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CASE MANAGEMENT in CORRECTIONS Important Process: Important Features. Assess. Review. Plan. Implement. Tony Grapes Subject Expert – DOMICE Project. WHY IS CASE MANAGEMENT SO IMPORTANT TO THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS??. effectiveness
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CASE MANAGEMENT in CORRECTIONS • Important Process: • Important Features • Assess • Review • Plan • Implement Tony Grapes Subject Expert – DOMICE Project
WHY IS CASE MANAGEMENT SO IMPORTANT TO THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS?? • effectiveness • the “core business process” • individualisation; inputs (programmes, standards, treatments,) into outcomes (compliance, rehabilitation and public protection) • prevalence • it’s everywhere
SCOPE OF THE DOMICE PROJECT Supervision Non-custodial options Mediation Sentence Sentencing Reports Supervised Release Custody Detention
WHY IS CASE MANAGEMENT SO IMPORTANT TO THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS?? • effectiveness • the “core business process” – individualisation; converts inputs into outcomes - compliance, rehabilitation and public protection • prevalence • it’s everywhere • cost • second only to the cost of custody? • quality • “The case manager is responsible for the integrity of the whole supervision process” • synergy • one input building on another • the whole being greater than the sum of the parts • integration
2 2 Prison Court Report = 9 = ? Case Management 2 2 Treatment Training
IMPORTANT FEATURES • Risks, Needs and Responsivity • Cognitive/behavioural component, programme integrity, community-base and evaluation. Bonta’s “black box” What Works Holt • applying research and writing from health and social care • The 4 Cs (continuity, consistency, commitment; consolidation)....and later...compliance Partridge • Specialist, generic and mixed • Managers tend toward specialisation; offenders and staff respond better to a person-centred approach Dowden and Andrews • Core Correctional Practice • Use of authority; modelling; teaching; using resources; warm, empathetic relationships The Desistance School • What characterises desistance? How rather than What • S ubjective, a stake; “agency”; redemption, new (non-offending) identity, a valued relationship
This completes the introduction to the conference in which we have tried to establish: • WHATIS case management • WHY it is so important to the working of correctional systems In the next session we will illustrate the huge variety in the organisation and delivery of case management across Europe You will then have the opportunity to consider how your system compares within this variety and against some of the key features I have introduced