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Case study: the Ohio strategic planning process
Many factors drive the need for strategic plans. Decades ago, in America, this need was often driven…
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Multi-level in-Prison Radicalisation Prevention The R2PRIS approach and certification programme
The R2PRIS certification is a capacity building programme developed with the support of the European Commission and…
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Highlights of the European Commission’s Conference on Radicalisation in Prisons
On the 27th February 2018, the European Commission (EC) and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of…
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When prison services become real systems: A giant leap from disconnection to Connexall
How often do prison services really work as systems? The physical distance between facilities, the number of…
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Electronic monitoring as an intermediate punitive territory
Best practices show that electronic monitoring (EM) can be an interesting tool, especially if used to serve…
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Empowering prisoners through technology
“The contrast between a prison with and without kiosks is like night and day.” (Prisoner S.M., HMP…
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Modernisation of the penitentiary systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: the role of the Inter-American Development Bank
If, as Dostoyevsky said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its…
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Collaborating across boundaries: unifying the correctional community in innovating technology solutions
The one constant of technology is that it is always evolving. While this constant evolution has the…
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Technological solutions for corrections: develop or purchase?
This is quite a dilemma for many correctional agencies: once decided that something needs to happen to…
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Criminal justice is increasingly eager to embrace the technological revolution
The judicial and corrections sector, both from academics and practitioners’ point of view, has traditionally been quite…
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Radicalisation prevention in prisons and in the community
Cases of violence, arson and planned terror attacks, combined with the worrying number of young people joining…
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American jails: the advent of three-door justice centers
Jails in America are obsolete and so are the buildings and the philosophy behind them. But, right…
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How to reduce the number of women in prison
Women are a minority in prison. Currently, of the 10.35 million prisoners worldwide, over 700.000 (6.8%) are…
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More short prison sentences or alternatives: which way do we go?
In the last 40 years, one of the main concerns for prison administrations was the reduction of…
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Serbian prisons towards the EU acquis
The project “Improving capacities and capabilities within the prison service in the Republic of Serbia” especially focuses…
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The children of prisoners: communication that heals relationships
Criminological paradigms, such as the “Social Bond Theory”, offer no doubt about the importance of social bonds…
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Unilink: A digital leap from paper to empowerment – one prisoner’s view
“When I moved to HMP Northumberland I was so happy to see a kiosk. In my previous…
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The role of UNODC in penitentiary reform processes in Latin America
The model of deprivation of liberty in Latin America has been going through a deep crisis for…
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Using Virtual Reality for Inmates Rehabilitation
There is a tendency to associate virtual reality with the gaming industry as, over the past couple…
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Reducing prison population and recidivism through the use of real-time monitoring technologies
Overcoming the challenges of prison overcrowding has proven to be a difficult task for many jurisdictions around…
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Radicalisation: Finding regional solutions for regional challenges – Developing learning hubs in Central Europe and the Balkans
Today, across Europe, numerous countries are dealing with the growing threat of radicalisation. While much has been…
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Mass supervision: the silent crisis of probation
In the last 20 to 40 years, probation went through significant transformations. One of these changes that…
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Striving to keep prisons safe, while increasing the opportunity for inmate social reintegration
Inmate family support and social ties are often referred to in criminological theories as important elements of…
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Transferring Prison Design Trends
Trends influence virtually every aspect of daily living impacting what we eat, wear, listen to, purchase, believe,…
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Old and Forgotten Behind Bars: Facing the Crisis of the Elderly in Prisons
Most of the treatment literature in corrections focuses on the challenge of ‘reintegration’ – how best to…
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Addressing new learning solutions for foreign inmates in EU prisons
According to the statistics of the Council of Europe, the total prison population in the European Union…
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Technology in Corrections: Challenges & Strategy
To say that we are at the beginning of a new era for the usage of IT…
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