Conference

13th CEP CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN EUROPE

Beyond control - Electronic Monitoring and prevention

3-5 December 2024

Cascais/Lisbon Portugal

Dear colleague,

I would hereby like to remind you that the 13th CEP Conference on Electronic Monitoring (EM) is

going to take place on 3 - 5 December 2024 in Cascais (Lisbon), Portugal.

CEP organizes this event in close collaboration with the Portuguese Direção-Geral de Reinserção e

Serviços Prisionais, Republica Portuguesa Justiça.

This conference will explore questions about how electronic monitoring (EM) assists with meeting

the goals of the criminal justice system.

EM is now well established as a criminal justice tool across Europe and the rest of the World. As it

becomes further embedded into everyday criminal justice practice, and remains appealing to

politicians and policy-makers, its applications are also expanding, for example for domestic

violence and with juveniles.

Nevertheless, evidence about its impact and effectiveness lag behind its implementation. This

conference begins to address this gap but drawing together available evidence and lessons learnt

about crucial questions of effectiveness – how, and in what ways, does EM manage offenders’

behaviour in relation to compliance with court orders, reoffending and other outcomes? Does EM

assist with preventing unwanted behaviours? What are the most effective ways of working with

wearers to improve outcomes? It will also address areas of growth – domestic violence, juveniles

and pre-trial – which raise fundamental questions for the way in which EM has been understood

and implemented to date as well as ethical and human rights concerns.

Programme and Venue

The conference will be of interest to policy makers, project managers, practitioners, sentencers,

lawyers, data protection officers and academics. The attached program includes plenary sessions

as well as workshop sessions which will be derived from the plenary sessions. Besides these

sessions, the programme also provides plenty of time for networking with other delegates.

The conference will take place at the Hotel Cascais Miragem Health & Spa

(www.cascaismirage.com) in beautiful Cascais which is located just outside the Lisbon area.

Registration

To register for the conference and for more information, please visit the CEP website (www.cep-

probation.org) and click on this link to the registration form. After having registered you will

receive a confirmation and an invoice for the conference fee.

Please keep in mind that the final closing date for registration is set on the 1st of November 2024.

This event is sponsored by the following organisations: Buddi, Supercom, Allied Universal

Electronic Monitoring, Geosatis, Track Group and SCRAM systems. They will be exhibiting their

latest equipment at the conference and talking about their services and new developments.

If you wish, your contact details will be forwarded to these companies so they can send you their

promotional materials in advance, so this will enable you to prepare for your visit to their stands.

We hope that it will also prevent returning from the conference with a suitcase full of brochures. If

you wish to be approached by these companies, please tick the appropriate box on the registration

form.

On behalf of the EM2024 Preparatory Group I hope that you will be able to attend the

13th Electronic Monitoring conference and I look forward to meeting you in Cascais, Portugal.

Sincerely,

Jana Spero

Secretary General CEP

13th CEP CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN EUROPE

Beyond control - Electronic Monitoring and prevention

3-5 December 2024

Cascais/Lisbon Portugal

Dear colleague,

I would hereby like to remind you that the 13th CEP Conference on Electronic Monitoring (EM) is

going to take place on 3 - 5 December 2024 in Cascais (Lisbon), Portugal.

CEP organizes this event in close collaboration with the Portuguese Direção-Geral de Reinserção e

Serviços Prisionais, Republica Portuguesa Justiça.

This conference will explore questions about how electronic monitoring (EM) assists with meeting

the goals of the criminal justice system.

EM is now well established as a criminal justice tool across Europe and the rest of the World. As it

becomes further embedded into everyday criminal justice practice, and remains appealing to

politicians and policy-makers, its applications are also expanding, for example for domestic

violence and with juveniles.

Nevertheless, evidence about its impact and effectiveness lag behind its implementation. This

conference begins to address this gap but drawing together available evidence and lessons learnt

about crucial questions of effectiveness – how, and in what ways, does EM manage offenders’

behaviour in relation to compliance with court orders, reoffending and other outcomes? Does EM

assist with preventing unwanted behaviours? What are the most effective ways of working with

wearers to improve outcomes? It will also address areas of growth – domestic violence, juveniles

and pre-trial – which raise fundamental questions for the way in which EM has been understood

and implemented to date as well as ethical and human rights concerns.

Programme and Venue

The conference will be of interest to policy makers, project managers, practitioners, sentencers,

lawyers, data protection officers and academics. The attached program includes plenary sessions

as well as workshop sessions which will be derived from the plenary sessions. Besides these

sessions, the programme also provides plenty of time for networking with other delegates.

The conference will take place at the Hotel Cascais Miragem Health & Spa

(www.cascaismirage.com) in beautiful Cascais which is located just outside the Lisbon area.

Registration

To register for the conference and for more information, please visit the CEP website (www.cep-

probation.org) and click on this link to the registration form. After having registered you will

receive a confirmation and an invoice for the conference fee.

Please keep in mind that the final closing date for registration is set on the 1st of November 2024.

This event is sponsored by the following organisations: Buddi, Supercom, Allied Universal

Electronic Monitoring, Geosatis, Track Group and SCRAM systems. They will be exhibiting their

latest equipment at the conference and talking about their services and new developments.

If you wish, your contact details will be forwarded to these companies so they can send you their

promotional materials in advance, so this will enable you to prepare for your visit to their stands.

We hope that it will also prevent returning from the conference with a suitcase full of brochures. If

you wish to be approached by these companies, please tick the appropriate box on the registration

form.

On behalf of the EM2024 Preparatory Group I hope that you will be able to attend the

13th Electronic Monitoring conference and I look forward to meeting you in Cascais, Portugal.

Sincerely,

Jana Spero

Secretary General CEP