Correctional operations

Research related to correctional operations is divided into categories:

• staff/human resources
• institutional operations and security
• assessment and classification
• other/general

Staff/human resources

R-460 Correctional Officer Onboarding Program: Impacts on Staff, Training and Workplace Culture (2023)

R-433 The Impact of Simulated Firearms Training on Correctional Officer Firearms Requalification (Hanby, L. & Ridha, T., 2020)

R-415 Anti-Corruption Models and Elimination of Staff Involvement in Trafficking Contraband in Correctional Settings: Review of the Current Literature (Brown, and Hoffman, 2018)

R-408 The Effectiveness of Simulated Firearms Training for Correctional Officer Recruits(Hanby, and Selvendren, 2018)

R-385 An Assessment of the Women-Centred Training Orientation Program (WCTOP) (Nolan, Harris, and Derkzen, 2017)

R-317 Staff Perspectives on Working with Aboriginal Offenders who Self-Injure: What Works, What Doesn't, and the Role of Culture (Power, Beaudette and Varis, 2014)

R-305 Therapeutic Alliance and Offender-Staff Relations in Women's Corrections (Harris, Taylor, Brown and Booth, 2014)

R-276 Working With Offenders Who Self-Injure: Fostering Staff Resilience in High Stress Situations (Power and Usher, 2014)

R-219 Wellness at Work: A Matter of Choice for a Better Future (Bensimon, 2010)

RR-16-10 A Review of the Literature on the Prevention and Treatment of Vicarious Trauma (2017)

RS-14-18 Exploration of Staff Training Needs Regarding Inuit Offenders (2014)

RS-14-15 Dynamic Security Practice among Correctional Officers: Acquiring the Skills (2014)

RS-14-13 Establishing Rapport with Offenders: The Experience of Correctional Officers (2014)

RS-14-06 Aboriginal Women Offenders' Use of Aboriginal-specific Staff for Reintegration Purposes (2014)

ERR-16-25 Staff Perspectives on the Electronic Monitoring Research Pilot (2017)

Institutional operations and security

R465_I Indigenous Men Affiliated with Security Threat Groups (STGs) Compared to the General Indigenous Men Offender Population (2023)

R465_E Examining the Differences between Security Threat Groups (STGs) and the General Offender Population (2023)

R-463 Correctional Interventions for Radicalized Offenders: A Literature Review (2023) new

R-459 Inflammatory Agents and Use of Force: Prevalence amongst Self-Injurious Behaviour Incidents (2023) new

R-457_R Use of Force and Race: Profile and Institutional Experience (2023) new

R-457_O Profile and Institutional Experience of Offenders with Use of Force (2023) new

R-455 Escapes from Federal Custody, 2017-2018 to 2020-2021 (2023) new

R-427 Major Disturbances: A Review of the Literature (Stanley, McKendy, and Biro, 2019)

R-397 Synthetic Cannabinoid Use in Correctional Populations: An Emerging Challenge for Offender Health and Safety? A Brief Review (Ali, Hill, and Fischer, 2017)

R-390 Assessing Susceptibility to Group-Based Influence (Scott, 2017)

R-384 Ways Forward: Applying Lessons Learned in the Management of Radicalized Offenders to Canadian Federal Corrections (Stys, McEachran, and Axford, 2016)

R-380 Who is Detained Past Statutory Release? (Schultheis, and Helmus, and Johnson, 2017)

R-379 Comorbid Mental Disorders: Prevalence and Impact on Institutional Outcomes (Stewart, and Wilton, 2017)

R-376 Releases of Men Offenders Classified as Medium and Maximum Security (Gobeil, Cousineau, Power and Stewart, 2015)

R-375 Detention Past Statutory Release Dates: Rates and Patterns (Helmus, and Johnson, 2015)

R-361 International Consultation: Best Practices in the Management of Radicalized Offenders (Axford, Stys and McEachran, 2015)

R-347 Criminal Organizations: An Examination of Gang Management Practices inside Canadian Institutions (Michel and Stys 2015)

R-345 Use of Programs and Interventions with Canada's Federally Sentenced Radicalized Offenders (Michel and Stys, 2014)

R-344 Examining the Needs and Motivations of Canada's Federally Incarcerated Radicalized Offenders (Stys and Michel, 2014)

R-331 Offender Behaviour: The Influence of Institutional Design (Gobeil, 2014)

R-329 Gender Differences in Disciplinary Sanctions within the Canadian Federal Offender Population (Harris and Thompson, 2014)

