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Research and Statistical Publications by year of release
2024
- Implementing digital technologies in prison: Inmates’ ongoing experiences of tablet access and connections with family and friends (PDF, 345.4 KB)
- Drivers of program participation in NSW correctional centres: A trend analysis of digital tablets and Five Minute Interventions (FMI) (PDF, 227.6 KB)
- Full body x-ray scanners at NSW correctional centres: Scanner activity, contraband, and behavioural outcomes (PDF, 771.6 KB)
- Full body x-ray scanners at NSW correctional centres: Staff and inmate perspectives (PDF, 157.1 KB)
- Evaluation of throughput and participation outcomes for the Intervention Pathways model (PDF, 295.7 KB)
- Examination of treatment dosage delivered through the Intervention Pathways Model (PDF, 721.9 KB)
- Evaluation of the Compulsory Drug Treatment Program: With-in treatment change (PDF, 393.1 KB)
2023
- Assessment and experience of prison climate in NSW correctional centres (PDF, 785.7 KB)
- Five Minute Intervention (FMI) skills acquisistion by correctional staff: The role of manager buy-in (PDF, 288.4 KB)
- Dynamics of wellbeing and needs satisfaction among people in prison (PDF, 442.1 KB)
- Empirical review of the Pathways to Employment (P2E) pilot for women in prison (PDF, 633.2 KB)
- Conducting survey research using inmate digital tablets: Lessons learned from research conducted in NSW correctional centres (PDF, 465.8 KB)
- Evaluation of the Practice Guide of Intervention (PGI): Staff perceptions of Quality Assurance processes (PDF, 358.3 KB)
- Evaluation of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI): Staff Perceptions Five Years After Implementation (PDF, 644.9 KB)
- Assessing the impact of Five Minute Interventions (FMI) training on behavioural indicators of correctional centre safety and order: An interrupted time series analysis (No. 12) (PDF, 267.5 KB)
- Impacts of digital tablets on trends in correctional centre safety and order: A controlled interrupted time series study (No. 11) (PDF, 259.9 KB)
- Development and validation of the Triage Risk Assessment Scale: Sexual Offending (TRAS:SO) (PDF, 441.0 KB)
- Review of the birth certificate Identity Management Enhancement pilot (PDF, 350.4 KB)
- Implementation of an initiative for people with less than five months to serve in prison: Staff insights on the Short Sentence Intensive Program (SSIP) (PDF, 392.6 KB)
- The Intensive Learning Centres: Staff experiences of implementation and the SILC reforms (PDF, 301.3 KB)
- Five Minute Interventions (FMI): Custodial staff views and experiences of implementing FMI (PDF, 694.2 KB)
2022
- Effects of the Workplace Mentor Program on correctional officers' perceptions of workplace culture (PDF, 211.9 KB)
- Five Minute Interventions (FMI): Long-term effects of training on custodial staff attitudes towards prisoners, motivation and ability to support rehabilitation, and job stress and satisfaction (PDF, 296.7 KB)
- Effects of Words @ Work training on perceptions of offender rehabilitation and job experiences among Corrective Services Industries (CSI) overseers (PDF, 233.3 KB)
- Implementing digital technologies in prisons: A qualitative study of inmate experiences (PDF, 409.9 KB)
- Offender participation outcomes and predictors of treatment completion in the High Intensity Program Units (HIPUs) (PDF, 552.2 KB)
- Staff and inmate experiences of prison social climate at Rapid Build correctional centres: A quantitative evaluation (PDF, 526.6 KB)
- Evaluation of the Alternate Sanctions Program (ASP): Within-treatment Change (PDF, 341.6 KB)
- Implementing digital technologies in prisons: Inmate uptake and perceived value of in-cell digital tablets (PDF, 530.1 KB)
- Actuarial assessment of domestic violence recidivism risk among custody-based males: The Domestic Violence - Triage Risk Assessment Scale (DV-TRAS) (PDF, 408.7 KB)
- A qualitative exploration of factors influencing prison social climate at Rapid Build and traditional correctional centres (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Quality of the therapeutic alliance and associations with program outcomes for offenders participating in High Intensity Program Units (HIPUs) (No.6) (PDF, 311.1 KB)
2021
- The Initial Transitional Support (ITS) program: Implementation evaluation (PDF, 389.0 KB)
- How does the role of custodial staff influence their perceptions of offender rehabilitation and responses to Five Minute Interventions (FMI) training? (No.5) (PDF, 248.9 KB)
