In this section
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Volume 8 Issue 1: June 2021
- Editorial
- “I can’t change my past, but I can change my future”: Perpetrator perspectives on what helps to stop family violence
- Assessing risk of re-offending: Recalibration of the Department of Corrections’ core risk assessment measure
- Hōkai Rangi: Context and background to the development of Ara Poutama Aotearoa Strategy 2019-2024
- Intervention and Support Project
- Evaluation of Tāmaua Te Koronga – a prison-based alcohol and other drug programme for young men
- It’s the right path for me”: Findings from an aromatawai of Te Ira Wahine
- Book review: Gangland by Jared Savage
- Information for contributors
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Volume 7 Issue 1: July 2019
- Editorial - Hope in the face of ‘wicked’ problems
- What has happened to you? Changing how we think about family violence and justice
- Putting victims at the heart of the criminal justice system
- “It’s all about the choices I make”: Understanding women’s pathways to desistance
- “I’m trying to change my ways”: The desistance processes of persistent offenders
- The Short Violence Prevention Programme: An offence-focused intervention for short-serving incarcerated men with a history of violence who are at high risk of re-offending
- Relapse prevention and safety planning: A viable short term intervention
- The Short Motivational Programme-Revised: A new era of Motivational Interviewing in programme delivery
- Supporting neurodiverse learners in New Zealand prisons
- Motivational Interviewing – the journey of Community Corrections
- The Alcohol and Other Drugs Aftercare Worker Service: Process evaluation findings
- Update on the community-based two-year alcohol and other drug testing trial
- Qualitative evaluation of the alcohol and other drug testing in the community trial
- Comparison of socio-economic and reconviction outcomes for offenders sentenced to home detention or a short sentence of imprisonment respectively
- New Zealand’s Six Pillar Model of reintegration and international reintegrative models: A review of the literature
- Housing supports and services in New Zealand: A cross-agency response
- Matawhāiti Residence – Public Protection Orders
- A mental health service for people in central North Island prisons
- Leading with values, measuring success
- Case study: How prototyping was used to design the solution for photographing people in the care of the Department of Corrections in the community
- Book review: Global perspectives on desistance: Reviewing what we know, and looking to the future
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Volume 6 Issue 2: November 2018
- Editorial
- Expanding Residential Community Care and Services: A policy option for New Zealand?
- Creating Positive Pathways: A long-term housing initiative for people released from prison
- The effectiveness of Corrections' rehabilitation interventions with Māori
- Are psychologists meeting the needs of Māori? A perspective from Psychological Services
- Aotearoa New Zealand cultural interventions: Current issues and potential avenues
- Te Ara Tauwhaiti - Kaupapa Māori supervision pathway for programme facilitators
- The development of the Kimihia Violence Prevention programme: An offence focused programme for women with high and complex needs
- Kia Rite: Evaluation of a new behavioural skills programme for women
- Development and implementation of trauma-informed training for women's corrections facilities in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Introducing practice tools for working distinctively with women
- "For me it was normal": Some initial findings from the family violence perpetrator study
- Inter-agency alignment of family violence programmes
- Inside probation officer contacts: A summary of an analysis of recorded probation
- My Mahi - the Community Work App
- Supporting Offenders into Employment
- Employability Skills Framework - improving the work preparedness of people with criminal convictions
- Risky business: Evaluating the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-entry for use with New Zealand youth
- Drawing on collective strengths to improve outcomes for youth in Corrections' youth units
- Evaluation of brief methamphetamine-focused interventions
- Practice note: Ara Poutama Practice Framework - our guide to integrated prison practice
- Book review: Offending and Desistance
- Book review: The End of Policing
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Volume 6 Issue 1: July 2018
- Editorial
- Intervention and Support Project
- Development of Mental Health and Reintegration Services in the New Zealand Department of Corrections
- Evaluation of the Improved Mental Health service
- Evaluation of the counsellors and social workers services
- Pursuing consistency: multiple sites; one drug treatment approach
- Early intervention and support: Corrections' Methamphetamine Pilot
- Alcohol and other drug testing trial of community-based offenders
- Employment needs post-prison: A gendered analysis of expectations, outcomes and service effectiveness
- Extending the reach of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, Aotearoa New Zealand Hillary Award for youth in Corrections
- Women offenders: Another look at the evidence
- A brief history of Te Tirohanga units
- “I know our people”: Exploring community approaches to gang member reintegration II
- Effective rehabilitation through evidence-based corrections
- The parachute problem
- Where New Zealand stands internationally: A comparison of offence profiles and recidivism rates
- Enhancements transform Office of the Inspectorate
- The journey to achieve a safer and healthier workplace
- Performance on the Physical Readiness Assessment
- Across the Tasman: A reflective practice journey
- Practice note: Identifying and managing the effects of traumatic brain injury
- World Congress on Probation: Report from the Chief Probation Officer
- Book Review: Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers
- Book Review: Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
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Volume 5 Issue 2: November 2017
- Editorial
- Addressing the imbalance: Enhancing women's opportunities to build offence free lives through gender responsivity
- Collaborative, relational and responsive: Principles for the case management of women in prison
- Methamphetamine use disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Strengthening continuity of care: Corrections' Alcohol and Other Drug Aftercare Worker Pilot
- Suicide in New Zealand Prisons - 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2016
- Transforming intervention and support for at-risk prisoners
- The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Validation for use as a screen for suicide risk in New Zealand prisons and probation settings
- An introduction to countering violent extremism
- The last defence against gang crime: Exploring community approaches to gang member reintegration - part I
- Supported accommodation services for released offenders in New Zealand - a review
- From Māori Therapeutic Programmes to Mauri Tū Pae
- A review of the Saili Matagi Programme for male Pacifica prisoners
- Measuring practice quality: A new approach in a Corrections setting
- Safety leadership - creating a positive safety culture at Corrections
- An integrated approach: Holistic assessment of vocational trainees
- Do your stretch: Yoga as a rehabilitative intervention
- Focus groups in prison
- Role differences between psychologists who work in Corrections and those who work in Forensic Health Services
- Book review: Sport in prison: Exploring the role of physical activity in correctional settings
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Volume 5 Issue 1: July 2017
- Editorial - Rehabilitation, reintegration, and the psychology of criminal conduct
- What works in correctional rehabilitation? Lessons from 15 years of programme outcomes analysis
- New Zealand prisoners’ prior exposure to trauma
- Treating sexual offenders who categorically deny their offending
- Corrections officer wellbeing: Training challenges and opportunities
- The fatigue journey
- New Zealand’s extensive electronic monitoring application: “Out on a limb” or “leading the world”?
