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Recruitment and training of CO's |
each region has its own method of hiring and training
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Phases in CO training |
1) 8 week online course 2) 4 week workbook assignment 3) 8 week training program focusing on skill development 4) 2 week (on job) training where skill is assesed
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CO code |
have a normative code of behaviors - always have another officers back - dont rat out another officer
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What is the biggest source of stress in a CO's job |
fellow collegues who slack, gossip or act in a way in which cause said individual to feel uncomfortable
CO's are least likely to be stressed and more likely to be satisfied with their job when they are chill
CO's with a high level of education and who are born after '65 are more likely to be disatisfied with their job
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What are the 5 typologies of a CO? |
1)Rule enforcer - enforces rules, unwilling to negotiate avoids communication with inmates
2) Hard Liner - Power hungry, negative view of inmates, resent having to help inmates
3)People worker - normally older, focused on verbal skills to resolve problems, encourages communication
4) Synthetic - enforces rules yet considers cicumstances. very fair
5) Loner - normally a female or minority who enforce rules in an effort to not be tormented by other officers. dosnt trust inmates, dosnt negotiate |
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What factors did Farkas use to asses these typologies? |
1) rule enforcement 2) negotiation and exchange with inmates 3) norms of mutual obligations towards collegues 4) desire in implementing human services |
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What are the different types of agendas a CO might have? |
Custodial - control and enforcement of rules Correctional - use correctional powers to help inmates, this is in turn beneficial as they learn to trust you and can pass info along to you
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Different types of CO Power |
Coercive - searches and charhes
Reward
Legitamate - officers excercising their authority
exchange - informal system of rewards and punishments
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Sources of Stress |
Overcrowding understaffing threats to security are the leading cause of stress
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What percent o Co;s have PTSD symptoms
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95 |
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what percent of natives graduate high school? |
less that half |
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what is the rate of unemployment amound natives |
twice that of non natives
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at what rate are natives overrepresented in the institutions |
natives make up 3% of the population in Canada yet ther comprise 20% of federal offenders and 27% of provincial offenders |
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What are community holistic circle healing programs? |
programs designed in response to high rates of suicide and abuse - includes 13 phases |
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What does section 81 of the CCRA entail? |
forces the use of healing lodges |
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Aboriginal programs within the CSC |
Liason officer - mediates between non and aborginals within the intitution Correctional program officer - facilitates culturally appropriate programs Commmunity development officer - help reintergrate offender into aboriginal community Community liason officer - help reintergrate offender into urban community |
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what is the ICPM initiative |
provide more timely access to programs facilitate more program involvment increase completion rates
has a seperate program for aboriginal - the aboriginal multi target system
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aboriginal continuum of care |
encourages aboriginak youth to reconnect with tehir community provides programs to to lower theur security level so they can apply for conditional release
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Circle of care |
women connect with cultural identity encourages exploration of spirituality |
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which is the strongest predictor for a woman to reoffend |
spouse |
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What did the creating choices program allow for |
women to be jailed locally instead of in Kingston |
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Impact of creating choices report and Arbour report |
closing of P4W and opening of smaller regional facilities deputy commisioner for women
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What is the increase in women incarceration rates? |
40% for non aboriginal and 90% for aboriginal |
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What percent of women are gang affiliated? |
10% as opposed to 16% for males |
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Women pains of incarceration |
Housed far from home and seperated from children
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Argot roles for women |
Cherries (right guys) Butches (snitches) Tricks (square john) |
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comparrison of women and male prisons
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more static security in male prisons males usually get drugs from outside where females tend to abuse perscriptions males tend to get frequent visits from family |
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Difference between SIB and suicide attempts |
SIB are seen as a coping mechanism |
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Criticisms of response to women with mental health |
focus on assesing the mental health rather than treating it and they treat it as risk |
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How are women classified |
the LSR-I - this is used to asses the risk and needs of women - originally it was designed for males however it still works for women - |
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What percent of offenders are homelless? |
30 |
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what is the average time a offender will reoffend? |
3 years |
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what are the difficulties in measruring the succes of parole |
success is determined by recidivism rates which dont necessarily determine success. |
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purpose of Reentry courts |
review progress and problems faced by offender assist in treatment monitor compliance with release conditions apply sanctions when offender does not comply with conditions |
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What activities do the reentry courts undertake |
