Transforming Corrections

Presented at the Reintegration Puzzle ConferenceAuckland, New Zealand Thursday, August 22, 2013

Tom O’Connor, Ph.D.CEO., Transforming CorrectionsAssistant Prof., Criminal Justice, Western Oregon University(503) 559-5752oconnortom@aol.com

• More compassionate

• More collaborative

• Focused on health

• More effective

• Less expensive

A Journey of Adaptive Change A Journey of Adaptive Change

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Immunity to Change ®

A Human Development Approach to Adaptive Change

by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, 2010

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Global Peace Index

Context Conditions Consciousness

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/ - /page/indexes/global-peace-index

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Incarceration Change Between 1960 and 1990 When Crime Rates were almost identical. Finland Germany United States

Tonry, M. (2004). Thinking About Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

A Low Dream Approach

What Makes the Difference?

• Self

• Working relationship with achange agent

• Program

• Placebo

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(McNeill, Batchelor, Burnett, Knox, (2005), 21st Century Social Work, Glasgow School of Social Work)

Malcolm X

Anne Frank

Fr. Danial Berrigan

St. Paul

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Martin Luther KingLydia Kamakaeha

A High Dream Approach

Aung San Suu Kyi

Nelson Mandela

Malcolm X

Anne Frank

Fr. Danial Berrigan

St. Paul

Gandhi

Martin Luther KingLydia Kamakaeha

Aung San Suu Kyi

Nelson Mandela

Ask yourself this question.

What is the opposite of fragile?

Anti-fragile

“The world breaks everyone, and some get stronger because of it.”Earnest Hemmingway

Reduces Recidivism Rates by 22% and

Saves $10.42 for every $1 invested

Functional Family Therapy Program for Juveniles

Follow- Up With an Outcome Evaluation: Results from Washington’s Functional Family Therapy

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Motivational Interviewing: 4 Essential ComponentsMiller & Rollnick, 2012

Probation Officers As Change Agents: Change in Recidivism Rates

Systems Intervention

•© Fixsen & Blase, 2008

PerformanceAssessment

StaffCoaching

StaffTraining

StaffSelection

Facilitative Administration

Decision Support Data System

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Well-defined, Effective strategy

Technical Adaptive

Evidence-based Decision Making Initiative – EBDMI&

Justice Reinvestment Strategy

• Police – who to arrest?

• Mental Health – who to help and keep out of penal system?

• Jail – who to release?

• Prosecution/Defense – what to charge?

• Judges – what sentence?

• Probation, Prison & Parole – what change agent and treatment?

Dialogue Coaching – The Art of Thinking TogetherWilliam Issacs / David Kantor, 2012

“The quest for meaning is an inherent part of being human.”

There are 3 basic ways of making meaning – H/S/R.

H: Humanist

S. Spiritual

R. Religious

Making Meaning Making Meaning

What is it? - understanding / intelligence

Shared Framework for Making Meaning

Is it so? - truth / rationality

Please answer this question.

A bat and a ball cost $1.10.

The bat costs one dollar more than the ball.

How much does the ball cost?

What is it? - understanding / intelligence

Is it loving? - humanist, spiritual, religious meaning

Is it good? - ethics / morality

Shared Framework for Making Meaning

Is it so? - truth / rationality