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ARTICLE 5: HOW DOES “CONTEXT” INFLUENCE RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENTS IN CORRECTIONAL SETTINGS – IDEAS AND PRACTICES FROM CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS OF SINGAPORE PRISON SERVICE Boon Siang Kwek, Shamala D/O Gopalakrishnan, Xiangbin Lin, Rashida Mohamed Correctional psychologists often adhere to comprehensive instructions of manuals and structured protocols of risk and needs assessment instruments in order to ensure that their assessment findings are accurately reported. Apart from the use of manuals and protocols, we propose that it is also important for correctional psychologists to consider the context of each assessment to produce more relevant, nuanced, and useful risk assessment findings for various decisions resulting from the assessments. In this article, we illustrate […]
(236.19 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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ARTICLE 4: ASSESSING AND MANAGING OFFENSE ANALOGUE AND OFFENSE REPLACEMENT BEHAVIORS IN CORRECTIONAL SETTINGS Mark E. Olver & Keira C. Stockdale Dynamic security entails the use of staff interactions with correctional clientele to contribute to a safe and rehabilitative corrections environment. Offense linked proxy behaviors, known as offense analogue behaviors (OABs), represent criminogenic needs expressed in controlled correctional settings that can jeopardize safety and security. By contrast, offense replacement behaviors (ORBs) represent prosocial alternative behaviors that can supplant OABs, contribute to safe and effective corrections environments, and promote successful reintegration. The present manuscript provides an overview of the OAB and ORB concepts, their assessment, monitoring, intervention and management through both […]
(425.51 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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ARTICLE 3: RISK DECAY: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT Ralph C. Serin Risk instruments are a mainstay of correctional practice, informing such key decisions as custody classification, the timing of release from prison, and resource allocation for programming and supervision. Over the past 4 decades these risk instruments have evolved, yielding greater breadth in terms of content and applications for different offender subgroups and outcomes. With these changes a primary consideration has been the predictive accuracy of each instrument, often prompting users to champion one risk assessment instrument (RAI) over another. An equally central consideration is the longevity of a risk instrument and its ability to sustain accuracy over time. This […]
(99.55 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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ARTICLE 2: DO RISK ASSESSMENTS PLAY A ROLE IN THE ENDURING ‘COLOR LINE’? Yilma Woldgabreal, Andrew Day and Armon Tamatea This paper presents some of the arguments that have been put forward to suggest that current risk assessments are inherently biased and disproportionally disadvantage people of color in Western correctional systems. We suggest that this is a key area of concern for all correctional professionals and that new methods of risk assessment and approaches to training are needed. In our view, without this people of color will continue to be misclassified, over-assessed, placed in the wrong rehabilitation pathways, imprisoned and/or supervised longer than needed, and consequently remaining overrepresented in the […]
(92.6 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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ARTICLE 1: FROM LABELLING BAD APPLES TO A BETTER SCIENCE OF SPOILED BARRELS Shadd Maruna Last October I had the privilege of delivering the Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the ICPA Annual Conference in Buenos Aires to a surprisingly attentive audience of more than 500 corrections professionals from over 70 countries. This paper is an abbreviated version of that presentation, minus most of the good jokes. The presentation was my attempt to imagine a prison psychology that was not obsessed with risk assessment. It turns out, as a famous Liverpudlian once sang, ‘It isn’t hard to do.’ A huge body of psychological research suggests that risk should be understood as a […]
(82.36 KB) | 14. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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This Annual Report provides information on the activities and initiatives of the International Corrections and Prisons Association relating to the Fiscal Year of 1st July 2019 to 30th June 2020.
(3.07 MB) | 9. October 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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Read ICPA’s Business Plan which outlines our activities, initiatives and priorities in the period 2020-2022. We have a strong focus over this period to work on enhancements at the core of the organisation that will allow us to deliver more products and services which will provide even more value to our membership. In addition it details how we will embark on a number of activities and initiatives to further improve how we work with others across the Global Corrections Community in achieving our shared goal of advancing professional corrections.
(1.52 MB) | 25. August 2020 | Author: ICPA
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A brief overview of the origins and history of the International Corrections and Prisons Association, period 1998-2016.
(7.16 MB) | 5. August 2020 | Author: Fraser Bryans
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The 2020 Summer Edition of ICPA’s newsletter Beyond the Wall is now available. In this issue: Supervision Around the World (SAW) Project (USA), Changing practice in a pandemic – Community Corrections New South Wales (Australia), Sanctions and measures without deprivation of liberty increasingly used in Europe: New Survey (Europe), NIJ-Funded Research Examines What Works for Successful Reentry (USA), Tempus Novo tackling crime in their own unique way (United Kingdom). This copy of “Beyond the Wall” is available to ICPA Members. Login and Read the Newsletter. If you are not a member yet – Register today as a Basic Member to read the full version.
(3.45 MB) | 31. July 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Petrov, Communications Officer, ICPA
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The 2020 Autumn Edition of ICPA’s newsletter Beyond the Wall is now available. In this issue: Supervision Around the World (SAW) Project (USA), Changing practice in a pandemic – Community Corrections New South Wales (Australia), Sanctions and measures without deprivation of liberty increasingly used in Europe: New Survey (Europe), NIJ-Funded Research Examines What Works for Successful Reentry (USA), Tempus Novo tackling crime in their own unique way (United Kingdom).
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