by Libra | Jun 28, 2015 |
ALTERNATIVES TO IMPRISONMENT IDENTIFICATION AND EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES Description Since 1970s, the alternative measures have spread inside the Member States albeit in a non-homogeneous way. European Recommendations and national legislation press for their wider application, also considering the high level of recidivism linked to the expiation of prison sentences. So, it is important develop researches that are able to provide a panoramic about the alternative measures existent in the different European Country (Bulgaria, Croatia, The Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom) with a reference also to a particular vulnerable groups (i.e. women, minor, drug addicted, etc.), as well as of the most efficient in the reduction of the recidivism and of by the point of view of the balance costs-benefits. Objectives • Identification and exchange of good practices in the EU State Partners; • Diffusion of a culture oriented to the alternative measures and to the knowledge about the mechanisms of application between social and juridical operators. Deliverables Final Conference Pamphlet Alternatives Brochure Alternatives Sportello Vo.La Methodology (actions of the project) Literature review about the alternative measures in Europe; Identification of appropriate alternative measures existent in the Member States referred to the different phases of the penal process, focalised on the working mechanisms and on the reality of the alternative measures; Study-visits aimed to increase the aspects linked to the prison systems of the different US Country involved; Data collection and analyses about prison population andpersons serving their sentences in community sanction; Identification of good practices, with particular regard to the recidivism rate and to the balance cost-benefit of the measures analysed (compared with that linked to detention); Publication of Guide-manual explaining the most...
by Libra | Jun 27, 2015 |
INNES|INTIMATE NEIGHBOURHOOD STRENGTHENING Description The problems affecting safety arise in different ways. One of them is undoubtedly the preservation of security within residential areas: in big cities, in provincial ones and in neighbourhoods. Ensuring the expectation of “security” it is not simple precisely because of its aspects and segmentations which this term includes: criminal, social, work related, political, etc. In any case there is the opportunity to achieve a concept that identify itself with a precise goal, that is the need for the citizen to lead a regular life: a security intended as preservation of standard quality of life. The expectation of security of the average citizen is that which the places where he/she lives are not unsettled by events that modify his/her properties and in particular his/her routine. Objectives The approach with which INNES INNES (Intimate Neighborhood Strengthening) intends to face caused by the feeling of insecurity among citizens of the two cities part of the project (Mantova and Pegognaga) is essentially based on the strengthening of neighbourhood relationships. This method focuses on the concept of solidarity, social cohesion the increase of the social capital in residential areas through the creation and/or strengthening of the social connections among communities and institutions. We believe that this approach has developments not exclusively linked to the concept of normative security and so criminological, but also it is able to produce significant influence on the community that will decide to adopt it. Targets Citizens of Mantua and Pegognaga Working Group Leaders Fondazione Politecnico di Milano FDE| Istituto di Criminologia di Mantova In association with Politecnico di Milano Comune di Mantova...
by Libra | Jun 21, 2015 |
RiparAzioni TRAININGS OF REPARATIVE IN MANTUA Description Association LIBRA Onlus, always careful about the dynamics of mediation and of the pacific management of the conflict, obtained the financing of the project RiparAzioni under the Public Note of the commitment of projects that had the object some interventions in favour of people subjected to measures of judicial authority and their families (promoted by Regione Lombardia with DGR n°4333 of 26 October 2012 e d.d.g. n° 222 of the 18 January 2013) . The initiative is part of a positive trend that identifies always more spaces to the standard of the reparative justice, understood as a new way to walk through in the field of the probation: restorative justice represents certainly a new provocation for the experts that must take into account against all the peculiarity that define it. The instruments of the reparative justice reach, through the involvement of all the parts engaged by the crime, to recreate an equilibrium mined by the detrimental consequences of the crime itself. Some concepts of crucial importance, so come to light, as that of the will of the parties and that of the take of responsibility of the offender relating to the fact committed. Objectives The project “RiparAzioni” aims to diffuse not only the theoretical knowledge of the instruments of the restorative justice, but also to realise trainings that make offenders responsible thanks to reparative concrete actions. The initiative will be constantly evaluated and supervised taking in consideration the objective indicators suitable to reveal if – as we hope – the model can qualify itself as good practice and becoming a pilot...
by Libra | Jun 20, 2015 |
VIS|A NETWORK FOR SUPPORTING VICTIMS OF CRIME Description The general aim of the project is the support for victims of crime in the broad sense with the particular regard of specific vulnerable groups (women, children, senior and disabled). The project VIS Network has its operative basis in the Community rule (COM. N.274, DIR N.275 e ss.) and has its methodological basis of the experiences stabilised by the Centres of Support for Victims of Crime present on the northern European territory (in particular Victim Support England & Wales and Verenging Organisatie Slachtofferhulp). VIS Network will develop itself by awareness and implementation of local network of assistance to victims in provincial territories of Mantova, Pisa and Livorno.The attention is focalised on the rights of the victim, subject that in precise moments and for some conditions he/she lives a situation of major vulnerability and for so, he/she needs particular information, protection, support during the legal and psycho-social training. Objectives The different phases of the project are the following: the strengthening of the local network by actions of awareness on the theme, the joint training of operators of the institutions in charge and involved in the process of the assistance of the victim, the conclusion of protocols of agreements among associations and institutional partners of the territory to determine joint and common measures for the protection /support for the victims of crime in a broad sense, the drafting of the operative procedures planned for the management of the provincial Centre of Support for Victims of Crime. Methodology The coordination manages budgets and activities, coordinates the partnership, organises meetings between partners,...
by Libra | Jun 19, 2015 |
OUT OF VIOLENCE NETWORK OF SUPPORT FOR THE ESCAPE FROM VIOLENCE Description The violence against women is a serious and spread case also in the province mentioned. According to the data furnished by “Telefono Rosa” of Mantua, only in 2010, the women that asked for help were 112, 81%italians, 68% with children that were defenceless witnesses of the violence exercised against their mothers. The psychological abuse is increasing in this period in Mantua (78% in 2010). The physical abuse reach 51% while the economic one 24% and the sexual abuse 14%. In total, in the last three years, “Telefono Rosa” listened 360 women between 35 and 60 years. It is principally a domestic violence (<70%) and it manifests itself in different forms: physic, psychological, economical or sexual violence. The women that face this violence belong to all the social class, to all the age and it is very difficult for them to denounce the violence suffered because of: shame, that is because the humiliation suffered and the fear of another act of violence destroy autonomy and self-respect causing the fear of a social judge – because also nowadays there is a cultural legitimacy to the violence against women, especially the domestic one that remain characterised by silence and fallacy, that do not help women to answer -for them and for their children, often younger – to these serious situations. This new dynamic is particularly true for the territory described above – province of Mantua – where the Azienda Ospedaliera Carlo Poma work, because it is possible that – in small municipalities – the victim, the aggressor and...