ICPA Research & Development Network Meeting

ICPA Research & Development Network Meeting (ICPA2024-SID02-07)

Authors

Frank Porporino

Corrections & Criminal Justice Consultant, ACFP & ICPA, Canada

Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has sustained a close to 50-year career in corrections as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. Frank has promoted evidence-informed practice throughout his career and his contributions have been recognized with awards from a number of associations including the ACA, ICCA, Volunteers of America and the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA). Early in his career, Frank founded the Research Branch of Corrections Canada, an internationally recognized leader in applied research in corrections that has recently celebrated its 35th Anniversary. Frank was also a founding member of the HMMPS Correctional Services Accreditation Panel, a best practice review committee that was subsequently emulated by many jurisdictions.

He has remained active internationally providing training and technical assistance in effective practice in over 25 countries, most recently in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan and Namibia. Currently Frank is serving as Editor of the ICPA practitioner-oriented Journal, Advancing Corrections, Chair of the ICPA R&D Network, member of the ICPA Practice Transfer Advisory Committee and Board Member and Secretary for the ICPA-North America Chapter. He has been a member of many ACA Committees, was a past member of the ICPA Board of Directors and is also Past-President of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP).

Professor Mark Halsey

Matthew Flinders Professor of Criminology, Research Lead/ Member, Centre for Social Impact, Flinders University, Australia

Mark Halsey is Matthew Flinders Professor of Criminology, Research Lead, and member of the Centre for Social Impact at Flinders University. He has had a long term interest in the conditions which support desistance from crime among various offender populations and has attracted in excess of $8 million in research funding on this and related topics—including a 5-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on intergenerational incarceration. Mark is co-author with Simone Deegan of Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance—a qualitative longitudinal (10-year) study that received the 2017 Christine M Alder Book Prize for having ‘made a valuable and outstanding contribution to criminology’.

From 2016 to 2022, Mark was Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Criminology (formerly the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology) and currently serves on the editorial boards of Incarceration (Sage), Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Taylor & Francis) and the International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation (Routledge). He has been a Visiting Fellow at such institutions as UC Berkeley and University of Oxford. From mid 2025, Mark will lead a $3.5 million Industry Laureate project called “Breaking the Prison-Reoffending Cycle: A Desistance From Crime Approach”. This is one of the top individual awards provided by the Australian Research Council and one of only 8 awarded nationally each year.

Melvinder Singh

Senior Assistant Director (Data Science Branch), Singapore Prison Service

Dr Melvinder Singh is currently a Deputy Director and Senior Principal Clinical Psychologist with the Clinical and Forensic Psychology Service, Ministry of Social and Family Development. Prior to this, he was involved in charting the evaluation efforts within the Singapore Prison Service. In addition to his interests in programme evaluation, Dr Singh is currently an active clinician in the area of violence assessment and intervention.

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