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Public Safety Canada’s National Office for Victims (NOV) provides information and referrals to victims of crime where the offender has been convicted and received a federal sentence of two years or more. The office is always seeking new ways of reaching communities in order to:

• inform them of their rights under the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights Act; and
• share information regarding federal corrections and conditional release.

An important part of their mandate is to write, publish and distribute information products to help victims understand and navigate the federal corrections and conditional release system in Canada. In 2022, NOV released the Victims of Crime: Staying Informed book in Atikamekw. This booklet is also available in 20 other languages, including:

English ● French ● Denesuline ● Innu ● Inuktitut ● Mi’kmaq ● Ojibway ● Oji-Cree ● Plain Cree ● Arabic Cantonese ● Italian ● Spanish ● Korean ● Mandarin ● Farsi ● Tagalog ● Urdu ● Punjabi ● Russian

In 2021, the office also released a booklet online entitled “Sentence Calculation – An Explanation of the Basics of Sentence Calculation with Examples” with five Fact Sheets that explain the basic sentence calculation rules for federal offenders.

Other publications available online and in hard copy, free of change, include:

●  An Information Guide to Assist Victims

●  Helping Victims Prepare for the Release of a Federal Offender

●  Overview of Federal Corrections and Criminal Justice – Victim-Centred Information and Assistance

To order free hardcopies of any of these publications, please complete this publication form.

....a crucial workshop in collaboration with the EuroPris and kindly hosted by the Federal Ministry of Justice of Austria, as we address one of the most significant issues facing European prison systems today—Foreign National Offenders (FNOs).

As migration and global political shifts continue to impact Europe, the number and proportion of FNOs in prisons are rising, bringing unique challenges to prison and probation services. That being said, an FNO in one country is a citizen imprisoned abroad in another.

This dual perspective is central to the work of EuroPris and CEP’ Foreign Nationals in Prison and Probation (FNPP) Expert Group.

This workshop from 29-30 October 2024, will bring together professionals from across Europe, including those in prison, probation, and NGOs, to engage in presentations, discussions, and knowledge-sharing on this increasingly important area of criminal justice policy.

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Link to: National review of child sexual abuse and sexual assault legislation in Australia

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released new research that reviews statutory offences for sexual violence and abuse in Australia. The comprehensive review shows:

• Consent provisions across all Australian jurisdictions incorporate a communicative model of consent, although there is greater variation in how and to what extent consent provisions incorporate an affirmative model of consent.
• There is significant overall consistency across Australian jurisdictions in provisions for contact sexual offences, image-based sexual offences and child sexual abuse material offences, but less consistency in provisions criminalising conduct to enable unlawful sexual conduct, unlawful sexual conduct against specific groups, and unlawful sexual conduct under particular circumstances.

Consultations with stakeholders and victims and survivors suggest ongoing gaps and inconsistencies in legislation regarding offences for persistent sexual abuse of a child, failing to report and protect children from sexual abuse, and non-consensual tampering with or removal of contraception, or ‘stealthing’.

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