Expert Meeting Budapest

The first STARR expert meeting on "What Works with Young Offenders?" was held from 21^st-23^rd June 2010 at the European Youth Centre (Európai Ifjúsági Központ), Budapest, Hungary.

Below you find an overview of the presentations and relevant documents of the STARR expert meeting on juvenile offenders

Expert meeting based documents:

• Programme of the expert meeting
• Seminar report
• Photos of the expert meeting (when the new window opens, click on the words 'click here' under the file 'STARRBudapest' on the left of the screen to see the photos)
  

Plenary sessions - presentations:

• Overview of STARR Project (by Steve Pitts)
• STARR Research findings on Youth Offending (by Thomas Akoensi)
• Presentation on Roma mentor projects in the Czech Republic (by Dagmar Doubravova)
• Presentation on Roma mentor projects in Bulgaria (by Andrey Momchilov)
  
• Welcome and introduction speech (by Leo Tigges)
• The significance of the STARR project in Europe and Hungary - elements of the project, special focus on juvenile offenders (by Erzsébet Hatvani)
• European picture of juvenile offenders - research findings (by Thomas Akoensi)
• Trends and researches in Hungary in the field of juvenile offenders (by Klára Kerezsi)
• What Works - Youth programs in France (by Yasmine Degras)
• Youth Offending in the UK (by Robert Newman)
• Restorative Justice pilots and practice at the Office of Justice - Probation Service Hungary (by Edit Törzs and Edit Velez)
• The role of the private sector in the effective treatment of Juvenile Offenders (by Richard Stedman)

Workshops -  presentations: 

A. Youth risk assessment tools' main elements and its transfer

• Assessment with young offenders: the Asset tool (by Kerry Baker)
• Basic principles and steps with theacceptation of ASSET in Bulgaria (by Vladimir Valinov)

B. Innovative practices in working with young offenders

• Addressing Serious Group Offending (by Delphne Duff)
• London Probation use of STARR to develop new approaches with offenders (by Liz Dixon)

C. Aggression replacement training in the UK, Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia and Turkey - the process of transfer 

• ART in Turkey (by Burhan Alici)
• STARR pilot in Hungary: Juvenile Crime Interventions (by Zoltan Bogschütz)
• ART: the UK experience (by Simon Fraser)