Purpose

This paper aims to focus on the perspectives of correctional officers supervising young offenders on community supervision in Singapore.

Design/methodology/approach

The study adopted a qualitative research framework, where attention was devoted to understanding the perspectives of eight reintegration officers, and what they perceived to have helped young offenders successfully discharged from community supervision.

Findings

The five essential factors that emerged are compliance to supervision conditions, education and/or employment, ability to cope and efforts to change, support and environment. Each factor is defensible and had been substantiated by past research that incorporates evidence-based practice in correctional rehabilitation for offenders.

Research limitations/implications

Due to constraints imposed on the research timeline, the five factors identified do not take into account societal-level barriers such as stigma, discrimination and inequalities, which are important factors that can be further explored in subsequent studies.

Originality/value

In Singapore, there is no research study on the Reintegration Officers' perspectives on what they deemed as critical for offenders to be discharged from community supervision. Understanding these key factors may help to shape future research in determining supervisees’ readiness for discharge from community supervision in Singapore. This knowledge gained could further inform and bolster the correctional rehabilitation services provided by SPS and be further developed into a tool that can be used to systematically assess the readiness of offenders to be discharged from community supervision.

中文翻译：

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重返社会官员对新加坡解除社区监管的罪犯的看法

目的

本文旨在关注新加坡惩教人员对青少年罪犯进行社区监督的观点。

设计/方法/方法

该研究采用定性研究框架，重点了解八名重返社会官员的观点，以及他们认为如何帮助年轻罪犯成功摆脱社区监管。

发现

出现的五个基本因素是遵守监管条件、教育和/或就业、应对能力和努力改变、支持和环境。每个因素都是站得住脚的，并且已经被过去的研究所证实，这些研究结合了罪犯矫正康复中的循证实践。

研究限制/影响

由于研究时间表的限制，确定的五个因素没有考虑社会层面的障碍，如耻辱、歧视和不平等，这些都是可以在后续研究中进一步探讨的重要因素。

原创性/价值

在新加坡，没有关于重返社会官员对他们认为对罪犯从社区监督中释放的关键的看法的研究。了解这些关键因素可能有助于塑造未来的研究，以确定受监管者是否准备好从新加坡社区监管中解脱出来。获得的这些知识可以进一步为 SPS 提供的矫正康复服务提供信息和支持，并进一步发展成为一种工具，可用于系统地评估罪犯是否准备好从社区监管中解脱出来。