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Criminal Justice summer course on responses to sexual violence
July 5, 2022 - July 8, 2022
“The International Criminal Justice Summer Course dedicated to ‘Responses to Sexual Violence’ is a unique international opportunity to meet professionals, from other countries, from different disciplines, from a range of backgrounds to share and to learn from people doing the same work.
- Ethics in management and treatment of individuals sentenced for a sexual offense
- Better understanding of sexual abuse to create effective policy and practice
- Restorative justice responses to sexual violence: how to enable safe and sensitive practice
The focus will be upon practice: what works – new ideas – restorative methods – preventing reoffending – research – workshops – practice visits – sharing experience. The aim is that participants bring their expertise and, through engaging with the courses, are better equipped and informed about current approaches and effective interventions. The event will be demanding, but rewarding, for the individual practitioner and the organisations they represent.
In this course, each organisation member of CJPE will address this topic from a different but complementary angle:
- The European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris) will focus on ethics in management and treatment of individuals sentenced for a sexual offense;
- The Confederation of European Probation (CEP) will explore the better understanding of sexual abuse to create effective policy and practice;
- The European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) will look how to include victims and use restorative justice approaches to respond to sexual violence.
This ‘Summer Course’ consists of plenary sessions, three parallel workshops, four seminars and five study visits. By sharing ideas and considering the very latest research and programmes, participants will be stimulated to engage with the debate on how to respond to sexual violence.
Methods will include training, presentations, discussions among the participants as well as study visits.
The aim is to examine key practice issues, inspire new thinking, promote cross-fertilization and build new networks to improve services and practice in prisons, probation and restorative justice.
The variety of the group, coming from different European realities, will provide further opportunities to learn and engage in criminal justice issues.”
