- You are here:
- Homepage
- Events
- Past Events
- ICPA Annual Conference 2024
- Programme
View the full ICPA 2024 programme here! The conference will cover a wide range of topics under the banner of recidivism and desistance, including new trends and innovations, the use of technology, community-based corrections, mental health and healthcare, cohort-specific corrections, education, and vocational training, and much more!
Full Programme
Monday 2 September
11am – 11.45am
Collaboration in Africa: Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and the SAW Project (PID091)
Workshop Session
Identification and Support for Children with a Family Member in Prison - What Works and What are the Challenges? (PID016)
Workshop Session
Employing Intelligence Tradecraft to Achieve Long-Term Desistance (PID141)
Workshop Session
Operationalizing the Nelson Mandela Rules in INL Correctional Engagements (PID005)
Workshop Session
Digital Services for Incarcerated Individuals: How to Balance Freedom with Security for Successful Rehabilitation Programs (PID226)
Workshop Session
11.45am – 12.30pm
The UTurn Construction Pathways Program – Engaging with the Construction Industry and Community (PID017)
Workshop Session
Practice Transfer: ICPA's 2024 Focus on Parenting from Prison and Family Engagement (PID197)
Workshop Session
Harnessing Technology for Desistance: Facilitating Successful Reintegration (PID131)
Workshop Session
Enabling Desistance in Prisons and Correctional Institutions: A Multifaceted Approach: Zimbabwean Perspective (PID209)
Workshop Session
Trauma-informed care and staff wellbeing in prisons and jails: A systematic review and synthesis of global evidence (PID020)
Workshop Session
A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Corrections (PID227)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 3pm
Research to Practice: Improving Correctional Wellness by Using What We Already Have (PID217)
Plenary Session
3.30pm – 4pm
Bridging Implementation Gaps of the Bangkok Rules: Towards ICPA Women in Corrections Conference 2025 (PID202)
Workshop Session
Building a Broader Culture of Education to Give a Chance to Desistence (PID116)
Workshop Session
Perceived Effectiveness of Parole System Under Social Reintegration System: Evidence From the Parole Board in Indonesia (PID004)
Workshop Session
Closer to Success? Enhancing prison, probation, and community actors’ skill-set on assessing risk and vulnerabilities to extremist viewpoints through updated tools and mixed-method training (PID120)
Workshop Session
Reducing the Risks of Incarceration in the Well-Being of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Philippines (PID050)
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 5pm
Ukraine's Penitentiary System Amidst Wartime Challenges (PID228)
Workshop Session
Community Corrections Network
Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm
How a Gender-Responsive Approach to Corrections Promotes Desistance (PID159)
Workshop Session
Power of Knowledge – The Ethics College in Hong Kong (PID078)
Workshop Session
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Day Reporting Order in its First Ten Years of Implementation in Singapore (PID196)
Workshop Session
Managing Extremist - Correctional Practices and Strategies for Violent Extremists Offenders (PID145)
Workshop Session
Addressing Self injury and Suicide: the perspective of people in custody in Ireland of the risk, contributory and protective factors and barriers to support (PID094)
Workshop Session
4.30pm – 5pm
Bangkok Rule 67: Guidance on Research Requirements With System-Involved Women (PID153)
Workshop Session
(CANCELLED) Beyond Employability: Exploring the Multifaceted Benefits of Education in Correctional Settings in Australia and New Zealand (PID099)
Workshop Session
Forced CRIMmigration: Stumbling Blocks Towards Desistance for Offenders Deported from South Africa (PID166)
Workshop Session
Pathways to Change and Collaborative Formulations: Enabling Violent Offenders to Understand Their Pathway to Prison in Partnership with an Expert by Experience (PID088)
Workshop Session
Do Severe Sanctions and Procedurally Just Treatment by Prison Staff Reduce In-Prison Misconduct and Recidivism? (PID011)
Workshop Session
Tuesday 3 September
9am – 10.30am
Keynote - On Assisted Desistance: IACFP Distinguished Scholar Lecture (PID219)
Plenary Session
11am – 11.30am
Work Ready, Release Ready: Supporting the Desistance Journey From Prison to Employment (PID176)
Workshop Session
Desistance and Morality: Accentuating Moral Psychology for Intervention in Minimizing Recidivism Among Juveniles (PID008)
