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OD in Corrections

2001· article· en· W311081582 on OpenAlex
Rose Opengart

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Administration Quarterly · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrisonCriminal justicePublishingPhoneSociologyVariety (cybernetics)Economic JusticeThe InternetLibrary scienceIndex (typography)Public relationsCriminologyPolitical sciencePsychologyLawComputer scienceWorld Wide Web
DOInot available

Abstract

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ABSTRACT This article examines organization development (OD) activities in corrections. Corrections refers to all settings within the correctional system, including jails, prisons, and similar environments. The intent of this research was to examine the existence of OD in an unlikely setting, demonstrating the applicability of the field. The main question addressed was the extent and nature of OD consulting in corrections within the United States and Canada. Although journal publishing in this area proved non-existent, cases found. Word of mouth and the use of e-mail and internet resources more successful than journals. OD interventions analyzed in terms of characteristics including objectives, methods, and designs involved as well as theory orientations of practitioners. METHOD The search and reporting processes entailed the use of a variety if resources. After a thorough search of journal articles, a combination of networking, internet resources, and phone interviews provided the bulk of the data. Selection of journals and depth of journal research based on availability of resources, averaging approximately ten to fifteen years per journal. Six journals relevant to the field of organization development reviewed including Organization Development Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Behavioral Science, HRD Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review. Four journals relevant to the field of criminal justice reviewed: Canadian Journal of Criminology, Corrections Today, Journal of Criminal Justice, and The Prison Journal. In addition to the individual journals, a criminal justice database consisting of twelve years of articles was reviewed. The Criminal Justice Periodical Index contains articles from approximately 150 criminal justice journals. Key words searched in this index included organization development, career development, training, and education. Relevant internet listservs and personal communication used to locate people applying OD to the field of corrections. Internet resources utilized include the OD Network listserv, the ASTD Organization Development Bulletin Board, The Corrections Connection Homepage Bulletin Board, and the website of the Correctional Service of Canada. Personal communication and networking, including associations such as the Organization Change Alliance (OCA, Atlanta, GA) proved quite fruitful. Phone interviews conducted with respondents who indicated having worked in corrections in an organization development capacity. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Significant changes have occurred in corrections over the last four decades with continual fluctuation in goals of reform and retribution. Consideration of climate and inmates' needs barely existed four decades ago. Inmates prisoners with no rights and wardens displayed behaviors with no limits. The attitudes that prevailed in the 1960s appear to be mostly gone. The 1970s brought a more conservative outlook with retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation included as penal system goals. With the 1980s came the resurgence of rehabilitation (Kurian, 1989). By the mid-1980s, correctional staff in both the United States and Canada were increasingly discontented with being merely humane keepers, passive provider of opportunities, ... and caretakers of programs that didn't work (Duguid, 1993:5). The new attitudes of the 1980s set the stage for organizational culture change efforts (Fleisher, 1996). A philosophy of rehabilitation in corrections has emerged as a priority over the last three decades. This attitude supported culture changer to continue into the 1999s. The Bureau of Prisons increased staff communication and longevity and attempted to restructure for increased effectiveness, including efforts aimed at fostering open channels of communication and increasing staff morale (BOP webpage). These types of goals evident in Canada as well. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.760
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it