Public notifications make it challenging for prisoners to reintegrate after release

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Public notifications make it challenging for prisoners to reintegrate after release

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In Canada, when someone is about to complete serving their prison sentence, they are typically assessed for risk of ********* by the prison. If they are deemed to pose a significant threat to the community, a package is prepared and shared with the police, who are notified about the release.

Police may then apply to the courts for a judicial order and the individual is told they must enter an agreement to be supervised. These orders might include conditions that forbid drinking or staying out past a curfew, for example. Courts can also require community notifications.

These notifications are meant to let the public know that an individual is being released in their community. People convicted of ******* are

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, either after completing their full sentence or while being

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Members of the public might often react negatively to community notifications about people released from prison, especially if the individual has a violent past. Research has shown that the public is most outraged and misperceives the risk of reoffending when the individual has committed a

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, and it’s even worse when it’s a

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Community notifications

Community notifications are intended to be helpful by informing the public. However, they can also make

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Notifications to the public are seen as the “

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” option by some when it comes to dealing with repeat offenders compared to a lifetime or lengthy ******* of supervision, such as being designated a

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However, you can only imagine what an incarcerated individual might think when they are told: “You’ve done your time and you will be released, but now we’re going to supervise you for another year or two, and this time it will be under the watchful eye of a police officer—and everyone in the community will know your name, your face and what you did. Good luck with keeping your nose clean and avoiding another arrest.”

People who have completed their prison sentences and are released are no longer in the provincial or federal correctional system, and bodies like the National Parole Board

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over them. So, police are then expected to manage any public safety risk that released individuals may pose.

Yet, police are primarily trained in enforcing the law, investigating ********* activity and addressing emergency situations as they arise. There is little training on managing offenders and engaging in rehabilitation to lower their risk to themselves or others.

Helping offenders reintegrate

If police integrate certain principles in their practices,

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. These evidence-based principles, which are called

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, tell us that police should direct more attention to higher risk individuals, spend more time targeting risk factors that cause ********* behavior and learn to build better relationships and rapport with offenders. This would be further effective

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to help offenders reintegrate into society.

Research has shown that police do quite well when they use risk assessments. When they focus their attention on risk factors like substance ******, marital conflicts and monitoring ********* associations, and when they are compassionate and use trauma-informed approaches, the risk for violent and ******* offending is more likely reduced.

Of course, risk management and reintegration pose many challenges. Police have to help stabilize people’s lives by effectively helping them find sustainable work and positive activities.

People with convictions may face difficulty finding suitable housing or getting into treatment programs that help with substance ****** and mental health. The pressure to ensure stability is most critical

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Supervising and supporting violent offenders is not an easy task or an easy sell to the public. Our research has shown that it doesn’t matter how we present information, the public is less inclined to see

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However, with specialized training, police can be instrumental in reducing risk. And with the support of the community, released offenders are more likely to gain stability and live a productive ******-free life. These are goals that we all share as members of our community.

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