Daphne project: 2002-049
Rape: Judicial,police, medical and psychological approaches
Project n°: 02/049/WYX
Organisation’s name : Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint-Pierre - Bruxelles
Danièle Zucker
SUMMARY
The objectives of the European Congress on Rape were as follows:
1)To examine, from judicial, police, medical and psychological standpoints, each stage of the handling of a complaint made by a rape victim up to the appearance of the presumed offender before a court;
2)To make the public authorities and the professionals aware of the available tools;
3)To demonstrate the necessity to professionalize the different entities involved throughout the procedure;
4)To discuss legislative changes which deal more effectively with sexual crimes and their perpetrators;
5)To disseminate as widely possible the best practices, techniques and procedures as well as the underlying laws and regulations;
The congress, fortunately, was a success.
The media got hold of the rape problem. Each Belgian paper had an article about the subject. The public and the media were more aware about how victims are considered and the amount of prejudices that are still tenacious. The public authorities have understood that if we want to deal with rape in a serious manner, we have to make a very big move. Now that the media, the professionals and the public know about the sad reality of the situation, there could be a pressure for change. Mentalities are now ready for a change and this is the most important result of the congress.
On the other hand, the congress has made clear that we have to work together beyond the barriers of our professional sectors and countries.
It has demonstrated the necessity of professionals in each step of the handling of the victim and the offender.
Many members of parliament have express their interest in legislative changes and would like to take part to the group created in May 2002 which objectives are a serious reform of the legislative framework.
Our deputy prime minister and minister of the interior has declared that he wanted rape to be considered as one of the priorities of the Belgian government.
An important conference on DNA Bank will be organised at the Belgian Parliament in November 2004. We have decided to invite Dave Werrett, the Chief executive of the Forensic Science Service in London. The Minister of Justice and the Minister of Interior have accepted to participate to this conference. Since the Rape congress, they obviously understood that an efficient DNA Bank is a great tool to fight against crimes.
A book will be edited with the transcripts of the proceedings. We have chosen an international editor to assure the most large diffusion.
Congress, Brussels, 1 and 2 April 2004
Daphne project 2002-049
This congress is being organised at the initiative and under the presidency of Dr Danièle ZUCKER, Ph.D Psychology, Head of the Psychiatric Crisis and Emergency Unit at the Saint-PierreUniversityHospital in Brussels and an expert advisor to the courts.
With the support of
The European Commission Daphne Programme
The Department for Equal Opportunities
The City of Brussels
The High Council for the Justice
The King Baudouin Foundation
The National Lottery
The Bernheim Foundation
Institut d'Etudes sur la Justice
Association de Langue Française pour l'Etude du Stress et du Trauma (Alfest, Paris)
Eli Lilly Benelux
Honorary Committee
Chairman: Dr Bernard Kouchner, former Minister
Mrs Laurette Onkelinx, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice
Mr Patrick Dewael, Minister of the Interior
Mr Rudy Demotte, Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health
Mr Antonio Vitorino, Member of the European Commission, Responsible for Justice and Home Affairs
Mr Freddy Thielemans, Mayor of the City of Brussels
Mr Yvan Mayeur, President of the CPAS of the City of Brussels, Member of Parliament
Prof. Nathan Clumeck, General Medical Director of Iris
International Committee
Maria Eriksson, Programme co-ordinator, "Gender and violence: a Nordic research programme", The Nordic Council of Ministers
Roy Hazelwood, Retired Supervisor Special Agent of the FBI, currently with the Academy Group, Inc. in Manassas, Virginia
Xavier Lameyre, Magistrate - Senior lecturer responsible for training and research at the National School of Magistracy (Paris branch)
Hubert Van Gijseghem, Professor in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology at the University of Montreal
Dave Werrett, Chief Executive - Forensic Science Service of England and Wales
Organisation Committee
Danièle Zucker, Doctor of Psychology - Head of the Psychiatric Crisis and Emergency Unit at the Saint-PierreUniversityHospital - President of the Organisation Committee
Marie-José Laloy, Senator - Vice-President of the Organisation Committee
