730 research outputs found
Probation and Parole: Training Consultancy (FINAL REPORT)
No full textIn August 2016, the Queensland Government appointed Mr Walter Sofronoff QC to conduct a thorough examination of the state’s parole system. The Queensland Parole System Review Final Report was submitted to the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP on 30 November. In February 2017, the Premier endorsed 89 of the 91 recommendations detailed in the Review, and the Queensland Government approved $265 million funding over six years to deliver these reforms. This document provides an overview of the work performed by Dr Lacey Schaefer, the academic consultant engaged to help meet selected recommendations from the Queensland Parole System Review related to training and development.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeNo Full Tex
Does the involvement of family and friends improve probation and parole outcomes? A quantitative evaluation of Triple-S: Social Supports in Supervision
No full textThis report details the results of a quantitative quasi-experimental evaluation of a new model of probation and parole called “Triple-S: Social Supports in Supervision”, in which officers incorporate “PoPPs” (Parents/Partners/Peers of Probationers and Parolees) into the supervision process to reduce crime opportunities and limit the exercise of propensity. In partnership with Queensland Corrective Services, the pilot project sought to position Community Corrections staff as “super controllers” who incorporate members of each client’s social network into the supervision process to serve in the crime controller roles of “offender handlers”, “target guardians”, and “place managers”. The model was piloted for six months (1 July – 31 December 2018) at one Community Corrections Office in southeast Queensland. This report describes the findings of a Criminology Research Grant awarded by the Australian Institute of Criminology to Dr Lacey Schaefer and Professor Michael Townsley to evaluate the impact of the Triple-S model on reoffending.No Full Tex
Hugh Lacey e a busca por uma epistemologia engajada | Hugh Lacey and the search for an engaged epistemology
No full textHugh Lacey (1939) is Research Fellow Emeritus at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, United States, where began teaching in 1972. He holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University (USA). He has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo on several occasions (1973, 1996, 2000 and 2004). His works assign proper places to values within technoscience, trying to show that the scientific materialist approach needs to assume also the place that things occupy in ecological and social systems. Lacey is the author of several articles and books, among which are Values and Scientific Activity 1, Values and Scientific Activity 2, The GMO Controversy: scientific and ethical issues, among others.Hugh Lacey (1939) es investigador emérito del Swarthmore College (Pensilvania, Estados Unidos), donde empezó a enseñar en 1972. Es Doctor en Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia por la Universidad de Indiana (EE.UU.). Ha sido profesor visitante en la Universidad de São Paulo en varias ocasiones (1973, 1996, 2000 y 2004). Sus trabajos atribuyen lugares propios a los valores dentro de la tecnociencia, tratando de demostrar que el enfoque científico materialista también debe asumir el lugar que ocupan las cosas en los sistemas ecológicos y sociales. Lacey es autor de varios artículos y libros, como Values and Scientific Activity 1, Values and Scientific Activity 2, The Transgenic Controversy: Scientific and Ethical Issues, entre otros.Hugh Lacey (1939) é pesquisador emérito na Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos, onde começou a lecionar em 1972. É Doutor em História e Filosofia da Ciência pela Universidade de Indiana (EUA), tendosido professor visitante na Universidade de São Paulo em diversas ocasiões (1973, 1996, 2000 e 2004). Seus trabalhos atribuem lugares próprios aos valores dentro da tecnociência, procurando mostrar que a abordagem científica materialista precisa assumir também o lugar que as coisas ocupam em sistemas ecológicos e sociais. Lacey é autor de diversos artigos e livros, entre os quais estão Valores e Atividade Científica 1, Valores e Atividade Científica 2, A Controvérsia sobre os transgênicos: questões científicas e éticas, entre outros
2017-2018 Catherine Lacey
No full textCatherine Lacey is the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and the forthcoming novel, Pew. She\u27s recently published work in The New Yorker, Harper\u27s, and The Believer. Her books have been translated into several languages. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Whiting Award, and earned an artists\u27 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Granta Magazine named her one of their Best of Young American Novelists in 2017. She was nominated for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and has held residencies at the Omi International Arts Center. With Forsyth Harmon, she co-authored The Art of the Affair, an illustrated guide to love and hate between dozens of twentieth century artists. She has taught fiction writing at Columbia University, The University of Montana, The University of Mississippi and the Tin House Summer Workshop. Born in Mississippi, she now lives in Chicago. (Photo credit Willy Somma)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1002/thumbnail.jp
Routine Activity Theory
