Welcome to the first annual newsletter of COST Action (‘Offender Supervision in Europe‘: European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
We began our work on ‘Offender Supervision in Europe’ on March 27, 2012. This newsletter summarizes our progress during the first year of the Action. It includes brief resumes of the work of each of our four working groups, and an account of our first international conference at Liverpool Hope University on April 26-27, 2013. But first, a few words about why we set up the network and what it aims to achieve. The Action was created to address the neglect in existing social science research and scholarship of the emergence of ‘mass supervision’ (of ‘offenders’ in the community). In our proposal, we argued that, as well as representing an important analytical lacuna for penology in general and comparative criminal justice in particular, the neglect of supervision meant that research has not delivered the knowledge that is urgently required to engage with political, policy and practice communities grappling with delivering justice efficiently, effectively and legitimately. The Actionaims to remedy these problems by facilitating cooperation between institutions and individuals in different European states (and with different disciplinary perspectives) who are already carrying out research on offender supervision or, in the case of early stage researchers, are attracted to that field.
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