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International Symposium: Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre, Brussels

Thursday 14th September 2017

KEY SPEAKERS:

Antoine Savary; Deputy Head of Unit, DG HOME European Commission

Birgit Allerstorfer; Head of Department Regional Competence Centers of Integration and Diversity Process Facilitation on the Regional and Communal Level Caritas for People in Need in Upper Austria

2018 Dissertation Award

The ACUNS Dissertation Fellowship Award recognizes emerging students of extraordinary potential who have reached the stage of writing an advanced graduate-level dissertation on a topic of direct and demonstrable relevance to the United Nations and/or the UN system. The ACUNS Dissertation Fellowship Award recognizes emerging students of extraordinary potential who have reached the stage of writing an advanced graduate-level dissertation on a topic of direct and demonstrable relevance to the United Nations and/or the UN system. Applications not thus related to the UN and/or UN system will not be considered.

An important component of the Award for its winner is the recognition of excellence that this entails throughout ACUNS’ global community of scholars and practitioners. The Award also includes a monetary component in the amount of $1,500.00 US.

In addition, the winner is encouraged to attend the ACUNS Annual Meeting in that same year, where she/he will be introduced and recognized as the Award winner. In that case, the winner will receive an Annual Meeting registration fee waiver (worth up to $150 of the registration fee) plus an additional award of up to $500 following the Meeting for the reimbursement of related travel and accommodations costs.

The Dissertation Award winner is encouraged to consider in the future submitting some written product to ACUNS’ journal, Global Governance. Use of any materials, however, will be at the discretion of the journal editorial team and the normal peer review process

The SVRI and WBG announces our new open call for awards recognizing promising innovations aimed at preventing gender-based violence. Awards of up $USD100,000 are available.

Applications to the SVRI WBG Development Marketplace for Innovation in Prevention of Gender-Based Violence must be received online by October 6, 2017.

Applications for an SVRI and World Bank Group Development Marketplace for Innovation on GBV Prevention Award must be made online at: https://proposalcentral.altum.com/.

To access this grant opportunity, you must first create an account on proposalCENTRAL. Select South African Medical Research Council as the Grant Maker in the drop-down menu.

All information needed for proposal submission is available online (in English, French and Spanish) in the SVRI and World Bank Group Development Marketplace for Innovation on GBV Prevention Award Application Guidelines 2018.

This short video gives an idea of the types of programs we are funding. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

July 28, 2017

By CSG Justice Center Staff

"Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved by a 30-1 vote the $56.4 billion Fiscal Year 2018 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) spending bill, which provides $2.3 billion for Department of Justice (DOJ) state and local law enforcement and crime prevention grant programs that have been proven to reduce recidivism at the state and local level while protecting public safety. The House Appropriations Committee approved their version of the CJS bill on July 13.

The proposed CJS bill provides $70 million in continued support for the Second Chance Act (SCA), which was originally passed with bipartisan support and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2008. SCA authorizes federal grants for vital programs and systems reform aimed at improving the reentry process and reducing recidivism. Since 2009, more than 800 SCA grants have been awarded to government agencies and nonprofit organizations from 49 states for reentry programs that have served more than 137,000 adults and juveniles.

The CJS bill also provides $25 million for the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), which helps state and local governments conduct comprehensive, data-driven analyses of their criminal justice systems and adopt evidence-based policies designed to reduce corrections spending and increase public safety. Because of federal investments in JRI, since 2010, 30 states have pursued justice reinvestment-related policies, which have slowed overall prison growth and, in some states, reduced the total prison population. Through justice reinvestment, together these states reported cost savings exceeding $1.1 billion in averted prison operating and construction costs while also investing hundreds of millions in effective supervision and treatment programs to make communities safer.

Additionally, the CJS bill includes $12 million for the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (MIOTCRA). MIOTCRA was signed into law in 2004 and created the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program to help state and local governments and tribal communities improve responses to people with mental illnesses in the criminal justice system. The program facilitates collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, and behavioral health systems to better serve people with behavioral health needs and to increase public safety. To date, MIOTCRA appropriations have funded 121 mental health courts and other court-based initiatives, supported more than 100 local police and county sheriff departments, and provided a total of 380 grants to 47 states, plus the District of Columbia, Guam, and American Samoa."

