Research line 8: Criminological Assessment and Behavioural Interventions

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• Research line 8: Criminological Assessment and Behavioural Interventions

Research topics and projects research line 8

1. Assessment

2. Behaviour change

• Desistance from crime: cognitive processes at work in spontaneous adult desistance, with special attention to the effects of restorative justice principles
• Care for mentally retarded delinquents under the social defence act in prisons
• The experience of community service by the convicted person
• Sentencing and judicial decision making from a restorative justice perspective: the perception of justice in court trials
• Mediation and community oriented measures in cases of hate crime and discrimination
• Research into the effects of partnership cooperation in cases of domestic violence (CO3 project Antwerp)
• Development and implementation of a sustainable advocacy and training programme for dealing with sexual abusive behaviour (SAB) in residential institutions for young people in 6 European countries. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, IPPF EN, The Daphne Initiative of the European Commission
• Women victims of stalking and helping professions: Recognition and models of intervention. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, IPPF EN, The Daphne Initiative of the European Commission
• A stalking course for professional working with women victims of stalking. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, IPPF EN, The Daphne Initiative of the European Commission

3. Explanatory models for crime and intervention

• Stalking: Risk factors for violence.
• Preference disconfirmation and conflict in the relationship: in search of an explanation for intimate partner violence

4. Institutional and societal context

• Punishment and Sentencing in a Constitutional Democracy
• A new European penology? Constructing and safeguarding a European penal identity in a time of change
• External evaluation of the Strategic Plan on social help and services to inmates