Building a Research Partnership in a Prison Context: From Collaboration to Co-Construction

Brosens, Dorien; Donder, Liesbeth De; Dury, Sarah; Verté, Dominique

doi:10.5153/sro.3693

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“…For instance, this population is frequently excluded from research (Yildiz and Bartlett, 2011), which is one means of consulting prisoners. Surveys can be translated (for example, Brosens et al, 2015;Slotboom et al, 2011) or interpreters can support researchers while they conduct interviews (Bhui, 2004) to hear the perspective of foreign national and non-Dutch-speaking prisoners. Another way of representing the ideas and perspectives of these prisoners could be that certain representatives of the prisoner council speak both Dutch and another language.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Because the value of collaborative research projects in prison has recently been acknowledged (for example, Brosens et al, 2015;Walsh et al, 2014), we developed our research project in close collaboration with people affected by and/or responsible for action on the topics studied (Jagosh et al, 2012) -professionals working in the prison. Together, the researchers and the professionals formed a steering committee that would be responsible for designing, planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the different phases of the research.…”

Section: A Participatory Research Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Prisoners’ participation and involvement in prison life: Examining the possibilities and boundaries

Brosens

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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Prisoners’ participation and involvement in prison life are becoming important topics featuring on European political agendas. To investigate the different types of prisoner participation and involvement in one prison in Belgium, the experiences of prisoners and professionals, and the processes that enhance or limit prisoners’ participation, 11 focus groups have been conducted with prisoners ( N = 36) and professionals ( N = 42). A thematic analysis of this data identifies that various formal and informal participation initiatives exist, but several barriers between prisoners, prison staff and prison management impede (structural) participation. Implementing and increasing the participation and involvement of prisoners requires organizational and cultural changes. The article concludes by discussing practical issues raised by the study, as well as some limitations.

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Section: A Participatory Research Projectmentioning

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Prisoners’ participation and involvement in prison life: Examining the possibilities and boundaries

Brosens

2018

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Second, JJIs struggle with relative instability of staff due to high turnover and high rates of absenteeism [ 26 ]. Another barrier for conducting research in JJIs is the unfamiliarity among most of the institution’s staff with the principles and benefits of research studies [ 23 ]. To prepare JJI personnel for implementing and evaluating FC, we trained them to internalize FC rationale and FC practice and we organized a seven-month pilot stage.…”

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Family-Centered Care in Juvenile Justice Institutions: A Mixed Methods Study Protocol

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Mulder²,

Rigter³

et al. 2016

JMIR Res Protoc

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BackgroundTreatment and rehabilitation interventions in juvenile justice institutions aim to prevent criminal reoffending by adolescents and to enhance their prospects of successful social reintegration. There is evidence that these goals are best achieved when the institution adopts a family-centered approach, involving the parents of the adolescents. The Academic Workplace Forensic Care for Youth has developed two programs for family-centered care for youth detained in groups for short-term and long-term stay, respectively.ObjectiveThe overall aim of our study is to evaluate the family-centered care program in the first two years after the first steps of its implementation in short-term stay groups of two juvenile justice institutions in the Netherlands. The current paper discusses our study design.MethodsBased on a quantitative pilot study, we opted for a study with an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. This pilot is considered the first stage of our study. The second stage of our study includes concurrent quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative part of our study is a pre-post quasi-experimental comparison of family-centered care with usual care in short-term stay groups. The qualitative part of our study involves in-depth interviews with adolescents, parents, and group workers to elaborate on the preceding quantitative pilot study and to help interpret the outcomes of the quasi-experimental quantitative part of the study.ResultsWe believe that our study will result in the following findings. In the quantitative comparison of usual care with family-centered care, we assume that in the latter group, parents will be more involved with their child and with the institution, and that parents and adolescents will be more motivated to take part in therapy. In addition, we expect family-centered care to improve family interactions, to decrease parenting stress, and to reduce problem behavior among the adolescents. Finally, we assume that adolescents, parents, and the staff of the institutions will be more satisfied with family-centered care than with usual care. In the qualitative part of our study, we will identify the needs and expectations in family-centered care as well as factors influencing parental participation. Insight in these factors will help to further improve our program of family-centered care and its implementation in practice. Our study results will be published over the coming years.ConclusionsA juvenile justice institution is a difficult setting to evaluate care programs. A combination of practice-based research methods is needed to address all major implementation issues. The study described here takes on the challenge by means of practice-based research. We expect the results of our study to contribute to the improvement of care for adolescents detained in juvenile justice institutions, and for their families.

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“…Participation was voluntary and without financial compensation. More information about the methodology of this study can be traced in Brosens, De Donder, Dury & Verté (2015).…”

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Barriers to participation in vocational orientation programmes among prisoners

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Donder²,

Dury³

et al. 2015

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This study investigates the barriers to prisoners' participation in vocational orientation programmes, as well as the predictors of different types of barriers. Survey data derived from a project in a remand prison in Belgium (N=468) provided the empirical evidence for the analyses. The results indicate that facing situational and informational barriers are most common. Based on the different kinds of barriers, various types of non-participants can be distinguished and multinomial logistic regression analyses are conducted to identify in what way participants of vocational orientation programmes differ from various types of non-participants. For instance, prisoners with a poor understanding of the Dutch language and those who never/rarely receive visitors participate less in vocational orientation programmes as they are more likely to be confronted with informational barriers. Paths for future research and implications for policy and practice will be discussed.

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Building a Research Partnership in a Prison Context: From Collaboration to Co-Construction

Cited by 13 publications

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Prisoners’ participation and involvement in prison life: Examining the possibilities and boundaries

Prisoners’ participation and involvement in prison life: Examining the possibilities and boundaries

Family-Centered Care in Juvenile Justice Institutions: A Mixed Methods Study Protocol

Barriers to participation in vocational orientation programmes among prisoners

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