Hosted by the National Association of Counties, with support from The Council of State Governments Justice Center and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation.

Register for this webinarDate: Thursday, Aug. 10 Time: 2–3:15 p.m. ET

 

Join the Stepping Up partners for the fifth webinar in the Six Questions series. During this webinar, a national expert will discuss how county planning teams that have conducted a comprehensive process analysis can develop an action plan to address their needs and funding gaps. Officials from Pacific County, Washington, will also detail their planning team’s prioritization process and share how it has helped them move forward with their Stepping Up initiative. The webinar will be followed on Wednesday, Aug. 16, by the fifth Stepping Up Network Call, which will facilitate an in-depth discussion about this information.

"We are extremely pleased to collaborate with our Mexican partners CIJ to present what will be a stimulating and informative experience for those who work or have an interest and involvement in the field of prevention or treatment. ISSUP will be coordinating training from a range of international partners to run concurrently to CIJ's 19th International Congress including inputs from Colombo Plan, WHO, UNODC, PAHO, CADCA, CICAD and more. All attendees of the ISSUP training can participate in the CIJ Congress. We do hope you will be able to attend to help ensure that the policy and practice that is developed throughout the world is based on sound evidence, and high quality standards and ethical principles."

Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre, Brussels

Tuesday 24th October 2017

"At least 250,000 children are reported missing every year in the European Union. The cases include runaways, parental abduction or abduction by a third person; lost, injured or otherwise missing children, and missing unaccompanied migrant children. About 80% of the cases are reported to State authorities and specialised missing children services and the vast majority of children return home or are found after a short period.

Missing unaccompanied migrant children represent the highest number of unreported cases. Migrant children are considered missing when they disappear from state care, from the reception or accommodation provided for them. The reasons are various: inadequate reception conditions, the fear of deportation or detention, or the desire to join family members elsewhere. Missing migrant children are extremely vulnerable, as they are exposed to high risks of trafficking, (sexual) exploitation, or violence along their way, resulting in mental health issues and trauma for 10/20% of unaccompanied children.

This timely international symposium provides an invaluable opportunity to discuss how to tackle the problem of young runaways and missing migrant children in Europe. The symposium will examine how to improve child protection across the EU and explore innovative methods of collaboration between Member States. Delegates will also have the chance to evaluate the effectiveness of assistance tools and child alert mechanisms. Public Policy Exchange welcomes the participation of all key partners, responsible authorities and stakeholders.

I am pleased to advise you that we offer a 20% early registration discount off the standard delegate rates (subject to type of organisation and terms and conditions) for bookings received by the 15th September 2017. For further details, please refer to the enclosed event brochure. Do feel free to circulate this information to relevant colleagues within your organisation. In the meantime, to ensure your organisation is represented, please book online or complete and return the registration form at your earliest convenience in order to secure your delegate place(s)."

‘Empowerment, Engagement and Partnership: participating to develop healthy cities’

Programme for the Conference

"We are pleased to announce that the outline programme for the conference, with all confirmed speakers (including David Dorn, Dr Delon Human, Olivier Théraulaz, Tom Decorte, Lars Donath, Dr. Alan Farrier, Professor Geoff Gallop, Professor Gabriela Muri, Lukas Zahner, Michelle Baybutt and many more) can be found here. This is an ‘inclusive’ conference, with presenters and participants including NGOs, community projects, advocacy groups, as well as urban and health planners, academics, policy makers and those who deliver services and interventions. Registration To participate in the conference, please see full details of fees and how to register here. A discount of 10% is also available for registrations for five or more delegates made and paid for in a single transaction!

This is the sixth in the series of City Health conferences. It is hosted by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and organised by Knowledge•Action•Change"

European Commission - Daily News

Daily News 04/08/2017

Brussels, 4 August 2017

The European Commission has awarded an additional €9.3 million in emergency assistance to UNCHR to provide targeted support to refugees and migrants in Greece. The grant, which will ensure continuity of services on the islands, coversactivities including the provision of transportation, accommodation and auxiliary services to relocation candidates, protection and non-formal education for children (including support to a pilot guardianship network for unaccompanied minors), interpretation, core relief items and support for victims of sexual and gender-based violence and abuse. The overall amount of emergency funding allocated to the Greek authorities and international organisations operating in Greece now stands at €371.16 million, in addition to the €509.5 million allocated to Greece under the national programmes for the period 2014-2020. Overall, the European Union has mobilised over €1.3 billion of support (until 2020) to Greece to help manage migration and the external borders, through various kinds of funding.(For more information: Natasha Bertaud – Tel.: +32 229 67456; Kasia Kolanko – Tel.: +32 229 63444)

Criminal groups feed off the instability created by conflicts, and as links between wars, trafficking and migrant smuggling become more widely known, the United Nations is calling on the international community to act now to help and protect trafficking victims and to end this crime forever. "Conflict is a breeding ground for criminal activity," said Yury Fedotov, UNODC Executive Director.

