Week 5 questions

1. What are the strengths and challenges associated with reliance on practitioner discretion and personal discernment in everyday screening and assessment, in addition to the use of standardised interventions and instruments?
2. While recognising that offenders are far from homogenous, what are some topics and specific questions that an offender might not want to answer? How would you like to be asked these kind of questions? Practice asking difficult questions in a constructive and sensitive manner, using different angles to suit different personality types.

Week 6 questions

1. Why self-reflexivity is an important and necessary attribute of respective work practices? State instances where reflexivity is important in our work with offenders.

2. What are the differences between labelling and reintegrative shaming? In your opinion, could reintegrative shaming work for achieving rehabilitation and reintegration aims?