An educator and researcher at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has discovered that some respect and a little decency can greatly affect parts of our corrupt justice system.
Matt Richie, an assistant professor of criminal justice, recently published Managing the Rabble With Dignity and Respect, the result of years of study on how correctional officials handle the criminal population. Their findings reveal that many of the paintings have to do with interpersonal communication skills than with physical strength.
So, in a sense, treating other people like other people makes life less difficult for both ends of force dynamics.
“When I was in criminal and seeing what they were doing, without delay it became very transparent that over time they had to take an interpersonal rather than a physical trail,” Richie said. “I think one component of that is viability: it’s much less difficult to communicate with someone than to fight with someone.
“We teach young people that if you need someone’s toy, you ask them and if they say no, you locate anything else. At no point are you said to pass, hit and take him away. At one point, it was so obvious that prisons ordered in a potentially chaotic environment.
The study, funded through Richie, was published online before this year and in the June 24 printing factor of the Journal of Crime – Justice, the official publication of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association. The concept arose while Richie was doing his thesis for his PhD at UW-Milwaukee. He graduated in 2018, the same year he conducted interviews for what two years later this published study would be.
The key component of the paintings concerned 30 hours of an internal county criminal and interviews with criminal employees. Richie chose to concentrate on a criminal in a suburban or rural domain because we already know a lot about what’s going on in the country’s urban spaces. Instead, it sought to take a look at a population with limited resources and maximum recidivism rates.
“If you get out of the Milwaukee County Jail, there’s a hundred — for intellectual health, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, people trafficking, you say, they have anything for that and a nonprofit needs to help you,” he said. “But what we do know about suburban and rural spaces is that they are increasingly remote. So if you revel in some of those problems, it will be more difficult to find a cure.”
Lack of means that other people enter and leave criminals on bicycles. And criminal workers on the site have learned that to facilitate everyone’s experience, it’s more productive to adopt a visitor service approach.
“Remembering that these are other people is very important,” Richie said. “And it’s so basic.”
“If you’re not an idiot with those other people (there’s less trouble). We’re not saying you have to be his most productive friend. Array… We just want you to treat them like you’re treating a friend of a friend. “
Richie then sought to concentrate on prisons rather than prisons because of the state in which many inmates are located when they first landed behind bars. When other people go to jail, they have been in the formula for some time; they are probably natural and sober and get the remedy for the diseases they face. This is not the case of other people in prison, who may be on off hours. A study citing, for example, showed that nearly 75% of inmates suffer from severe intellectual disorder and substance abuse disorder.
“With so many obstacles, the difference a five-minute verbal exchange can make to spread a potentially explosive situation was surprising,” he said. Time and again, he watched officials opt for what was going to happen, expressing some empathy and avoiding new conflicts.
“All the officials I spoke to had these stories in depth about the lives of those other people,” he said. “There was a story about a guy who had been in abstinence for six months, then his friend had overdosed and then a week later because of the funeral. This shows how temporarily those other people are collapsing because there are no open-air prison doors. I think the real parody of prisons is that once you’re there, if not the first time, it’s probably the twentieth’.
The hope of moving forward is that this examination can be perceived as proof of the direction that the corrupt judicial system must take. Even if the order of operations now is to check the technical things, to use physical force afterwards, rarely this first step is abandoned too temporarily or done without enthusiasm.
“If I could be the king of criminals,” Richie said, “I hope more criminal directors take over. Instead of doing both defensive and tactical training, paintings on interpersonal communication, not just having that speed of what to say and hiring rules for communication.
This fall, Richie will begin his third year as a coach at UWO. He runs 4 criminal justice courses, adding one aimed at debuting the myths of the criminal justice formula and a redesign course on violent criminals.
And yes, he will also take a study with academics that emphasizes transparent communication and understanding.
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