A major part of ensuring evidence based practices will meet the needs of community safety and offender practice is ensuring that the practice fits the offender and the classification of the offender is correct. Additionally, the practice must meet the needs of the offender and the resources must be available in order to meet those needs. Improper classification will result in failure across the board in community safety, program failure and failure to change the offender’s behavior. The use of evidence based practices can both reduce incarceration rates and crime rates with proper support, funding, offender classification, risk assessment of offenders and proper treatment programs. In my opinion, evidence based practice can be misleading because of the use of the word evidence.
Sentencing allows time for an offender to be punished and time for the community to help reduce crime. The corrections system would be nothing without sentencing. The objectives of punishment have changed the way sentences are determined in a positive way. The corrections system relies on the way sentencing is handled in order to maintain organization and respect from the public. The objectives of punishment in the United States have not always been established, but they continue to make positive impacts on the system as a whole.
Project 1 - Corrections Timeline 1920’s Treatment and Punishment of offenders in 1920’s Progressive era was to provide guidance; friendship and assistances to the offenders. The progressive thought it was necessary to know the offenders life history and then have a devise treatment program specific to that individual. They would need the discretion to diagnose each criminal prescribe treatment and release to the community. electric chair to be used to execute inmates sentenced to death. Lawmakers consider the electric chair a more humane method of execution than public hanging, which took place in the yards of county courthouses.
This is the purpose of the new legislative law updated and reviewed to combat and eliminate such barbaric behaviours displayed by so called supportive staff members in supposedly places of secure safe environments. The purpose of legislative law is to filter new and reform existing legislation through to the relevant policies and procedures within specific places of work. So to summarise the purpose of legislation in terms of managing difficult behaviours is that it functions to safe guard the vulnerability of service users in places of care which predominantly gets feed down through governing bodies to the policies and procedures file within the office within your place of work. It can be looked upon as a code of good practice with regards how to deal with vulnerable adults whom display challenging behaviours within places of care. When working within such an environment it is almost expected to receive challenging behaviour due to the different backgrounds and diagnosis the service users have so it would not be acceptable to react within such a way as you would when away from the unit due to
“This program aims to reduce recidivism and increase pro-social behavior by changing the offenders' thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs through research-based cognitive programming. The Cognitive-Behavioral program is designed to change criminal thinking and behavior. Using this approach holds offenders accountable for their behavior. The interventions are structured and directive, and has demonstrated effectiveness in changing criminal behavior in numerous scientific studies. Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is an objective, systematic treatment system used within the Cognitive-Behavioral program to enhance ego, social, moral, and positive behavioral growth in a progressive systematic fashion.
As a result of his efforts, the Penitentiary Act was passed in 1779. This act provided secure and sanitary structures, systematic inspections, abolition of fees for basic services, and a reformatory regime. He wanted offenders to reflect on their sins, rather than simply being punished brutally. These ideas influenced the development of penitentiaries in the United
A reflective account of communication ‘Whilst experience Is the basis for learning, learning cannot take place without reflection’ Osterman and kottomp 2004 This assignment will be a reflection on communication within my role as a volunteer mentor, to offenders/ ex-offenders. Due to confidentiality agreements and the need for different approaches to the variant of individual circumstances, this will not be a case study per se but will recount the methods, theories and practice used within an interaction, and reflect on the process as a whole toward a client with aggression tendencies. Schon (1996) states that self-consciousness (reflection) and ‘on going self- critique ‘(critical reflection) are essential components to continued increased ability within ones professional and personal growth. Williams (2001) claims this can be further achieved by examining and critically questioning practice, knowledge, and personal problem solving processes to the action undertaken. For me to become critically reflective in my practice with ex-offenders and beyond, taking my learned experiences into the housing sector field, I will use the Driscoll model of reflection; What, So What, Now What.
How do we address this issue in a way that satisfies both the victim and society, and also helps the offender in his/her quest for change? In the U.S. correctional system “punishment” is one of the main devices used to vindicate
Salas E., Sims D.E., Burke C.S, Is there a “Big Five” in Teamwork? The authors main reason for writing the article is to answer the question “what is teamwork?”. This question is raised as there has been little investigation into why the factors that cause teams to fail occur. Such factors as poor planning, lack of support from supervisors and bad communication have all been identified, but why they actually occur has not been fully understood. Or rather, the way to prevent them from causing failure in teams, is for teams to have good teamwork.
Discursive Essay - Does prison work? This question is far too simplistic for a yes or no answer. Prison has four main aims firstly, retribution; to punish an offender who has broken the law, the punishment will reflect the seriousness of the crime and the level of moral fault. Secondly, protection of society; which takes criminals out of the circulation of crime and stops other people in society from becoming victims. Thirdly, rehabilitation; the use of effective counselling and educational programmes help offenders reform themselves.