Gender-based violence is a global problem that robs victims of their dignity, security, health and autonomy, and it is a violation of fundamental human rights. According to the recent statistics, one in every five young girls is sexually abused as a child while 33 per cent of women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused - most often by someone they know.

September 19–20, 2017

premises of the Municipal Police Brno – Riviera

Crime, prevention and society

If one asked what was the point in holding a National Prevention Day with a conference titled "Crime, Prevention of Crime and Society" one would quickly find a response several hundred years old: "It is better to prevent crime than to punish it" (Cesare Beccaria). We often hear the thesis that crime is always a step ahead of justice, with no proof to back such a claim. And it might not be so if there was a system of timely intervention, early prevention, in place and not a reactionary fire-fighting system dependent on a crime already having happened. This system is called a crime prevention system, systematically built into our country and fought for since 1995. It is often not seen or heard of, has no media popularity, and if someone invented a perfect evaluation of its projects, they might well have already received a Nobel Prize. Beneath this silence a diverse range of individuals and entities in different uniforms and outfits are hard at work: there is a network of collaborating organizations, experts, university professors, members of professional societies, institutes, practitioners, representatives of the non-profit sector, international security organizations as well as others. We, together with the Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention, were looking for a platform where participants could exchange - in the same space and at the same time - shared and differing experiences in the field. We found inspiration with our German neighbours where the Deutscher Präventionstag (The German Congress on Crime Prevention – GCOCP) has been running for more than 20 years. Brno is known as a pioneer and promoter of new ideas in the field of crime prevention, effecting projects yet unheard of. This is why we decided to organize the first year of the National Prevention Day in a modest and financially undemanding manner as part of one of the on-going projects in the city of Brno - the Municipal Crime Prevention Program 2017. The organizer is the City of Brno and the Coordination Centre for Prevention, the co-organizer is the Municipal Police of Brno - on whose premises along the Brno Riviera the National Prevention Day is taking place. The patronage of the event was taken over by the Governor of the South Moravian Region and the Mayor of the City of Brno. The funds for this event are taken partly from the City of Brno budget and partly from the state budget through the National Committee for Crime Prevention at the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. It would be an honour and pleasure if you come to liking of the idea of holding this event and turning it into a tradition, as has happened, in time, with our German neighbours.

Eighth EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting,

September 20th – 22nd 2017, Vienna, Austria

Quality in Prevention

The main theme of this year’s EUSPR conference focuses on improving quality in prevention. We encourage our keynote speakers and attendees to ask: How can we improve the organisation of ambitious integrative actions that promote partnerships between researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the public? 

How has our understanding of quality in prevention science developed, and how influential might initiatives such as the SPR standards for evidence for efficacy, effectiveness, and scale-up research be? 

What does ‘high quality’ training and education in prevention look like? What is the role of ethics in supporting the development of the prevention field?

How best can we promote the use of evidence in policy and practice whilst supporting diversity and innovation? 

What do researchers and practitioners need to know in order to influence the policy making process, and should we be realistic about what we can achieve? 

How has the field responded to quality standards and guidelines in prevention with respect to research priorities and practice? 

How do we improve the identification and implementation of evidence based prevention programmes and actions? 

What are some of the key methodological and conceptual developments that will advance the prevention field?

Register for Webinar:

Effectively Implementing Family Engagement and Involvement Practices for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance

Date: Thursday, Aug. 24

Time: 2–3:30 p.m.

ET Research shows that youth who have supportive caregivers have better outcomes than youth with less supportive caregivers. This is true across the juvenile justice, child welfare, behavioral health, and education systems. Youth whose caregivers do not provide consistent structure and support are at far greater risk of engaging in continued delinquent behavior and suffering poor outcomes into adulthood. But agencies and programs that serve youth in the juvenile justice system often struggle to implement family engagement and involvement policies and practices effectively.

