Final STARR Conference

The final STARR conference 'What Works in Reducing Re-offending?" was held from Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th June 2011 at the Kempinski Hotel Zografski, Sofia, Bulgaria. The STARR Final conference aimed to provide findings on a systematic review and questionnaire survey conducted by the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, and present and disseminate the findings of the six pilots programmes in project countries with specific focuses on Youth offending (16 - 25), Drugs and Alcohol abuse and Domestic Violence. In addition, the conference presented an overview of our current understanding of 'What Works' in reducing reoffending and it increased awareness of the importance of evalutive practice in order to know 'What Works' in reducing re-offending.  

Below you find an overview of the presentations and relevant documents of the first STARR conference


Conference based documents:
 

• Programme of the conference
• Conference report (also available in Bulgarian / Български, French / français and Hungarian / magyar)
• Photos of the expert meeting (not yet available)

Plenary sessions - presentations

• Introduction to the STARR project (by Graig Georgiou)
• (presentation by Friedrich Lösel not yet available)
• European Evidence on Reducing Reoffending: Juvenile Crime, Substance Abuse, and Domestic Violence (by Johann Koehler)
• (presentation by Ludovic Fossey & David Gorecki not yet available)
• Transfer and implementation of drug/ alcohol interventions in Bulgaria (by Andrey Momchilov)
• 'STARR' ART Pilot in Hungary: Overview and Evaluation (by Zoltan Bogschutz & Natalie Woodier)
• Serious Group Offending (by Delphine Duff)
• Restorative Justice - an intervention with hate crime offenders and serious group violence? (by Liz Dixon)
• Current Practise in Reducing Reoffending: An EU-Wide Survey of Reoffending Programmes (by Leah Hamilton)
• Is there a role for the prison in desistance? Personal development, human flourishing and the unequal pains of imprisonment (by Alison Liebling)
• New Directions in Rehabilitation - Recent developments in theory, research and practice within criminal justice settings (by Fergus McNeill)
• Risk, need and interventions - Social rehabilitation programmes in the Estonian Penitentiary and Probation Services (by Marin Kulper)
• Probation skills and characteristics. A critical analysis (by Ioan Durnescu)
• STARR Project - Final Conference Reflections (by Steve Pitts)

Workshops - presentations

1. Alternative approaches to working with Substance Misuse
  •  Basta social enterprise and personal experience of desistance from drug use (by Namu Nambiar)(not yet available)
  •  Desistance and drug using offenders (by Charlotte Colman)

2. Reducing Domestic Violence related offending
  •  Domestic Violence Services in Malta (by Maryanne Gauci)
  •  Domestic Violence in Greece (by Fonteini Milioni)

3. Perspectives in working with Young Offenders
  •  New Perspectives on Return" - Cognitive behavioural programme for young offenders released from prison (by Bas Vogelvang)
  •  Street Gang Related Violence (by Delphine Duff)(not yet available)

A. Assesment
  •  Development of Risk Assessment in Croatia - Hurdle Racing (by Neven Ricijas)
  •  RisCanvi: Risk assessment in Catalonian Prisons (by Carlos Soler i Iglesias)(not yet available)

B. Evaluation
  •  Discussion Group: Working towards evaluative practice across the EU (by Leah Hamilton)(not yet available)

C. Desistance
  •  Judge's perception on the activity of Bucharest Probation Service (by Gabriel Oancea)
  •  Tracking progress after Probation (by Adam Calverley)