ID: CRS2023-PID020A 29 Mar 2023

by Tanja Dejanova, Karla Ishiy, Lili Kramer, Dr Ines Horta Pinto, Ildiko Berzsenyi, Ana Cristina Pestana Neves

Delivering non-discriminatory community-based sanctions: Lessons from research and action in Europe

CRS2023 Presentation by Tanja Dejanova, Karla Tayumi Ishiy, Lili Kramer, Inês Horta Pinto, Ildiko Berzsenyi, Ana Cristina Pestana Neves (CRS2023-PID020)

Authors

Tanja Dejanova

Project Coordinator on Alternatives to Imprisonment in Europe, Penal Reform International

Tanja Dejanova is Project Coordinator on Alternatives to Imprisonment in Europe at Penal Reform International. She earned her Master's degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and collaborated with varied criminal justice stakeholders in Finland and North America as a Correctional Officer and Justice Planner. She has also worked in court diversion, higher education and social support services before joining PRI to support human rights driven, fair criminal justice across the world.

Karla Ishiy

PhD Student, University of Coimbra

Karla Tayumi Ishiy is a PhD Student in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a Collaborator Researcher at the Institute for Legal Research of the University of Coimbra. She has earned her Master's degree in Criminal Law from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she also graduated in Law. She holds a post-graduate degree in Human Rights from Ius Gentium Conimbrigae, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra. She has also worked as a criminal lawyer in Brazil and as a volunteer lawyer in prisons in partnership with human rights NGOs.

Lili Kramer

Policy Researcher, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Hungary

Lili Krámer is a project manager and policy researcher at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights NGO. A Sociologist-Criminologist, she has extensive experience working on international projects contributing to a fair and humane criminal justice system, where alternatives to imprisonment are accessible for all and the prison authorities strive to facilitate meaningful family contact. She is a founding member of a grass-roots support network (FECSKE) for people impacted by incarceration. She is a visiting lecturer at ELTE University Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences and a member of the Hungarian Society of Criminology Board of Directors.

Dr Ines Horta Pinto

Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for Justice, Portuguese Ministry of Justice

Inês Horta Pinto is a Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for Justice at the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. Formerly a Legal Officer at the Human Rights Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Horta Pinto has also held positions at the Constitutional Court of Portugal and as a Legal Adviser to the Minister of Justice of Portugal. She holds a PhD in Criminal Law, alongside a Law degree and a Master in Criminal Law, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and has been involved in academia as both a Teaching assistant and researcher, in both Europe and the United States.

Ildiko Berzsenyi

A founder, FECSKE, a Support Network for Detainees and their Families

Ildiko Berzsenyi is an expert-by-experience on detention and reintegration custody, and a founder of the Hungarian grass-roots network FECSKE, a Support Network for Detainees and their Families that strives for a fair and human prison system which respects the right to keep in contact with loved ones.

Ana Cristina Pestana Neves

Head of Division - Implementation of Community Sanctions and Measures, Directorate-General of Prison and Probation Services (DGRSP),

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