Authors: 

Mark V.A. Howard, Chee Seng Chong, Ofir Thaler and Nhat Le Tran

Abstract

Routine supervision in the community represents a substantial opportunity to intervene with offenders and promote behavior change at the population level. In recent years Corrective Services New South Wales (CSNSW) has made a number of innovations to the community supervision model to enhance the behavior change focus and content of sessions between supervising officers and offenders. This has included introduction of the Practice Guide for Intervention (PGI), a series of structured exercises and activities that can be used in sessions to address offenders' criminogenic needs. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the PGI model as implemented by CSNSW. This paper also reports on the results of a number of studies evaluating components of the PGI, including system-wide uptake and ongoing delivery of the model; officers' perceptions of supervisory principles in the community; offender engagement in behavior change content; and implications for intervention dosage among the target offender population.

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