How the Offender Management Framework Applies to the Women’s Prison System
CSAC Women Offenders Conference –Better Pathways to Better Outcomes forWomen Prisoners and Offenders
December 2007
Background
• Reducing Re-Offending Framework (2004)– Describes how to assess, treat and manage
higher risk offenders in order to reduce risk of re-offending
– This relies on effective offender management by all staff to maximise opportunities for offenders to change their behaviour
Corrections Victoria’s Mission Statement
• To deliver a safe and secure corrections system in which we actively engage offenders and the community to promote positive behaviour change.
The Aims of Offender Management
• Maintain a safe, secure and supportive community;
• Motivate offenders to engage in and continue with programs and services;
• Identify and monitor offenders’ risks and needs; and
• Based on these risk and needs coordinate their access to appropriate programs, services and activities
• The role of staff in maintaining security and actively engaging offenders in programs and services is central to Offender Management.
Offender Management Framework
• Documents a number of practice principles based on the “what works” literature.
• The practice principles ensure that our offender management practices are linked to evidence based theory and enables a consistent, system wide approach.
Theoretical Principles
Practice Principles
Offender Management Practices
The Offender Management Framework
“What Works”Theoretical principles
IntegrityWhat approaches should be based on.
Risk-Need Approach (Andrews, 2001)Good Lives (Ward & Stewart, 2003)Therapeutic Jurisprudence (Wexler & Winick, 1996)
A system based on these three theories, provides a system that can protect the community by reducing antisocial behaviour and address individual offender needs by increasing prosocial behaviour and well-being.
“What Works”Theoretical principles
• Risk– Who should receive services?– What level of intervention should they receive?
• Need– What should be targeted?
• Responsivity– How should intervention be delivered?– Internal (Individual offender characteristics)– External (Offender-staff interactions)
Practice PrinciplesCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the BalanceTheoreticalPrinciples Practice Principles
Integrity
Risk & Need
Responsivity
Internal
External
Practice PrinciplesCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the BalanceTheoreticalPrinciples Practice Principles
Maintain System Integrity• Offender management processes are evidenced-based and linked to theory.• Staff members are properly trained and supported/mentored.• Quality assurance processes are in place to ensure offender management processes
are monitored to identify areas of achievement and opportunities for improvement.• Offender management practices are evaluated.
Integrity
Risk & Need
Responsivity
Internal
External
Practice PrinciplesCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the BalanceTheoreticalPrinciples Practice Principles
Integrity
Manage Risk and Target Intervention Needs• Offender management processes are based on accurate and up-to-date information.• Offenders have access to an adequate range of services, programs and activities
to accommodate their identified needs.• Level of services and programs are matched to level of risk (includes risk
of re-offending, to staff, escape, self-harm etc).• Staff members monitor offender’s progress on goals.
Risk & Need
Responsivity
Internal
External
Practice PrinciplesCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the BalanceTheoreticalPrinciples Practice Principles
Integrity
Risk & Need
Increase Self Responsibility• Staff, services and programs are responsive to offenders’ learning styles and abilities.• Offenders are assisted to have responsibility for developing and implementing their plans to meet their goals.
• Offender management processes need to be individualised.
Responsivity
Internal
External
Practice PrinciplesCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the BalanceTheoreticalPrinciples Practice Principles
Integrity
Risk & Need
Responsivity
Internal
Provide a Constructive Environment• Staff maximise offender opportunity for rehabilitation and reduce risk to the community through the nature of their interactions.
• Staff members ensure expectations of offender management processes are communicated to the offender.
• Staff members deliver a consistent strategy of rewards and sanctions.• Processes need to be in place to ensure the offender can access and complete programs.
• Staff support processes of progression and enhance continuum of care.
External
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Maintain System Integrity• Offender management processes are evidenced-based and linked to theory.• Staff members are properly trained and supported/mentored.• Quality assurance processes are in place to ensure offender management processes
are monitored to identify areas of achievement and opportunities for improvement.• Offender management practices are evaluated.
Integrity
Manage Risk and Target Intervention Needs• Offender management processes are based on accurate and up-to-date information.• Offenders have access to an adequate range of services, programs and activities
to accommodate their identified needs.• Level of services and programs are matched to level of risk (includes risk
of re-offending, to staff, escape, self-harm etc).• Staff members monitor offender’s progress on goals.