design of reentergration plans providing active oversight coordinating services
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when does suspension of conditional release occur |
when an offender fails to abide by the conditions of their release offender may be cancel suspension or refer the case back to the parole board where they will usually end up back in custody (revocation) |
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What are circles of support and accountability |
community based commities that aid in the mentoring for high risk sex offenders |
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Where did conditional release originate in? |
New zealand |
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When did the national parole board come into affect |
1959 |
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what does section 100 of the CCRA state? |
purpose is to maintain a peaceful and safe society facilate the rehab and reintergration of offenders
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what does section 102 state |
offenders will pose no risk to society released offender will contribute to protection of society by reintergrating |
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What is temporary abscence |
offender does not complete sentence however is granted a abscence for medical, educational, or employment reasons |
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How is conditional release determined |
will the inmate commit an offence that she would not have had the chance to in she was confined will the conditional release with supervison be any more beneficial that a cold turkey release |
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What is a cold turkey release |
when an offender is release with no conditional release and no supervision at the 2/3 point of there sentence |
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When can an offender be released from custody |
the parole eligibility date statutory release date warrant expiry date |
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What are th epurposes and conditions of judicial recognizance |
an order that is place on offenders who are usually sex offenders to abide by conditions after there release which normally entail avoiding place where children are most commonly used on pedophiles whos warrants have expired but they are still a risk to society can be in effect for up to 12 months |
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What are the contents of a parole certifiat |
mandatory and additional conditons obeying the law and reporting to a parole officer are mandatory and the additional condition are specific to the offender, rehab |
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Issues in parole board decision making |
boards may be subject to public and political influence abscebce of a clearly defined release criteria abscence of case info feedback |
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what does classification refer to?
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process by which inmate are divided by security level, program placement and appropriate custody
offenders stay at reception center where they are evaluated for health, mental heath, security and suicide concerns
risk/need assesment is also conducted |
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Why are recidivism rates a inadequate measure of treatment program success? |
just because people reoffend does not necessarily mean that the program was not effective |
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What factor determine security level? |
Static factors such as seriousness of the offence, previous criminal history, mental illness, |
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What is the purpose of the offender intake assesment |
to gather information about the offenders criminal history and patterns |
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What 8 factors are likely to result in criminality? |
lack of family attachments school/employment issues lack of prosocial activities antisocial peers/ attitude/ personality/ history substance abuse |
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What is the purpose of case managment? |
to determine the need and the ability level of the inmates and match it with programs. |
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what are the goals of case managment? |
monitor offenders at all stages of program balance needs of offender and protection of society prepare inmates for reintergration contribute to supervision in the community |
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Who holds the responsibility for case managment? |
IPO's or institutional parole officers
there job is to asses needs, behaviors, and attitudes and develop a rehabilitation plan and aid them in completing it |
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What are the five phases of case managment |
initial assesment and institutional placememt correctional planning and institutional supervision preparing case for realease decision parole board decison and release community supervision |
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what are the three programs of the intergrated correctional program model? |
Multi target program sex offender program aboriginal specific program |
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What are the session for high and low risk offender? |
high - 100 2 hour session low- 50 2 hour session |
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issues with treating sex offenders |
relunctant to join programs because they sometime dont believe they did anything wrong they claim the victim wanted it |
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what do programs for sex offenders entail |
provide self control skills congnitive behavioral skills and helping sex offenders become aware of triggers |
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what are the principles of effective correctional treatment? |
based on proven method of correctional change incorperate rnr focus on dynamic risk factors moniter, evalluate, and accredite have well traines responsible program staff
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what are some obstacles in regard to correcional treatment |
punishment vs treatment mentality penal populism doing time vs doing treatment - the pains of imprisonment can directly affect the abulity of offenders to participate in programs |
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goals of correctional intervention |
develop prosocial attitudes adress criminal attitudes stabilize relationships prevent reoffending |
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What does program fidelity and program drift refer to? |
program fidelity refers to the program being delivered in the way it was designed - this can be assured by providing a a clear manual and appropriate training
Program drift occurs when the program begins to drift from what it should be doing |
