Sharing Rehabilitation Experiences of Offenders in EU Countries and developing applications Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sharing Rehabilitation Experiences of Offenders in EU Countries and developing applications

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Access for disadvantaged; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The legal arrangements made since 2012 in the criminal enforcement legislation in the Turkey, the scope and duty area of the probation services are continuously expanded due to two reasons. The first of these reasons is the excessive intensity of the prisons and the difficulty in responding to this intensity of the current capacity. The second is the idea of subjecting the provisions, which are also found in EU practices, to more humanitarian conditions and an execution concept based on rehabilitation.
However, Turkish probation services, which have only 10-year history, do not have sufficient accumulation and infrastructure in their rehabilitation efforts. Considering the distress experienced by the long-term prisoners in the prison and the tendency of them to commit crimes again due to these troubles, it is imperative that good practices should be integrated in terms of the probation services towards the offenders of in the country, both psychologically and socially.
The relationship between criminality and criminal person can be established through society. Prevention of recurrence of the crime is possible by removing the conditions. While the EU member states have struggled with this problem for a century, Turkey has been able to start this process for about ten years. Taking examples of applications from the countries that have entered into the process of developing models in advance will enable the country to cope with the problems it is experiencing more quickly. In order to transfer good practices and models, it will be possible for professionals to experience and examine these applications in situ.
This project, with the partnership of Ataturk University and Erzurum Probation Directorate, Maze Partnership Ltd from England and Mittelhessischer Bildungsverband eV., aims to prevent recidivism by eliminating the psycho-social inadequacies of the offenders released from the prisons within the scope of probation and thus protecting the society against the suicide.
Project meetings will be held in England, Germany and Turkey to realize the project purpose. Psycho-social works carried out for the employment of the offenders and the integration of the social life will be experienced on the site and the good practices will be exchanged between the countries in these activities where a total of 24 people, including practitioners, academicians, researchers and experts, will participate.
The methodology of the project is generally based on empirical data to create a model. This methodology is based on inductive reasoning. Interview and observation notes will be taken from the partners during the project activities will be the data of the model. The data obtained in practice will be modeled according to the experience and conditions of the country. In this way the inductive process will be completed.
At the end of these activities, a projectable model for the country will be developed from the knowledge and experience gained and project outputs. With this model through expansion activities, project purpose will be realized by presenting to the service of practitioners and policy makers at both local and national level.
Project activities and outputs will have a positive impact in the professional and personal development of the participants; increasing the service quality of organizations; on the solution of the psycho-social problems of the target mass and on social life integration. These positive impacts will have long-term benefits in the creation of a safer society structure and the EU area.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 33970 Eur

Project Coordinator

ATATURK UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Erzurum Denetimli Serbestlik Mudurlugu
• Maze Partnership Limited
• Mittelhessischer Bildungsverband e.V.