The Council of Europe: How to Make the Imprisonment Effective and Humane at the Same Time?

ICPA2023 Presentation by Ilina Taneva and Kresimir Kamber (ICPA-2023-PID062)

Authors

Ilina Taneva

Deputy Head of the Criminal Law Division, DG I, Council of Europe, France

Ilina Taneva is Deputy Head of the Criminal Law Division, Council of Europe. She is also Secretary to the Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services) as well as Secretary to the Council for Penological Co operation (PC CP) She joined the Council of Europe Secretariat in 1997 and since then has been Secretary to several intergovernmental committees which elaborated standards in the field of penal and penitentiary law, prisons, probation and aftercare, crime prevention and juvenile justice. The major achievements in this area are the European Prison Rules; The European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions or measures; The Council of Europe Probation Rules; The European Code of ethics for prison staff; The Guidelines for prison and probation services regarding radicalisation and violent extremism and The European Rules on community sanctions and measures.
She has represented the Council of Europe as speaker at many international meetings, including meetings organised by the EU, UNODC, EuroPris, CEP, ICPA and GCTF.

Kresimir Kamber

Lawyer, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe, France

Krešimir Kamber obtained a Master of Laws diploma from the Rijeka University Faculty of Law (Croatia) where he also finished further studies in criminal sciences and criminal law. He obtained his PhD from the Ghent University Faculty of Law and Criminology (Belgium) after completing research in the field of human rights law and procedural criminal justice. He works as a lawyer in the Directorate of Jurisconsult of the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights. He is the coordinator for the criminal justice-related issues within the Court. He also holds the position of a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ghent University Faculty of Law and Criminology. Previously he worked in private practice and for the public prosecution service of Croatia. He has widely published and regularly gives lectures on various issues of human rights law and criminal justice. He also participates in various initiatives of the governmental and non-governmental sectors on the issues related to human rights and criminal justice.

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