RT Article
T1 Scientific inquiry and offender rehabilitation: the importance of epistemic and prudential values
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 25
IS 6
SP 577
OP 588
A1 Day, Andrew
A1 Geia, Lynore
A1 Tamatea, Armon
A2 Geia, Lynore
A2 Tamatea, Armon
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736558137
AB In this paper, we consider some of the ways in which personal and professional values shape the ways in which criminal justice professionals practice. Using the example of offender rehabilitation, we suggest that it is the values that we hold that determine how knowledge about what works is defined and how priorities for professional engagement are set. Specifically, we argue that there has been too great an emphasis on a particular set of epistemic values and insufficient attention paid to the importance of prudential and moral or social cultural values in the way in which rehabilitation services have developed. This has resulted in practices that have largely failed to deliver the types of social benefit that are intended, supported by a policy paradigm that privileges particular approaches. The argument is illustrated with reference to the failure to deliver effective rehabilitation to Indigenous peoples in both Australia and New Zealand.
K1 Accreditation
K1 Best Practice
K1 Community
K1 Indigenous
K1 Knowledge
K1 Offender rehabilitation
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2018.1543422