Workshop Session
Report of the Second World Congress for Community Volunteers Supporting Offender Reintegration (PID082)
Workshop Session
Reducing the Harms of Incarceration (PID168)
Workshop Session
Innovative Approaches to Improving Access to Mental Health Support for People in Prison - Findings from the Introduction of a Mental Health Text Service for Prisoners (PID162)
Workshop Session
Aging in the Prison Service: Experiences of Prison Governors in England and Wales (PID048)
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm
The Professionalization of Work and Practical Training in Dutch Prisons (PID106)
Workshop Session
Gaisce - The President's Award - A Transformative Model Toward the Personal Development and Self Enhancement of Young Adults in Custody in Ireland (PID095)
Workshop Session
The Role of Voluntary Community-Based Organizations Within Reentry Courts and the Reentry Process (PID156)
Workshop Session
Rehabilitative Prison Environments: What’s Known About Them and How are They Being Operationalised? (PID089)
Workshop Session
Isolation in Dutch Prisons; Perspectives of a Prison Director (PID128)
Workshop Session
Meeting the Needs of Autistic Adults and Adults With Learning Disabilities in Prisons in the Midlands, UK (PID061)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
Bigger than McDonald's: Exploring the Award-Winning Traineeships and Apprenticeships Program in Prisons in Western Australia (PID169)
Workshop Session
Relationship Between the Experience in Juvenile Training Schools and the Process of Desistance from Delinquency (PID052)
Workshop Session
Social Infrastructure in a Society of Captives: How it can Promote Positive Human Connections in Prisons and Support Rehabilitation and Desistance (PID057)
Workshop Session
Empowering Officers: Dynamic Security Training for Safer, Rehabilitative Prisons in Estonia (PID063)
Workshop Session
A New Forensic Mental Health Facility to Support Rehabilitation and Recovery (PID203)
Workshop Session
Monitoring the Health Care Provided to People in Custody (PID155)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 3pm
Moving the Monolith: From Crisis Management to Purposeful Change (PID031)
Plenary Session
Enlivening the Recommendations from the Health in Detention Conference led by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva in 2022 (PID214)
Workshop Session
A Tale of Two Cities: Legacies and Healing the Harm (PID105)
Workshop Session
Faith-Based Futures: Shaping Hearts and Minds that Extend Beyond Prison Walls (PID173)
Workshop Session
Can Independent Oversight Impact Successful Re-entry? (PID165)
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 5pm
Reality, Resocialization, And Recidivism in Colombia: The Unseen Human Rights Situation of Life in Prison (PID222)
Workshop Session
Staff Training and Development Network
Workshop Session
4.15pm – 5pm
Towards Desistance: The Experiences of Namibian Ex-Offenders of Factors That Have Shaped Their Journeys (PID213)
Workshop Session
Enhancing Correctional Healthcare: Leveraging the 340B Program for Inmate Well-being and Desistance (PID023)
Workshop Session
What Contribution do Correctional Officer Trade Unions Make to Enabling Desistance, A Comparative Analysis of Canada and Scotland (PID002)
Workshop Session
Redefining Rehabilitation: Success Factors for Lasting Change (PID174)
Workshop Session
Adapting Standards of Best Practice to Local Contexts Through Prison Oversight (PID086)
Workshop Session
Wednesday 4 September
9.40am – 10.30am
Plenary Presentation by Keynote Speaker, Prof Fergus McNeill: "Finding a Way Home: Desistance, Rehabilitation and Belonging" (PID223)
Plenary Session
11am – 11.30am
Promoting Desistance, Beyond Recidivism: Singapore Correctional Model (PID224)
Plenary Session
11.30am – 12pm
Unlocking the Second Prison: From Vision to Reality, YRSG (YRP) (PID042)
Workshop Session
Family-Focused Practices of Coloane Prison - Correctional Services Bureau, Macao, China (PID204)
Workshop Session
Animal-Assisted Activities Provide Prosocial Support and Enhance Reintegration of Ex-Inmates, Human-animal bond In Ministry (HIM) (PID036)
Workshop Session
Singapore’s Approach to Enhance Long Term Career Development and Mobility of Offenders, YRSG (PID084)
Workshop Session
The Hope Project: Empowering Desistance Through Artisanal Rehabilitation, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Philippines (PID154)
Workshop Session
Being Different: Incorporating Emotive-Cognitive Relational Approach for Desistance of Neurodivergent Juveniles, Department of Social Welfare, Malaysia (PID006)
