Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #11 - Envisioning Corrections in 2030 - Where Should the Evidence Take Us (ACJ11-A010)

Article 10: What Matters is What Works?: The Use of Evidence in Correctional Settings (ACJ11-A010)

Abstract

In this paper we consider the value of different types of ‘evidence’ from the perspectives of a correctional agency research director and a university researcher. We discuss both the feasibility and the desirability of collecting the type of evidence that has largely informed correctional policy and practice and argue that there is a need to broaden our methodological frame to address the gaps that exist in our current knowledge base and the problems that inevitably arise when trying to translate research findings into practice.

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Authors

Ms. Jennifer Galouzis

Director, Corporate Research Evaluation and Statistics, Corrective Services New South Wales

Jennifer Galouzis is the Director of Corrections Research, Evaluation and Statistics, Corrective Services NSW, Australia. Jennifer is also a current PhD candidate with the University of Melbourne and her thesis is titled ‘A rehabilitative prison environment and the possibility of therapeutic prisons’. Jennifer’s research interests are in the social and cultural climate of prisons and the measurement of prison performance. She has published papers in the areas of violence, sex offender treatment and risk of re-imprisonment.

Andrew Day

Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

Andrew Day (MSc, D.Clin.Psy.) is Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Before joining academia he was employed as a clinical and forensic psychologist in South Australia and the UK, having gained his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Birmingham and his Masters in Applied Criminological Psychology from the University of London.

Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #11 - Envisioning Corrections in 2030 - Where Should the Evidence Take Us (ACJ11-A010)

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