About Effective Corrections
Increasingly agencies are looking for ways to improve correctional practice to increase staff and client satisfaction, to improve public safety, and ideally, to reduce costs.
Effective Corrections provides evidence-informed resources developed to standardize offender assessment, to refine case management practice, and to positively influence client change. Some resources are public domain (i.e., self-directed workbooks), while others are proprietary and available for a cost (Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Reentry). Resources include e-learning curricula, reading level-appropriate activities to share and complete with clients, and targeted skills-based materials for staff wanting to address criminogenic needs.
About Ralph C. Serin
Ralph Serin is professor of Psychology and director of the Criminal Justice Decision-Making laboratory at Carleton University. Following a 27-year career in Canadian federal corrections as a parole officer, psychologist, and researcher, he joined Carleton in 2003. Since then, he has continued to provide consultation and training to various parole and corrections agencies in North America, Asia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Current research topics include offender assessment (dynamic risk, offender change); crime desistance; violent offenders (pathways to desistance, typologies, programming, and management); parole decision-making; and community supervision.