Marianne Thomas, Magistrate at the Brussels Courts - Deputy Crown Attorney - Vice-President of the Organisation Committee
Pierre Collignon, Police Commissioner
Catherine Braet, Criminologist
André Decourrière, Lawyer - Assistant at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, law faculty
Léon Ingber, Honorary Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, law faculty - President of the legal philosophy centre
Edouard Jakhian, Attorney, Former President of the Brussels bar
Anne Ledent, Secretary
René Stormacq, Police Commissioner
Jean-Pierre van Boxel, Police Chief Inspector
Pierre Van Renterghem, Doctor of Science - DNA database administrator at the National Criminalistic and Criminological Institute
The Organisation Committee would like to thank the following persons for their invaluable support:
Mr Pieter Bollen,
Mr Jean-Pierre Cot,
Baron Bernard de Traux de Wardin,
Mrs Colette De Troy,
Mrs Raymonde Dury,
Dr Frédérique François,
Mrs Catherine Gernay,
Mr Eric Gouder de Beauregard,
Mr Claude Lelièvre,
Dr Stefan Van Muylem,
Maître Jeanine Windey
and Prof. Bruno Liebhaberg
With the support of the Daphne Programme -
European Commission
Congress, Brussels, 1 and 2 April 2004
Daphne project 2002-049
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Speakers
Dr Michael C.Baurmann (Germany)
Head of Unit, Criminological Research, Behavioural Analysis and VICLAS, Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Wiesbaden, Germany
He has also conducted empirical research and written in various publications on the topics of victimology, victim aid (“What do the victims want?" and “A special programme to professionalise the behaviour of police officers towards victims and witnesses"), traumatology / PTSD, sexual offences (in general), violence (including homicide), extortion, prevention, behavioural analysis in cases of violent crime (homicide, rape, extortion, etc.), VICLAS. He is a lecturer at different universities and regularly acts as an expert for German state and federal parliaments.
Dr. Jean-PierreBenais (France)
Hospital doctor at the Hôpital Jean Verdier (Bobigny Paris).
Doctor of medicine and doctor of law, he is a University senior lecturer. He is an expert in legal medicine at the Court of Appeal in Paris and the United Nations, specialising mainly in victimology.
Mrs Teresa-AngelaCamelio (Italy)
Magistrate, Counsel to the Court of Appeal of Pisa. Author of many articles on criminal law.
Mrs CaroleDamiani (France)
Psychologist-psychotherapist supporting the victims of crimes and disasters and official representative at Inavem (Paris).
Author of articles and books on psychic trauma and therapy for victims; head of studies at the University of Paris V.
Ms AnneDavies (United Kingdom)
Anne Davies is an intelligence advisor with the Forensic Science Service.
She is an international expert on rape investigation and has made a major contribution to the development of offender profiling in the United Kingdom. She was Head of Profession for the Crime Analyst at the Metropolitan Police Service (New Scotland Yard) in London. She has extensive experience of the investigation of rape, both as a behavioural and forensic scientist.
Mrs KarinGerard (Belgium)
Magistrate, president of the French-speakingCollege of the French-speaking Board of Enquiry and of the Joint Board of Enquiry of the High Council for the Justice (Brussels).
President of the chamber of the Brussels Court of Appeal.
Prof. GisliGudjonsson (United Kingdom)
Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Instituteof Psychiatry, King´s College, London, and Head of the Forensic Psychology Services at the MaudsleyHospital, he has published extensively in the areas of forensic psychology, including violence, psychological vulnerability, false confession, police interviewing, and recovered memories. He pioneered the empirical measurement of suggestibility and provided expert evaluation, for prosecution and for defence, in a number of high profile cases in the UK, Norway and the USA.
He is the author of a number of books, including “Forensic Psychology. A Guide to Practice" (Routledge, 1998, jointly written with Lionel Haward) and the “Psychology of interrogations and confessions. A handbook" (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
Mr Robert R. « Roy »Hazelwood (USA)
Retired from the FBI after 33 years of government service during which he researched, consulted and lectured on sexually violent behaviour. He has co-authered a large number of books and articles on the subject and he serves on the editorial review board of four professional journals. Mr Hazelwood has testified as an expert witness in both civil and criminal cases before every level of the U.S. court system and before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and of the U.S. Senate and Presidential Committees.
