« Philippe ZOUMMEROFF » GRANT
Preamble
Rules
Jury
Submissions for the third session (Application
procedures)
Mr Philippe Zoummeroff, a member of the French Association of Criminology since 1999, a retired manufactuer and a collector, who happened to become interested in criminal matters through collecting books, conceived this grant in June 2000. He offered to fund it with his own money.
At the meeting of the Association trustees, on January 13th 2001, the proposal was accepted and the following rules adopted.
The very existence of this grant, along with the Gabriel Tarde prize for scientific research, funded since the beginning in 1972 by the Ministry of Justice is quite adapted to the obvious aims of the Association, to favour the mixing of researchers, university teachers and students with the real world and their participation to field work.
The fact that it is privately funded reminds one that, in a democracy, the
rehabilitation of the inmates should not be a concem only for the public institutions
but for every citizen.
Modified by deliberation of the board of trustees of the French Association of Criminology, January 25th 2003
Article 1 : Every two years, a grant called “Philippe Zoummeroff grant for the support of initiatives in favour of the rehabilitation of inmates about the modes of custody” is presented by the French Association of Criminology.
Article 2 : For each session, M. Philippe Zoummeroff puts the amount of 22 000 Euros at the Asssociation's disposal. The amount given to the winner is 12 000 Euros, the remaining 10 000 Euros being devoted to the administrative expenses for the grant and to its revaluation.
Article 3: The grant is delivered to an individual or a legal person, French or foreign, the author of an original “project” concerning the rehabilitation of persons in custody.
Article 4: The application forms can be written in French or in English -but not in any other language - the jury's deliberations being held in French.
Article 5: The word « project » can be understood in various ways.
It may be a project which has not started at all to be implemented, or a project
which is actually being carried out or a project in the wake of an idea which
has been applied, even an improvement on an already existing project.
This grant, by helping to bring to public knowledge innovative practices, devised
in France or in any other part of the world, is meant to promote a better concern
by the whole of society for the rehabilitation of persons in custody.
The project can be about the inmates themselves, their relatives but also about
the professional and voluntary workers who participate to the rehabilitation
process. It can include all kinds of « operations », cultural, educative,
economic, social, socio-therapeutic, psychological and medical and use all kinds
of techniques: help, after-care, training, jobs creation, creation of sites,
material (architecture) or virtual (communications), cultural activities, entertaining
families visiting the inmates, spreading information by traditional means or
through the net.
Article 6 : The jury awarding the « Philippe Zoummeroff » grant is composed of nine members. The list is drawn up for two sessions by the Association 's board of trustees which appoints a chairman of the jury. The members of the jury cannot fulfil more than two mandates in succession.
Article 7: The Association's board of trustees appoints a secretary of the « Philippe Zoummeroff » grant to help the Association 's executive body and the chairman of the jury in their various tasks. He does not attend the jury's meeting. He is appointed for two sessions. He cannot fulfil more than two mandates in succession.
Article 8:
-representatives of the various domains connected with the penal system should
be included in the jury. –
-a balance should be achieved arnong the members of the jury between researchers
and university teachers on the one hand , between professional and voluntary
workers doing field work on the other hand.
Article 9: The members of the jury devise their own working methods.
Article 10 : On the date set by the Association, the jury puts an end to the
list of the competing projects. This list is then handed out to all the candidates.
For the project to be taken into account, it must be brought to the jury's knowledge,
by the author or another person. In order to be accepted, the candidate must
produce a file including:
a. a text describing the project (a maximum of 25 000 characters including
spaces) which must contain at least :
- objectives of the project,
- its philosophy and its fundamentals,
- population concerned,
- the elaboration process of the project and a schedule of the required steps
to achieve it,
- means,
- a demonstration of the feasibility of the project
- the agreement of the administrations concerned or the account of the measures
taken to obtain it.
b. information about the individual or the legal person who carries out the
project (past actions, names of the appointed contributors, curriculum vitae
for individual persons, names of the directors and a copy of the statutes for
an association or a similar document for any other institution (a local council
for example)
c. a prospective budget showing how the grant will be spent
d. any extra document which may help assessing the project can be joined to the file (cd- rom, video tape, sketches ... )
Also, the jury reserves the right to organise interviews with the candidates, or ask them for any additional information it might think necessary.
When a project appears to be manifestly out of the purpose of the grant, it is declare inadmissible by the chairman of the jury.
Article 11 : The jury can also split the amount of the grant between several winners.
Article 12 : Besides, when the deliberations are over, the jury draws up the list of the projects which caught their attention and which will be also widely advertised by all the means available to the Association; publication, internet site ...
Article 13: Any revaluation of the grant will refer explicitly to its funding source.
Article 14: The jury's deliberations are secret. No complaint can be made against their décisions.
Article 15: The grant is officially delivered to the winner during a meeting held by the Association a few months after its award. He is requested to introduce his project. His travelling expenses are paid for, entirely if possible or only part of it.
Article 16: When he is given the grant, the winner pledges himself to give an account to the Association every year of how he spent the amount of money, until there is none left.
Article 17: The winner pledges himself to provide information about the results of his project when the next grant is awarded. His travelling expenses are paid for entirely or partly.
Article 18: The chairman and the general secretary of the Association are responsible for the enforcement of the present rules.
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Mr Pierre Landreville, Chairman of the jury, Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Montreal, Criminology department (Canada).
Mr Alain Blanc, President of Assize Court (Paris), trustee of the French Society of Criminology.
Mr Frederic Blettery, Prison governor, Remand centre of Fleury-Mérogis.
Mr Jean-Louis Daumas, Regional governor of Youth Judicial Protection Department, Former Prison governor (Caen).
Dr Jean-Marc Elchardus, Professor of legal psychiatric medicine, Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, vice-chairman of the French Association of Criminology.
Mrs Annie Kensey, sociologist and demographer, research worker at the Prison Service, deputy treasurer of the French Association of Criminology.
Mr Milko Paris, president of the association Ban public (association for communication about prisons and incarceration in Europe).
Mr René Lévy, researcher at the CNRS, head of the Sociological Research Centre on the law and penal institutions (CESDIP).
Mrs Florence Raynal, freelance joumalist, trustee of the Female Joumalists Association (AFJ).
Secretary of the grant: Mrs Samantha Enderlin
Submissions for the third session of the Grant (2005-2006) will be officially opened by september 1, 2005. A complete application package (see article 10) of your project should be sent before April 30, 2006 to the Secretary
AFC c/o Samantha Enderlin, Secretary of Philippe Zoummeroff Grant, 23 rue Alexis Lepère, 93100 MONTREUIL
Or by e-mail : afc.mail@afc-assoc.org
For more informations, contact the Secretary of the Grant.