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Interorganisational Collaboration in a Norwegian Prison—Challenges and Opportunities Arising from Interagency Meetings
2021
AbstractIn prison, the provision of care and the surveillance of inmates takes place in multiple locations with several often contradictory demands. Inmates may experience a fragmentation of services because of the separate silos in which criminal justice service and mental health professionals work and the distinct ways of working that develop within these. A greater alignment between services is required. This chapter focuses on interagency meetings in a Norwegian prison. These are groups that aim to develop an holistic perspective of the inmate’s situation and problems, and are seen as an innovative way to overcome the contradiction between ‘treatment’ and ‘punishment’ prison paradigms a…
Le nouvel ordre des violences carcérales
2022
National audience
‘Back Door Sentencing’ in Italy: Common Reasons and Main Consequences for the Recall of Prisoners
2012
Italian law only provides the general conditions for the institution of recall. It follows that significant discretionary powers are enjoyed by the surveillance judges (and in particular by the Surveillance Tribunal) who evaluate on a case-by-case basis whether the commission of another offence or the infringement of parole conditions demonstrate the offenders' negative attitude to reintegrate into society. However, especially with reference to the commission of serious crimes, the judges' discretionary assessment can result in a restrictive application of the law on recall with the consequence that parolees are returned to prison even when they commit minor violations. The Italian peniten…
Cost-effectiveness of prison system development - comparison of the European countries
2020
The possibility to achieve successful resocialization of former prisoners back into society is an ongoing public debate, making it challenging for policymakers to implement prisoner rehabilitation programs capable of maintaining the public safety while allocating public funds in the most efficient way. The main aim of this study is to examine what is necessary for an investment in prison system development to be justified. The hypothesis of this study suggests that such investment can be cost-effective by reducing crime and recidivism rates in the long term by ensuring proper rehabilitation of prisoners. Accordingly, this research compares various European countries regarding their imprison…
Are validation scales useful for Detecting Deliberately Faked Personality Tests? A study in incarcerated populations
2012
Personality self-report questionnaires are frequently used in forensic settings to detect psychopathology, to predict recidivism, and to assess adaptability to life in prison. Although most personality questionnaires include validity or control scales, even with the scales most outcomes can be easily manipulated. The aim of this study is to analyze the utility of the control scales of the Situational Personality Questionnaire. A sample of 200 male prisoners was randomized into two groups. Both groups completed the SPQ as a part of the mandatory psychological assessment when they entered prison, and then again 8 months later. In time 2, one group received instructions to falsify the results …
Facilitation of Developmental Tasks in Prisons: Applying the Method of Human-Centred Co-evaluation
2021
AbstractCollaboration and learning are especially needed in times of change in the workplace. This chapter describes a novel method for developing work practices and enhancing professionals’ proactiveness through collective, participatory experimentation and evaluation. We used the method in a low-security closed prison in Finland to advance prison staff’s rehabilitation work with prisoners. The design, implementation and evaluation of the innovations prison officers introduced to advance their work (recording the inmates’ behaviour and needs into their sentence plans) are illustrated. Besides describing how the method was applied in practice, we also identify and discuss the gaps within pr…
Effects of prison work programmes on the employability of ex-prisoners
2014
This paper presents the results of a study that links information from the prison system with information from the Spanish Social Security System in order to study the employability of former inmates of prisons in Catalonia, Spain. Few studies of this type have been carried out in the world and this is the first in Spain. The results show that 43.6 percent of ex-prisoners find a job after serving their sentence, but their integration in the labour market tends to be fragile, confirming that it is a very vulnerable group. It was also found that prison work has a favourable effect on employability and that vocational training has a lesser or no effect. Fil: Alós, Ramon. Universitat Autònoma d…
Neutralité du chercheur et milieux fermés
2021
International audience
Posługa kapelana w więzieniu świętokrzyskim w pierwszych latach Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej
2020
W roku 1919, sto lat po kasacie opactwa benedyktynów na Świętym Krzyżu, ojcowie Klemens Dąbrowski (1875-1953) i Jozafat Ostrowski (1890-1939) podjęli starania o odzyskanie tego obiektu dla zakonu. Na przeszkodzie stały władze departamentu sprawiedliwości, który właśnie przejął zabudowania klasztoru na Świętym Krzyżu z zamiarem przywrócenia w nim funkcji penitencjarnych (dawne opactwo zostało przekształcone w więzienie w roku 1886). W okresie II Rzeczypospolitej, nie usunięto więzienia z Łysej Góry a zatem nie udało się przywrócić tam klasztoru. Jedną z form aktywności o. Dąbrowskiego na Świętym Krzyżu była posługa kapelana. Autor tekstu opisuje zakres obowiązków kapelana więziennego, jego r…
The Italian Prisons: An Emblematic Case of Chance of Improvement of a Public Service
2015
The history of prisons is full of pains and contradictions in every historic period. Detention should be seen as a moment of transformation of an offender in a rehabilitated subject. To do this, we need adequate structures, which are able to support individuals by offering them the opportunity, "which in civil life did not have or have not been able to exploit", therefore, prisons where the prisoners do not spend their time lounging due to the absence of any activity, not a structure without services such as the library, recreation centre, etc. as well as not a dilapidated structure and hygienically deficient. A reintegration process has to take into account the place of the reintegration. …