Schaefer Lacey, Williamson Harley
1 Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, Queensland, Australia.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2018 Oct;62(14):4565-4584. doi: 10.1177/0306624X18764851. Epub 2018 Jul 2.
Actuarial assessment has become an integral component of offender management, helping to structure the decision-making of correctional staff about offenders' case plans. Despite research validating instruments and documenting best practices in offender assessment, fewer studies explore how practitioners use these diagnostic and case management tools. Using survey data from a sample of probation and parole staff, the current study examines the influence of professional characteristics, job burnout and stress, and supervision strategy preferences on noncompliance with assessment data entry and deviations from the tools' risk and needs recommendations. Results indicate various forms of noncompliance with case management tools are fairly common. Staff with greater tenure and heightened depersonalization and emotional exhaustion exhibit greater odds of assessment noncompliance. Case managers who adopt surveillance and rehabilitation supervisory tactics are less likely to deviate from the tools' processes and results, while staff who prefer opportunity-reduction strategies have increased odds of assessment noncompliance.
精算评估已成为罪犯管理的一个不可或缺的组成部分，有助于构建惩教人员对罪犯个案计划的决策。尽管有研究验证了评估工具并记录了罪犯评估中的最佳实践，但较少有研究探讨从业者如何使用这些诊断和个案管理工具。本研究利用来自缓刑和假释工作人员样本的调查数据，考察了专业特征、职业倦怠和压力以及监督策略偏好对不遵守评估数据录入以及偏离工具的风险和需求建议的影响。结果表明，各种形式的不遵守个案管理工具的情况相当普遍。任期较长、去个性化和情感耗竭程度较高的工作人员出现评估不遵守的几率更大。采用监督和改造监督策略的个案管理人员不太可能偏离工具的流程和结果，而倾向于减少机会策略的工作人员评估不遵守的几率则增加。
