Project Title:
“Facility supporting the strengthening of the Rule of Law in the Republic of Serbia” – Work package “Victims support”
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
European Union (EU) and Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
Implementation period:
07/2024-01/2025
Description:
In order to assist the Ministry of Justice in carrying out the activities in the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy on the Rights of Victims and Witnesses of Crime in the Republic of Serbia for the period 2020-2025, during the period 2023-2025, the research team of the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, with the support of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and the Center of Legal Competence (CLC) from Austria, conducted the analysis of the existing practices used in interviewing vulnerable witnesses in criminal proceedings, as well as the analysis of existing practices with regard to imposing sanctions for acts that disrupt the court’s normal process and ordering measures of procedural protection of victims and witnesses. In addition to the final report, which contains the findings of these analyses and recommendations for their improvement, the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research also developed the methodological toolkit for periodic monitoring of the situation in this area.
Project Title:
Analysis of the Constitutional Court of Serbia’s wok on individual appeals in cases concerning criminal justice
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
OSCE
Implementation period:
06-12/2023
Description:
The overall project objective is a comprehensive analysis of the Constitutional Court’s work in cases concerning criminal justice. It should show which rights are invoked most often, why, how the Constitutional Court interprets the relevant provisions of the Constitution and how remedies that shall be used before the constitutional appeal could be more effective. It should also show the average duration of proceedings before the Constitutional Court.
Project Title:
Prison Life
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
Science Fund Serbia
Implementation period:
2022-2024
Description:
The overarching objective of the PrisonLIFE project is to identify criminological-penological, psychological, sociological, legal, and security aspects of the quality of prison life in Serbia to understand the contemporary experience of imprisonment and reach its objective assessment and comprehensive improvement. Additional emphasis is placed on the population of female convicts given their multiple vulnerabilities and marginalization, as they are frequently overlooked in criminological and sociological research of the convicted persons in our region.
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Project Title:
Improving training programs for judges and public prosecutors on combating hate crime
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ
Implementation period:
06-12/2022
Description:
German development cooperation program “Inclusion of Roma and other marginalised groups in Serbia” implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ in cooperation with Ministry for human and minority rights and social dialogue, established collaboration with the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research to realise the project "Combating Hate Crime". The project aims to improve training programs for judges, public prosecutors and police officers on combating hate crime.
Project Title:
Support for the implementation of the judicial reform in Serbia
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
European Union/Council of Europe
Implementation period:
06/2022-01/2023
Description:
- Developing draft Law on the High Judicial Council
- Developing draft Law on the State Prosecutorial Council
- Developing the Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the Judicial Development Strategy (2020-2025)
- Developing the Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the Human Resource Strategy in Judiciary (2022-2026)
Project Title:
Impact Assessment of the Application of Non-Custodial Sanctions and Measures in Serbia 2015-2020
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
OSCE
Implementation period:
06/2021-12/2021
Description:
The overall project objective is to assess the impact of the non-custodial sanctions and measures in Serbia in the period from 2015 until end of 2020, involving quantitative and qualitative research methods. The assessment includes the list of recommendations that should further inform decision makers on the reforms needed, as in terms of the legislative changes as regarding the institutional capacities and improvement of respective practices.
Project Title:
Gap analysis of Serbian criminal legislative and institutional framework on children in contact with the law as offenders and victims/witnesses of crime
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
UNICEF
Implementation period:
05/2021-12/2021
Description:
Specific objective of the project is to provide technical assistance to the Justice Sector in the process of revision of criminal legislative and institutional framework towards improving rights of children in contact with the law as offenders and victims/witnesses of crime and their treatment in criminal proceedings.
Project Title:
Assessment of Juvenile Penal Policy in the Republic of Serbia from 2006 to 2020
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
OSCE
Implementation period:
06/2020-12/2020
Description:
The overall project objective is to assess the impact of the 2005 Law on Juvenile Offenders and the Protection of Juveniles through Criminal Law on juvenile delinquency and its effectiveness in the protection of the best interests of the child. The assessment must include recommendations for state action, be it legislative intervention, changes in practices, capacity building or different organisation of work of state bodies that implement the law.
