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ATS1423 - Punishment, courts and corrections TAB L E OF CO N TE N TS WEEK 2: WHY DO WE PUNISH? PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF PUNISHMENT............................................................................................................ 4 DEFINTION OF PUNISHMENT............................................................................................................................................................................................4 FIVE ELEMENTS OF MODERN PUNISHMENT.....................................................................................................................................................................4 THE AIMS OF PRINCIPLES OF PUNISHMENT: CONSEQUENTIALIST & EXPRESSIVE...........................................................................................................5 DETTERENCE, REHABILITATION, INCAPACITATION AND COMMUNITY PROTECTION, DENUNICATION AND MORAL REPROBATION, RETRIBUTION AND ‘JUST DESERTS’..................................................................................................................................................................................................................5 Case Study: Kayla – Aboriginal woman......................................................................................................................................................................6 SETENCING LEGISLIATION IN VICTORIA.............................................................................................................................................................................6 APPLYING THE AIM OF SENTENCING – THE BORD RISTEVSKI CASE..................................................................................................................................6 WEEK 3: COURTS AND SENTENCING.............................................................................................................................................................................7 WEEK 4: THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND SPECIALIST COURTS: RESPONDING TO INEQUALITY..............................................................................8 INEQUALITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE...............................................................................................................................................................................8 THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUES OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM..........................................................................................................................8 BARRIERS TO JUSTICE........................................................................................................................................................................................................8 ADDRESSING INEQUALITY: COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTRES...............................................................................................................................................8 ADDRESSING INEQUALITY: COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTRES...............................................................................................................................................9 THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS..................................................................................................................................9 PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS IN VICTORIA........................................................................................................................................................................9 COURT LISTS......................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 WEEK 5: COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS SERVICE IN VICTORIA....................................................................................................................................... 10 VICTORIAN CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM..........................................................................................................................................................................................10 COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.....................................................................................................................................................................................10 SENTENCING HIERACHY..........................................................................................................................................................................................................10 OVERVIEW – COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL SERVICES...................................................................................................................................................................10

COMMUNITY CORRECTION ORDERS (SUPERVISED).......................................................................................................................................................10 REPARATION ORDERS......................................................................................................................................................................................................11 COMBINED ORDERS (CCO-IMPRISONMENT)..................................................................................................................................................................11 PAROLEES........................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 KEY CCS DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION.........................................................................................................................................................................11 COMMUNITY CORRECTION ORDER (CCO)......................................................................................................................................................................11 COMMUNITY CORRECTION ORDER (CCO)......................................................................................................................................................................11 PURPOSE OF THE CCO............................................................................................................................................................................................................12 MANDATORY TERMS..............................................................................................................................................................................................................12 CCO CONDITIONS..................................................................................................................................................................................................................12 DRUG TREATMENT ORDER (DTO).............................................................................................................................................................................................13 PAROLE ORDERS...................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 CV AND APB........................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 PAROLE............................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 VICTORIAN PAROLE SYSTEM............................................................................................................................................................................................13 PRISONER CATEGORISATION...........................................................................................................................................................................................13 INTEGRATED PAROLE SYSTEM.........................................................................................................................................................................................14 PAROLE ORDER................................................................................................................................................................................................................14 PAROLE ORDER – MANDATORY TERMS AND CONDITIONS.............................................................................................................................................14 PAROLE ORDER – ‘OTHER’ TERMS AND CONDITIONS.....................................................................................................................................................14 PRECRIBED PAROLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS...............................................................................................................................................................15 POST SENTENCE..............................................................................................................................................................................................................15 POST SENTENCE SCHEME FOR SERIOUS SEX OFFENDERS..............................................................................................................................................15 POST SENTENCE SCHEME FOR SERIOUS SEX AND VIOLENT OFFENDERS...........................................................................................................................15 WHAT SHAPES THE WORK WE DO?..........................................................................................................................................................................................16 COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL SERVICES CASE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK............................................................................................................16 CCS MISSION (REVISITED)......................................................................................................................................................................................................16 EXAMPLE CASE: MEET BILL.....................................................................................................................................................................................................16 CASE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES..............................................................................................................................................................................................17 HOW DO WE DO ALL OF THAT? THROUGH EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE............................................................................................................................................17 WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE?.................................................................................................................................................................................................17 RISK ASSESSMENT – LEVEL OF SERVICE, RISK, NEED RESPONSIVITY..............................................................................................................................17 FOURTH WAVE RISK ASSESSMENT..................................................................................................................................................................................18 RISK MANAGEMENT: OFFENDER REVIEW.......................................................................................................................................................................18 RISK MANAGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING................................................................................................................................................................18 PRO-SOCIAL MODELLING................................................................................................................................................................................................19 PRO-SOCIAL MODELLING................................................................................................................................................................................................19 MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING................................................................................................................................................................................................19 RIGHTING REFLEX............................................................................................................................................................................................................19

SPIRIT OF MI (UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE)..........................................................................................................................................................................20 SOME MI SKILLS/PRINCIPLES..........................................................................................................................................................................................20 COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES........................................................................................................................................................................20 THE RISK OF COLLUSION.................................................................................................................................................................................................21 STRENGTH BASED APPROACH: DESISTANCE...................................................................................................................................................................21 DESISENCE IS A PROCESS THAT CAN BE FACILIATED FOURTH WAVE RISK ASSESSMENT......................................................................21 STAFF SUPERVISION FRAMEWORK.................................................................................................................................................................................21 WEEK 6: THE PRISON AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE...........................................................................................................................................22 VICTORIAN PRISON: A CRISIS?.................................................................................................................................................................................................22

OMBUDSMAN REPORT...................................................................................................................................................................................................22 WHO IS IN PRISON AND FOR WHAT?..............................................................................................................................................................................22 UNDER PRESSURE….........................................................................................................................................................................................................23 WHO IS IN PRISON?.........................................................................................................................................................................................................23 SUMMARY: VICTORIA’S PRISON POPULATION.............................................................................................................................................................................23 ANGELA DAVIS QUOTE....................................................................................................................................................................................................23 DANGEROUSNESS............................................................................................................................................................................................................23 MISSION STATEMENT CORRECTIONS VICTORIA..............................................................................................................................................................24 DESIGNING PRISONS FOR HUMAN INTERACTION..........................................................................................................................................................24 ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER OVERREPRESENTATION........................................................................................................................24 INDIGEONOUS STATISTICS – AUSTRALIA.........................................................................................................................................................................24 INDIGEONOUS STATISTICS – VICTORIA...............................................................................................................................................................................25 COLONISATION................................................................................................................................................................................................................25 INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM...............................................................................................................................................................25 STATISTICS ON IMPRISONMENT......................................................................................................................................................................................25 INCREASE IN PRISON POPULATION.................................................................................................................................................................................26 FAMILY VIOLENCE............................................................................................................................................................................................................26 SERVICES FOR FAMILY VIOLENCE....................................................................................................................................................................................26 ROYAL COMMISSION INTO FAMILY VIOLENCE................................................................................................................................................................26 THE COMMISSIONS TASK................................................................................................................................................................................................26 1 YEAR ON..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................27 HOW DO WE FAIR?..........................................................................................................................................................................................................27 SO WHAT IF WE DIDN’T HAVE PRISONS?..........................................................................................................................................................................27 WEEK 7: VICTIMS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM..............................................................................................................................................28 OVERVIEW: VICTORIA’S CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM...........................................................................................................................................................28 OVERVIEW: PRISONS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................28 PRISON CAPACITY AND UTILISATION..........................................................................................................................................