Correctional Officer Training: Experience, Evaluation, and International Perspectives

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The current panel speaks to international perspectives on correctional officer training and includes training for youth and adult correctional officers. Panelists have hands-on experience in creating and instructing training, in completing training, or evaluating training internationally. The panelists speak to best practices in training -- what works versus appears not to work in terms of adult learning and retention. The goal is to show the variability in training and to start to open the prior "black box" that is correctional officer and youth officer training around the world. The goal is to help inform with evidence ways forward to make prisons safer for all living and working in the spaces.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 48. Jails & Prisons

Individual Presentations

• Federal Canadian Correctional Officer Training: An ethnographic analysis - Rosemary Ricciardelli, Memorial University of Newfoundland

• A Revamped Juvenile Justice Training Academy: How Onboarding Evaluations can Shape Considerations for Ways Forward - Christopher Elliston, Texas Juvenile Justice Department; Rosemary Ricciardelli, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Chair

• Rosemary Ricciardelli, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Discussant

• Christopher Elliston, Texas Juvenile Justice Department