Unión Europea: CRIMPREV-Assesing Crime, Deviance and Prevention in Europe
The project aims at producing comparative, European added value based on knowledge accrued within national frameworks about social, political, economic, legal and cultural factors conducive to socially deviant behaviour and crime, their perception among the public and the public policies pertaining to these phenomena. Little is known about the variety of situations, policies and scholarly analyses within the European Union. Each State generally tends to confine itself to mostly single/national references, and the Commission itself seems at times to have some difficulty in acknowledging the variety of analyses across the European scene. Researchers themselves find it difficult to get an overview of the diversity of national scientific productions, in spite of efforts by the various scientific networks. It is this diversity itself that we feel should be used if we are to “integrate and strengthen the European Research Area”, as called for in the FP6. Indeed, it makes the European Union a natural laboratory for comparative work, which may be used to produce added value in scholarship.
The project aims at producing comparative, European added value based on knowledge accrued within national frameworks about social, political, economic, legal and cultural factors conducive to socially deviant behaviour and crime, their perception among the public and the public policies pertaining to these phenomena. Little is known about the variety of situations, policies and scholarly analyses within the European Union. Each State generally tends to confine itself to mostly single/national references, and the Commission itself seems at times to have some difficulty in acknowledging the variety of analyses across the European scene. Researchers themselves find it difficult to get an overview of the diversity of national scientific productions, in spite of efforts by the various scientific networks. It is this diversity itself that we feel should be used if we are to “integrate and strengthen the European Research Area”, as called for in the FP6. Indeed, it makes the European Union a natural laboratory for comparative work, which may be used to produce added value in scholarship.