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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"offender management"”.
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Public Perceptions Regarding Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Management
… of the public's knowledge and perceptions on sex offenders, sex offenses, and sex offender management policies. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 282 students at East Tennessee State University. Along with the basic demographic variables, respondent's field of study …
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The Politics of Fear: The Dubious Logic Underlying Sex Offender Registration Statutes - Proposals for Restoring Measures of Judicial Discretion to Sex Offender Management
Existing sex offender management legislation generally represents an emotional response to a few well-publicized incidents involving child-victims. Federal and state legislative initiatives mandating sex offender registration for all defendants convicted of a sexually-oriented offense lack an …
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Causes and effects of physical injuries to Prison Officers employed in a high risk and high need offender management environment in Western Australia
Prison Officers (POs) involved in high need offender management frequently face risks that could affect their health, safety and wellbeing. Several studies have shown that direct client centred violence, inadequate management systems and the general nature of prison environments are major factors …
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Soft skills for hard work: an exploration of the efficacy of the emotional literacy of practitioners working within the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) with high risk offenders
… emotional content of probation intervention with offenders is central to practitioner/offender relationships, but constitutes a discourse that has been largely silenced within an organisation that favours a business orientated model. Questions addressed within this thesis relate to how …
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A Study of Modernized Personnel Training in Corrections: An Assessment of the Correctional Officer Pre-Service Training in Texas
… officer pre-service training. Of the Offender Management Training component, the following four elements indicate evidence of support: (1) observing offender movements and reading situations, (2) sexual abuse awareness, (3) special inmate populations, and (4) recognizing manipulation. …
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Exploring the beliefs about sex and relationships held by sex offenders with an intellectual disability
… the existing research literature concerning sex offenders with an intellectual disability and to offer direct implications for the treatment of these individuals within the National Offender Management Service1 (NOMS). The thesis concerns the exploration of the beliefs about sex and relationships …
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Probation officers’ attitudes towards balancing public protection and human rights in the risk management framework of Mappa
… reconsideration of the place of human rights in offender management following the Human Rights Act 1998. Probation has remained hesitant in engaging with the rights of offenders and victims when other expectations in relation to punishment, public protection and risk become the service’s …
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Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police
… process, looking at whether disruptions to offenders’ activities can be seen as durable or effective; whether ‘Lifetime Offender Management’ is successful in implementing changes in their offending behaviour. This has been set against a backdrop of literature which provides a historical …
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Conducting a Randomised Experiment in Eight English Prisons: A Participant Observation Study of Testing the Sycamore Tree Programme
… between a victim of crime and the participating offenders. It derives its rehabilitative potential from restorative justice and seeks to foster hope that change is possible for offenders, thus aiding them to desist from crime. Its development and theoretical basis are described for the first …
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Limitations on the Arts in Prison; Restrictive Narrative Identity and the Performance of Reform
… placed upon prisoners to participate in offender management programmes, which include role-play and presentations to demonstrate reformed behavior.<br/>Employing an autoethnographic method, which draws upon my experience as a Writer in Residence in prison, I propose that arts projects, …
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Applying a Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding and Evaluating the Effects of Family Treatment Among Sexually Abusive Youth
… out in collaboration with the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board. Quantitative data were collected from probation files of adjudicated youth (N = 85) in three different Colorado jurisdictions, and qualitative data were collected from approved Colorado treatment providers (N = 19). …
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Probation workers' practice and practice ideals in a culture of control
… practice and culture of probation workers in two offender management units in England. The PhD asks how broad theories of penal transformation have impacted on probation practice and practice ideals by looking at what probation workers say they are trying to achieve in their work, and how they go …
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Prisons, their `partners', and `resettlement : a study of four male prisons
… central governmental proposals for a National Offender Management Service which resulted from the publication of Patrick Carter's (2003) `Managing Offenders, Reducing Crime: A New Approach'. It makes problematic, and identifies, key features of `partnerships' and shows disparate meanings are …
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How Research Design can Impact the Evaluation of Policing Interventions: The development of an integrity model as part of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a police-led diversion scheme
… & Wales is to prosecute and incarcerate more offenders, and projected figures for the prison population suggest that the prison estate will need to be significantly developed to accommodate them. Yet, a consensus has developed derived from research studies and meta-analysis that custodial …