This webinar will highlight strategies, tools, examples, and best-practice models from across the country that juvenile justice agency managers, staff, and other practitioners may consider adopting to effectively implement family engagement practices and promote positive outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system.

Human smuggling has the potential to be far more lucrative than most other occupations available to people on the smuggling routes”. Cambridge criminologists are using emerging sources of information – from court records to Facebook groups – to analyse the networks behind one of the fastest-growing black markets on the planet: the smuggling of people into Europe.

The CTC-EU-Network aims to make the established CTC-method transferable to other European countries. This European Implementation Guide will facilitate the use of the CTC-method in other European countries. Evaluations of CTC are showing positive impacts for children living in the CTC-area, compared with children who did not live in the area. The EU-funded CTC-EU project (2013-2015) contributes to enhanced implementations of community-based programmes based on a risk and protective factor model, and initiatives that focus on preventing the development of problem behaviour by early intervention with children and youth. The project results lead to a facilitated use of the "Communities That Care" approach by stakeholders in community-based prevention efforts (municipalities, youth-care agencies, schools and preschools, parents etc.). Thus, beneficiaries of the project will be after all families and youth in communities who use the CTC framework to increase the implementation of evidence-based prevention measures, taylored to their local specific needs and resources. Our project aims to facilitate the implementation of the CTC-system in every European country. We expect that adapting CTC from the U.S. is only in part adapting it to specific national conditions, but at the same time (even more) adapting it to European conditions. Based on the expected results of our project this work could be economized in future. Implementing CTC measures at the European level will reduce implementation costs for communities and states. CTC itself has been found a cost-beneficial intervention in the U.S. (5,3 $ return on every 1 $ spend, Kuklinski et al. 2011).

The racial biases of whites in a community predicts police use of lethal force against black Americans

Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Philando Castiles - these are just some of the names in the increasing number of news reports about black Americans being shot by police in the US in the last few years. Most of these cases involved men who were unarmed and had no criminal record or intent. This has resulted in widespread public outcry. Were these men the victims of the racism of white Americans? A new study shows a relationship between lethal police force and racial bias. Social cognition researcher Dr. Jimmy Calanchini, who is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Freiburg, and his colleagues have discovered the following: The racial biases of whites against blacks in a given region predicts how likely it is that black Americans are killed by police in that region. The research team used a big-data approach to create the first statistical model for using racial bias to predict lethal police force. They recently published the results of their research in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Calanchini and his fellow cognitive scientists studied the so-called "implicit bias" of more than two million Americans all over the United States. Implicit bias refers to the more or less subconscious views people have about people they meet. Is a person friendly or stand-offish, good or bad, harmless or dangerous? In their work, the group chose a new approach: Instead of studying the implicit biases of individual police officers against different racial groups, they focused on the context in which police work normally takes place. The scientists combined data from police databases with demographic factors from different areas, along with the implicit and explicit biases of people living in those areas. “We expected certain economic and demographic factors to play a role – like standard of living, level of education, and crime levels in a given region,” said Calanchini. “But in fact it was the implicit biases of the residents and how strongly they associate certain social groups with threat that predicts how likely police will use violence.” Black Americans are especially affected by this. Calanchini added, “In areas where bias against them is strong, there is a greater likelihood that they will be killed by police.” The researchers stressed, however, that this is not specifically a problem of the police. Calanchini said, “Our research showed that regional context plays a role in how police make speedy life-or-death decisions.” However, Calanchini cautioned against drawing strong conclusions about racism causing police behavior. “One interpretation of our results might be that the racial biases of the community cause police to use more lethal force against black Americans. However, another interpretation might be that, in regions where Black Americans are killed by police for any variety of reasons, these cases may get covered in local news and, consequently, people in the community become more biased against black Americans. Based on these data, we cannot rule out either explanation at this time.” Jimmy Calanchini earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California, Davis, in the US. He has been a visiting researcher in Social Psychology and Methodology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Freiburg since August 2016. He is a recipient of a two-year post-doc fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Calanchini’s co-authors on this project are Eric Hehman, Ph.D, of Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and Jessica K. Flake of York University in Toronto, Canada. Original Publication: Eric Hehman, Jessica Flake, Jimmy Calanchini: Disproportionate use of lethal force in policing is associated with regional racial biases of residents. In: Social Psychological and Personality Science. Contact: Dr. Jimmy Calanchini Department of Psychology University of Freiburg E-Mail: jimmy.calanchini@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de

 

The Confederation of European Probation (CEP) and Europris will organise a 1,5 day workshop on the 6th and 7th of December the theme of the workshop is Mental Health issues in Prison and Probation. The workshop is kindly hosted by the Irish Probation Service in Dublin.

