Expert group
Gender-based Violence
According to the Council of Europe definition, Gender-based violence is violence directed against a person or group of people because of their factual or perceived sex, gender, sexual orientation and/or gender identity and that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately (mainly women and girls but it can affect also men and boys). Gender-based violence can be sexual, physical, verbal, psychological (emotional), or socio-economic and it can take many forms, from verbal violence and hate speech on the Internet, to rape or murder. It can be perpetrated by anyone: a current or former spouse/partner, a family member, a colleague from work, schoolmates, friends, an unknown person, or people who act on behalf of cultural, religious, state, or intra-state institutions. Although women and girls are the main victims of Gender-based Violence, it also causes severe harm to families and communities.
The group
Probation bodies and practitioners across Europe and worldwide together with other criminal justice professionals are among those on the frontline of preventing violence by supervising and providing specialized treatment and programmes, guidance, and assistance to offenders.
To support all aspects of rehabilitation and at the same time treatment process there is a need for cooperation among various actors and different European jurisdictions dealing with similar situations.
In the past years, we have seen an alarming rise in Gender-based violence offences, including domestic violence and sex offences. CEP established the Expert Group on Sex Offenders in 2012 and the Expert Group on Domestic Violence, together with EuroPris, in 2018. These two groups worked until 2023 when it was decided to merge these two groups under the Expert Group on Gender-based Violence in Probation.
The group has been working to achieve following objectives:
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Upcoming events
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15th CEP General Assembly and CEP International Conference on Gender-Based Violence
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