In this section
- Conducting research in Ara Poutama Aotearoa
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Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal
- Volume 8 Issue 1: June 2021
- Volume 7 Issue 1: July 2019
- Volume 6 Issue 2: November 2018
- Volume 6 Issue 1: July 2018
- Volume 5 Issue 2: November 2017
- Volume 5 Issue 1: July 2017
- Information for contributors
- Volume 4 Issue 2: December 2016
- Volume 4 Issue 1: August 2016
- Volume 3 Issue 2: December 2015 - Evidence based practice
- Volume 3 Issue 1: April 2015 - Desistance
- Volume 2 Issue 3: December 2014 - Collaboration and Partnerships
- Volume 2 Issue 2: August 2014 - Motivational Interviewing
- Volume 2 Issue 1: April 2014
- Volume 1 Issue 2: November 2013 - Youth
- Volume 1 Issue 1: May 2013
- Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015
- Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation
- Topic Series Reports
- Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units
- What Works for Maori
- Community Based Domestic Violence 2012
- Tai Aroha 2012
- Breaking the Cycle of Crime
- Youth Therapeutic Programmes
- Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012)
- Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand
- Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand
- About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending
- Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study
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Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders
- Introduction
- Policies, guidelines and current practices
- A profile of violent and sexual female offenders
- Female offenders
- Risk, need and responsivity
- Risk factors for (repeated) criminal behaviour
- Risk factors for violent re-offending
- Psychopathy and female offenders
- Risk factors and sexual re-offending
- Criminogenic needs
- Responsivity issues
- Recommendations and guidelines
- Reference-list
- Appendices
- What works now
- Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis
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Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Introduction
- Overall recidivism rates (48-month follow-up)
- Re-imprisonment rates by age at release
- Re-imprisonment rates by age at first imprisonment
- Re-imprisonment rates by ethnicity
- Re-imprisonment rates by original offence type
- Reimprisonment rates by new offence type
- Frequency of re-imprisonments (48-month follow-up)
- Re-imprisonment rates by number of previous sentences
- Re-imprisonment rates: "first-timers" and "recidivists"
- Summary
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2: Counts of offenders in each sub-group
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Maori Offenders and Home Detention: Analysis of a One-Year Cohort
- Reconviction patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system
- Reconviction Patterns of Released Prisoners: A 36-months Follow-up Analysis
- And there was light...
- Best use of Psychological Service treatment resources
- Census of Prison Inmates and Home Detainees
- Child Sex Offender Treatment
- Criminogenic Needs Inventory (CNI)
- Inmate Family Relocation Study
- National Study of Psychiatric Morbidity in NZ Prisons
- New Zealand high-risk offenders
- Prison Youth Vulnerability Scale
- Risk of Reconviction
- Storm Warning
- Te Whakakotahitanga - An Evaluation of the Te Piriti Special Treatment Programme
- The Driving Offender Treatment Scale
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The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment
- Just How Effective Is Correctional Treatment At Reducing Re-Offending?
- Historical Background: The "What Works?" Debate
- Reviews of Offender Rehabilitation
- New Zealand Correctional Programming
- 1. Psychological Service treatment evaluation studies
- 2. The Kia Marama sex offender treatment programme
- 3. The Montgomery House violence prevention programme
- 4. The Driving Offender Treatment (DOT) programme
- 5. The Te Piriti sex offender treatment programme
- 6. Straight Thinking
- Conclusions
- Summary
- References
- The Utility of the Psychopathy Checklist - Screening Version for Predicting Serious Violent Recidivism in a New Zealand Offender Sample
- When the Bough Breaks
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A Risk-Need Profile Using Four Measures for Youth Offenders Incarcerated in Young Offender Units
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Method
- Results
- Discussion and Recommendations
- References
- Appendix A: Study Risk Measures
- Appendix B: Participants Information and Consent Form
- Appendix C: Distribution of index offending by YOU
- Appendix D: Distribution of risk categories for all four risk Measures
- Appendix E: Distribution of YLS/CMI subscale scores
- Māori Focus Units and Māori Therapeutic
Research
Read research undertaken by Corrections.
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Conducting research in Ara Poutama Aotearoa
Ara Poutama Aotearoa supports a wide variety of research and values evidence-based insights and practice. This page provides information for people who wish to carry out research with our staff, people we manage, at our facilities or using our data.
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11 June 2021
Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal
To promote good practice and encourage professionalism, Corrections publishes 'Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal'.
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22 March 2021
Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015 - View Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015 PDF 1.3 MB
The 2015 evaluation of the Tai Aroha special treatment unit was an in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of the programme.
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14 June 2016
Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners - View Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners PDF 3.0 MB
The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and co-occurrence of mental health and substance use disorders among New Zealand prisoners.
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23 February 2016
Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation - View Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation PDF 722.1 KB
This research was focused on the narratives of a group of women in New Zealand who had served sentences managed by the Department of Corrections, had received some form of rehabilitation, but nevertheless had re-offended.
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21 July 2015
Topic Series Reports
A series of reports that focus on particular sub-groups of the corrections volumes report.
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05 November 2013
Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units - View Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units PDF 1.3 MB
Report on phase three of the formative evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units, June 2013
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16 October 2013
What Works for Maori - View What Works for Maori PDF 1.3 MB
Synthesis of Selected Literature on what works for Maori.
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20 February 2013
Community Based Domestic Violence 2012 - View Community Based Domestic Violence 2012 PDF 458.1 KB
This literature and research review looked at the status of domestic violence interventions in Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, United States and New Zealand (2012).
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20 February 2013
Tai Aroha 2012 - View Tai Aroha 2012 PDF 2.9 MB
A formative evaluation of the 'Tai Aroha' residential community-based programme for high-risk offenders (2012).
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