Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2236730
Liam Polglase, I. Lambie
{"title":"A sharp decline in youth crime: reviewing trends in New Zealand’s youth offending rates between 1998 and 2019","authors":"Liam Polglase, I. Lambie","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2236730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2236730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48302889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2236762
Natalia Hanley, Elisabeth Duursma, A. Wright, Helen Simpson
ABSTRACT Correctional services are closed, complex bureaucratic organisations which are historically slow to embrace change. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a dramatic shift to widespread video visitation across correctional services in Australia. Drawing on qualitative data with corrective services staff (n = 19) from six jurisdictions (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and West Australia), this article charts the large-scale implementation of video visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is argued that video visitation demonstrates uncharacteristic organisational agility in Australian corrective services which may provide optimism for change projects.
{"title":"What can the development of video visitation in Australian correctional centres tell us about organisational transformation?","authors":"Natalia Hanley, Elisabeth Duursma, A. Wright, Helen Simpson","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2236762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2236762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Correctional services are closed, complex bureaucratic organisations which are historically slow to embrace change. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a dramatic shift to widespread video visitation across correctional services in Australia. Drawing on qualitative data with corrective services staff (n = 19) from six jurisdictions (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and West Australia), this article charts the large-scale implementation of video visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is argued that video visitation demonstrates uncharacteristic organisational agility in Australian corrective services which may provide optimism for change projects.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47097916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2236289
Clare Farmer
{"title":"Victoria’s ‘vital new measure.’ School Community Safety Orders: procedural fairness, accountability, and the potential for heightened risk","authors":"Clare Farmer","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2236289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2236289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47953668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2218949
Luciano Cadoni, Natalia Hanley, C. Flynn
ABSTRACT In Argentina, the primary modes of contact between parents in prison and their children are contact visits and telephone calls. Prior to the pandemic, access to mobile telephones was limited and there were established barriers to contact visits, including distance and cost. Maintaining contact during the pandemic via either of these modes was made even more difficult. However, advocacy and multi-agency collaboration facilitated greater access to telephones and the development of support resources for parents in prison and their families in the community. This contemporary comment first provides context about imprisonment in Argentina, then highlights what is known about parents in prison in Argentina, subsequently focusing in on how family contact was negatively impacted by COVID-19. Next, the strategies deployed to reconnect families separated by imprisonment via regular contact are described. The remaining knowledge and evidence gaps, role of multi-agency collaborations and community advocacy are highlighted throughout the commentary.
{"title":"Prisoners and their families in Argentina: navigating COVID-19","authors":"Luciano Cadoni, Natalia Hanley, C. Flynn","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2218949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2218949","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Argentina, the primary modes of contact between parents in prison and their children are contact visits and telephone calls. Prior to the pandemic, access to mobile telephones was limited and there were established barriers to contact visits, including distance and cost. Maintaining contact during the pandemic via either of these modes was made even more difficult. However, advocacy and multi-agency collaboration facilitated greater access to telephones and the development of support resources for parents in prison and their families in the community. This contemporary comment first provides context about imprisonment in Argentina, then highlights what is known about parents in prison in Argentina, subsequently focusing in on how family contact was negatively impacted by COVID-19. Next, the strategies deployed to reconnect families separated by imprisonment via regular contact are described. The remaining knowledge and evidence gaps, role of multi-agency collaborations and community advocacy are highlighted throughout the commentary.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44816066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2221367
K. Kennedy, M. Martinovic, L. Sandy
ABSTRACT Returning to the community after being incarcerated brings many challenges. In Victoria, Australia, a government-funded contract with non-government organisations (NGOs) allocates reintegration workers to assist with the post-release social integration process. In 2020, we interviewed reintegration workers to explore how they performed their roles before and during the COVID-19 restrictions. The key finding was that building rapport to tailor support was the most crucial aspect of practice, which workers could not adequately do without meeting face-to-face. Strengths-based practices, consisting of holistic, trauma-informed interactions, should become enshrined in reintegration job roles and the key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure success of the government contract.
