Priority Topics
Community Sanctions and Measures
Community sanctions and measures have a long history in Europe, spanning over a century. Community sanctions and measures are sanctions and measures which maintain suspects or offenders in the community and involve some restrictions on their liberty through the imposition of conditions and/ or obligations.
Research & policy
Council of Europe Conventions and Recommendations
Community sanctions and measures Research
Probation and Community Supervision: A 'Magic' Journey
Hylton, J. (2024) Probation and Community Supervision: A Magic Journey. Probation Quarterly, Edition 34: 12–16. Probation Institute. https://doi.org/10.54006/YHHD7441
Narratives of experts by experience: A journey from criminal to expert. Sage journal. (2023)
by Janika Lindström, Teemu Rantanen, and Timo Toikko. Abstract This study focuses on the narratives of participants of a long-term expert-by-experience training programme for people with a history of crime about their past, and how they use their life experience in their work as experts by experience. The research data was collected during interviews of respondents with a history of crime (N=19). The interviews were analysed using a narrative identity framework, and the data further examined in light of various studies focused on a desistance from crime.
The role of language in probation: A creative conversation. Probation Journal. (2023)
Phillips, J., & Bower, R. Abstract This discussion piece emerged out of a conversation about the words we use to describe people who are engaged in and by the criminal justice system. It is underpinned by our belief that language, including the ways we describe people, has important effects in the world. The piece consists of two parts: a brief critical introduction, and a creative dialogue which reflects upon ten key words that have been used to describe people on probation.
The penal narratives of community sentence and the role of probation (2020)
The case of the Wrocław model of community service. Anna Matczak, The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Community Sanctions and Measures (2015)
Carr, N. (2015). Community Sanctions and Measures. In D. Healy, C. Hamilton, Y. Daly, & M. Butler (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology Routledge. Queen’s University Belfast
Have Community Sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems (2015)
Marcelo F Aebi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Natalia Delgrande, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Yann Marguet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Paying Back: 30 Years of Unpaid Work by Offenders in Scotland (2015)
Gill McIvor, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research University of Stirling
Evaluation of Community Payback Orders, Criminal Justice Social Work Reports and the Presumption Against Short Sentences (2015)
Simon Anderson, Stephen Hinchliffe, Amy Homes, Susan McConville and Annie Wild (ScotCen Social Research), Neil Hutton (Strathclyde University), Simon Noble (Noble Openshaw Ltd)
Recording Community Sanctions and Measures and Assessing Attrition (2014)
A Methodological Study on Comparative Data in Europe Markku Heiskanen, Marcelo F. Aebi, Willem van der Brugge and Jörg-Martin Jehle (eds.) Helsinki
The Improbable Persistence of Probation and other Community Sanctions and Measures (2012)
Gwen Robinson, University of Sheffield Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow Shadd Maruna, Queen’s University Belfast
A tripartite strategy for unpaid work in the community (2023)
Dr. Eoin Guilfoyle and Dr. Louise Kennefick HM Inspectorate of Probation Academic Insights 2023/07
Projects
Discover the various projects CEP is involved in, both ongoing and completed.
Developing a Methodology to Collect Data on Community Sanctions and Measures and Attrition Rates in Europe (DECODEUR CSM)
Aim of the project: to design a common European statistical methodology for data on community sanctions and measures in a national context.
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