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Transforming Corrections
Presented at the Reintegration Puzzle ConferenceAuckland, New Zealand Thursday, August 22, 2013
Tom O’Connor, Ph.D.CEO., Transforming CorrectionsAssistant Prof., Criminal Justice, Western Oregon University(503) [email protected]
• More compassionate
• More collaborative
• Focused on health
• More effective
• Less expensive
A Journey of Adaptive Change A Journey of Adaptive Change
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Immunity to Change ®
A Human Development Approach to Adaptive Change
by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, 2010
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Global Peace Index
Context Conditions Consciousness
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/ - /page/indexes/global-peace-index
Incarceration Rates in the United States
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Sources: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in State and Federal Institutions on December 31, annual, and Correctional Populations in the United States, annual. http://www.census.gov/statab/hist/02HS0024.xls
Incarceration Change Between 1960 and 1990 When Crime Rates were almost identical. Finland Germany United States
Tonry, M. (2004). Thinking About Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
A Low Dream Approach
What Makes the Difference?
• Self
• Working relationship with achange agent
• Program
• Placebo
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(McNeill, Batchelor, Burnett, Knox, (2005), 21st Century Social Work, Glasgow School of Social Work)
Malcolm X
Anne Frank
Fr. Danial Berrigan
St. Paul
Gandhi
Martin Luther KingLydia Kamakaeha
A High Dream Approach
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nelson Mandela
Malcolm X
Anne Frank
Fr. Danial Berrigan
St. Paul
Gandhi
Martin Luther KingLydia Kamakaeha
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nelson Mandela
Ask yourself this question.
What is the opposite of fragile?
Anti-fragile
“The world breaks everyone, and some get stronger because of it.”Earnest Hemmingway
Reduces Recidivism Rates by 22% and
Saves $10.42 for every $1 invested
Functional Family Therapy Program for Juveniles
Follow- Up With an Outcome Evaluation: Results from Washington’s Functional Family Therapy
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Motivational Interviewing: 4 Essential ComponentsMiller & Rollnick, 2012
Probation Officers As Change Agents: Change in Recidivism Rates
Systems Intervention
•© Fixsen & Blase, 2008
PerformanceAssessment
StaffCoaching
StaffTraining
StaffSelection
Facilitative Administration
Decision Support Data System
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•Leadership•Leadership
•Implementation
Drivers
Improved outcomes
Well-defined, Effective strategy
Technical Adaptive
Evidence-based Decision Making Initiative – EBDMI&
Justice Reinvestment Strategy
• Police – who to arrest?
• Mental Health – who to help and keep out of penal system?
• Jail – who to release?
• Prosecution/Defense – what to charge?
• Judges – what sentence?
• Probation, Prison & Parole – what change agent and treatment?
Dialogue Coaching – The Art of Thinking TogetherWilliam Issacs / David Kantor, 2012
“The quest for meaning is an inherent part of being human.”
There are 3 basic ways of making meaning – H/S/R.
H: Humanist
S. Spiritual
R. Religious
Making Meaning Making Meaning
What is it? - understanding / intelligence
Shared Framework for Making Meaning
Is it so? - truth / rationality
Please answer this question.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10.
The bat costs one dollar more than the ball.
How much does the ball cost?
What is it? - understanding / intelligence
Is it loving? - humanist, spiritual, religious meaning
Is it good? - ethics / morality
Shared Framework for Making Meaning
Is it so? - truth / rationality