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(392.93 KB) | 28. July 2020 | Author: Björn Lindström & Pia Puolakka, RISE Criminal Sanctions Agency
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Guidelines
(108.49 KB) | 7. April 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Admin
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Guidelines
(140.58 KB) | 7. April 2020 | Author: Aleksandar Admin
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The ICPA R&D Network is an informal collection of both researchers and other corrections professionals committed to promoting evidence-informed practice in our field. With a current signed-up count of more than 60 members from 18 countries, the group concentrates on a few major activities in realizing its mission — ‘To effectively disseminate research-informed correctional knowledge and promote its application for the advancement of professional and humane corrections and prisons world-wide’. In view of the size and spread of the Network, most communication among members is conducted via e-mail, mostly as follow-through from our Annual Network Meeting in conjunction with the Annual ICPA Conference. The following are some of the key […]
(573.94 KB) | 30. November 2018 | Author: Frank Porporino, Ph.D., Chair, ICPA Research & Development Network
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Since there were a lot of new people joining this Expert Group meeting, we’ve started with a short introduction and a brief explication about ICPA and the Statement on the use of Technology in Offender Management witch can be found on our website.
(480.49 KB) | 24. March 2017 | Author: Steven Van De Steene
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This paper reports on a survey that was conducted by the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris) in 2016. These organizations strive to share, collaborate and learn from others and promote the interaction between prison and correctional services worldwide. This survey gives an unique insight in the status quo of prison and correctional services around the globe (36 prison services in 33 different countries) on the topic of technology in general and offender information management systems more specifically. In this contribution we describe the general characteristics of the prisoner information systems that were surveyed, the need that jurisdictions felt to change […]
(719.09 KB) | 26. February 2017 | Author: Toon Molleman, PhD. & Rianne van Os, Msc
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In the early 1960s and 1970s the classical liberal ideal of ‘pure’ science was being slowly eroded by a growing body of pragmatic discourse which explored the need to use scientific inquiry (i.e., basic/applied research) to promote economic growth and inform social policy. Ever since, there has been ongoing debate as to the merits of applied (i.e., ‘real world’) research and its ability to inform (social) policy. The journal article (noted above) begins with a sound overview of the merits of evidence-based/evidence-informed research. As the authors duly note, there still exists a degree of disconnect between policy-makers and researchers – as Chapman (1979) is quoted as saying: “social scientists and […]
(466.29 KB) | 3. November 2016 | Author: Prof. John Winterdyk
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As the size and cost of jails and prisons have grown, so too has the awareness that public investment in incarceration has not yielded the expected return in public safety. This creates an opportunity to reexamine the wisdom of our reliance on institutional corrections—incarceration in prisons or jails—and to reconsider the role of community-based corrections, which encompasses probation, parole, and pretrial supervision. However, it could also be an opportunity wasted if care is not taken to bolster the existing capacity of community corrections. With this report, Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections provides an overview of the state of community corrections, the transformational practices emerging in the field (including those […]
(365.17 KB) | 3. August 2016 | Author: Vera Institute of Justice
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Until recently, community corrections has suffered from a lack of research that identified proven methods of reducing offender recidivism. Recent research efforts based on meta-analysis (the syntheses of data from many research studies) (McGuire, 2002; Sherman et al, 1998), cost-benefit analysis (Aos, 1998) and specific clinical trials (Henggeler et al, 1997; Meyers et al, 2002) have broken through this barrier though and are now providing the field with indications of how to better reduce recidivism. This research indicates that certain programs and intervention strategies, when applied to a variety of offender populations, reliably produce sustained reductions in recidivism. This same research literature suggests that few community supervision agencies (probation, parole, residential community corrections) in the U.S. are using these effective interventions and their related concepts/principles.
(664.95 KB) | 3. August 2016 | Author: Crime and Justice Institute
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(306.29 KB) | 5. July 2016 | Author: United Nations
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