Reflections on Risk Assessment in Community Corrections

Brown, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37948-3_3

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“…Yet, given the closed and confidential nature of training and operational secrecy, the degree to which staff strive for a shared vision or experience confusion and role conflict is wanting further inquiry (Ricciardelli, 2022). As KPIs and metrics have coloured my experience about a data-driven concern for recidivism (Brown, 2020), I remain uncertain about how my own ethics and values, as a penal professional, have contributed to-or inhibited, the desistance paradigm that involves working with criminalised people (McNeill, 2006).…”

Section: Ethical Design and Valuationmentioning

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Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Taylor

2023

European Journal of Probation

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Based on 6 years of probation practitioner experience in a metropolis of Canada, I provide an autoethnographic account reflecting on my fieldwork as I now commence doctoral studies. Contributing to discussions of experience in the penal atmosphere, I explore personal ethics and values, looking specifically to LSI-R software, where my experience with risk-based programming indicates a subjugation of both supervisees and supervisors. Studying penal aesthetics within the version of the software I used to assess criminogenic risk thus elucidates why evaluators tend to score their risk ratings upward rather than downward. Implications for a desistance paradigm are juxtaposed to the RNR model of offender management, where sensing visual and haptic stimuli pertains to an algorithmic governance mode limiting human connection. I conclude by reflecting on organisational values and behaviour to indicate where therapeutic alliances with criminalised people intersect criminalisation and desistance.

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Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Taylor

2023

European Journal of Probation

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“…More recently, McSherry (2020) explained that the use of such predictive tools and technologies remains highly contentious, and their design and use raise a litany of ethical and legal questions. Brown (2020, p. 57) similarly contends that such “risk assessment does not treat the individual in their specificity and individual humanity.” It is through risk prediction carried out by the state that the community has become an extension of the correctional landscape.…”

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The Community as a Liminal Correctional Space

Anderson

2022

Space and Culture

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Throughout the Anglophone advanced liberal democracies, punishment is increasingly creeping past the limits of traditional finite sentences and moving beyond the walls of the prison. “Regulatory” mechanisms enforcing limitations on releasees’ use of space beyond the prison walls have increased, and net widening due to technological advancement has resulted in sentenced individuals being punished within the community. At the same time, increasing numbers of released individuals are unable to be reintegrated into the community due to long-term regulatory limitations on their movement in both public and private space. Elements of the architecture of punishment continue to be reshaped and expanded by postsentence regulation, and this article explores the particular experience of released sex offenders being regulated within the community in two examples of “sex offender enclaves.” Drawing upon the experience of the community of Miracle Village (Florida, United States), as well as qualitative interviews conducted in the community of Ōtāhuhu (Auckland, New Zealand), this article begins to map the spread of the correctional apparatus beyond the prison walls and examines the way that risks are concentrated and delegated to certain communities, while the state simultaneously attempts to purge those thought to constitute the gravest risks from other communities.

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Issues of Legitimacy: Legal and Political

Pratt

2020

Law, Insecurity and Risk Control

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Reflections on Risk Assessment in Community Corrections

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

Sensing probation in Canada: Notes on affect and penal aesthetics in risk assessment

The Community as a Liminal Correctional Space

Issues of Legitimacy: Legal and Political

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