Community Corrections Practices Involving Cooperation between Justice Authorities and Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan – Challenges and Tends (PID028)

11.45am – 12.30pm EDT, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

In Japan, many volunteers participate in community corrections and they support offender rehabilitation strongly. Before the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was very difficult for them to introduce or use new technologies including social media services as a method of the supervision due to protecting the supervisees' privacy. However, the Pandemic negatively impacted community corrections in Japan and let practitioners to the adoption of new perspectives and techniques, and these new ones have benefits for community corrections. On the other hand, the new ones can not replace traditional face-to-face interview because both of volunteers and supervisees mention the positive impact of face-to-face interview. This information imposes a questions on us, what has important role and are effective to rehabilitate supervisees? This presentation will explore the challenges and new practices in community corrections in Japan and how to support rehabilitation during the pandemic.