation.org.

First up is the Webinar on Alternatives to Detention
18 January 2024 – 14:00 – 14:45 (CET)
>>Click here for more information and registration.

The second webinar is the Webinar on Violent Extremism
21 March 2024 – 14:00 – 14:45 (CET)
>>Click here for more information and registration.

We sincerely invite those interested in delivering a presentation to contact us at mirka@cep-probation.org.

New AIC report examines criminal justice involvement of 10-13 year old children

Link to: Police and Children's Court outcomes for children aged 10 to 13

The AIC has released a new study by researchers from Monash University and Swinburne University of Technology on children involved in the criminal justice system. It shows:

Across all 10-13 year olds with criminal justice involvement in 2017 in Victoria, 55 percent received a police caution, 25 percent had police contact other than a caution and without court involvement, 18 percent had court involvement without youth justice supervision and 2 percent had court involvement with youth justice supervision.
While 13.7 percent of the sample were Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander children, those whose matters proceeded to Children’s Court were significantly more likely to be Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander than those whose matters did not proceed to Children’s Court (21.1% vs 11.8%).
At the time of their index matter, half of children had a prior intervention order. Of these, 96.7 percent were the complainant (victim-survivor) in their first IVO, while 3.3 percent were respondents.

Among children aged 10-12 years whose index matter proceeded to court, 65.9% had their charges struck out or dismissed. This trend was different for 13 year olds, who were more likely to have received a court outcome of diversion (53.5%) or a youth justice order in the community (13.0%) or a sentence of detention (0.5%).

Link to: Police and Children's Court outcomes for children aged 10 to 13

WHO published: Past year and lifetime prevalence estimates for different forms of violence against children at country, regional and global levels.

The Request for Proposals is published on the United Nations Global Market website: https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/224701

EUCPN TOOLBOX: WORK-RELATED CRIME

Work-related crime refers to all infractions of laws and regulations regarding salary and employment, benefits, taxes and duties. This includes labour exploitation, forced labour, and trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation, as well as all criminal activities that may be related to, or indicative of, these crimes: benefit fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, breaching workplace safety regulations, salary extortion, and so on.

There are different prevention strategies, each with their own benefits and disadvantages. Victim-oriented approaches include awareness programmes for potential victims, as well as victim identification and assistance. Buyer-oriented strategies target both personal and corporate buyers, and aim to shrink the market for services and goods produced by exploited labour. Offender-oriented approaches have the objective to create an environment that is risky and unrewarding for offenders to operate in. The latter may be achieved by a mix of criminal justice and administrative probes that benefits from increased information sharing between authorities and across borders.

The paper "Labour exploitation and other work-related crime: a problem analysis and prevention framework" is part of the EUCPN Toolbox on work-related crime. This Toolbox is being produced during the Swedish and Spanish Presidencies of the European Union. Published: June 2023.

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