Sanctioning to Change State Behaviour

Understanding Parole Officers’ Responses to Sanctioning Reform

There are constant calls for reform in the criminal justice system, but obs­ ervers have often reported that criminal justice reform is an exceptionally challenging task. As with any organizational change, resistance to new policies, procedures, and practices comes from a variety of sources. The relatively broad discretionary authority vested in line­level personnel often contributes to the dif...

The Evo-Eco Approach to Behaviour Change

We introduce a new approach to behaviour change called ‘Evo-Eco’ because of its intellectual roots in evolutionary biology and ecological psychology. This approach is based on the inference that brains evolved to provide adaptive behavioural responses to rapidly changing or complex environmental conditions. From this foundation, we develop a model with three basic components: the environment, w...

Obstacles and challenges to sexual behaviour change

This chapter discusses three of the general issues that have emerged from the continuing discussion on AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia: whether African and Asian countries can share experiences in their responses to the epidemic; the observed obstacles or resistance to sexual behaviour change; and the concept of community as used in intervention programs. The aim is to explore these issues ...

Alliances: Sanctioning and Monitoring

Optimal Monitoring and Sanctioning Systems

Many countries rely on monitoring of unemployment insurance and welfare recipients and impose benefit sanctions in case of noncompliance with job search requirements to encourage job search and to prevent abuse of the social insurance system. This paper systematically analyzes the characteristics of optimal monitoring and sanctioning systems for the unemployed as a function of worker characteri...