Prof. GunHeimer (Sweden)
Head of the National Centre for Battered and Raped Women in Sweden and Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Uppsala University.
A PhD and MD, specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, she was also, between 2000 and 2003, a member of the Advisory Council to the Swedish government on the Protection of Women Against Violence. She is the author of major Swedish study on violence against women.
Prof. LizKelly (United Kingdom)
Director, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, LondonMetropolitanUniversity.
She is a feminist researcher, who has worked in the field of violence against women and children for almost 30 years. She is the author of Surviving Sexual Violence, and over 50 book chapters and journal articles.
Her expertise encompasses research, evaluation, training, expert opinion and consultancy providing in particular distinctive perspectives on the connection between forms of gender violence, and between woman and child abuse.
Mr XavierLameyre (France)
Magistrate, senior lecturer and head of training and research at the National School of Magistracy (Paris branch). Criminologist and author of several important books and articles on sexual violence and criminality.
Mr Jean-ClaudeMonier (France)
Magistrate, President of the North Court of Assizes and President of the chamber of the Court of Appeal of Douai.
He also teaches at the Paris Institute of Criminology and is the author of various publications, largely concerning sexual crimes.
Mr Perry C.Quak (Netherlands)
Senior Prosecutor, Dutch Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary. He has been District Prosecutor for 6 years in charge of serious crimes. Thereafter he combated organised crime, money-laundering and fraud as National Prosecutor.
Mr CarloSchippers (Netherlands)
President of the Dutch Chapter of the International Homicide Investigators Association.
He was a detective with the Homicide Unit of the Amsterdam Police Department, when he graduated from the FBI´s Fellowship on Criminal Investigative Analysis (profiling) in 1991. He has since been working for the Dutch National Police, providing assistance to detectives and investigative teams in cases of murder, sexual assault, missing persons, etc.
Mr BramVan der Meer (Netherlands)
Psychologist (PhD candidate) at the Netherlands
National Police Force, Homicide and Sexual Assault Unit.
Prof. HubertVan Gijseghem (Canada)
Professor at the University of Montreal for the development psychology and psychopathology.
International psycho-juridical expert and author of several books and numerous articles dealing mainly with delinquency, sexual abuse, hearings of presumed victims and the enquiry process for maltreatment.
Mr AndréVandoren (Belgium)
President of the Standing Committee for Control of the Chairman Police Services.
Deputy Prosecutor General (Advocate General) at the Court of Brussels, he was national magistrate of Belgium from 1990 to 1999.
Prof. Jean-LucViaux (France)
Professor of psychopathology and legal psychology (University of Rouen) and expert certified by the Cour de Cassation [Supreme Court].
He is the author of "Psychologie Légale" and articles and books devoted to child victims, family conflicts and criminal problems, notably in the field of sexual aggression and incest. He co-founded the diploma of anthropology and criminal psychology at the University of Rouen.
Dr DaveWerrett (United Kingdom)
Chief Executive, Forensic Science Service of England and Wales. He pioneered the introduction of DNA in forensic science and presented the first cases in court.
Dr DanièleZucker (Belgium)
Head of the Psychiatric Crisis and Emergency Unit at the Saint-PierreUniversityHospital in Brussels and an expert advisor to the courts. Author of "Penser la Crise" (De Boeck Université) and of various articles on psychic trauma, victims therapy, rape and forensic psychology.
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The congress has been inaugurated by Mrs Laurette Onkelinx, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Mr Antonio Vitorino, Member of the European Commission, Responsible for Justice and Home Affairs and Dr Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister and President of the honorary committee.
This important event received the support of The European Commission Daphne Programme, The Department for Equal Opportunities, The City of Brussels, the High Council for the Justice, the King Baudouin Foundation, The National Lottery, The Bernheim Foundation, Institut d’Etudes sur la Justice, Association de Langue Française pour l’Etude du Stress et du Trauma (Alfest, Paris) and Eli Lilly Benelux.
Rape Congress
Date: April 1 and 2, 2004Place: Charlemagne Building – European Commission
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