Save the date! The International RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WEEK (#RJWeek) will take place all over Europe and beyond in the week between 19-26 November 2017.

The Crime Report

By Nancy Bilyeau | August 17, 2017

Children are more deeply affected by crime, both directly and indirectly, than previously realized, a sobering new research paper from University of Pennsylvania Law School has found.

And while most states provide services for children affected by crime, a world-class bureaucratic labyrinth makes it extremely difficult for anyone, particularly parents who are not highly educated, to access these programs.

Yet not providing counseling and other help for these children is a step almost certain to cause more lasting damage both to the helpless minors and to society in the long term.

The study, conducted by Michal Gilad, looked at five categories of impact across 50 states: children’s direct victimization by crime, witnessing crime in the family, witnessing crime in the community, parents being hurt by crime, and parents being incarcerated. While no one thinks that a crime committed against a child won’t cause psychological harm, the report found that even indirect exposure, such as witnessing violence in the community, damages children because of the plasticity of their developing brains and lack of emotional maturity.

“The documented harm ranges from physical and mental health problems to increased risk for learning disabilities, behavioral problems, repeat victimization, juvenile delinquency, adult criminality, and substance abuse,” writes Gilad.

Moreover, the problem is much more widespread than most people may think. The study found that “nearly half of the minor children living in the United States today” have been victimized or exposed to crime in their home or community each year.

And yet, “even when identified, only a minuscule minority ever receive services or treatment to facilitate recovery.” While Gilad was surprised and heartened to discover through a newly designed survey that in the majority of the 50 states, services are in place to help children in four of the five crime-impact categories (the exception being children of incarcerated parents), an extremely challenging bureaucratic labyrinth exists.

Even in conducting the survey for her report, Gilad found that contact information for agencies serving children was hard to come by; phone numbers and emails were withheld reportedly for security reasons and “phone contact frequently proved to be futile, as the caller seeking information is transferred from one person to another until reaching a dead end, usually a voice mail filled to capacity.”

In a disturbingly large number of cases, once Gilad was able to communicate with an agency worker, there was lack of awareness of statutorily mandated victim-assistance funds for necessary services. Lack of coordination, and stakeholders not speaking the same language, was apparent.

This report poses the chilling scenario: “Imagine a child in desperate need for assistance to overcome trauma in this environment. The child must depend almost solely on a lay parent with no professional skills, and often with only minimal education and resources, to go through the daunting journey through the thorny terrain of the system.”

The difficulty in finding out how to help children victimized by crime raises the possibility that “these persistent and reoccurring system design flaws and administrative roadblocks are not entirely coincidental,” and are saving states money in the short term, the report says.

“Unfortunately, an evidence-based examination of the problem indicates that such short-term savings are likely to result in epic long-term costs borne by tax payers and society,” Gilad writes.

2nd Edition

Edited by Nick Tilley, Aiden Sidebottom

© 2017 – Routledge

This second edition of the Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays focusing on the theory and practice of crime prevention and the creation of safer communities. This book is divided into five comprehensive parts:

• Part I, brand new to this edition, is concerned with theoretical perspectives on crime prevention and community safety.

• Part II considers general approaches to preventing crime, including a new chapter on the theory and practice of deterrence.

• Part III focuses on specific crime prevention strategies, including a new chapter on regulation for crime prevention.

• Part IV focuses on the prevention of specific categories of crime and the fear they generate, including new chapters on organised crime and cybercrime.

• Part V considers the preventative process: the methods through which presenting problems can be analysed, responses formulated and implemented, and their effectiveness evaluated. Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from the UK, US, Australia and the Netherlands, this volume will be an invaluable reference for researchers and practitioners whose work relates to crime prevention and community safety, as well as for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in crime prevention.

