This study used a complex adaptive systems approach to explore innovations geared towards the rehabilitation of offenders in the Department of Correctional Services. It examined how innovations came about in view of the complex adaptive nature of the department, which is defined as a complex system with agents having various schema and mental models. It used complex adaptive systems approach as a lens through which to view the emergence of correctional innovations. This was achieved through a multi-methodical qualitative research approach to data collection, using interviews and documentary data to unpack public sector innovation, with the Correctional Services‟ Service Delivery Improvement directorate as a unit of analysis. This study further explored the compatibility of the five bedrock principles of a complex adaptive system and how such principles have shaped the emergence of innovations in a public sector organization where all innovative efforts are geared towards the improvement of service delivery as opposed to profit-making for competitive advantage, as is often the case with the profit-making sectors. In view of the dynamic and nonlinearity nature of organizational systems, the use of a complex adaptive systems perspective provided this study with a pivotal tool to analyse innovation as an emergent property of a complex adaptive system rather than as a carefully planned organizational element emanating from either strategic planning or research and development initiatives of an organization. This is further strengthened by the lack of employment of complexity science in public sector organizations like Correctional Services in particular. The study sought to achieve ground-breaking work in using complex adaptive systems perspective in innovation within the Department of Correctional Services, a terrain that has not been ventured into before. It was seen to be of crucial significance to explore innovation using complex adaptive systems and to adopt a paradigm that was initially designed for the natural sciences, and has been adopted by profit-making organizations and cascaded to the non-profit making sector as represented by the Department Correctional Services. / Thesis (M.Com.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2011.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Genève, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [753]-759) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Genève, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [753]-759) and index.

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This is a phenomenological study on the experience prison inmates at Sweden's largest prison, Kumla, have of their prison library. Conversations in five focus groups with a total of 26 inmates, that took place in the last two months of 2023, form the foundation of the findings in this study. A qualitative thematic analysis shows that the inmates' experience of the prison library consist of four separate, but equally important, parts. The first part is the librarian, who the inmates see as someone neutral and willing to help. The second part is the usage of the prison library’s services, which manifests in reading books and magazines borrowed from the library, an activity that allows for feelings of cognitive escape. The third part is the visit to the physical library, which functions as a grativational pull away from a life of crime and towards a better life. The fourth part is comprised of the benefits the prison library have in terms of rehabilitation, the value the library brings for the future of the inmates. This study concludes that a prison library can have positive impacts on the inmates' lives, during incarceration and after release. This is a two years master's thesis in Library and Information Science.

The purpose of this study is to examine more closely those program components which facilitate dissonance, disharmony, and ambiguity among the keygroups of a residential substance abuse treatment program.

This thesis discusses the process and value of theatrical and performance-based rehabilitation programming in prisons, specifically focusing on the non-profit organization Shakespeare Behind Bars (SBB). SBB has programs in two prisons in which they read, rehearse and produce a Shakespeare play annually. Using performance theories, theories of rehabilitation and personal interviews, this thesis aims to develop an understanding of the way culture functions in prisons, how the act of performance changes that functioning, and how these programs effect incarcerated people. This thesis includes analyzed interviews with Curt Tofteland, founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars and Sammie Byron, a previously incarcerated alumnus of the program. Ultimately, this project focuses on the possibilities for rehabilitation within incarceration and how performance-based rehabilitation programming offers something unique. SBB creates spaces through performance that allow incarcerated people to reflect on their choices and take responsibility for who they want to become. Central to this thesis and the program it analyzes is the idea of story-telling and allowing incarcerated people to have the access and ability to create their own narratives.

This study was conducted to examine the use of multisystemic treatment for treating juveniles with serious delinquency, as a new approach within the Saudi Arabian context.Multisystemic treatment addresses behaviour problems as multidetermined by interacting individual, family, school, peers, and community systems. This study attempted to determine the impact of the multisystemic therapy on the behaviour of young offenders with serious delinquency and in increasing their level of self-esteem and religious behaviour.The fieldwork was conducted in 2000-0 I in the Social Observation Home in Riyadh City. The project consisted of three parts: therapists training for one month, a treatment programme for three months and follow up, conducted in two periods of two months each, with a seven months interval. An experimental and control group, prepost test design was adopted. Twenty juveniles with serious delinquency (age 14-18) were assigned to each group. The experimental group received multisystemic treatment, and the control group received the Home's usual service (individual therapy).Outcomes were measured by, self-reports (Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory and Level of Religious Measurement), official misconducts, family relations, peer relations, school attendance & grades and observed religious practice. Qualitative information was obtained from six case studies (three experimental, three control) and from interviews with young offenders, their relatives and the Home staff.The results indicated greater gain and long-term positive impact on the behaviour of young offenders in the experimental than in the control group, on all measures. The improvement in self-esteem and religious practice in association with multisystemic treatment are especially noteworthy, as these factors have been subject to little or no previous investigation, and are particularly important in relation to delinquency in the Saudi context.It is concluded, that provided appropriate resources are allocated to the application, multisystemic treatment can be adapted to meet the unique cultural concerns of the Saudi context.