Completed European
Projects
Developing the Use of Technical Tools in Cross-Border
Resettlement (DUTT)
The DUTT project has now been successfully completed.
The project achieved all its stated outputs and is now in the
process of being officially closed.
You can find out more about some of the key learning around
video conferencing, touch screen facilities and other project
activities by accessing the following reports.
Click here to read the
DUTT Project Summary
DUTT Launch
Event Report March 2012
Partners: London Probation Trust, UK. National Offender
Management Service (NOMS), UK. CEP – European Organisation for
Probation, The Netherlands. Reclassering Nederland, The
Netherlands. State Probation Service, Latvia. Custodial
Institutions Agency, (CIA) The Netherlands
Project Outputs
include:
Evaluation report on
VCT
Feasibility desk-research on
TSF
Six study visits, throughout
the life of the project
Multi-agency transnational
launch event
Final multi-agency
transnational conference
Reducing Influences that Radicalise
Prisoners (RIRP)
December 2007 - December 2010
Partners: London Probation Trust (UK);
Secretaría General de Instituciones Penitenciarias (Spain);
NOMS (UK); Stockwell Green Community Services (UK); CEP – European
Organisation for Probation (the Netherlands); and Violence
Prevention Network (Germany).
This project sought to address the training and awareness needs
of criminal justice staff working with offenders convicted under
the Terrorist Act, both in prisons or released on licence in the
community as part of their sentence.
Following research into factors and influences in violent
radicalisation the project designed and piloted training for staff
based in the UK and Germany. The training was then evaluated in
order to assess effectiveness and learning. Project learn was
disseminated through conferences, publications and local seminars
in partner countries.
Project outputs included:
- 85 prisons and probation staff trained
- Evaluation report on training pilot
- Final project report to European
Commission.
Towards Preventing Violent Radicalisation
(TPVR)
July 2008 - January 2011
Partners: London Probation Trust (UK); NOMS (UK); Stockwell Green
Community Services (UK); London College of Business Management
& Information Technology (UK); Violence Prevention Network
(Germany); and the European Institute for Social Services (UK).
This project studied two methods of rehabilitation and
reintegration which have proven successful in working with violent
offenders from religious fundamentalist and right-wing political
extremist backgrounds. This first was conducted by the Violence
Prevention Network in Berlin, Germany which engages with violent
young prisoners. The second was a community based model in London,
UK engaging with offenders on licence. The research
identified best practice approaches, obstacles to success and
issues of transferability. Project learning was disseminated
through conferences, publications and local seminars in partner
countries.
Project outputs included:
- Intervention project
developed in London working with radicalised extremist
offenders
- Intervention project
developed in Berlin working with violent right wing and Muslim
offenders
- Production of research and
evaluation report on both intervention projects
- Final report to European
Commission.
Strengthening Trans-national Approaches to Reducing
Reoffending (STARR)
December 2008 - June 2011
Partners: London Probation Trust (UK); NOMS (UK); Justice service
of The Ministry of Public Administration and Justice Probation
(Hungary); Ministry of Justice (France); Ministry of Justice
(Bulgaria); IGA Crime Prevention Fund (Bulgaria); CEP - European
Organisation for Probation (the Netherlands); and the Institute of
Criminology, University of Cambridge (UK).
This project aimed to improve EU understanding
of what reduces re-offending with a focus on: young offenders
(16-25), domestic violence, and substance misuse. The project
incorporated an extensive piece of research led by the Institute of
Criminology, Cambridge into current interventions on the three key
areas across the EU. In addition pilots on the three themed
interventions were carried out in the UK, Bulgaria, Hungary and
France. In London the project sought to improve understanding
of serious group offending, management of TACT offenders and the
benefits of using restorative justice techniques with faith and
race motivated crime. Project learning was enhanced and
disseminated through themed seminars and international
conferences.
Project outputs included:
- Research and evaluation
report
- Three pilot programmes in
Hungary, Bulgaria and France
- Five national seminars in
partner countries
- Final report to European
Commission.
Running from October 2004 and completed in
September 2006, this project created a trans-national partnership
between London Probation, the Northern Ireland Association for the
Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NIACRO), Kent University
(European Institute of Social Services), From Darkness to Light in
Malta and the International Initiatives for Co-operation in
Bulgaria.
Project outputs were:
- Model/toolkit developed for
practitioners working with hate crime and racist offenders
- Comparative research
produced on the awareness and response to hate crime in partner
countries
- Trans-national conference held
in London 2006, opened by UK Attorney General, and launched the
Race for Justice Action Plan.
Running from September 2006 and completed in
March 2008, this project developed further the trans-national
partnerships in the first project and expanded these to include
Forum Multi-Cultural Institute in the Netherlands and Workwise
Netherlands.
Project outputs were:
- Publication of best practice
evaluation of London-wide Race Hate Crime forum (a transferable
model of good practice in city and state-wide management of
race hate crime)
- Trans-national conference held
at City Hall, London, supported by London Mayor, opened again by UK
Attorney General and covered by British Satellite Broadcasting
- Production of research on London
Probation staff’s ability and preparedness to engage with terrorist
offender cases.