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Innovative Strategies for the Prevention of Re-offending, Grundtvig project 2007-2009
Lifelong Learning Programme Grundtvig
Education for Adults
Project Summary Re-offending represents a large part of crime statistics in Europe. Studies show that a small number of people commit three quarters of all crimes in certain categories. Politicians are therefore trying to find prevention policies which will allow them to better target this group of people, to monitor them and to prevent them from re-offending.
This prevention policy needs more staff working at it, and more imagination in developing training courses which will help those in question find a job and integrate into society. It is within this aspect that the project “Innovative strategies to prevent re-offending” operates. It tries to emphasise the impact that the prevention polices may have on the strengthening of social cohesion within communities, with the common point being the focus on people and their relationship with society.
The first phase of the project will consist therefore in identifying these strategies and seeing how an effective partnership between the different people concerned by social cohesion can be put in place, with a partnership being the only method which guarantees a global and diverse approach. This will allow partners to meet and to exchange the best practices, which in turn will allow a collection of the most promising approaches to be established. On the basis of innovative practices, the partners will create recommendations aimed at the people involved locally and will form a pilot programme. This will consist of several aspects, for example:- meetings between victims and criminals, managed and organised by the cities’ mediatory services; - social prevention: effective measures launched to promote the reintegration of former criminals into society. The second phase of the project will allow this pilot programme to be launched in three cities, chosen from within the partnership, and supported during this stage by all of the project’s participants. Applying the recommendations from these three pilot cities on the ground will allow them to be fine-tuned and adjusted if necessary.
Partners: Project coordinator: European Forum for Urban Safety http://www.fesu.org/ Cities Partners Valencia (Spain) Göttingen (Germany) Le Havre (France) S.R.F. – Turin (Italie) Opava (Czech Republic) Brasov (Romania)
Roles of the partners and distribution of the activities Within this project, the EFUS, the cities of Göttingen and Valencia and the S.R.F. association in Turin in partnership with the city of Turin are going to:
Within this project, the cities of Brasov, Le Havre and Opava (the pilot cities) will:
Results
Agenda 2008
June: study visit to Valencia (Spain)
Methodology Click here to view the methodology of the project
Working Languages: French and English
Contact :
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Minutes of the seminar
Roxana Calfa