"The first edition of this Handbook was a key book for this field in 2005. This new edition is much more than just an updating. It brings a welcome increased focus on the key theories. It adds new research in the field together with key new topics such as cybercrime. The author list continues to be a list of all the key thinkers and researchers in the field of crime prevention and community safety." Peter Neyroud CBE QPM, Lecturer in Evidence-based Policing, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK

Statement by First Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Jourová on the Europe-Wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes  

European Commission - Statement

Brussels, 23 August 2017

Today, 23 August, we mark the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. We remember the victims of these regimes and we restate our rejection of the ideologies they were built on.

On 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which marked the beginning of one of the darkest periods in the recent history of our continent. Totalitarian regimes across Europe restricted people's freedoms; violated their rights and made millions of ordinary citizens victims of their ideology.

We must remember past horrors to give us the knowledge and strength to reject those who seek to revive these ideologies. The European Union was built on the common values of human dignity, fundamental rights, rule of law and democracy, and on the rejection of extreme nationalism. We must never take these rights and freedoms for granted. We pledge to fight for them every day.

Extremism, nationalism, xenophobia and hatred can still be heard in public speech in Europe. Keeping these memories alive is not only a tribute to the victims but also a way to ensure that these ideologies can be forcefully rejected and such atrocities never happen again.

We stand firm in our defence of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, in Europe and worldwide. There is no place in the European Union for extremism, intolerance and oppression.

Background

The signature of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939 led to the deportation, torture and murder of tens of millions of people under totalitarian regimes. While the end of World War II marked the defeat of the Nazi regime, many Europeans continued for decades to suffer under totalitarian regimes.

Tallinn, Estonia

13 Dec 2017 to 15 Dec 2017

Estonia holds the Presidency of the Council of European Union (EU) from July to December 2017 and the Estonian Ministries of Justice and Interior chair the Board of the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) over this period. ECPA has been since the start of the EUCPN one of the essential events of the Network and in 2017 reaches the important milestone of the 20th anniversary. The best three projects from all of the projects nominated to the ECPA will be chosen by the jury and awarded in total with 20 000 euros. All the participants of the ECPA will have chance to present their project during the BPC. Overall, a thematic toolbox will be drawn up and published by the EUCPN Secretariat. The ECPA/ BPC events will be held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia •the opening public lecture (afternoon of 13.12.2017), •the 2-day best practice conference (14.-15.12.2017) and •the ECPA 2017 awards and 20th anniversary ceremony (evening of 14.12.2017). Focus on the 'Cyber Safety' The theme for the 2017 conference and call for projects is 'Cyber Safety'. Cybercrime is a real and growing threat that impacts the EU´s internal security as digitalising society unavoidably becomes more vulnerable to new cyber threats. The Estonian Presidency is committed to make the fight against cybercrime even more effective as foreseen in the renewed Internal Security Strategy and in the EU Policy Cycle for both the 2014-2017 period and the 2018-2021 period. The Estonian Presidency will continue these discussions on strengthening the EU´s response to cyber threats in Council preparatory bodies. Related to this, the literacy of the people and communities of the EU must be better in order to respond to malicious cyber activities. Overall one of the the priorities of the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU is A digital Europe and the free movement of data. Under the EUCPN, the Presidency will focus on the reduction and prevention of cybercrimes in the communities as a priority. This means, that projects submitted to the ECPA 2017 should be in line with EU Policy Cycle priorities to combat cybercrimes committed by organized crime groups and generating large criminal profits and related to the EU crime priority ‘Cyberrime (card fraud)’ or EU crime priority ‘Cyber Attacks’. For example, the projects could raise issues around cyber hygiene such as combating organised forms of cybercrimes and raising awareness, including threats caused by the use of internet and smart devices. Hereby the Estonian Presidency invites the member states to share their experiences on reduction and prevention of cybercrime. The projects for ECPA 2017 should be submitted in English to the EUCPN Secretariat (eucpn@ibz.eu), through the national representative to the EUCPN. The deadline to submit the projects is 6th October 2017. Opening public lecture Keynote speech will be delivered by professor Alisdair Gillespie (Lancaster University) in a separate event on the afternoon of 13 December in the form of a public lecture to all the interested counterparts, incl. all the international/national guests attending the conference, students from different universities in Tallinn and also specialists and practitioners working on the field in Estonia and also in EU. Best Practice Conference (BPC) First day of the conference is dedicated to the overview of the best practice projects from Europe, which are nominated to the ECPA (usually around 19-23 projects implemented usually either by public sector, private sector, academia or NGOs). In the evening of the first conference day, the ECPA 2017 winners will be made public and the 20th anniversary of ECPA will be celebrated. Second day of the conference consist of summary conclusions from the first day and a panel discussion which will be moderated by one of the Estonian Police web constables. The panelists will share their experiences and views on the theme of ‘Cyber Safety’. The representatives from EU institutions (Europol, ENISA), social media (Facebook) and Estonian authorities (Police and Border Guard Board and Information System Authority) will take part of the panel. Documents regarding the Call for projects •Presidency letter - Call for projects, ECPA 2017 •Annex I: Template applicable to the ECPA projects •Annex II: Evaluation form •Annex III: Rules and procedures for awarding and presenting the European Crime Prevention Award •Annex IV: Guidelines for presenters

