Insights on Justice
Insights for leaders, managers, and educators in the criminal justice system.
Spotlighting the Center Stage Role Attitudes Play in Shaping Behaviors
In order to promote lasting change in the behaviors of offenders and other at-risk populations, we need to answer the question, “What roles do attitudes play in shaping the way an individual lives their values?” This article examines how we, as facilitators of change, must promote an introspective look at how attitudes differ from, and indeed separate, our values and actions.
How Prison Educators Transform Themselves Into Value Added Representatives
As prison educators and probation officers work with offenders to improve behaviors, it is useful to borrow from the business world the concept of the value-added reseller. Negative behaviors only stop when offenders see a benefit to positive replacement behaviors. It is the job of the educator to frame the behaviors in a way that appeals to the specific values of Blue, Gold, Green, and Orange personality types.
How to Help Criminal Offenders Discover the True Cost of Illegal Behaviors
Societies have worked for ages on the issue of what to do with those members who do not play by the rules. Politicians, clergy, justice system workers, and concerned citizens have tried plan after plan to try to harness the best solution for dealing with criminal offenders. Unfortunately, these efforts are doomed to fail unless we help offenders discover the true costs of their criminal activities.
