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There is considerable debate in the literature regarding the link between sentence length and recidivism. Consistent with a specific deterrence …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 27, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Length of Incarceration Criminal behaviour Recidivism

Healing Lodges and culturally-specific interventions offer benefits that support offender reintegration for men.

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 27, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Male Offenders Healing Lodges Indigenous men Gradual reintegration impact

Healing Lodges improve women's dynamic risk and offer unique opportunities for gradual reintegration.

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 27, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Women Offenders Healing Lodges Indigenous Women Gradual reintegration Dynamic risk impact

Healing Lodges are environments that use Indigenous values, traditions, and beliefs to offer culturally-relevant services and programs for Indigenous offenders. …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 27, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Qualitative examination Men Healing Lodges Programs Indigenous offenders

Examinations over a ten-year period demonstrate that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women differ on many indicators of correctional outcomes and that …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 26, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Aboriginal women offenders profile population changes over time

Our study was the first to comprehensively examine differences between First Nations and Métis women. Differences in offending patterns, criminogenic …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 26, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Social history First Nations women Métis women Women Offenders Criminogenic need admission to warrant expiry correctional process

Although four-in-five women offenders in Canada have substance use problems, little research has focused on the variability in their substance …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 26, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Substance use Women Offenders Computerized assessment Behaviour

Correctional agencies worldwide are adopting women-centered philosophies grounded in the assumption that women are different than their male counterparts. A …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 26, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Gender-Neutral Women-centered philosophies Women-Specific Risk Factors Women Offenders

The Dynamic Factors Identification and Analysis-Revised (DFIA-R) tool is a key component of the offender intake assessment used by the …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 26, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Research projects Offender intake assessment Women Offenders The Dynamic Factors Identification and Analysis-Revised

The current study was conducted to assess the validity of the Descriptive Model of Female Sexual Offending (DMFSO; Gannon, Rose, …

Record Modified: May 5, 2025
Record Released: Jul 25, 2023
Publisher: Correctional Service of Canada
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Keywords: Sentenced Women Women sex offenders Reintegration Distinct offending characteristics Typologies