apav.pt

8h00

9h00

OPENING [Auditorium 2]

Portuguese Ministry of Justice – Alberto Costa (Minister of Justice, Portugal)

Incoming Swedish Presidency of the European Council - A message from the Minister for Justice, Beatrice Ask

Victim Support Europe – Jaap Smit (President of Victim Support Europe)

European Commission Representation in Portugal - Margarida Marques

10h00

PLENARY SESSION 1 | Project Victims in Europe [Auditorium 2]

Preliminary results of the assessment of the implementation of the Framework  Decision on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings in the 27 Member States - Carmen Rasquete (APAV - Project Victims in Europe, Portugal) and Antony Pemberton (InterVICT The Netherlands)

Chair: João Lázaro (APAV, Portugal)

11h30

WORKSHOP SESSION 1

Theme A: Victims of crime, law practice and victims’ perception of the criminal justice system [Auditorium 2]

Project Victims in Europe: legal and organizational implementation outcomes – Antony Pemberton and Suzan van der Aa (InterVICT, The Netherlands) and Carmen Rasquete (APAV - Project Victims in Europe, Portugal)

Theme B: Different countries, different realities? [Room 2]

The Position of Victims Rights in Europe - Frida Petersson (Victim Support Scotland)

The role of the victim in the criminal justice process – Gertraud Eppich (Ministry of Justice, Austria) and Lisa Puhringer (University of Vienna, Austria)

Theme C: Transnational Victims and Terrorism [Room 3]

The Role of Victim Support in Crisis and Calamity Situations – Rob Sardemann (Slachtofferhulp Nederland, The Netherlands) and Peter G. van der Velden (Institute for Psychotrauma, The Netherlands)

The Psychosocial response to terrorist attacks and other Major Disasters – Bruno Brito (disaster psychologist specialist, Portugal)

The International Statute Of Victims Of Terrorism - Carlos Fernández de Casadevante Romani (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

Theme D: Children and women victims [Room 1]

Women in Police Precincts. some questions around police, violent crime and gender relationships – Susana Durão (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon,Portugal)

State of the art of the conceptualization of adolescents as victims of crime – Gerwinde Vynckier (Ghent University, Belgium)

Theme E: Victim Support and Best Practices [Auditorium 3]

Victim Support and Best Practices – Providing Victim Support Services Today – Chris Wade (Victim Support England & Wales)

Further education as a contribution to the development of professionalism in the field of victim services: experience and resulting knowledge – Jutta Hartmann (ADO, Germany)

13h00

14h30

PLENARY SESSION 2 | Discussing the Concept of Victims of Crime Today [Auditorium 2]

David Miers (Cardiff Law School, United Kingdom)

Hans-Joerg Albrecht (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany)

15h30

16h00

WORKSHOP SESSION 2

Theme A: Victims of crime: law practice and victims’ perception of the criminal justice system [Auditorium 2]

Victims of Crime: a Study of Member State’s Legislation, National Policies, Practices and Approaches concerning Victims of Crime - Andrew Sanders (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

EU-MIDIS: findings from the Fundamental Rights Agency’s EU-wide survey on minorities’ experience of criminal victimization – Jo Goodey (Fundamental Rights Agency, Vienna)

Theme B: Different countries, different realities? [Room 2]

The position of crime victims in Finland: formal rights for strong victims? – Päivi Honkatukia (National Research Institute of Legal Policy, Finland)

Spanish constitution and rights of the victims - Elena Macías Otón and Francisco Manuel García Costa (Fundación de Victimología, Spain)

Theme C: Transnational Victims and Terrorism [Room 3]

Trafficking in human beings and the protection of victims – Frances Brodrick and Denise Marshall (POPPY Project, United Kingdom)

Theme D: Children and women victims [Room 1]

Children Witnesses of Domestic Violence – Marketa Vitousova (Bily Kruh Bezpeci, O.S., Czech Republic) and Ilse Vande Walle (Belgium/United Kingdom)

Theme E: Victim Support and Best Practices [Auditorium 3]

Overcoming difficulties in the countries without a national Victim Support Organization – Laura Albu and Laura Chiticariu (Community Safety and Mediation Center, Romania)

17h30

9h00

PLENARY SESSION 3 | Coordinating the victims’ rights instruments in the European Union [Auditorium 2]

Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings

Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA on combating trafficking in human beings

Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography

Caroline Morgan (Criminal Justice Unit – DG Justice, Freedom and Security, Belgium)

9h45

PLENARY SESSION 4 | Victimisation and Vulnerability [Auditorium 2]

Sandra Walklate (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Sir John Thomas (European Network of Councils of the Judiciary, Belgium)

11h00

Coffee Break

11h30

WORKSHOP SESSION 3

Theme A: Victims of crime: law practice and victims’ perception of the criminal justice system [Auditorium 2]

How can we access to Justice for Victims of Crime? – Malini Laxminarayan (Intervict, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Secondary victimisation and evaluation of the victim support services – Josep Tamarit Sumalla (Spanish Society of Victimology, Spain)

Theme B: Different countries, different realities? [Room 2]

Sónia Reis (Ministry of Justice - Department for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Portugal)

When the offender come home - Victims' rights «pos sententiam» – João Morais Rocha (Court of Appeal, Lisbon, Portugal)

José Albino Caetano Duarte (Commission for Crime Victims Compensations, Portugal)

Theme C: Transnational Victims and Terrorism [Room 3]

On trafficking of victims in Greece – Niki Roubani (European Network of Women, Greece)

Trafficking in human beings and victim protection in Sweden – Märta Johanson (Örebro University, Sweden)

Theme D: Children and women victims [Room 1]

A Critical Assessment of the Criminal Justice System and Victim Advocacy in Cases of Sexual Assault and Child Sexual Abuse – Laura Wall (Rape crisis & counseling center “Frauenhorizonte e.V.”, Germany)

Role of Childline in providing assistance to child victims of abuse and neglect in India – Beulah Shekhar (Childline, India)

Theme E: Victim Support and Best Practices [Auditorium 3]

What is Data Protection and why is it important to victims? – David McKenna (Victim Support Scotland)

13h00

Lunch

14h30

PLENARY SESSION 5 | Role of Research in Pushing Forward Victims’ Rights [Auditorium 2]

Diogo Pinto da Costa (Porto School of Criminology, Portugal)

Arlene Gaudreault (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Chair: David McKenna (Victim Support Scotland)

15h30

WORKSHOPS CONSLUSIONS [Auditorium 2]

16h30

Coffee Break

17h00

CLOSING SESSION | Where do we go from here? [Auditorium 2]

Hans-Holger Herrnfeld (Bureau of the European Committee on Crime Problems of the Council of Europe)

Jaap Smit (Victim Support Europe)

18h30

20h00

10h00

Annual General Meeting of Victim Support Europe