CPVP Partners

Partners of the Project: Training of Social Services Providers in the Area of Crime Prevention and Social Inclusion of Youth

The Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention (ICSP) was established as an expert body for the former General Attorney Office and the Ministries of Justice and Interior in 1960. Shortly afterwards, it became a research institute of the General Attorney Office called the Research Institute of Criminology. The present name was adopted in 1990. The name of the Institute stresses prevention as an effective criminal control tool and at the same time emphasises a relationship between criminology as a theoretical and empirical discipline, crime prevention and criminal policy. In 1994, ICSP passed under the authority of the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic. The activities of ICSP are financed from the state budget. Some research work has been co-financed by grants and by sources from abroad. The research programme is authorised by the Ministry of Justice. The main research activity of the ICSP can be specified as criminological research in the field of social sciences which focuses on creating, maintaining and updating a pool of information on the state and development of crime, social pathology and penal policies in the Czech Republic, on the mediation of recent relevant empirical and theoretical knowledge from abroad, and on the development of criminology.

ICSP cooperates with other international, non-governmental professional institutions:

• International Society of Criminology (ISC)
• International Society for Criminal Law (AIDP)
• Permanent European Conference on Probation and Aftercare (CEP)
• European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI)
• Penal Reform International (PRI)
• United Nations International Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
• International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of UN (ISPAC)

Prof. Tim Hope, Professor of Criminology, Keele University, UK

Professor Tim Hope teaches BA and MA courses on crime and social policy in the Department of Criminology, Keele University, UK. Prof. Hope gained his PhD. in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics, University of London in 1989. Before moving to Keele, he served as a senior research fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Manchester and as Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fellow in the Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. Prior to his academic career, Prof. Hope worked with the Research and Planning Unit of the Home Office, London. From 1993 to 1998, he served as co-coordinator and later director of the Crime and Social Order Research Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council. Prof. Hope is a member of a number of advisory groups and steering committees working on the issues of crime and crime control in UK. He is an author and co-author of numerous articles, and an editor of books and academic journals. His research focuses on crime control policies, research methods and evaluation, community crime prevention, sociological theory and crime, sustainability of crime prevention, crime reduction and community safety.

Our cooperating foreign experts:

Nacro, UK

Nacro's current work includes:
• Supporting bail projects across England and Wales to ensure that young people can be safely remanded in the community instead of in prison wherever possible
• Researching the use of custodial sentences across the country to identify geographical variations in order to promote consistent good practice
• Producing briefing packs for magistrates about youth offending teams
• Providing support and consultancy services to drugs, alcohol and cognitive behaviour schemes across the country
• Working in partnership with youth offending teams across Inner London to promote good practice, develop policy and ensure consistency

For over twenty years, Nacro has been running projects aimed at providing disengaged young people with the opportunity to learn new skills.
www.nacro.org.uk

Jugendhilfe Göttingen e.V., Germany

Organisation is working with young delinquents inside and outside juvenile prison. They are also engaged in the work with truancy, one of their ongoing project is social work around hot spots on public spaces. Organisation takes part in the ongoing EU sponsored project “Innovative strategies to avoid re-offending” with partners coming from France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Czech Republic and Germany.

http://www.jugendhilfe-goettingen.de

Remet, Hungary

The organization deals with the role of police in crime prevention for children and adolescents. It also publishes manuals for teachers working with children at risk of social exclusion.

Remet intends to bring crime prevention interests of the whole society as well as that of specific communities to success, and has a democratic system of self-government. Its aims, including crime prevention, law and order and public safety.

REMET´s current work includes:

• carrying on scientific research and surveys into crime to reveal causes, providing recommendations and specific publications, organising and holding professional trainings and prevention programs;

• supporting police and local government crime prevention activities, providing counselling in setting up priorities;

• finding out about trend, gathering international experience and best practice examples, carrying on co-operation with similar organisations inland and abroad;

• providing assistance to and support for law enforcement and local government authorities as well as NGOs with the same, i.e. crime prevention, profile in setting up national and international projects or tenders for competition;

• regularly informing other professional organisations and the whole society about its achievements.