- Five Minute Interventions (FMI): Short-term effects of training on staff attitudes towards prisoners, motivation and ability to support rehabilitation, and job stress and satisfaction (PDF, 685.3 KB)
- Process evaluation of the Custody Based Intensive Treatment (CUBIT) program for sex offenders: Within-treatment change (PDF, 714.4 KB)
- Impact Evaluation of the Gurnang Life Challenge Specialised Program for Young Adult Male Offenders in NSW (PDF, 877.1 KB)
- Evaluation of Custodial Case Management (CCM): The Planning for Adjustment, Responsivity, Reintegration, Criminogenic Needs, and Communication (PARRCC) Assessment Tool (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Evaluation of High Intensity Programs Units (HIPUs): Implementation of an innovative intervention model for offenders with short custodial sentences (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Women in prison: An examination of the support needs of women in custody with children (PDF, 248.5 KB)
- The Initial Transitional Support (ITS) program: A profile of offender participation and service delivery (PDF, 775.5 KB)
2020
- Automated assessment of sexual recidivism risk for custody-based sex offenders (PDF, 450.7 KB)
- The predictive validity of general risk assessment tools for offence-specific recidivism among domestic violence offenders (PDF, 207.3 KB)
- Access to programs and services among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) offenders: The case of EQUIPS (PDF, 255.2 KB)
- Process evaluation of Custodial Case Management: Case plans (PDF, 1006.0 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2019 (PDF, 4.8 MB)
- Understanding the spectrum of domestic violence: Risk factors, treatment pathways and recidivism among offenders who commit intimate partner or non-intimate partner violence (PDF, 404.8 KB)
- Process evaluation of the High Intensity Program Units (HIPUs): Within-treatment change (PDF, 866.9 KB)
- Evaluation of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI): Relationship between offender needs and PGI use in case planning and supervision practice (PDF, 749.0 KB)
2019
- Effectiveness of the Initial Transitional Support (ITS) Service 2014-2017 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Evaluation of EQUIPS treatment pathways for domestic violence offenders in New South Wales (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- Process evaluation of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI) - Staff experiences of implementation and continuing service delivery (PDF, 910.7 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2018 (PDF, 3.0 MB)
- Desistance in an ageing inmate population: An examination of trends in age, assessed risk of recidivism and criminogenic needs (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- The Custody Triage Risk Assessment Scale (Custody TRAS): An updated statistical model for predicting risk of return to custody (PDF, 503.1 KB)
- Effects of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI) on behaviour change intervention dosage among community-based offenders (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Process evaluation of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI) - Staff perceptions of community supervision in the context of change (PDF, 666.6 KB)
- Blending care and control in delivery of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI): An assessment of the quality of dual role relationships between offenders and supervising officers in the community (PDF, 561.6 KB)
2018
- NSW Inmate Census 2017 (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- The Community Triage Risk Assessment Scale: A Statistical model for predicting recidivism among community-based offenders (PDF, 689.2 KB)
- Assessing offender change over treatment: The influence of treatment context on self-reported antisocial attitudes (PDF, 658.4 KB)
- Forty is the new thirty (for recidivism): Trends in offender age, reimprisonment, and time to desistance among NSW custodial population (PDF, 790.5 KB)
- The Criminal Reimprisonment Estimate Scale (CRES) (PDF, 673.8 KB)
2017
- The Case Quantify and Search Tool (C-QST) (PDF, 546.2 KB)
- Evaluation of vocational training in custody - Offenders' experiences of training and pathways to post-release employment (PDF, 522.2 KB)
- Evaluation of vocational training in custody - Relationships between Training, Post-Release Employment and Recidivism (PDF, 426.2 KB)