R-313 Study 1 of 3: A Qualitative Examination of Radicalization and Susceptibility to Radicalization (Stys, Gobeil, Harris and Michel, 2014)

R-313 Study 2 of 3: Comparisons of Radicalized and Non-Radicalized Federal Offenders (Stys, Gobeil, Harris and Michel, 2014)

R-313 Study 3 of 3: Estimating Susceptibility to Prison Radicalization (Stys, Gobeil, Harris and Michel, 2014)

R-312 Examining Gender Differences in Institutional Offences (Harris, Blanchette and Brown, 2014)

R-292 Gang Cohesion and Intervention Strategies: A Review of the Literature (Dunbar, 2012)

R-266 Review of the Prison Crowding and Double-Bunking Literature (Paquin-Marseille, Grant, and Michel, 2012)

R-258 Drug Detection Strategies: International Practices within Correctional Settings (Dastouri, Johnson, and Moser, 2012)

R-236 A Review of Use of Force in Three Types of Correctional Facilities (Varrette and Archambault, 2011)

R-232 Assessing the Impact of Enhanced Drug Interdiction Activities at Kingston Penitentiary: A Pilot Study (Johnson, Cheverie and Moser, 2010)

B-57 Pilot Examination of a Self-Report Measure of Institutional Social Climate (Scott and Gobeil, 2015) See Brief (B) disclaimer

ERR-16-08 A Profile of Offenders in the Electronic Monitoring Research Pilot: The First Year (2017)

ERR-12-1 The Effects of Institutional Design on Offender Behaviour (2012)

RIB-24-02 Actuarial Tools and Professional Judgement in Offender Security Level Decisions: 2018-2019 to 2022-2023 (2024) new

RIB-24-01 SIU Authorizations: July 1st, 2023 to September 30th, 2023 (Quarterly Report Q2) (2024) new

RIB-23-36 Escapes from Healing Lodges, 2019-2020 to 2022-2023 (2024) new

RIB-23-34 Double-bunking in Canadian Federal Corrections 2018-19 to 2022-23 (2023)

RIB-23-27 SIU Authorizations: April 1st, 2023 to June 30th, 2023 (Quarterly Report Q1) (2023)

RIB-23-24 Post-pandemic Provisional Federal Security Level Forecasts (2023)

RIB-23-22 SIU Authorizations: October 1st, 2022 to March 31st, 2023 (Quarterly Report Q3 & Q4) (2023)

RIB-23-13 SIU Authorizations: April 1st to September 30th, 2022 (Quarterly Report Q1 & Q2) (2023)

RIB-23-12 Men's Indigenous Intervention Centres: Release Outcomes (2023)

RIB-23-06 Men Offenders’ Trajectories to Security Threat Group (STG) Affiliation (2023) new

RIB-23-05 Indigenous Offenders Affiliated with Security Threat Groups (STGs) (2023)

RIB-23-04 Security Threat Groups (STGs): Measuring Disengagement or Disaffiliation? (2023) new

RIB-23-03 What does the termination of Security Threat Group (STG) designation signify? (2023) new

RIB-23-02 Case Characteristics of Federal Offenders Unlawfully at Large (UAL): Pre- and Post-Sentence Expiry Date (SED) (2023) new

RIB-22-33 Offenders Currently Unlawfully at Large (2023) new

RIB-22-32 A Profile of Offenders Unlawfully at Large (2023) new

RIB-22-31 Regional Comparisons of Security Threat Group (STG) Affiliated Men Offenders (2023) new

RIB-22-20 Pandemic Era Impacts on Provisional Federal Security Level Forecasts (2023)

RIB-22-03 Onboarding Program: Exploring Correctional Officer Experiences (2023) new

RIB-21-24 Examining Involvement Status of Security Threat Group (STG) Affiliated Men Offenders (2022)

RIB-21-23 Federal Women Offenders' Involvement in Security Threat Groups (STGs) (2022)

RIB-21-22 Indigenous Federal Offenders in Structured Interventions Units and the Mainstream Population (2022)

RIB-21-21 Black Federal Offenders in Structure Intervention Units and the Mainstream Population (2022)

RIB-21-13 Characteristics of Federal Offenders in Structured Intervention Units, the Mainstream Population and Administrative Segregation (2021)

RIB-18-15 The Impact of Multiple Grievors in the Offender Redress Process (2018)

RIB-18-12 Double-Bunking in Canadian Federal Corrections (2018)

RIB-16-07 Examining Time Spent in Administrative Segregation (2016)

RIB-16-06 Monitoring Flows and Turnover Rates in Administrative Segregation (2016)

RIB-16-05 Trends in Administrative Segregation 2014 to 2016. (2016)

