Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World

281 Pages·2012·4.02 MB·English

by  Jennie K. Singer

FORENSICS & CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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Trends in Corrections
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Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World
Offering rare insiders’ perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with
Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional
programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present
transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief portrait of the corrections
system in those jurisdictions. The leaders interviewed represent a variety of cultures, T
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Mexico, and the United States), Asia (Singapore), Australia, the Caribbean (Trinidad and
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Tobago), and Europe (England, Hungary, and Bosnia–Herzegovina).
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Trends in Corrections
Interviews with
Corrections Leaders Around the World
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Interviews with
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Eileen M. Ahlin
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Table of Contents
Series Preface ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Editors xv
Contributors xvii
Interviewees xxiii
Introduction xxvii
1 Interview with Hazael Ruiz, Ex-Director of the
Penitentiary System in Mexico City 1
ELENA AZAOLA
2 Interview with Assistant Commissioner Luke
Grant of Offender Services and Programs in New
South Wales 13
LAUREN BENTON, ELIAS MPOFU, AND
RODD ROTHWELL
3 Interview with Dusko Sain, Director of
Corrections for the Republic of Srspka 31
LAURENCE ARMAND FRENCH AND GORAN KOVACEVIC
4 Interview with Dr. Antal Kökényesi, Lieutenant
General, Commander of the Hungarian National
Prison Service 49
JÓZSEF BODA AND ZSOLT MOLNÁR
5 Interview with John Rougier, Commissioner of
Prisons of Trinidad and Tobago 71
DIANNE WILLIAMS
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6 Interview with John Pastorek, Warden at North
Fraser Pretrial Centre in British Columbia 101
DANIELLE MURDOCH
7 Interview with Michael Boileau, Warden of
Matsqui Institution, Correctional Service
Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia 121
RICHARD PARENT
8 Interview with Robert Jennings on
Corrective Services, Western Australia 139
ANN-CLAIRE LARSEN
9 Interview with Timothy Leo, Chief Psychologist
of the Singapore Prison Service 159
ANDREW DAY AND SHARON CASEY
10 Interview with Sue Hall, Chief Officer of West
Yorkshire Probation 169
CLARE BECKETT
11 Interview with Robert Ambroselli, Director of
Parole, California Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation 189
MARY MAGUIRE
12 Interview with “CM” 215
JOANNA SPINK
13 Conclusion 227
JENNIE K. SINGER, EILEEN M. AHLIN, AND
DILIP K. DAS
International Police Executive Symposium (IPES)
www. ipes.info 233
IPES Institutional Supporters 235
Suggested Guidelines for Interviewers 239