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Demonstrate understanding of the sentence planning and management
process
Level
3
Credits
8
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working as corrections officers in a prison and
covers the understanding of sentence planning and management process.
People credited with this unit standard are able to:
–
demonstrate understanding of the principles of the sentence planning
and management process;
–
demonstrate understanding of the procedures associated with the
sentence planning and management process; and
–
describe interactions with offenders that promote behaviour change.
Subfield
Offender Management
Domain
Prisoner Management
Status
Registered
Status date
25 July 2006
Date version published
25 July 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2011
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0003
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
This unit standard is intended for but not restricted to workplace assessment. The
range statements across the unit standard can be applied according to enterprise
specific equipment, procedures, and processes.
2
The sentence planning and management process is the coordinated approach to
managing offenders and ensuring sentence compliance across all Corrections
Services and throughout the sentence. Its intention is to ensure interventions and
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programmes are targeted to factors affecting offending, for offenders most at risk of
re-offending.
3
Activities required for this unit standard must comply with organisational
requirements, i.e. all instructions to staff on policy, procedures, and codes of conduct
(including the application of legislation to workplace situations), which are contained
in formal memorandums and manuals, and are available for reference in the
workplace.
4
Performance in relation to the elements and performance criteria must comply with
current legislation, policies, and procedures, including:
Corrections Act 2004;
Corrections Regulations 2005;
Crimes Act 1961;
Crimes of Torture Act 1989;
Criminal Justice Act 1985;
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990;
Parole Act 2002;
Privacy Act 1993;
Sentencing Act 2002;
other related Acts and regulations and their subsequent amendments or
replacements.
5
Reference to terms, procedures, and specifications in this unit standard includes
documented procedures and specifications relevant to the workplace in which
assessment is carried out.
6
All work practices shall meet documented enterprise quality management
requirements, including the documentation of activities, events, and decisions.
7
Assessment should be against the documented national policies and procedures and
prison specific procedures.
8
Definitions
case officer – the industry accepted term for the officer who manages prisoner
sentence plans;
prisoner sentence plans – are the mechanisms under the sentence planning and
management process that are used to manage all phases of an offender’s
progression through the Corrections Service.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate understanding of the principles of the sentence planning and management
process.
Performance criteria
1.1
The sentence planning and management process is explained in terms of an
integrated approach to sentence management, targeting offender needs and
identifying interventions to address those needs aimed at reducing re-offending.
1.2
Key principles and features underpinning the sentence planning and
management process are explained.
Range
1.3
offender focused, integrated, offender pathway, targeted,
evidence-based, community and/or family involvement, reducing
re-offending, culturally responsive, consistent and efficient.
The features used in the targeting approach are identified and explained.
Range
risk of re-offending, identified need, responsivity, sentence length.
Element 2
Demonstrate understanding of the procedures associated with the sentence planning and
management process.
Performance criteria
2.1
The sentence planning and management system is explained in terms of the
key stages of offender assessment and management.
2.2
Prisoner categories are described in terms of offender eligibility.
2.3
Assessment tools used in the sentence planning and management system to
help determine the category of offender sentence management are described.
Range
2.4
Risk of Re-conviction/Re-imprisonment (RoC/RoI); Criminogenic
Needs Inventory (CNI) including Pre-disposing period
Criminogenic Needs (PCN), Offending period Criminogenic Needs
(OCN) and Māori Cultural Related Need (MaCRNs); Prisoner
Employment and Education Assessment (IEEA); Living Needs
Assessment (LNA); Re-integrative Needs Assessment (RNA).
Key programmes to facilitate offender behaviour change are described in terms
of their target group and general content.
Range
key programmes – Tikanga Māori, Straight Thinking,
Criminogenic, Violence Prevention, Alcohol and Drugs, structured
intervention programmes.
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2.5
The framework and elements of Public Prisons Service (PPS) Re-integrative
Services are identified and explained including eligibility criteria for each.
Range
2.6
case officer advice; case officer support and guidance; Public
Prisons Service social worker; New Zealand Prisoners’ Aid and
Rehabilitation Society field worker; Parenting, Budgeting, and
Living Skills courses; Self-care Units.
The integration between services under the sentence planning and
management process is described by means of four examples with reference to
handover points and common activities.
Element 3
Describe interactions with offenders that promote behaviour change.
Performance criteria
3.1
The sentence planning and management process approach to productively
working with offenders, also referred to as Active Management, is identified and
described.
Range
3.2
Key concepts and skills of Motivational Enhancement (ME) are identified and
explained.
Range
3.3
key concepts – stages of change model, positive approach,
building rapport, gently persuasive, rolling with reluctance,
encouraging problem recognition, amplifying discrepancy, building
desire for change, displaying empathy, using the decision grid,
promoting choice, providing information, gaining commitment.
Other approaches to exerting positive influence on offenders are identified and
briefly explained.
Range
3.4
knowledge – of the offender, their sentence plan, Sentence
Management (SM) principles, skills and activities of active
management;
communication includes but is not limited to – with the offender,
with other staff, keeping file notes; responsiveness; exerting
influence.
including but not limited to – support, advice, collaborative
problem-solving, pro-social role-modelling, positive reinforcement.
The general contents of the main rehabilitative programmes to promote offender
behaviour change are outlined.
Range
Mixed Programme to Reducing Offending (M-PRO), Making Our
Drivers Safe (MODS), Alcohol and Drug Treatment, Violence
Prevention, Straight Thinking, Tikanga Māori, Māori Focus Unit,
Sex Offender Special Treatment Unit, Violence Prevention Special
Treatment Unit.
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Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, or an inter-institutional body
with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from
assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
reviewcomments@etito.co.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
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