One purpose of this research was to investigate whether a cognitive approach developed for business and industry could be usefully added to other measures in the assessment of recently incarcerated criminal trainees' readiness to benefit from and progress in a cognitive skills training program titled 'Dignity, Encouragement, Truthfulness, Optimism, Uniqueness, Respect' (DETOUR). Another important purpose of this study was to obtain data relevant to the role of strategic learning and, in particular, to Weinstein's Model of Strategic Leaming (1994), and to related conceptualizations such as Salomon and Perkins' suggestions about the teaching of thinking skills (1987). Eighty volunteer inmates housed in a state prison transfer facility, selected by the prison school district staff to participate in the DETOUR program, comprised the subject pool. Although participants were not randomly assigned for this study, they were representative of the state prison system population in age, IQ, grade equivalency, and length of sentence. Participants were pre- and post-tested on three self-report instruments, two of which were cognitive, the START and the Criminal Sentiments Scale (CSS), and one behavioral instrument, the Client Behavior Report (CBR), and several other measures available from the DETOUR program. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the START, when added to the independent variables age, IQ, grade equivalency, and number of times incarcerated, increased the adjusted variance predicted by these independent variables from 4.7% to 23.9% on the CSS outcome measure, a statistically significant increase. Within subjects T-tests revealed that the DETOUR program significantly and positively affected students' scores on all three instruments. Also, a large number of significant relationships among sub-scales of these instruments appeared to be of theoretical and practical interest. The results of this study substantiate the usefulness of a cognitive strategies approach to assessing inmates in a state prison training environment, and support the START instrument's convergent validity (Campbell, 1996). Results of this study also were consistent with components of Weinstein's Model of Strategic Leaming and Salomon and Perkins' high road/low road model of transfer. / text

Thesis (MPA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2015 / The study investigated the management of the social reintegration programme in the Department of Correctional Services in Mbombela Municipality, Mpumalanga Province. The role played by the stake holders in the programme and the department in rehabilitating and reintegrating the offenders. The purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme; social acceptance and the application of skills obtained in the correctional facility as a deterrent to committing a further crime. Section 50 of the Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998); provide the following mandates; the objectives of the study is amongst others to afford sentenced offenders an opportunity to serve their sentences in a non- custodial manner, to enable persons subject to the programme to lead a specially responsible and crime free life during the period of their sentence and in future, to enable offenders to be rehabilitated in a manner that best keeps them as integral part of society and to enable them to be fully reintegrated into society when they have completed their sentences. The investigation is both qualitative and quantitative whereby; it would be descriptive; analytical, interpretive and evaluative. The findings of this study have shown that the majority of offenders do not lead a crime free life after imprisonment. However, Correctional programmes rendered are designed to equip offenders with skills to lead a responsible life on reintegration and also the level at which other stake-holders are involving themselves in the reintegration of offenders in order to reduce reoffending. The recommendations suggest the following as research findings: • Offenders should be equipped with skills that can make them employable and self-sufficient in the outside world. • Offenders should also be monitored even after hours; there must be no specific time of monitoring. • More resources should be channelled to the programme. • Correctional Services should employ the aid of external service providers in order to equip offenders with skills in the community and reduces the chances of reoffending. • External stake-holders should continue rendering programmes to ex-offenders who exited the system.

Inom en snar framtid kan effektiva behandlingsmetoder mot antisocial personlighetsstörning komma att bli tillgängliga för användning. I denna uppsats driver jag en tes om hur vi på ett etiskt försvarbart sätt skulle kunna använda dessa metoder. Tesen begränsar sig till (1) tvångsbehandling (2) av våldsamma återfallsbrottslingar (3) som diagnostiserats med antisocial personlighetsstörning och psykopati, samt till (4) behandlingsmetoder som klassificeras som kapacitetsförbättringar riktade mot moralisk kompetens. Jag argumenterar för att vi har starka skäl att godta tesen, främst med hänseende på fördelarna det skulle innebära för patienten, potentiella brottsoffer, och samhället i stort. Jag diskuterar också de två allvarligaste invändningarna mot min tes – att behandlingen hotar patientens autonomi, respektive personliga identitet – men konstaterar slutligen att de inte tycks kunna falsifiera tesen.