RIB-14-46 Comparing Different Approaches to Managing Temporarily Detained Offenders (2015)

RIB-23-41 SERN Reliability: Indicators Contributing to Risk and Needs Ratings (2023) new

RR-15-02 Offenders with Very Distant Parole Eligibility Dates: Themes from the Literature (2015)

RR-11-02 Use of Drug Detection Dogs in Correctional Facilities: An International Review (2011)

RR-11-01 Use of Ion Scanners in Correctional Facilities: An International Review (2011)

RS-14-05 Urinalysis Results from the 2012/13 Fiscal Year (2014)

RS-13-07 Gangs and Institutional Adjustment in the Context of the Security Reclassification Scale (2012)

Assessment and classification

R-476 Revalidation of the Custody Rating Scale for Indigenous Women Offenders (2023)

R-475 Revalidation of the Custody Rating Scale for Non-Indigenous Women Offenders (2023)

R-474 Validation of the Custody Rating Scale for Black Men Offenders (2023)

R-473 Revalidation of the Custody Rating Scale for Indigenous Men Offenders (2023)

R-472 Revalidation of the Custody Rating Scale for Men Offenders (2023)

R-471 Concordance Between the Custody Rating Scale (CRS)and Offender Security Level (OSL) Among Men Offenders (2023)

R-432 Adjustment of the Security Reclassification Scale (SRS): Elimination of the Administrative Segregation Item ( Farrell-MacDonald, Smeth, Sullivan, Derkzen, 2019)

R-431 The Adjustment of the Security Reclassification Scale for Women (SRSW): Elimination of Administrative Segregation (Wardrop, 2019)

R-425 Examination of Risk Assessment Tools Developed for Radicalized Individuals and their Application in a Correctional Context (Conley, 2019)

R-418 Risk Factors Related to the Initial Security Classification of Women Offenders: A Literature Review (Wanamaker, 2018)

R-414 Revalidation of the Security Reclassification Scale (SRS) (Farrell-MacDonald, Beauchamp, Conley, Cociu, and Scott, 2018)

R-413 Women Offender Assessment: Can Gender-Informed Variables Improve Prediction? (Derkzen, Wardrop, and Wanamaker, 2019)

R-412 An Assessment of the Reliability and Validity of the Security Reclassification Scale for Women (SRSW) (Thompson, and Wardrop, 2018)

R-411 Inter-rater Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the MHNS (Stewart, Wanamaker, Wilton, and Toor, 2018)

R-403 Development and Validation of a Criminal Risk Index (CRI) for Federally Sentenced Offenders in Canada (Motiuk, and Vuong, 2018)

R-402 Development and Delivery of a Scale for the Evaluation of Risk-Needs (SERN) in Romanian Probation Services (Motiuk, 2018)

R-400 Can Calculated Ratings Improve the Dynamic Factors Identification and Analysis: Revised? (Wilton, Stewart, and Motiuk, 2017)

R-395_w Women Offenders: Major Findings from the DFIA-R Research Studies (Stewart, Wardrop, Wilton, Thompson, Derkzen, and Motiuk, 2017)

R-395_i Indigenous Offenders: Major Findings from the DFIA-R Research Studies (Stewart, Wardrop, Wilton, Thompson, Derkzen, and Motiuk, 2017)

R-395 Reliability and Validity of the Dynamic Factors Identification and Analysis: Revised (Stewart, Wardrop, Wilton, Thompson, Derkzen, and Motiuk, 2017)

R-392 Suicide Risk Assessment Instruments: A Review of Current Literature (Brown, Hoffman, Neufeld, and Mrozewski, 2017)

R-386 A Review of the Women Offender Risk/Need Research: In Search of Gender-Neutral, Women Salient and Women-Specific Risk Factors (Brown, 2017)

R-383 Low Risk Offenders: What Does the Research Tell Us? (Nolan, and Stewart, 2017)

R-371 Buffalo Sage Wellness House (BSWH) Section 81 Healing Lodge Process Review (Pilon, Jewell, Wormith, and Laboucane-Benson, 2015)

R-362 Ethnocultural Offenders: An Initial Investigation of Social History Variables at Intake (Keown, Gobeil, Biro, and Ritchie, 2015)

R-356 Aboriginal Social History Factors in Case Management (Keown, Gobeil, Biro and Beaudette, 2015)

R-342 Aboriginal Women: An Overview of the Correctional Process from Admission to Warrant Expiry (Thompson and Gobeil, 2015)

