HV Helicopter View
Prison/Prison Administration level
An organisational risk assessment tool that aims to raise awareness and support prison governors/prison system administrators to reflect and assess situational dimensions in preventing radicalisation - factors related to prison/prison service and those present among inmates – and to identify the strategies and action plans that need to be implemented.
This tool is targeted to be used in a facilitated session by prison system administrators and prison governors and their management teams aiming to assess radicalisation situational risk factors. Although the tool can be used as a stand-alone tool in a management meeting, experience shows that a facilitated session is more effective to produce results, especially when the facilitator is not a member of the management team that is doing the assessment exercise.
The response scale of this instrument helps prison governors and administrators to reflect on factors according the Probability (probability of existing/happening and creating a problem) and Consequence (how serious will the consequences be, how urgent do we need to deal with it) of each one of them within his/her prison or country’s prison service.
Such exercise will contribute to an efficient prioritisation of tasks, facilitating the identification of the most relevant problems, their probability of happening within the core of a prison/prison system, its inherent consequences, and how urgent should it be tackled/addressed. In sum, highly probable factors could have a very serious consequence, putting in jeopardy the effectiveness of a prison/prison system if such problem suddenly arises. Realising a certain “need” within the core of a prison/prison system could anticipate the appearance of a highly challenging problem and, therefore, avoid undesirable consequences.
The questions in the assessment for the participants to reflect about the current situation in his/her prison/prison system are presented as in the figure bellow.
If needed, other sub-questions should be suggested, added and assessed for discussion.
This tool is targeted to be used in a facilitated session by prison system administrators and prison governors and their management teams aiming to assess radicalisation situational risk factors. Although the tool can be used as a stand-alone tool in a management meeting, experience shows that a facilitated session is more effective to produce results, especially when the facilitator is not a member of the management team that is doing the assessment exercise.
The response scale of this instrument helps prison governors and administrators to reflect on factors according the Probability (probability of existing/happening and creating a problem) and Consequence (how serious will the consequences be, how urgent do we need to deal with it) of each one of them within his/her prison or country’s prison service.
Such exercise will contribute to an efficient prioritisation of tasks, facilitating the identification of the most relevant problems, their probability of happening within the core of a prison/prison system, its inherent consequences, and how urgent should it be tackled/addressed. In sum, highly probable factors could have a very serious consequence, putting in jeopardy the effectiveness of a prison/prison system if such problem suddenly arises. Realising a certain “need” within the core of a prison/prison system could anticipate the appearance of a highly challenging problem and, therefore, avoid undesirable consequences.
The questions in the assessment for the participants to reflect about the current situation in his/her prison/prison system are presented as in the figure bellow.
If needed, other sub-questions should be suggested, added and assessed for discussion.
To support their work, certified professionals will have access to:
- the R2PRIS methodological framework;
- Training session materials (facilitator’s kit with training templates, manuals, and presentations);
- R2PRIS tools (includes the user’s manual of each tool, response forms and results’ report sheets);
- Online resources and the complete R2PRIS online training course.
The R2PRIS project is co-financed by ERASMUS + programme ( KA2 - Strategic partnerships for adult education). ERASMUS + is the new EU programme for Education, Training, Youth, and Sports (2014-2020).
This website has been accomplished during the project “Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons” - 2015-1-PT01-KA204-013062 (R2PRIS), implemented with the financial support of the European Commission through the Erasmus + Programme. This publication reflects the views only of the author, The Portuguese National Agency ERASMUS+ Education and Training and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. © Developed by IPS_Innovative Prison Systems
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