[2-day Short Course] Process and Punishment (Sep 2024)
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Course Brochure
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About the Course
The course will introduce participants to the sociological and psychological issues relating to incarceration and their impact on the processes of prisonization, prisoner identity construction and management, and subsequent reintegration into society. These issues will be examined against the backdrop of the philosophy and principles of punishment as well as the prison system. Particular emphasis will be devoted to assessing prison’s social climate and its impact, real and/or perceived, on the post-release potentialities.
Participants will also be introduced to the phenomenology of the incarceration experience from the point of view of the incarcerated, and to consider and contextualize the contradictory demands of the processes of institutionalization, reinstitutionalisation, de-institutionalization and re-entry against the backdrop of the models of prisonization.
Objectives
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Appreciate the rationale for punishment, and how the use of imprisonment as a penal strategy serves to deter, reform and reintegrate the offender into society.
- Understand how the penal system has evolved and the innovative changes being introduced to make prisons more effective and efficient.
- Appreciate new experimentations in community-corrections against the backdrop of ‘what works’ and best practices of other jurisdictions.
- Appreciate the principles that inform an efficacious rehabilitation and reintegration programmes from in-care to aftercare to resettlement.
- Be introduced to some of the latest and key research works in the field of offender rehabilitation and reintegration.
- Develop the skills-sets and knowledge-base of practitioners in the criminal justice system and related social control institutions like Boys/Girls’ Home, juvenile institutions, family service centres to craft out policies and programmes that will serve to prevent and deter crime, as well as rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders.
Who Should Attend
All helping professionals in the criminal justice system and anyone who has an interest in issues relating to crime, deviance and criminal justice.
Course Fees
| Fees Description | Total Payable (incl. GST) |
| Full course fees | $1,853.00 |
| Pricing after SSG Funding* (Singapore Citizen below 40 years / Singapore Permanent Resident) | $555.90 |
| Pricing after SSG Funding* (Singapore Citizen aged 40 years and above) | $215.90 |
*SSG Funding Information: Learners must achieve a ‘Competent’ grade in assessment, to be eligible for SSG funding. Please note that learners may have to bear the full course fee (incl. GST) if they fail to meet this requirement.
Contact us
For any questions about this course, email us at swkcpepc@nus.edu.sg or call us at 6601 5960.
About the Instructor
Prof Ganapathy
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore
Narayanan Ganapathy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is concurrently an Associate Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Prof Ganapathy’s research and teaching interests are criminology, sociology of crime and deviance, sociology of law and policing, juvenile justice, criminal gangs and domestic violence. Prof Ganapathy has published extensively in various international journals and is a member of the Editorial Boards of The European Journal of Criminology, The Asian Journal of Criminology and The International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.
Prof Ganapathy sits on the ministerial committees of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Social and Family Development, Ministry of Defence, and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. He is also a Member of the National Council Against Drug Abuse, and the Indian Community Aftercare Council. Prof Ganapathy is the Chairman of the HEB-Ashram Halfway House, a role he undertakes in his capacity as a member of the Hindu Endowments Board.