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Catalogue Entry: Men Offenders with a History of Substance Use During a Prior Incarceration
Substance use during incarceration may present important health and safety concerns for offenders, such as the transmission of blood borne infections via injection drug use and...-
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Catalogue Entry: Women Offenders' Substance Use Patterns across Regions
Previous research shows that women offenders' substance use patterns vary across regions. This study was completed to highlight the varying substance use profiles of the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Men's Indigenous Intervention Centres: Release Outcomes
Indigenous Intervention Centres (IICs) were developed to maximize Indigenous resources and services across a smaller number of institutions in order to provide a culturally...-
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Catalogue Entry: Indigenous Offenders Affiliated with Security Threat Groups (STGs)
Security threat group, (STG) affiliation among offenders poses operational, safety, and security concerns for federal institutions in Canada. In a recent study, Indigenous...-
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Catalogue Entry: Correctional Officer Onboarding Program: Impacts on Staff, Training and...
A Correctional Officer Onboarding Program is being piloted at Kent Institution in response to concerns surrounding organizational culture. The program's objective is to support...-
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Catalogue Entry: Examination of the Drivers of Success for Section 84 Releases to Indigenous...
Section 84 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA) provides the opportunity for Indigenous offenders to serve their conditional or statutory release within the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Revocations Related to Substance Use among Federally Sentenced Men with...
Substance use is a persistent area of criminogenic need for many federally sentenced men. This research project examined how substance use was related to post-release...-
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Catalogue Entry: Returns to Custody and Successful Releases: Comparison of Findings from Two...
The purpose of this study was to combine the findings of two qualitative studies regarding Canadian federal offenders on conditional release to explore their experiences and...-
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Catalogue Entry: Substance Use Patterns of Women Offenders across Ethnocultural Groups
The women federal offender population decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, although the proportion of Indigenous women continued to rise to almost 50%. Black women accounted...-
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Catalogue Entry: Women Offenders' Substance Use over Time: 2010 to 2021
Substance use issues are prevalent among federal women offenders. Previous research demonstrated that federal men offenders' substance use patterns have changed over time....-
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Catalogue Entry: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Women Offenders' Substance Use over Time: 2010 to 2021
Previous research has illustrated the differences in substance use patterns among Indigenous and non-Indigenous women offenders. This study was conducted to examine substance...-
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Catalogue Entry: Post-pandemic Provisional Federal Security Level Forecasts
Every year, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) updates its provisional federal population forecasts using a robust methodology developed decades ago. However, over the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Custody Rating Scale (CRS) Validation and Revalidations: 1987-2019
Available empirical studies (that provide new data, not opinion) were gathered from 1987 to 2019 on the CRS. Select quotes were extracted from the publications that highlight...-
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Catalogue Entry: SIU Authorizations: October 1st, 2022 to March 31st, 2023 (Quarterly Report Q3 & Q4)
Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) were incorporated into the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) on November 30th, 2019. Such units are intended to provide intervention-...-
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Catalogue Entry: Non-Fatal Overdose Incidents in Federal Custody - 2020-2021
As part of ongoing monitoring efforts, the current study provides an overview of non-fatal overdose incidents that occurred in a federal institution in 2020-2021, which...-
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Catalogue Entry: SIU Authorizations: April 1st to September 30th, 2022 (Quarterly Report Q1 & Q2)
Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) were incorporated into the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) on November 30th, 2019. Such units are intended to provide intervention-...-
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Catalogue Entry: Overdose Incidents in Federal Custody, 2019/2020
Corresponding with the opioid crisis in Canada, there has been a notable increase in the number of overdose incidents in federal custody (McKendy et al., 2020). As part of...-
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Catalogue Entry: Criminal Risk Index Validation for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Men
Based on the CRI development data, a total of 24,972 men first releases (4,850 Indigenous and 19,996 Non-Indigenous) were gathered over a six-year period (2006-07 to 2011-12)...-
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Catalogue Entry: Double-bunking in Canadian Federal Corrections 2018-19 to 2022-23
Projections that the Canadian federal correctional system would be facing a long-term overcrowding crisis and be forced into housing offenders in shared cells (“double-bunking”)...-
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Catalogue Entry: Regional Profiles of Canadian In-Custody Women Federal Offenders
The current study examined regional profiles for in-custody women at three different time points to further understand these differences and to provide more nuanced findings...-
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