For more information, please contact the EUCPN Secretariat eucpn@ibz.eu.

Only 3 weeks until the City Health Conference in Basel! There is still time to register to participate. The programme for the conference can be viewed here. All confirmed speakers and their bios can be found here.

Hosted by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ)

A growing number of communities are working to ensure that young people do not experience homelessness as a result of involvement with the justice system, and that they do not come into contact with the system because they are experiencing homelessness. On any given night, nearly 1.3 million young people are experiencing homelessness. Many of these youth will also come into contact with law enforcement, be arrested, or be incarcerated. Join presenters from CJJ, the Juvenile Law Center, and The Council of State Governments Justice Center to learn how Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota are working to combat this cycle, and learn about the Principles for Change, a series of policy recommendations that communities and states can adopt to help address these intersections.

Date: Thursday, September 21 Time: 2:00–3:30 p.m. ET

The International Community Corrections Association will host its 25th annual conference, which will bring together an estimated 200–300 participants that include researchers, policymakers, criminal justice practitioners, and the formerly justice involved to recall the achievements of the past and to introduce exciting innovations for the future. This year’s theme is integrating public health and criminal justice reform. Topics will include community-oriented approaches to opioid use disorders, overcoming obstacles to securing employment and housing post-incarceration, and implementing holistic jail reintegration programs.

Date: October 29–November 1 Location: Seattle, WA

An international study on the challenges faced by frontline practitioners

The objective of this study, funded by Public Safety Canada, is to identify the main challenges faced by frontline practitioners in preventing radicalization in order to gather specific and practical information regarding the implementation of programmes and initiatives, especially the ones linked to challenges, difficulties, as well as intervention management approaches. To do so, the study was carried out in two phases.

During the first one, exploratory interviews were held with 27 experts and specialists from 14 countries. Through this phase, we were able to obtain recommendations in selecting which frontline practitioners to target as well as countries and cities implementing interesting interventions for the prevention of radicalization. We were also given the contact information of some practitioners.

Subsequently, the second phase of the study consisted in interviewing frontline actors, such as social workers, educators, etc. who are involved in the prevention of radicalization. A total of 63 practitioners from 23 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania were interviewed.

The Report for this study thus presents the main intervention dimensions in preventing radicalization as well as challenges faced by frontline practitioners, while also sharing their recommendations when it comes to intervening to prevent radicalization.

The Report is available in French and an English translation will follow soon.

GOV UK

From:Ministry of Justice

Published:30 June 2017

The programme is intended to reduce sexual reoffending among participants by identifying and addressing known criminogenic needs.

Submitted by Ally at ISSUP on 21 August 2017

Published by: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Publication Date 21 August 2017

Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work.

It looks to promote sport and physical activity as the means by which to help youth avoid violence, crime and drug use. The skills training programme provided should ideally be implemented alongside wider community-based initiatives that focus on the development of young people more generally.

The Manual has been developed to assist:

•Coaches

•Trainers

•Youth workers

•Other professionals working with young people to deliver sports-based activities for males and females aged between 3 and 18. It includes ten sessions designed to be run in sports centres, schools (as curricular and/or extra-curricular programmes), and other community settings. Each requires at least one coach/trainer, while co-facilitators are desired.