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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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1 results foundAuthor: European Forum for Urban Safety Title: Innovative Strategies for the Prevention of Re-offending: Practices and recommendations for local players Summary: The repetition of offences feeds European crime statistics in large part. The overall rise in prison populations is constant. Studies reveal that a limited number of persons commit three-fourths of offences in certain categories. Regardless of the organisation of criminal justice systems, re-offending rates range between 50% and 70% across Europe , and the human and economic costs resulting from this crime are increasing in all the member-states of the European Union. This is why the necessity of implementing strategies for the prevention of re-offending is recognised as a priority by international and European institutions. The Recommendations of the Council of Ministers to the member states concerning new methods of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of juvenile justice emphasise the leads to follow in this matter: ‘The principal objectives of juvenile justice and the associated measures aimed at juvenile delinquency should be the following: preventing the first offence and re-offending; (re)socialising and (re)integrating the delinquents…’. The objectives of the comprehensive strategies of the European Union in the areas of employment, the fight against discriminations and social inclusion, put the accent on a way of thinking that focuses on the importance of the social and economic re-integration of those being released from prison or young multiple-offenders. Along the same lines, the Council of Europe, in the framework of its integrated programme ‘Responses to daily violence’ , has identified twelve principles of action. It is indicated that an ‘integrated national policy aiming at reducing daily violence should include, in particular, prevention centred on offenders: eventually, re-adaptation and reintegration of offenders in society and the prevention of re-offending should be considered objectives worthy of a comprehensive prevention policy.’ Since the European Urban Charter, proclaimed in 1992 and setting forth in its articles devoted to urban security and crime prevention that ‘the prevention of re-offending and creation of alternative solutions to incarceration constitute essential objectives’, the European Union has made the prevention of re-offending one of its overall strategic objectives. The European penitentiary rules, adopted since 2006, are an example of the evolution of the attention of the European Union on this topic. Details: Paris: The Forum, 2009. 72p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed october 26, 2016 at: http://www.stop-reoffending.org/fileadmin/recidive/Activities/PDF/Initiative__VA_.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Europe URL: http://www.stop-reoffending.org/fileadmin/recidive/Activities/PDF/Initiative__VA_.pdf Shelf Number: 140840 Keywords: Offender RehabilitationRe-offendersRecidivism |