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Ladies and Gentlemen,
dear Colleagues!

Today I provide you with a message from the EuforumRJ with regard to important public and justice policy developments within the European Commission. You need not to be an active proponent of Restorative Justice ideas and practices. However:  If only you would like Restorative Justice to have its further proper  place in the European Union in the future, you might decide to join the petition.

Please find the details to this, and other pieces of information below, after my signature.

Best regards,
Hans-J. Kerner
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Hans-Juergen Kerner
Listserv Mananger, Criminology_CriminalJustice_News
Professor and Director, Institute of Criminology
University of Tuebingen
Sand 7, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Phone: +49-7071-297 29 31 // Fax: +49-7071-29 51 04
Email: [log in to unmask]
Email Secretariat: [log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://www.ifk.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/
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(1) Restorative Justice Petition to the European Commission
Deadline: October 15, 2010


LEUVEN, BELGIUM, September 2010

Dear supporters and friends of the European Forum for Restorative Justice,

Restorative Justice in Europe needs your help!

You will already be aware of the online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/EFRJ/) to solicit the European Commission and the European Parliament to give greater attention to the development and implementation of restorative justice policies and practices across Europe. We need more signatories to our petition and we have extended the deadline until 15 Ocotober 2010 to facilitate this.

A big THANKS to those of you who have already put your name on our petition and in order to get more signatories we suggest the following steps:

1. Send an invitation to prominent national or local people in your community to sign the petition
2. Give your service users in Europe a voice by inviting them to sign
3. Please invite your family, friends and work colleagues to sign the petition

Remember that ultimately this petition is about increasing access to the benefits of restorative justice for a greater number of victims and offenders across Europe. The advantage in signing the petition is that you are giving leverage to the Forum in its discussions with the European Commission and the European Parliament - this will also prove a support to you in your own work at local level and national levels.

Please let us know at the Secretariat ([log in to unmask]) if you have any questions about signing the petition or if you need more information.

Thanks for your help.

Niall Kearney,

Chair of the Board

 

European Forum for Restorative Justice
Hooverplein 10
3000 Leuven - Belgium
Tel.: 0032 16 32 54 29
Fax: 0032 16 32 54 74
Website: www.euforumrj.org

 
   
 
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(2) Research on the Consequences of Long-Term Social Exclusion

The Joseph Roundtree Foundation (UK) has been publishing a report by Colin Webster et al. on the dynamics of long-time social exclusion with regard to poverty, unemployment, social deviance, and crime.
It can be accesed under: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/change-and-continuity-young-adults-experiences-long-term-social-exclusion

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(3) News from the Statistical Office of the European Union

3.1. EUROBAROMETER May 2010 (preliminary report of August 2010) on e.g. public attitudes towards social problems ("concern about...."), including crime.
There is a report in english and french language, an annex volume in english and french, and so-called (national) fact sheets in som 25 languages available.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb73/eb73_en.htm

3.2.  Domestic Violence against Women: A special report under :
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_special_en.htm

3.3 Road Safety in Europe: A so-called Flash Report under:
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/flash_arch_en.htm

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(4) German Police Criminal Statistics 2008,
 as published in an Condensed English Version in 2010:
http://www.bka.de/pks/pks2008ev/pcs_2008.pdf

Contents
1. The developmental history of Germany's Police Crime Statistics 2
2. Contents and informational value of the Police Crime Statistics 6
3. Definitions 7
4. Rules for recording cases 12
5. Brief overview of crime trends 15
6. Cases that come to police notice 17
7. Case trends and clearing up of offenses or categories of offenses 20
8. Crime recorded for cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants 35
9. Victims 39
10. Recording of losses for individual offenses or for offense categories 41
11. Suspects 42
Annex: Charts