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THE CHANGING FEDERAL OFFENDER POPULATION UNDER COMMUNITY SUPERVISION: RECOGNITION AND RESPONSE Larry Motiuk The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) administers the community supervision of all federal offenders on conditional release. A modernized approach to correctional policy, programming and management practice requires timely, accurate and objective information on the offender population. CSC’s automated capacity to produce profiles of the community supervision population is being used to raise awareness about size and composition. Analytics show that CSC is facing some new challenges in managing the complexities of an increasingly diverse community supervision population.
(130.22 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Larry Motiuk
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EMPLOYMENT RE-ENTRY: UNPACKING THE EXPERIENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF FORMER FEDERAL CANADIAN PRISONERS Rosemary (Rose) Ricciardelli, Amy Sheppard & Taylor Mooney For prisoners, post-release, barriers exist to securing employment. Correctional Services Canada (CSC) has identified that approximately 60% of prisoners at intake to federal custody have employment histories that compromise their future employability. Employment and educational programming, as well as therapeutic and life skills courses, are offered within many prisons. Yet, the interpretations of available programming by prisoners, represents a lacuna in knowledge. In the current study, we draw from longitudinal interview data collected with 24 individuals released from federal prisons. Our objective is to develop an understanding of programming prisoners […]
(107.1 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Rosemary (Rose) Ricciardelli, Amy Sheppard & Taylor Mooney
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THE STRENGTH OF OHIO’S COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS: LEADERSHIP IN RESEARCH AND RE-ENTRY Denise M. Robinson, Randy Shively, & Gloria Iannucci This article examines and discusses factors that have made the State of Ohio successful in broadening its corrections continuum to include a range of effective community corrections programs based on a research model of Core Correctional Practices. Public-private partnerships, effective prison leadership and other collaborative efforts have helped practitioners and policymakers to overcome counterproductive attitudes and regulations. Research at the University of Cincinnati has led to the creation of the Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) and the Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS) model. These formalize the translation of risk, needs […]
(527.01 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Denise M. Robinson, Randy Shively, & Gloria Iannucci
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INNOVATIONS IN A MODEL FOR ENHANCING THE BEHAVIOR CHANGE CONTENT OF SUPERVISION WITH COMMUNITY-BASED OFFENDERS Mark V.A. Howard, Chee Seng Chong, Ofir Thaler & Nhat Le Tran Routine supervision in the community represents a substantial opportunity to intervene with offenders and promote behavior change at the population level. In recent years Corrective Services New South Wales (NSW) has made a number of innovations to the community supervision model to enhance the behavior change focus and content of sessions between supervising officers and offenders. This has included introduction of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI), a series of structured exercises and activities that can be used in sessions to addr ess […]
(151.02 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Mark V.A. Howard, Chee Seng Chong, Ofir Thaler & Nhat Le Tran
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SINGAPORE’S YELLOW RIBBON PROJECT: UNLOCKING THE SECOND PRISON Shanthi Pandian, Ruth Pauline Chin, Sandra Chua & Cheng Xiang Long Launched in 2004, the Yellow Ribbon Project (YRP) is a national campaign across Singapore aimed at generating awareness, promoting acceptance and engendering community action to support ex-prisoners’ reintegration into mainstream society. Over the past fifteen years, the Yellow Ribbon Project and other criminal justice reforms have proven to be highly successful. While Singapore has one of the lowest crime rates in the world (overall crime rate in 2018 of 588 per 100,000 population) (Singapore Police Force 2018), over the course of the last two decades, it is r eported that there […]
(1.44 MB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Shanthi Pandian, Ruth Pauline Chin, Sandra Chua & Cheng Xiang Long
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PROBATION AND VOLUNTEERS IN JAPAN Andrew Watson Origins of the probation service, its administrative structure, the respective roles of Professional Probation Officers (“PPOs”), hogo kansatsu kan, and the nearly 50 times more numerous Volunteer Probation Officers (“VPOs”), hogo-shi, are described. Recruitment of VPOs, their backgrounds, increasing age, methods of work and training is outlined, followed by activities of local VPO Associations, Offender Rehabilitation Support Centres and other voluntary organisations with whom they work. Strengths of the distinctive Japanese VPO system are analysed, followed by a discussion of challenges it faces. Keywords: Probation, Japan, Volunteers, Strengths, Challenges.
(115.56 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Andrew Watson
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INTEGRATION OF THE RISK NEED, RESPONSIVITY (RNR) MODEL AND CRIME DESISTANCE PERSPECTIVE: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL PRACTICE Ralph C. Serin & Caleb D. Lloyd This article critiques the relative contributions of RNR and desistance literature to understanding client change and improving client outcomes. The general premise is that both client change and outcome can be best understood by an integration of these key contributions. Specific suggestions regarding community supervision are presented
(108.27 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Ralph C. Serin & Caleb D. Lloyd
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TOWARDS ‘A LIFE MORE ORDINARY’: THE POSSIBILITIES OF DESISTANCE-ORIENTATED PROBATION Bronwyn Morrison & Jill Bowman This article critically reflects on the role that probation supervision plays in desistance. Utilising evidence from a New Zealand longitudinal post-release study, it finds that while most participants had a good relationship with their probation officer, few credited their probation officer with having a substantive part to play in their desistance. Reflecting on a case study in which super vision did catalyse desistance, it concludes that supervision can have an impact, but questions to what degree desistance-orientated practice departs from more traditional probation models. It recommends that more could be done to delineate and empirically […]
(151.64 KB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Bronwyn Morrison & Jill Bowman
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This Edition of Advancing Corrections is giving focus to ‘Community Corrections’. Community Corrections is an umbrella term we use to describe all of the things we do in the community to assist justice involved individuals in their reintegration journeys. There are papers in this Edition that that challenge us in going further in how we engage and collaborate with our communities (as they do, for example, in Japan and in Singapore). From a North American perspective, maybe one of the things we should accept is that rather than just doing things as usual, with some adjustment at the edges, we can learn from international practice that has truly pushed the […]
(7.36 MB) | 17. June 2019 | Author: Aleksandar Admin
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The theme for the 8th Edition of Advancing Corrections will revolve around one of ICPA’s key strategic focal points ‘Investing in Staff’. Although it is well accepted that delivery of effective correctional services hinges on the support and commitment of staff, quite often very little is done to nurture and sustain the morale of our staff, whether line-staff or managers, and whether in prisons or community settings. Investing in staff should be more than a slogan. It should be expressed in practical, integrated and focused ways that can serve both to build up the skills to manage demanding workloads and lessen the burden of pursuing a stress-infused ‘correctional career’. Increasingly, […]
(137.87 KB) | 20. May 2019 | Author: Frank J. Porporino, Ph.D. Chair ICPA R&D Network & Editor, Advancing Corrections
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