Workshop Session
Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma and Challenges Faced by Caregivers, SPS (PCRD) & KKH (PID188)
Workshop Session
Nurturing Staff through Organisational Culture and Promoting Resilience to Support Offenders, SPS (SPD & PCRD) (PID194)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
The Neu Empowerment Model: Empowering a “Neu” Generation of individuals to break free from the intergenerational cycle (PID043)
Workshop Session
Throughcare Journey for Inmates and their Families, SPS (RRD) & Salvation Army (PID182)
Workshop Session
The Theatre Arts Programme (TAP) in Changi Prison: Nurturing Rehabilitation Through Drama-Based Learning (PID158)
Workshop Session
Restorative Employment: When Work Restores Dignity and Livelihoods, LCCS (PID044)
Workshop Session
Painting from Pain: Art as a Space for Self-Discovery and Hope Within Persons with Experience of Incarceration, CANVAS (PID144)
Workshop Session
Managing Prisoners with Unique Needs: Persons with Mental Illnesses, Department of Corrections, Thailand (PID210)
Workshop Session
Integrating Systemic Ideas with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Working with Families of Drug Use Offenders, SANA & SACA (PID118)
Workshop Session
3-min GREAT Conversations: Purposeful Interactions for Meaningful Outcomes, SPS (PCRD with S2 or B2) (PID190)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Plenary Presentation by Guest Speaker, Prof David Best: "Strengths-Based Approaches to Desistance and Recovery" (PID225)
Plenary Session
Building Pro-social Support Networks, SPS & Desistors from DN (RRD) (PID179)
Workshop Session
Reclaiming Parenthood: A Systemic Approach to Supporting Incarcerated Parents, New Life Stories (PID129)
Workshop Session
The Learning Hub, SPS (PID192)
Workshop Session
Enabling Desistance through Culturally Nuanced Support: FITRAH’s Approach to Rehabilitating Malay/Muslim Offenders and Their Families, FITRAH (PID191)
Workshop Session
ISCOS Titans: A Journey of Reintegration, Resilience and Restoration, ISCOS (PID025)
Workshop Session
Women Supporting Women: The power of peer support groups in A4, SPS (PID187)
Workshop Session
3pm – 3.30pm
Women Offenders with Mental Disorders in Psychiatric Correctional Unit at Institution A4 (PID184)
Workshop Session
Empowering Rehabilitation Through Sports: The ‘Run for Our Life’ Program’s Journey from Incarceration to Community Reintegration, SideBySide (PID087)
Workshop Session
Connection Before Correction: Strengthening Youth Offender Rehabilitation Through Family Engagement, MSF (PID136)
Workshop Session
Activating Lived Experiences in Rehabilitation through Restorative Practices (RP) within Corrections, SPS (PID198)
Workshop Session
Community partnership in building a evidence-based, customised curriculum for mothers in prison to support children and families of drug offenders, WIRA (PID051)
Workshop Session
Life Behind Bars: Breaking the Cycle of Reoffending, BTC (PID114)
Workshop Session
Empowering Incarcerated Expectant Mothers: Promoting Safety and Well-being for Babies to Thrive, Fei Yue Community Services (PID075)
Workshop Session
Planning and Design Network
Workshop Session
External Prison Oversight and Human Rights Network
Workshop Session
Volunteers Network
Workshop Session
8pm – 11.59pm
Special Event Dinner and ICPA Correctional Excellence Awards Ceremony
Evening Event
Thursday 5 September
9am – 9.45am
Not My Crime, Still My Sentence: Ensuring a Child Rights-Based Approach When a Parent Goes to Prison (PID038)
Plenary Session
9.45am – 10.30am
Reimagining Incarceration With the New American University: A Holistic, Strengths-Based Approach to Empower People in Prison (PID024)
Plenary Session
11am – 11.30am
‘I Made the Mistakes, so you Don’t Have to’: Practical Considerations for Integrating Lived Experience Into Criminal Justice Service Delivery (PID137)
Workshop Session
Enforcing humane and proper sanctions with a focus on social rehabilitation: swimming against the tide? (PID085)
Workshop Session
Family Befriending: Improving reintegration outcomes for individuals and mitigating impact of incarceration on families (PID146)
Workshop Session
One Size Does Not Fit All Female Prisoners: Moving Away from Traditional Essentialist Educational Approaches Towards Intersectional-Focused Approaches (PID107)
Workshop Session
(CANCELLED) Desistance From Crime: A Highly Overlooked Protective Factor in Actuarial Risk Assessment (PID070)
Workshop Session
Reducing the harms of incarceration, the role the socio-educational service in the Senegal Penitentiary Administration (PID300)
