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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:.

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  1. Developing the Use of Technical Tools for Cross-Border Resettlement (DUTT)Touch-screens in cross-border resettlementFinal Conference, 24 & 25 January 2013.

  2. 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.

  3. Elements: • Desk research; • Study visits; • Interviews with criminal justice and policy practitioners; • Latvia; • Netherlands; • UK.

  4. 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.

  5. Research Issues: Can touch-screens be a useful way to deliver resettlement information to offenders; • Information needs; • Information delivery; • UK, the Netherlands and Latvia

  6. 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.

  7. Member State Studies: • the Netherlands; • Latvia; • the UK.

  8. Added benefit: • Planning; • Funding; • Multi-lingual aspect.

  9. 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.

  10. Information Delivery: • Pooling of information for the use of those being transferred; • For executing state to give information for their own nationals; • Central collation.

  11. Conclusion • Delivery method; • Holistic solution – administration and empowerment; • Member State priorities.

  12. Emma Di Iorio, London Probation Trust emma.diiorio@london.probation.gsi.gov.uk

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