Conferences
Probation and community corrections : making the community safer
Novotel Langley, Perth
23-24 September 2002
This conference was organised by the Australian Institute of Criminology in conjunction with the Probation and Community Corrections Officers' Association Inc.
Contents
Introduction
Agencies and individuals working in the field of Community Corrections supervise offenders on a wide variety of court orders and early release from prison, and are also involved in a range of work including crime prevention, victim support and victim offender mediation, drug courts and other specialist courts.
The Community Corrections profession underpins much of the criminal justice system: providing advice to courts on bail and sentencing, and to Parole Boards and like bodies on release decisions. It is at the forefront in the use of technology in managing offenders, with electronic monitoring of compliance with orders, and sophisticated drug testing regimes; and at the forefront of the delivery of programs to offenders - cognitive behavioural programs to sexual and violent offenders; domestic and family violence perpetrator programs; cognitive skills programs and substance use programs. It is an avid user of sophisticated research and evaluation, using cutting edge tools for the assessment of offenders' risk and needs.
This conference examined current and proposed practice and research in the wide field of community corrections.
Conference papers
- Keynote address - Community justice as public safety
Professor Todd Clear, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, United States of America
Managing community corrections
- Probation, parole and community corrections. Past, present and future: are we prepared to go there?
Kathy Waters, Director of Adult Probation Services Division, Arizona Supreme Court, USA; and President, American Probation and Parole Association, USA - Achieving the right balance (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Alan Piper, Director-General, Department of Justice, Western Australia - Indigenous people and community corrections (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Mark Cuomo, Director, Legal Services, Aboriginal Legal Service, Western Australia
Rehabilitation and practice
- The rationale for a national approach (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Tony Hill, Queensland Delegate to PACCOA and Past President; and Brian Norman, NSW Delegate to PACCOA and Past President - Integrated offender management: changing the way we work with offenders in New Zealand
Tracy Mellor, Department of Corrections, New Zealand - The foundations of corrections based services for victims of crime: A PACCOA position paper
Keith Shiers, Probation and Community Corrections Officers' Association, Western Australia
Programs and interventions
- Marketing and community corrections (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Helen Ringrose, Director-General, Department of Corrective Services, Queensland - Small in number, high in need - issues in managing justly with female offenders (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Catriona McComish, Assistant Commissioner for Probation and Parole, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales - Critical incidents - a window on community corrections practice
Lange Powell, Director of Community Corrections, Department for Correctional Services, South Australia
Justice responses
- Specialised courts and sentencing
Professor Arie Freiberg, University of Melbourne, Victoria - Victorian community corrections review - progress to date (ABSTRACT ONLY)
David Daley, Director, Community Correctional Services, Victoria
Risk assessment
- A risk assessment model for offender management
Max Maller, Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia; and Richard Lane, Department of Justice, Western Australia - Criminogenic risk/need and responsivity: the psychopathic offender
Susan Wojciechowski, Probation and Parole Service, New South Wales - Predicting sexual and violent recidivism in WA sex offenders (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Francesca Bell and Assoc Professor Alfred Allan, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
Diversion
- The punitiveness of electronically monitored community based programs
Marietta Martinovic, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Victoria - Adult court advice and support service (ACAS)
Lesley Garton, Department of Human Services, Victoria - Indigenous advisors: a 'blueprint' for the future (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Neil Fong, Inquiry into Family Violence in Aboriginal Communities; Nic Merson and Jane Tittums, Department of Justice; Hector O'Loughlin, Aborignal Alternative Dispute Resolution Service; and Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian, University of Western Australia
Offender management
- Indigenous violent and sex offending males: what are the risk and needs factors? (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Deborah Dawson and Assoc Professor Alfred Allan, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia - The therapeutic needs of Indigenous violent and sex offending males: how can they be addressed?
Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian, University of Western Australia - Psychologists and cognitive skills programs in community corrections - what works!
Therese Ellis-Smith and Dr Annie Thomas, CORE, Victoria - The offender programs and Edith Cowan research project (OPEC): A longitudinal investigation of treatment needs and recidivism (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Audrey Baker, Department of Justice, Western Australia; and Deborah Dawson, Edith Cowan University
Interventions
- A strategy for intervention in the area of family violence
Teresa Kirk and Brit Culyer, Department of Justice, Western Australia - The challenges of implementing Throughcare
Kate Stevens, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales - Community corrections service - you can count on us (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Robert Fatchen, Department of Justice, Victoria - The administration of justice is an intensely local experience (ABSTRACT ONLY)
Peter Curwen-Walker, Department of Justice, Northern Territory