author: TuuliStewart conference presentation Norway 2012 Larvik Prison Fellowship International

1. WHAT WORKS?
Tuuli Stewart

2. WHAT WORKS IN SOCIALIZATION?
In 1974 authors D. Lipton, R. Martinson and J. Wilks, using „meta-analysis‟, assessed all
Whatever
the evaluations of criminal rehabilitation programs between 1945 and 1967.
They reached the following conclusion: program is
good
‘With few and isolated exceptions, the rehabilitative efforts
that have been reported so far have had no appreciable
effect on recidivism’.
The results of this assessment convinced them that not much seems to work
Nothing works
and one program did not seem more effective than another.

3. What’s „socializing“?
SO WHY BOTHER? -- Mix socially with others.
-- Make (someone) behave in a
1. ? way that is acceptable to their
society
Socialization is a concept concerning the “study of the
developmental processes by which people acquire
2. ? cognition, attitudes, and behaviors”
3. ?
4. These people have damaged others AND (have been damaged)
THEMSELVES. More damage during imprisonment should not
deepen this process.
Bernard Shaw: black plus black does not add up as white

4. Prison staff
Family
OUT IN Volunteers???
INTO
Society
Directions are opposite
• Isolation(s) from society
• Keeping close to society, family and making preparation for decent return = motive
EXISTING SYSTEM VS VOLUNTEERS IN PRISONS

5. I have been involved in photography for many years.
One of the lessons I have learned is how profoundly
the lens I look through affects the outcome.
My choice of lens determines in what
circumstances I can work and how I see.
HOWARD ZEHR
Changing Lenses

6. We will have to look to
alternative ways of viewing
both problem and solution.
The source of many of our failures,
I am arguing, lies in the lens through
which we view crime and justice,
and that lens is a particular construction
of reality, a paradigm.
It is not the only possible paradigm.

7. Learnacy - ability to
learn new information
Prisoner and skills
Learn-acy
Volunteer
Motive
Public Administration
Trust Consistency

8. Knowledge
How does it
work?
Skills „Language“
Social, Terminology
practical to operate
Learn-
ACY
Values,
norms
Religion

9. • A game = an ideal world with rules (for all)
• Reality games – rules differ (change the chairs with a
blind, tied up etc. )
• Obstacles in life – are there rules?
• Confusion in relationships – expectations for rules
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• Picturing, story telling, reading, writing
• A plant, the wheel of life etc What works?
• Role play – write your script, a letter to yourself
• Movies –> community & court vs you

10. Learn to ask for a missing piece

11. Tuulist@yahoo.com