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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20 February 2013
Breaking the Cycle of Crime - View Breaking the Cycle of Crime PDF 1.3 MB
An evaluation of the performance and effectiveness of Corrections' four High Risk Special Treatment Units (2012).
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20 February 2013
Youth Therapeutic Programmes - View Youth Therapeutic Programmes PDF 1.4 MB
This review covers: trends in youth offending in New Zealand, developmental considerations, interventions and youth offending, characteristics of effective programmes, and specific responsivity (2012).
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01 December 2012
Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012) - View Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012) PDF 995.6 KB
Findings from a two-phase research investigation.
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03 April 2012
Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand - View Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand PDF 684.9 KB
This report investigates the reasons why there are relatively high volumes of offenders on community sentences in New Zealand compared with other jurisdictions.
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24 February 2012
Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand - View Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand PDF 618.1 KB
Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand.
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14 November 2011
About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending - View About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending PDF 930.1 KB
A report from the Department of Corrections to the Minister of Corrections, introducing options for reducing the use of imprisonment under the headings: prevention, alternative sentencing, rehabilitation of established adult offenders. (2001)
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16 August 2011
Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study - View Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study PDF 115.9 KB
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13 April 2011
Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders - View Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders PDF 337.1 KB
Table of contents of Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders
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01 December 2009
What works now - View What works now PDF 725.8 KB
A review and update of research evidence relevant to offender rehabilitation practices within the Department of Corrections
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15 September 2008
Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis - View Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis PDF 104.8 KB
Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-monith follow-up analysis.
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