R-339 Static Factors Assessment in the Offender Intake Assessment Process: Relationship to Release and Community Outcomes (Helmus and Forrester, 2014)

R-334 Women who Sexually Offend: An Assessment of the Descriptive Model of Female Sexual Offending (Lufty and Derkzen, 2014)

R-325 Developing the Risk of Administrative Segregation Tool (RAST) to Predict Admissions to Segregation (Helmus, Johnson and Harris, 2014)

R-309 Construct Validity of the Static Factors Assessment in the Offender Intake Assessment Process (Helmus and Forrester, 2014)

R-289 An Examination of a Reweighted Custody Rating Scale for Women (Rubenfeld, 2014)

R-288 Evidence-Based Review of Gender-Matching in Psychotherapy to Inform Best Practices in Cross-Gender Facilitation of Women Offender's Correctional Programming (Franklin, Rector and Trinneer, 2014)

R-286 Security Reclassification Scale (SRSW) for Shorter Review Periods among Federal Women Offenders (Thompson, McConnell and Paquin-Marseille, 2013)

R-281 Prediction of Re-Offence Using the SIR-R1 and a Proxy (Barnum and Gobeil, 2012)

R-280 Preliminary Development of a Dynamic Risk Assessment Tool for Women Offenders: An Examination of Gender Neutral and Gender Specific Variables (Zakaria, Allenby, Derkzen and Jones, 2013)

R-273 Revalidation of the Custody Rating Scale for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Women Offenders (Barnum and Gobeil, 2012)

R-257 The Custody Rating Scale as Applied to Male Offenders (Gobeil, 2011)

R-239 Recidivism Risk Assessment for Aboriginal Males: A Brief Review of the Scientific Literature (Harris, Cousineau, Pagé, Sonnichesen and Varrette, 2011)

ERR-14-02 Agreement Among Three Mental Health Screening Assessments Conducted at Intake (2014)

RIB-23-15 Validation of a Dynamic-Static Risk Index (DSRI) Scoring Algorithm (2023) new

RIB-23-07 Custody Rating Scale (CRS) Validation and Revalidations: 1987-2019 (2023)

RIB-22-16 Initial Custody Placements of Federally Sentenced Black Men (2022)

RIB-17-12 Youth Histories of Federal Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Offenders (2017)

RIB-14-39 Utility of the Items of the Static Factors Assessment (SFA) with Aboriginal Male Offenders (2017)

RR-14-05 Do offenders lie? The impact of socially desirable responding on risk assessment (2014)

RR-14-04 Exploring Inconsistencies between Actuarial Measures and Final Decisions (2015)

RS-14-29 Risk and Need among Young Adult Offenders (2014)

RS-14-27 The Static Factors Assessment (SFA) of the Intake Assessment Process and Returns to Custody for Sex Offenders (2014)

RS-14-26 Comparing Substance Use Patterns of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women Offenders (2014)

RS-14-24 Lifetime Substance Use Patterns of Women Offenders (2014)

RS-14-12 Comparing Risk Instruments' Predictive Strength (2014)

RS-14-10 Reintegration Potential Ratings: Examination of Overrides (2014)

RS-12-05 A Revalidation of the Security Reclassification Scale (SRSW) among Federal Women Offenders for a period of at least six months (2012)

RS-11-03 Offender Satisfaction with the Computerized Assessment of Substance Abuse (CASA) (2011)

Other/General

R-429 A Quantitative Examination of Factors Available in the Offender Management System Associated with Successful Release (Wardrop, Sheahan, and Stewart, 2019)

R-389 The Relationship between Length of Incarceration and Recidivism (Rubenfeld, and Somerville, 2017)

R-381 Child Victims of Federally Sentenced Offenders: A Profile of Victims and Perpetrators (Scott, Grace, Perley-Robertson, and McKercher, 2017)

R-278 Access to Victim Services by Registered Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Victims (Gobeil, Barnum, and Euchi, 2012)

ERR-19-02 A Comprehensive Study of Recidivism Rates among Canadian Federal Offenders (2019)

SR-15-02 Raising Offender Awareness of the Impact of Their Crimes on Their Victims: A Literature Review (Brown, Serin, Greiner, and Gottschall, 2015)

RIB 22-17 Sexual Coercion and Violence in Federal Custody: 2021-2022 (2022)

RIB-19-14 Offender Complaints and Grievances in Canadian Federal Corrections (Motiuk and Arnet-Zargarian 2019)

RIB-18-13 Processing Offender Grievances in Canadian Federal Corrections (Motiuk and Arnet-Zargarian 2018)

RS-12-07 Public Perceptions of Corrections, 2010 (2012)