6-Month Quantitative Evaluation of A Pilot Test of Environmental Corrections at Inala Probation and Parole

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Schaefer, Lacey
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2017
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This technical report communicates the findings of a pilot test of the “Environmental Corrections” model of offender community supervision performed at Inala Probation and Parole. The Environmental Corrections framework applies the tenets of environmental criminological theories to offender supervision.1 Summarily, this model works to reduce recidivism by addressing the two causes of crime: opportunity and propensity. First, case managers work to limit their supervisees’ access to chances to commit crime, redesigning offenders’ routine activities so that risky settings are avoided and are replaced with prosocial influences. Second, the nature of officer-offender meetings is reoriented so that the criminogenic needs of each probation and parolee are addressed. The Environmental Corrections model is more interventive than the assessment-heavy and compliance-focused Next Generation Case Management model currently used by Queensland Corrective Services. The pilot test refashioned the underlying goal of probation and parole away from risk management and toward risk reduction; under the Environmental Corrections model, staff were trained to move beyond case management and service brokerage, working to encourage long-lasting behavioural change among their supervisees.

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Correctional Theory, Offender Treatment and Rehabilitation

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