- Increase in the community corrections population (PDF, 882.3 KB)
2016
- NSW Inmate Census 2016 (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Process Evaluation of the Custody Based Intensive Treatment (CUBIT) Programs for Sex Offenders (PDF, 714.4 KB)
- Judicial Outcomes of Remand Inmates in New South Wales (PDF, 381.5 KB)
2015
- NSW Inmate Census 2015 (PDF, 4.2 MB)
- A Process Evaluation of the Intensive Drug & Alcohol Treatment Program (IDATP) - Study One (PDF, 19.1 MB)
2014
- NSW Inmate Census 2014 (PDF, 923.5 KB)
- Receptions into NSW Correctional Centres 2013 (PDF, 2.9 MB)
2013
- Evaluation of the Getting SMART Program (PDF, 675.6 KB)
- Drug Use in the Inmate Population - prevalence, nature and context (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2013 (PDF, 1.9 MB)
2012
- Maintaining the Link: A Survey of Visitors to New South Wales Correctional Centres (PDF, 608.8 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2012 (PDF, 414.5 KB)
2011
- Evaluation of Community Offender Services Programs Drug & Alcohol Addiction and Relapse Prevention - Three Years Out (PDF, 255.7 KB)
- The Impact of a Correctional-based Parenting Program in Strengthening Parenting Skills of Incarcerated Mothers (PDF, 389.9 KB)
- Trends in the adult indigenous inmate population in NSW 1998-2010 (PDF, 385.3 KB)
- Corrections Treatment Outcome Study (CTOS) on offenders in drug treatment: Results from the Drug Summit demand reduction residential programs (PDF, 377.0 KB)
- Offender Population Trends: Aged Offenders in NSW (PDF, 155.2 KB)
- The Utility of Level of Service Inventory - Revised (LSI-R) Assessments within NSW Correctional Environments (PDF, 198.2 KB)
- Current trends in correctional management (PDF, 114.7 KB)
- NSW Community Offender Services Census 2011 (PDF, 889.0 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2011 (PDF, 514.3 KB)
2010
- Bail Refusal & Homelessness Affecting Remandees in New South Wales (PDF, 341.3 KB)
- Women convicted of a violent offence in NSW: 2000 to 2009 (PDF, 205.9 KB)
- Drug Related Patterns and Trends in NSW inmates (PDF, 209.1 KB)
- Bail Refusal and Homelessness Affecting Remandees in NSW (PDF, 105.9 KB)
- NSW Community Offender Services Census 2010 (PDF, 578.1 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2010 (PDF, 952.2 KB)
2009
- Offender Population Trends: convicted Sex Offenders in NSW (PDF, 198.9 KB)
- NSW Community Offender Services Census 2009 (PDF, 604.8 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2009 (PDF, 423.3 KB)
2008
- Indigenous deaths in NSW Corrective Services Custody 1996-07 to 2006-07 (PDF, 214.0 KB)
- Profile of Violent Behaviour by Inmates in NSW Correctional Centres (PDF, 226.1 KB)
- Evaluation of the Drug and Alcohol Addiction and Relapse Prevention Programs in Community Offender Services: One Year Out (PDF, 263.9 KB)
- NSW Community Offender Services Census 2008 (PDF, 737.7 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2008 (PDF, 444.3 KB)
2007
- Drug-related patterns and trends in NSW inmates (PDF, 199.1 KB)
- NSW Community Offender Services Census 2007 (PDF, 683.0 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2007 (PDF, 380.2 KB)
- The Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre: The First Ten Years (PDF, 285.8 KB)
2006
- Outcomes for NSW PDC (PDF, 554.8 KB)
- Trends in escapes from NSW Department of Corrective Services custody (PDF, 161.9 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2006 (PDF, 292.5 KB)
2005
- Addressing Prisoner Drug Use (PDF, 297.3 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2005 (PDF, 289.0 KB)
2004
- Saliva testing for illicit drug use among offenders (PDF, 299.5 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2004 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
2003
- Addressing the use of drugs in prison - 2nd collection (PDF, 252.9 KB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2003 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
2002
- NSW Inmate Census 2002 (PDF, 417.7 KB)
2001
- Remand Inmates in NSW (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2001 (PDF, 364.7 KB)
2000
- Addressing the use of drugs in prison (PDF, 2.8 MB)
- Visiting the inside (PDF, 3.2 MB)
- NSW Inmate Census 2000 (PDF, 334.1 KB)
- Inmate Statistics 99-00 (PDF, 4.1 MB)
- NSW Inmate Population: Visualising the Trends 1999 (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Last updated:
22 Nov 2024
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