- What happens beyond the gate? Findings from the post-release employment study
- Investing in prison education: New approaches to improving educational outcomes and reducing re-offending
- Women’s prison education
- Targeting recidivism of ex-offenders through the use of employment
- Community support systems for people released from prison: A review of the literature
- Practice note: International Symposium on Operational Correctional Issues and Challenges
- Practice note: Probation practice wheel
- Book review: The Psychology of Criminal Conduct 6th Edition
- Book review: Crime Law and Justice in New Zealand
- Information for contributors
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Volume 4 Issue 2: December 2016
- Editorial - Changing practice; changing lives
- The Department of Corrections' tikanga-based programmes
- Innovations in reducing re-offending
- The Sentenced Prisoner Population
- Trauma hiding in plain view: the case for trauma informed practice in women’s prisons
- Cross-agency plan to deliver world leading interventions for people who use violence within their family
- Towards an understanding of female family violence perpetrators: A study of women in prison
- Evidence-based principles for prison-based alcohol and drug treatment
- State of mind: mental health services in New Zealand prisons
- Supporting offenders into employment
- Guided Release: A graduated pathway enabling safe and successful reintegration for long-serving prisoners
- Aukaha te Waka – the Future of Probation 2016 – 2021
- An exploratory analysis into the mortality of offenders
- Building relationships to improve outcomes for youth in Corrections
- Book Review: What Works in Crime Prevention
- Book Review: Environmental corrections: A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community
- Information for contributors
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Volume 4 Issue 1: August 2016
- Editorial - Innovation in Corrections
- Do relationships matter? Examining the quality of probation officers’ interactions with parolees in preventing recidivism
- Family violence perpetrators: Existing evidence and new directions
- Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Brain gain for youth:Emerging trends in neuroscience
- Mauri Tu, Mauri Ora: An offence focussed programme for high risk youth
- What's in a name? The importance of identity verification for public protection
- The Investment Approach to Justice: Taking Integrated Offender Management to Police, Justice and the wider social sector
- On body cameras in prison
- Swift, Certain and Fair Sanctions: An innovative new programme or false HOPE?
- Ka Upane - "into the light" A brief skills group for short-serving offenders
- Phone call initiative
- Employment as a factor in desistance from crime
- Getting more "skin in the game" How latest evidence around social bonds suggests we can get more players involved in reducing re-offending, while reducing risk to the Crown
- The Hutt Valley Justice Sector Innovation Project: a case study on proactive approaches to innovation
- What works: a new model of public service delivery
- Profile: Ian Lambie, Chief Science Adviser for the justice sector
- When you really can't "know thy self" - what next?
- Book review: Switch: How to change things when change is hard
- Information for contributors
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Volume 3 Issue 2: December 2015 - Evidence based practice
- Twenty years of Corrections - The evolution of offender rehabilitation
- The High Risk Personality Programme - Revised: An evaluation report
- Women's experiences of rehabilitation and re-offending summary of findings
- Te Kupenga: An approach to working with offending families
- Public protection orders - Managing the most dangerous offenders under a civil regime
- Co-morbidity research - Part one
- What does it mean when Corrections says we will place the victim at the centre of our concerns in the family violence context?
- Making a difference for young people in prison
- Rolleston Prison - Reflections on a multi-disciplinary team in action
- Reduced re-offending by 25% by 2017
- Frontline Futures
- Characteristics of a learning culture
- Psychopathy and its implication for criminal justice - Key presentations and discussions from a specialist conference held May 2015, Austin, Texas.
- Book Review: Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself
- Book review: The Girls in the Gang
- Information for contributors
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Volume 3 Issue 1: April 2015 - Desistance
- Desistance from crime: A review of the literature
- Discovering desistance: Reconfiguring criminal justice?
- Lessons from research into youth desistance
- The role of release planning in the reintegration experiences of high-risk offenders
- Desistance in high-risk prisoners: Pre-release self-reported desistance commitment and perceptions of change predict 12-month survival
- Practice note: Building recovery, reducing crime
- The problem with 'the problem with gangs': Reflections on practice and offender desistance
- Physical Readiness Assessment and staff resilience
- Whakamanahia Wahine Programme for low-risk women offenders
- Book review: The Resilience Factor
- Book review: Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys
- Information for contributors
- 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
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