The desistance/reintegration research program will focus on serious and persistent offenders who are released from prison on parole, released under supervision from forensic hospitals, and otherwise released into the community
The vast majority of violent offenders and forensic patients eventually return to the community. Any gains made through effective assessment, formulation and intervention can quickly be lost if holistic support is not given in the transition and reintegration period
Moreover, enduring change is unlikely without supporting change and opportunities in a person’s social and systemic environments. Relative to the preceding two research programs, less is known about this area. This is also an area where the research will extend well beyond psychological factors and interventions to consider the social, cultural, and environmental elements necessary for safe reintegration.
Through consulting the extant empirical literature, this project is designed to systematically identify offender characteristics, lifestyle factors, and community circumstances that have been shown to immediately precede violent or sexually violen
This implementation project is designed to enhance an existing “continuum of care” prison model, such that prison staff will enact best practices for repeated assessment and case management among incarcerated serious offenders, thereby prepari
This implementation project is designed to enhance existing supervision practice in multiple ways, through the training of case management staff to use a dynamic risk assessment / case management measure. This measure is designed to (a) help sup