Project Title:
Impact Assessment of the HELP'S Resocialization Programme (Improvement of the treatment programmes in correctional institutions for adults and juveniles - SOE03-19)/
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
HELP e.v.
Implementation period:
05/2020-12/2020
Description:
The aim of this project is to develop methodology of the assessment; conduct field missions; collect data on the Project implementation and to evaluate its results, including an impact of the Programme intervention to support rights of the children in correctional institutions to maintain personal contact with parents and relatives in the context of COVID 19 pandemic.
Project Title:
Crime in Serbia: Phenomenology, Risks and Possibilities of Social Intervention
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development
Implementation period:
2011-ongoing
Description:
The subject of this Research Project comprises the choice of economic, social and personal variables as well as the choice of representative sample of both, juvenile and adult offenders who have committed some of the enumerated forms of criminal offences, empiric research conducted on these samples and crossing of relevant psychological and social variables for criminal behavior. Finally, the Project also includes the presentation of these research, calculation of linear, partial and canonic correlations between that sample of independent variables and form and intensity of studied forms of crime. The identification of risk factors and factors of protection with significant and high prognostic value of particular forms of crime is expected to facilitate the determination of sensitivity of examined predictors and crime forms to particular preventive models, either existing or newly formed.
The goals of this Research Project include:
1. Identification of risk factors and various groups that are under risk, as well as determination of preventive factors when it comes to the most serious forms of crime, particularly organized crime, high-tech crime and economic crime;
2. Analysis of the capacities of current and creation of new preventive models relevant to these forms of crime;
3. Determination of actual role and scope of state reaction in the field of crime prevention, especially in normative sphere and
4. Construction of more efficient preventive models of state reaction.
Project Title:
Standards and procedures for the protection of children as victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
UNICEF
Implementation period:
07/2021-12/2021
Description:
The Project is aimed to support Serbian Justice System institutions in providing and enhancing protection of children as victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings.
Project Title:
COST action CA16102 "European Network on Individualized Psychotherapy Treatment of Young People with Mental Disorders"
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
EU
Implementation period:
2017-2021
Description:
This international and interdisciplinary network comprised of researchers, clinical and developmental psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and specialists for adolescents’ mental health is going to work on identification of moderator and mediator mechanisms of psychotherapy change and proper instruments for evaluation of therapeutic process, as well as on developing study design for future psychotherapy research in Europe.
Project Title:
Application of Medical Security Measures in the Serbian Criminal Justice System
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
OSCE
Implementation period:
2018
Description:
During 2017, the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, conducted a research project on the topic ,,Application of medical security measures in the criminal justice system of the Republic of Serbia''. The survey was conducted in Special Prison Hospital in Belgrade, as well as in Special hospitals for psychiatric illness in Novi Kneževac, Vršac i Gornja Toponica. The results of the research were presented at the International Scientific Conference "Penal Law and Medicine", held on May 29th and 30th, 2019 at Palić.
Project Title:
Needs Assessment of the Alignment Level of Criminal Legislation In Accordance With All Relevant Chapters Within Accession Negotiations with EU
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
PERFORM
Implementation period:
06-12/2018
Description:
The aim of the project is to identify relevant parts of the Criminal Code that should be amended in line with EU acquis under the accession negotiations chapters as well as to propose concrete solutions considering comparative best practices but also to provide 4 years prediction of the possible timeline for legislative amendments.
Project Title:
Expert Research and Analysis on Re-offending in Serbia
Contractor:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Funding:
OSCE
Implementation period:
07/2017-12/2017
Description:
During 2017, the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, conducted a research project on the topic of recidivism in the Republic of Serbia. The survey was conducted in Correctional institutions in Sremska Mitrovica, Pozarevac and Nis, the Special Prison Hospital in Belgrade, and Correctional institution in Krusevac. The main goal of the research was to examine the impact of vocational training on reducing recidivism. In addition, the analysis also includes two alternative criminal sanctions - Community Service and Suspended Sentence with Protective Supervision, based on data recorded within the Office for Alternative Sanctions in Belgrade.