No full textHistorically, criminological theories have aimed to explain criminal propensity, providing explanations for why some individuals are more likely than others to commit an offense. Conversely, less attention has been paid to the other element of a crime event: opportunity. This trend was radically altered from the 1970s onward, in large part due to Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson’s creation of a “routine activity approach” to understanding crime trends. The scholars proposed that, beyond the necessity of a motivated offender, crimes occur when suitable targets are present and capable guardians are absent. The contribution of routine activity theory increased interest in the role of criminal opportunity substantially, with various streams of research coalescing into a school of criminological thought known as “environmental criminology”, sometimes referred to as “crime science”. Routine activity theory is central to these approaches and is focused on crime reduction through the prevention and control of chances to commit crime. Routine activity theory was initially proposed as a sociological perspective, as Cohen and Felson explored aggregate associations between social trends (such as sociodemographic changes in household activity and urbanization) and the risk of victimization. Their analyses suggested that as changes occurred in the routine activities of Americans post-World War II, crime rates increased. From this original conceptualization, routine activity theory has evolved into the “crime triangle”, which provides a way of analysing crime problems. The triangle depicts that crime events occur when motivated offenders and attractive targets converge in space and time in the absence of guardianship. Research has further specified that three crime control actions paired with these elements – handling for offenders, guarding for targets, and managing for places – can reduce crime events. There are now hundreds of studies that examine the relationship between routine activities and crime, with many of these empirical investigations organised around the crime triangle. Theoretical advancements have outlined the role of targets and guardians, the levels of responsibility of crime controllers, the attractiveness of targets, the characteristics of (in)effective guardianship, and the social processes related to the presence or absence of handlers, guardians, and mangers. The contributions of this canon of literature combined, the evidence is quite clear in demonstrating the utility of routine activity theory for understanding and preventing crime.Full Tex
The role of cognitive and non-cognitive values in scientific practices: the reticulated model by Larry Laudan and the research strategies by Hugh Lacey
No full textA investigação aqui realizada examina o papel que os valores cognitivos e nãocognitivos desempenham nas práticas científicas. Essa análise fundamenta-se em uma comparação entre os modelos propostos por Hugh Lacey e por Larry Laudan para explicar a dinâmica da atividade científica. Veremos que, no modelo desenvolvido por Lacey, cuja idéia central reside nas estratégias de pesquisa, ambos os tipos de valor possuem papéis legítimos na atividade científica. Já no modelo reticulado, proposto por Laudan, o autor admite apenas os valores cognitivos como constituintes da racionalidade científica. A partir de uma comparação entre ambos os modelos, pretendemos mostrar que o modelo de Lacey parece ser mais abrangente do que o modelo reticulado, na medida em que este último poderia ser considerado como uma parte do primeiro.The present investigation examines the role of cognitive and non-cognitive values in scientific practices. This analysis is based on a comparison between the models proposed by Hugh Lacey and Larry Laudan to explain the dynamics of scientific activity. We will see that in Laceys model, whose main idea are the strategies of investigation, both kinds of values have legitimate roles in scientific activity. In the reticulated model, proposed by Laudan, the author admits only cognitive values as constitutive of scientific rationality. Based on a comparison between both models, we will try to show that Laceys model seems broader than the reticulated model, in the sense that the reticulated one could be considered as a part of Laceys model
Novel Dialogue 1.4: Feral Fiction: Catherine Lacey and Martin Puchner (JP)
No full textNovel Dialogue sends Martin Puchner (polymathic author of The Written World and most recently The Language of Thieves) out to speak with Pew author Catherine Lacey. They go a-wandering. Lacey's earlier works include a 2018 collection of short stories, Certain American States, and two novels: The Answers in 2017 and 2014's Nobody is Ever Missing, a delightful road novel set in New Zealand-always a sure way to win John's admiration. Martin starts by noticing the feral through-line in Catherine's work, a way that people escape or withdraw from socialization. And things go rapidly uphill and downhill from there. In short a rollicking rhythm prevails-you may want to listen while out rambling yourself. Even though Catherine proclaims "we are all housecats now.
Environmental Corrections: A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community
No full textEnvironmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce recidivism. Authors Lacey Schaefer, Francis T. Cullen, and John E. Eck move beyond traditional models for interventions and build directly on the applied focus of environmental criminology theories. Using this approach, the authors answer the question of what officers can do to decrease opportunities for an offender to commit a crime. Readers will learn how to recognize and assess specific criminal opportunities in an offender’s past and gain the tools and strategies they need to design an individualized supervision plan that channels offenders away from these criminogenic situations.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeNo Full Tex
Confidential Report: An Evaluation of a Criminal Justice Program
No full textThe Queensland Parole System Review recommended that all rehabilitative programs provided by Queensland Corrective Services be externally evaluated to ensure that they are effective in reducing reoffending and associated misbehaviours. In response to this call, the agency’s Research and Evaluation Unit commissioned evaluations of many of the agency’s programs. This report communicates the results of an evaluation of one such rehabilitative program, Queensland Corrective Services’ Cognitive Self-Change Program.No Full Tex
Linear Regression
No full textThis site, created by Michelle Lacey of Yale University, gives an explanation, a definition and an example of linear regression. Topics include: least-squares, residuals, extrapolation, outliers, and influential observations. Lacey's presentation is thoughtful in its layout. The author intertwines useful graphs within her textual explanations, this makes it accessible for almost any mathematics audience. Overall, this is a useful resource
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