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Prison officer students’ perceptions of persons convicted of sexual crimes
2021
This study investigated the dimensionality of the Perception of Sex Offenders scale among prison officer students in Norway, and whether the students’ perceptions of this group of prisoners changed during their theoretical education and 1-year practical training. The target sample comprised a full cohort of freshman prison officer students, and two waves of data collection were conducted. The response rate was 94 percent ( n = 188) at time 1 (T1) and 64 percent ( n = 112) at time 2 (T2). The originally reported three-dimensional structure of the Perception of Sex Offenders scale was replicated in our sample. Moreover, the results supported our hypothesis that prison officer students were l…
Mapping palliative care provision in European prisons
2021
ObjectivesPrison populations around the world are ageing and numbers are rising, leading to greater demand for palliative care for prisoners approaching the end of life. This paper reports a survey that was undertaken by the European Association for Palliative Care Task Force on mapping palliative care provision for prisoners in Europe. The Task Force was established to begin to address the gap in research knowledge by exploring prison systems and care provision across different countries.MethodsThe survey, developed by the Task Force Steering Committee, consisted of 40 questions in six sections. It was completed through online searches; only data that were publicly available on the interne…
Les enseignants en prison : des carrières atypiques
2022
Le sous-groupe professionnel des enseignants en prison représente 0.2% de la masse globale des enseignants en France (Heraud & Soigneux, 2020). Ces enseignants dans les « marges » (Kherroubi, Millet & Thin, 2018) interviennent ponctuellement ou à temps plein au sein des établissements carcéraux (en tant vacataires ou titulaires). Enseigner en prison relève d’une démarche volontaire, il n’y a pas d’affectation systématique possible, d’autant plus que l’institution pénitentiaire semble être une entrave au bon déroulement de l’enseignement avec les logiques sécuritaires et disciplinaires qu’elle impose (Salane, 2013). Néanmoins, ces professionnels, y compris les vacataires, bénéficient d’une c…
The predictive and incremental validity of the German adaptation of the Static-2002 in a sexual offender sample released from the prison system
2015
Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the predictive validity of the German adaptation of the Static-2002 and to compare it with the results of the Static-99. Method The predictive validity of Static-2002 was investigated in a sample of n = 452 sexual offenders released from the Austrian Prison System. The instrument was coded retrospectively using file information. Afterwards, the predictive estimates of the Static-2002 were related to officially documented reconviction data. Results The Static-2002 was found to have large effect sizes for predicting sexual, violent, and general recidivism (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] = .78, .75, .75, respectively) f…
Prevalence and characteristics of prisoners requiring end-of-life care: A prospective national survey
2017
Background: Ensuring adequate end-of-life care for prisoners is a critical issue. In France, data investigating the impact of laws allowing release of seriously ill prisoners are lacking. Aim: To assess the number and characteristics of prisoners requiring palliative care in French prisons. Design: A prospective, national survey collecting data over a 3-month period. Setting/participants: All healthcare units ( n = 190) providing care for prisoners in France. The prison population was 66,698 during the study period. Data collection concerned prisoners requiring end-of-life care, that is, with serious, advanced, progressive, or terminal illness and life expectancy <1 year. Results: Estima…
Drugs addiction and prison: an empirical study
2010
Abstract: International literature shows us specific clinical and socio-demographic traits that characterize inmate drug addicted population, and specifically those who, after imprisonment, don’t continue therapeutic treatments. So, diagnostic process, planning and realization of rehabilitation treatments for people characterized by high levels of sufferance and chronicity, become more difficult but, at the same time, more necessary. Our study allows monitoring of inmate drug addicted population into “Ucciardone” Prison of Palermo, during nine months. The results permitted to obtain a complete evaluation of substances use style and psychiatrics symptoms of inmate drug addicted population. W…
L’enseignement et les enseignants, des ressources indispensables en prison
2022
La prison est un lieu de privation de liberté dans lequel les personnes incarcérées se retrouvent dans une situation d’isolement, parfois pour un temps indéterminé où les ressources sont difficilement accessibles. Des activités sont ainsi initiées pour les aider à surmonter cette période d’emprisonnement souvent difficile et structurer leur quotidien, Résultat d’une collaboration entre le Ministère de la Justice et le Ministère de l’Education Nationale depuis la convention du 19 Janvier 1995, l’enseignement fait partie de ces activités. L’activité d’enseignement et les enseignants eux-mêmes représentent donc des ressources sociales et humaines primordiales pour les personnes incarcérées. En…
L'edilizia carceraria in Italia: storia, attualità e prospettive
2016
La storia dell'edilizia carceraria racchiude in sè molte facce della storia di un paese, anche se si tratta di una tipologia relativamente giovane. Il concetto di pena inflitta ad un reo infatti ha subito nei secoli diversi cambiamenti, legati alla cultura, alla politica ed alla naturale evoluzione del pensiero dell'uomo. Per secoli non si è immaginata una distrubuzione funzionale ad hoc, ma solo adattati alla meglio dei luoghi con piccoli spazi dove detenere i puniti. Da quando ci si è iniziati a porre il problema di un edificio costruito appositamente per la detenzione i dibattiti sulle caratteristiche di questa tipologia edilizia non sono mai cessati. In Italia la questione del sovraffol…
Gamifying the Escape from the Engineering Method Prison
2018
Software Engineering is an engineering discipline but lacks a solid theoretical foundation. One effort in remedying this situation has been the SEMAT Essence specification. Essence consists of a language for modeling Software Engineering (SE) practices and methods and a kernel containing what its authors describe as being elements that are present in every software development project. In practice, it is a method agnostic project management tool for SE Projects. Using the language of the specification, Essence can be used to model any software development method or practice. Thus, the specification can potentially be applied to any software development context, making it a powerful tool. Ho…
Authoritarian exclusion and laissez‐faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway*
2021
Abstract: Comparative penologists have described neoliberal and social democratic jurisdictions as though they exist at opposite ends of a continuum of inclusion and exclusion, and as though neoliberal states are inactive and social democratic states are invasive. This article, which is based on more than 129 interviews with men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway, uses Cohen's work on inclusion and McNeill's typology of rehabilitative forms to complicate this simplistic binary. It argues that the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales was demanding but exclusionary; it imposed strict legal restrictions on these men during and after their imprison…