Denmark USD COER - Partnership and Networking

4. The context of the artefact

The project “Building Bridges” is located in Denmark and its aim is to mix outside law students with inside students (prisoners). By doing that the project seeks to assess the resources, skills, and experience available among prisoners and law students. With the inside/out connection, the project attempts to create synergies among the students practical and theoretical knowledge on Criminal Justice matters such as causes of crime, law, the legal system, imprisonment and crime preventive strategies. Moreover, it is the mission to inspire and motivate prisoners to take an education. These co-productive goals also contain an effort to challenge the preconceptions that the students and the prisoners might have of each other. In that way, it seeks to generate synergetic partnerships that transcend the capacities of the individual and the community per se.