RAN PRISONS Papers

The paper aims to provide recommendations for practitioners working with violent extremist clients by discussing recidivism data, current challenges, risk and protective factors, and risk management strategies.

This paper will first describe what challenges have been discussed from different perspectives shared. In the second part, recommendations for both practitioners and policymakers are presented.

This paper presents the findings of the RAN PRISONS meeting on 10 December 2020, where practitioners involved in risk and needs assessment (RNA) in prisons met. This paper presents the main conclusions and insights of the discussions and provides some key recommendations.

Previous RAN Meetings have shown that daily interactions and relations between prison staff and inmates can contribute to the monitoring and assessing of cases, and can be a valuable addition to risk and needs assessment tools.

This paper summarises the outcomes of the meeting. Firstly, the paper will dive into the highlights of the discussion and explore the challenges regarding FTFs as well as other VETOs. Next, it will highlight the main recommendations formulated by practitioners.

This paper will first describe the challenges discussed by experts during the meeting. Based on this, first ideas and recommendation for practitioners, policymakers and research are presented.

This paper provides a picture of risk assessment tools used in EU Member States both in the prison and security contexts. It focuses on existing instruments, their content and how they are used at the moment.

This paper summarises the highlights of the discussion as well as the recommendations that were formulated by the participants and will give an outlook on possible follow-up topics.

This paper will reflect the outcomes of the discussion and, firstly, focus on the highlights of the discussion, such as a first reflection on the reasons why individuals radicalise within the police, military and prison, and then summarise the recommendations that were formulated by the experts...