Building Community Corrections Capacity: Learning from International Experience

ICPA2023 Presentation by Steve Pitts and Leo Tigges (ICPA2023-PID210)

Authors

Stephen Pitts

Independent Consultant in Community-Based Justice, United Kingdom

Steve Pitts began his career as a Probation Officer in London before moving to management and national roles including the Probation Service’s work to develop evidence-based practice including through partnerships and in prisoner (re)integration. Following a period with the European Commission as an advisor on probation development, he led the England and Wales Prisons and Probation Service’s international research and justice assistance programmes, working with Governments and international bodies worldwide to support prisons and probation development. He now works independently and with governments, international organisations including UNODC and Council of Europe, and civil society organisations, supporting community-based justice reform and capacity building in most regions of the world.He has recently completed extensive research with Leo Tigges into good practices in building effective probation/community corrections provision. He contributes to several international initiatives and networks to promote just and effective alternatives to imprisonment, including the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA), the Probation and Parole World Congress Advisory Group, Penal Reform International (PRI), and Netherlands Helsinki Committee. He is an Ambassador for, and Honorary Member of, the Confederation of European Probation (CEP).

Leo Tigges

Independent, Netherlands

Leo Tigges has had a long career in the field of justice. He worked as a researcher, director and program manager in a range of positions (at central and decentralized levels) at the Dutch Ministry of Justice: probation, prisons, and child protection. His more recent positions were operational director of the Dutch Probation Service, and Secretary General of CEP (the Confederation of European Probation; he is a honorary member of this organisation). His last post as a civil servant was liaison officer of the Dutch Ministry of Justice to the Dutch Caribbean islands. He now works independently as a consultant in community-based justice, including capacity building in Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, as a member of the UK Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel, and as a researcher in the field of probation. He has a long and fruitful working relationship with Steve Pitts.

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