Workshop Session
Transforming Corrections in Erie County, New York (PID090)
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm
Rehab. Prog. in the Botswana Prisons and Their Effectiveness in Reintegrating Offenders and Curbing Recidivism: A Qualitative Situational Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Ex-prisoners (PID122)
Workshop Session
Enabling Desistance Through Community Engagement and Peer Support: The "Buddies" Project (PID073)
Workshop Session
Designing For Desistance (PID206)
Workshop Session
The Women's Hive: Women's Reintegration Service Hub (PID101)
Workshop Session
Making Rehabilitation a Reality – What Matters and What Doesn’t? How Prisons and Probation in England and Wales Operationalised a Whole Agency Approach to Rehabilitation (PID132)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
Lived Experience of People Convicted of Sexual Offences Failing in Open Prison or on Release: How can Desistence be Supported? (PID148)
Workshop Session
Effectiveness of Peer Support in Desistance from Crime and Public-private Partnerships Involving Ex-offenders (PID081)
Workshop Session
Optimizing Priorities within Correctional Services: A Prioritization Matrix Approach to Addressing Desistance in the Uganda Prisons Service (PID205)
Workshop Session
Implementation of an Evidence-Based Programme for Women Offenders: A Namibian Perspective (PID056)
Workshop Session
Measuring the Readiness for Desistance (PID186)
Workshop Session
(CANCELLED) Support, Not Monitor: How Integration Is Part of Prevention (PID164)
Workshop Session
Transforming Justice: A Personal Journey and a Call to Action (PID098)
Workshop Session
A Pathway to Sustainable Rehabilitation Enabling Desistance; Beyond Recidivism in Correctional Service (PID093)
Workshop Session
A Systematic Review of Prison Polices and Transgender Care in the United States (PID149)
Workshop Session
Green Projects in Belgian Prisons: How Gardening Activities can Contribute to the Rehabilitation of Prisoners (PID193)
Workshop Session
Coping With Difficulties in Recovery From Delinquency - Focusing on Factors Promoting and Impeding Social Inclusion (PID212)
Workshop Session
Success in Correctional Treatment as a Desistance Signal (PID161)
Workshop Session
(CANCELLED) The Impact of Vocational Programmes in Reducing Recidivism: A Case Study of Middledrift Correctional Centre, Eastern Cape, South Africa (PID009)
Workshop Session
The "Prison to Community" Program: A Promising Approach to Reducing High-risk Recidivism in Israel (PID019)
Workshop Session
Children: The Unintended Victims of Parental Incarceration: Supporting Families Through Collaborative Interventions by Singapore's Child Protective Service (PID134)
Workshop Session
Rehabilitation Dog Services for Persons in Custody in Hong Kong (PID079)
Workshop Session
Spiritual Care in Detention: Human Right, Necessity, Instrument or...? (PID111)
Workshop Session
The Use of Data to Contribute to Desistance (PID199)
Workshop Session
Rehabilitation Programs (in-prison and in-community) both criminogenic and general (PID135)
Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm
Harmonising Justice Health Cohort Data Across Jurisdictions: How and Why? (PID207)
Workshop Session
(CANCELLED) Role of Community Engagement: Can Community Involvement Help With Reform and Desistance? (PID142)
Workshop Session
Texas’ Strength Through Restoration, Independence, Vision and Empowerment (STRIVE) Reentry Program (PID028)
Workshop Session
Real Impact in Action: Serco Asia Pacific's Community Engagement Initiatives in Rehabilitation and Reintegration (PID060)
Workshop Session
Chaos Goes Both Ways: Aspects of the Co-Constitution of Chaos in the Australian Criminal Justice System That are Relevant When Addressing Desistance and Recidivism (PID102)
Workshop Session
Reducing recidivism through reintegration programs in prison: Rehabilitation Programs for Drug-abuse in Thai Correctional Settings (PID211)
Workshop Session
Exploring the Role of Ethics in Inmate Resocialization: A Pilot Program from Tallinn Prison, Estonia (PID067)
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4.30pm
We Could All Use a Coach: How a Coaching Model for Corrections has Transformed Culture (PID039)
Plenary Session
Friday 6 September
Institution A4
Prison Visits
Institution S1
Prison Visits
Rise Above Halfway House & ISCOS Community Space
Prison Visits
Institution B3
Prison Visits
Institution B4
Prison Visits
8.15am – 12.30pm
Institution S2 & Selarang Park Community Supervision Centre
Prison Visits
Institution TM1
Prison Visits