{"title":"Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during COVID-19: is socially distanced (re)integration possible?","authors":"K. Kennedy, M. Martinovic, L. Sandy","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2221367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2221367","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Returning to the community after being incarcerated brings many challenges. In Victoria, Australia, a government-funded contract with non-government organisations (NGOs) allocates reintegration workers to assist with the post-release social integration process. In 2020, we interviewed reintegration workers to explore how they performed their roles before and during the COVID-19 restrictions. The key finding was that building rapport to tailor support was the most crucial aspect of practice, which workers could not adequately do without meeting face-to-face. Strengths-based practices, consisting of holistic, trauma-informed interactions, should become enshrined in reintegration job roles and the key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure success of the government contract.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47158347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2214973
Catia G. Malvaso, Michaela Magann, P. H. Ribeiro Santiago, A. Montgomerie, P. Delfabbro, Andrew Day, R. Pilkington, J. Lynch
{"title":"Early versus late contact with the youth justice system: opportunities for prevention and diversion","authors":"Catia G. Malvaso, Michaela Magann, P. H. Ribeiro Santiago, A. Montgomerie, P. Delfabbro, Andrew Day, R. Pilkington, J. Lynch","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2214973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2214973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46353984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2205625
Kyllie Cripps
ABSTRACT In Australia, Indigenous women experience disproportionate levels of violence compared to others in our society. Recent, horrific examples of Indigenous women's deaths have come to light through coronial courts' public inquests. This article examined 151 Australian coronial court investigations and inquests over a 20-year period (2000-2020), analysing them thematically. The analysis highlighted the vulnerability of Indigenous women to intimate partner homicides, noting that the women's deaths, in most instances, were entirely preventable. This article explores specifically the actions of police, given they are often the first responders to these situations. The findings of this study concur with a coroner who labelled the actions and inactions of police as being akin to systemic racism, or at the very least, lazy policing. The profound system failings at the intersections of law, policy and practice have arguably in some of these cases contributed to these women having lost their lives. This article explores firstly, the nuances of the coronial findings, secondly, it interrogates policing practices and processes. It concludes critically reflecting on ‘systemic racism', coroners’ recommendations for addressing this problem and the significance of this issue in the broader context of a recent Queensland inquiry into policing that affirms similar findings.
{"title":"Indigenous women and intimate partner homicide in Australia: confronting the impunity of policing failures","authors":"Kyllie Cripps","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2205625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2205625","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Australia, Indigenous women experience disproportionate levels of violence compared to others in our society. Recent, horrific examples of Indigenous women's deaths have come to light through coronial courts' public inquests. This article examined 151 Australian coronial court investigations and inquests over a 20-year period (2000-2020), analysing them thematically. The analysis highlighted the vulnerability of Indigenous women to intimate partner homicides, noting that the women's deaths, in most instances, were entirely preventable. This article explores specifically the actions of police, given they are often the first responders to these situations. The findings of this study concur with a coroner who labelled the actions and inactions of police as being akin to systemic racism, or at the very least, lazy policing. The profound system failings at the intersections of law, policy and practice have arguably in some of these cases contributed to these women having lost their lives. This article explores firstly, the nuances of the coronial findings, secondly, it interrogates policing practices and processes. It concludes critically reflecting on ‘systemic racism', coroners’ recommendations for addressing this problem and the significance of this issue in the broader context of a recent Queensland inquiry into policing that affirms similar findings.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42238260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2210791
T. Prenzler, M. Maguire
