AJCSD

Australasian Journal of Correctional Staff Development

The AJCSD is a practical measure designed to increase information sharing across the Australasian corrections industry.

The journal is a free service, hosted by Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy and appearing online quarterly. It contains articles, papers, links, statistics and discussions covering a variety of operational and human resource management issues.

At its core, the AJCSD serves as a directory for correctional learning & development managers and a guide to professional development opportunities for correctional staff.

We extend a warm invitation to jurisdictions throughout the Asia Pacific Region who are not yet involved to join us through the submission of papers for inclusion in this publication, and we reiterate our invitation to our colleagues throughout the region to continue to send us items of professional interest.

In this issue

A visit to Wormwood Scrubs
Zoe De Crespigny

Establishing a Compulsary Drug Treatment Prison
Astrid Birgden and Luke Grant

The Indigenous Cadetship Support Program
Charley Boyter

The Violent Offender Therapeutic Program
Jayson Ware, Cherice Cieplucha, Danielle Matsuo

The Indigenous Offender Health Web Resource
Caitlin Maling

Interjurisdictional visit to Corrections Victoria
Rita Sosic

Concept of Intellectual Disability
Phillip Snoyman & Berindah Aicken

International Developments in Extremist Violence Risk Assessment and Management
John Flockton

Role of Food and the challenges it poses for correctional management
Tim Wilson

Thai Corrections - Amazing Thailand
Bruce Mercer

Enabling the effective take-up, Part 1
Malcolm Reason

Finishing the Job: Providing a roadmap for post release education & employment
David Gould, Jason Hainsworth, Kevin Manning and Toni McLackland

The emerging role of the specialist program facilitator
Lorraine Holland and Janet Sallabank

The need principle
Minga Wong

Towards a learning organisation
Alan Moran

Archived issues

Volume 5 nos 1-3 (2010)
- 3. A Simplified Methodology for Planning and Conducting Training Audits
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- 3. Correctional governance: an Indonesian experience
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- 3. Indonesian Deployment of Corrective Services NSW Officers
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- 2. Assuring Public Safety through Effective Management of Community Based Offenders
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- 2. Family Preservation and Reintegration for Offenders
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- 2. Guarding against Manipulation by Criminal Offenders.
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- 2. Indigenous Specific Programs
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- 2. Offenders with Mental Health Issues: Community Re-entry and Reintegration
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- 2. Study Visit to Central Institute for Correctional Police in China
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- 1. A Tale of Two Literatures -
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- 1. The Use of Technology in Corrections Report -
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- 1. Use of Antilibidinal Meds for Sexual Offenders -
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Volume 4 Nos 1-3 (2009)
- No. 1 (March) - Academic research & Writing Skills Pt1 - Toni Kennedy
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- No. 1 (March) - Mad, Bad, or Sad - Is there a better way - Dr John Kasinathan
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- No. 1 (March) - Parenting Programs in NSW Women’s Correctional Centres - Deidre Hyslop
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- No. 1 (March) - Port Arthur: The beginning of education and training in modern Australian correctional systems - Michael Cuthbertson
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- No. 1 (March) - Professional portfolios for Correctional Officers - Geoffrey Cowan
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- No. 1 (March) - Updating the hepatitis C infection risk reduction hierarchy in prison settings - Niyi Awofeso
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- No. 2 (June) - Academic Research Part II - Toni Kennedy
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- No. 2 (June) - DOCLIS Classification System - Marrianne Wilkins
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- No. 2 (June) - Intensive Learning Centre - Michael Riley
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- No. 2 (June) - Management of Inmate Mental Health - Gary Hancl
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- No. 2 (June) - Service Quality of Visiting Scholar Placement Program Part I - Daniel Wong and Supachoke Khuanruechai
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- No. 3 (September) Australian Correctional Leadership Program 2009 - Margaret Dornan
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- No. 3 (September) - Ethical Conduct in Correctional Services - Samantha Grady
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- No. 3 (September) - Indigenous Representations in Corrections - Alan Clements, Narelle Jeffrey, Anne Marie Martin, Simon Raper
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- No. 3 (September) - Mental Health in Criminal Justice System - Deborah Harvey, Jeremy Hildreth, Jason MacLeod and Pauline Moran
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- No. 3 (September) - Service Quality of Visiting Scholar Placement Program Part II - Daniel Wong and Supachoke Khuanruechai
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Volume 3 Nos 1-3 (2008)
- No. 1 (July) - Self Evaluation Learning Form (SELF) - Karen Alling, Alex Bibao, Anthony Johnston and John Salway
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- No. 1 (July) - Custody and Sentence Planning - a Throughcare Model for 'AA' Inmates - Bianca Spaccavento, Nita Dowel and Chris Quilkey
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- No. 1 (July) - Barriers to the availabilty of community based sentencing options for offenders in rural and remote areas of NSW - Arianne van der Meer, Peter Townsend and Phil Hartmann
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- No. 1 (July) Identifying the relevance of domestic violence issues to the management of female offenders - Susan Stone, Jeff Cunningham and Mel Comerford
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- No. 1 (July) - Needlestick Injuries among prison officers in two Australian states - Sarah Larney and Kate Dolan
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- No. 1 (July) - Torture: Understanding and addressing a highly reprehensible aspect of prison violence - Niyi Awofeso
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- No.1 (July) - Report to NSW DCS on Professional Development Grant Program completed in September 2006, Parts 1 & 2 - Sue Paull
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- No.2 (September) - Arabic Client Service Officer (ACSO) - Hana Hallak
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- No.2 (September) - Building success for E-Learners - Jennifer Hofman
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- No.2 (September) - E-Case notes made easy - Peter Latimer, Sharon Yarnton, Zoe de Crespigny and Carolyn Shaw
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- No.2 (September) - Keeping libraries alive behind bars: a study of NSW Corrective Services libraries - Toni Kennedy
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- No.2 (September) - Nott to be forgotten - Steve Barlow
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- No.2 (September) - Q&A about Australian corrections - Niyi Awofeso, PhD
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- No.2 (September) - Achieving quality training in Corrections - Michael Cuthbertson
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- No.2 (September) - Training non-psychological staff in the management of sexual offenders - Jayson Ware, Rachel Hart, Polina Fragaki
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- No. 2 (September) - Tasmanian Prison Service performance management strategy - Steve Gridley, Mal Harriss, Sonia Cook
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- No. 2 (September) - Unlocking Correctional Stress - an overview of the Gaol Keeper's Stress - Manbir Kohli
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- No.2 (December) - Christchurch Men's Prison - Stephen C. Taylor
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- No. 2 (December) - Coaching in the NSW Public Sector - Duncan Sutherland
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- No.2 (December) - Compulsory drug treatment - Astrid Birgden
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- No.2 (December) - Correctional programs at Charles Sturt University in 2009 - A.W. Anscombe
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- No.2 (December) - Criminal behaviour: Free will v. determinism - Debra Delaney
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- No. 2 (December) - Prison Hepatitis B vaccine - Niyi Awofeso, PhD
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- No. 2 (December) - Terrorism and the corrections industry - Toni Kennedy
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- No.2 (December) - Working outside - Paul Hager & Mary C. Johnson
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