Risk & Need
Increase Self Responsibility• Staff, services and programs are responsive to offenders’ learning styles and abilities.• Offenders are assisted to have responsibility for developing and implementing their plans to meet their goals.
• Offender management processes need to be individualised.
Responsivity
Internal
Provide a Constructive Environment• Staff maximise offender opportunity for rehabilitation and reduce risk to the community through the nature of their interactions.
• Staff members ensure expectations of offender management processes are communicated to the offender.
• Staff members deliver a consistent strategy of rewards and sanctions.• Processes need to be in place to ensure the offender can access and complete programs.
• Staff support processes of progression and enhance continuum of care.
External
Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
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Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
dard
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Assessment
Interventions
Transition
Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Ongoing Local Plan Review Meetings
(Meeting between case worker and prisoner)
Sentence Management Panels
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
dard
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Assessment
Interventions
Transition
Our Practices
Reception Intake Process
Induction R&A Committee
Initial Local Plan Meeting
R&A Committee Reviews
Ongoing Local Plan Review Meetings
Pre-release R&A Committees
Intervention ScreeningAssessment – Tier 1
Tier 2A Assessment
Tier 2B Assessment
Offence-specific Programs
Offence-related Programs
Transitional Programs
Tier 2C Assessment
Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Ongoing Local Plan Review Meetings
(Meeting between case worker and prisoner)
Sentence Management Panels
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
dard
s
Assessment
Interventions
Transition
Our Practices
Reception Intake Process
Induction R&A Committee
Initial Local Plan Meeting
R&A Committee Reviews
Ongoing Local Plan Review Meetings
Pre-release R&A Committees
Intervention ScreeningAssessment – Tier 1
Tier 2A Assessment
Tier 2B Assessment
Offence-specific Programs
Offence-related Programs
Transitional Programs
Tier 2C Assessment
The role of staff is to create an environment that maximisesbehaviour change in order to achieve a safer community
Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
dard
s
Assessment
Interventions
Transition
Our Practices
R&A Committee Reviews
Is offender management responsive to the needs of women?
• The Women’s Correctional Services Framework - Better Pathways in Practice (2007) describes the key elements of a correctional system that is responsive to the needs of women offenders.
• Provide instructions on the development & delivery of gender appropriate:– Correctional programs and services– Offender management practices– Workforce training– Policy and planning
Operational Objectives
• Actively encourage personal responsibility and self-reliance by maximising women’s participation in, and control over, case planning and delivery.
• Increase Self Responsibility– Offenders are assisted to have responsibility for
developing and implementing their plans to meet their goals.
– Offender Management processes need to be individualised.
Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
dard
s
Assessment
Interventions
Transition
Our Practices
Initial Local Plan Meeting
Operational Objectives
• Provide staff with sufficient information and support to accurately identify women’s needs and refer them to appropriate resources to address the practical needs of themselves and their families;
Relevant OMF Practice Principles
• Maintain System Integrity– Staff are properly trained and supported/mentored
• Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs– Offender management processes are based on
accurate and up-to-date information
• Increase Self Responsibility– Staff, services and programs are responsive to
offenders’ learning styles and abilities.
Operational Objectives
• Incorporate assessment tools that have been developed specifically for use with women offenders, which are applied by practitioners with an understanding of the impact of gender differences on assessment;
• Maintain System Integrity – Offender management processes are evidence-based
and linked to theory
• Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs– Offender management processes are based on
accurate and up-to-date information
Linking the Principles to Prison OperationsCorrections Victoria Offender Management Framework – Achieving the Balance
Enforce theorders of the court
Manage risks to thecommunity
Reduce Re-offending
Offender ManagementFramework
Maintain System Integrity
Manage Risk & Target Intervention Needs
Increase Self Responsibility
Provide a ConstructiveEnvironment
Our Process
Stan
dard
s
Assessment
Interventions
Transition
Our Practices
Intervention ScreeningAssessment – Tier 1
Tier 2A Assessment
How do we achieve this?
• Offender Management Supervisors • Change Agents
– Review offender management processes to ensure they are inline with the Offender Management Framework.
– Train staff in offender management practices to ensure they are inline with the Framework.
– Quality assurance process
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