developing the use of technical tools for cross-border resettlement (dutt) touch-screens in...
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Developing the Use of Technical Tools for Cross-Border Resettlement (DUTT)
Touch-screens in cross-border resettlement
Final Conference, 24 & 25 January 2013.
Context:
• Feasibility desk research on the potential for multi-lingual touch-screen facilities (‘TSF’) as an additional aid to transfer;
• Offenders and criminal justice practitioners;• Local, national and European resettlement and
custodial information;• Identify the benefits to such as system as well as the
difficulties;• Dissemination.
Elements:
• Desk research;• Study visits;• Interviews with criminal justice and policy
practitioners;• Latvia;• Netherlands;• UK.
Current Situation:• Transfer of Custodial Sentences: Framework
Decision 2008/909/JHA;
• Transfer of Alternative Sanctions: Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA;
• e-Justice: ICT for rationalisation, simplification, effective administration; improved access to justice and assisting with transposition.
Research Issues:
Can touch-screens be a useful way to deliver resettlement information to offenders;
•Information needs; •Information delivery;•UK, the Netherlands and Latvia
Methods:
Member States currently use a mixture of the following;•Booklets and/or leaflets tailored to returnee’s country;•Electronic format information through touch-screens, computers and video-information screens;•Information given by word of mouth from criminal justice staff or other sentenced persons.
Member State Studies:
• the Netherlands;
• Latvia;
• the UK.
Added benefit:
• Planning;
• Funding;
• Multi-lingual aspect.
Usage:
• Ad hoc, bar a few Member States;
• Dependent on ‘champions’, using their budgets to pilot the use of innovative technical solutions;
• Budgetary issues;
• Policy priorities;
• Economies of scale.
Information Delivery:
• Pooling of information for the use of those being transferred;
• For executing state to give information for their own nationals;
• Central collation.
Conclusion
• Delivery method;
• Holistic solution – administration and empowerment;
• Member State priorities.
Emma Di Iorio, London Probation [email protected]