ABSTRACT This paper critiques three recent inquiries and recommended changes in practice around the management of complaints against police in the state of Queensland, Australia, with a view to advancing a best practice model internationally. A civilian oversight system, closely aligned to a ‘civilian control’ model, was introduced in Queensland as part of a reform program following the 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption. However, external control of complaints was almost completely eroded over a 30-year period. The resumption of police control resulted in recurring scandals and widespread stakeholder disaffection. These issues came to a head and were addressed to varying degrees through three inquiries across 2022: the Review of Culture and Accountability in the Queensland Public Sector (‘Coaldrake Review’), the Commission of Inquiry relating to the Crime and Corruption Commission (‘Fitzgerald and Wilson Inquiry’) and, in particular, the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service Responses to Domestic and Family Violence (‘Richards Inquiry’). The combined findings and recommendations demonstrated the need for rigorous institutional independence and transparency in the processing of complaints, along with a range of complementary integrity management strategies to ensure adequate accountability of police.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2209302
Pajarita Charles, Julie Poehlmann, Margaret Kerr, Sarah Jensen, Kaitlyn Pritzl
ABSTRACT The Enhanced Visits Model (EVM) provides support to families in the United States, including technology to connect remotely with incarcerated parents, funding for video visits, and visit coaching for adults to support relationship building with children. Such support is intended to decrease barriers to traditional visits but not replace in-person visiting. The EVM is important for parents who are in local jails, rather than prisons, since jails typically incarcerate people for less time than prisons and lack programs that often exist in prisons. This paper focuses on development of the EVM and initial results of a feasibility and acceptability study. Although some challenges exist regarding engagement of children’s caregivers and the quality of sound and visual images, families and professionals provided positive feedback about the intervention. During video visits, children interacted with their incarcerated parents in creative ways, including showing toys, playing games, singing, reading, and doing homework. Moreover, incarcerated parents were virtually present at key times, including children’s mealtimes, bedtimes, holidays, and daily routines. This paper provides evidence that remote video visits are enjoyed by families and incarcerated parents and supports the recommendation to supplement (but not replace) in-person contact with remote video visits for children and incarcerated parents.
{"title":"Supported remote video visits for children with incarcerated parents in the United States","authors":"Pajarita Charles, Julie Poehlmann, Margaret Kerr, Sarah Jensen, Kaitlyn Pritzl","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2209302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2209302","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Enhanced Visits Model (EVM) provides support to families in the United States, including technology to connect remotely with incarcerated parents, funding for video visits, and visit coaching for adults to support relationship building with children. Such support is intended to decrease barriers to traditional visits but not replace in-person visiting. The EVM is important for parents who are in local jails, rather than prisons, since jails typically incarcerate people for less time than prisons and lack programs that often exist in prisons. This paper focuses on development of the EVM and initial results of a feasibility and acceptability study. Although some challenges exist regarding engagement of children’s caregivers and the quality of sound and visual images, families and professionals provided positive feedback about the intervention. During video visits, children interacted with their incarcerated parents in creative ways, including showing toys, playing games, singing, reading, and doing homework. Moreover, incarcerated parents were virtually present at key times, including children’s mealtimes, bedtimes, holidays, and daily routines. This paper provides evidence that remote video visits are enjoyed by families and incarcerated parents and supports the recommendation to supplement (but not replace) in-person contact with remote video visits for children and incarcerated parents.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49245188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2210788
A. Hart
COVID-19 lockdowns accelerated the take up of video calls and other digital communication between people in prison and the outside world. This has altered relationships with families and practice within rehabilitative and reintegration services. Little work has discussed the significance of these changes or articulated a normative agenda for shaping changes in future. This article aims to identify strategies that might help reintegration services and justice system agencies maximise the benefits and minimise the harms from information communication technology (ICT) use between people in prison and their families and services. Drawing from empirical literature, practical insights from service delivery and theoretical insights from assemblage theory and carceral geography, this article proposes three strategies: design spatial, scheduling and security measures to minimise stigma and disruption;actively support ICT users to equitably access the potential of ICT systems;and develop program practices in parallel with the evolutions of the technology they employ. Each of these strategies is set out with sub-components and suggestions for further research.
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