THE RELATIONSHIPS FOUNDATION.

FROM THE PREFACE: In April 1994, the Scottish Prison Service commissioned the Relationships Foundation (a research and social policy group in Cambridge) to develop a methodology for 'Relational Prison Audits'. This was for use as a management tool by S.P.S. to assess Scottish prisons' progress in developing a good 'relational' ethos between prisoners and staff in the context of the annual strategic planning exercise. The project began on June 1 1994, and this report represents the conclusions reached at the end of the project.

In addition to developing the methodology for relational audits, the Relationships Foundation also undertook to trial the audit. Before it was possible to trial the audit in a Scottish prison, it was necessary to carry out a pre-trial in an English prison. H.M.P. Littlehey, Cambridgeshire, was willing to be used for this trial. In November, members of the Relationships Foundation and Sima UK (a management consultancy specialising in individual assessment), carried out a relational audit on Darroch Hall in Greenock Prison. This report details both the developed methodology, and the results of this trial.

Scottish Prison Service. 1994.. 143p

By Hans Toch

“Rules about dictionary usage are critical when scientific language deploye terms that are in the public domain. We can adapt definitions selectively, as long as we do so reliably. The qualification is important, because it permits us to sparkle at parties by Indulging in glittering generalities, and to stress exactitude and precision in the classroom and laboratory.

1980. 15p.

By H. Toch and D. Grant.

We propose an intervention designed to assist inmates who are chronic disciplinary violators but who are also disturbed or psychologically disabled. A recently completed survey of such inmates in New York Studies of Disturbed and/or Disruptive Inmates, supported by NIMH) suggests that these inmates create problems out of proportion to their numbers and are not deterred through the application of disciplinary penalties.

“Few suspicions can become as personally offensive to a student as the notion that teaching is shortchanged at the expense of a monombniacal concern with research, which is an activity that competes with teaching. Such worries can be fed by complaints of beloved teachers that their teaching is unrewarded. There is also the commonsensical observation that anything that is done well calls for blood, sweat and sacrifice, which would not describe a teaching sideline-such as hastily prepared lectures--by someone whose heart is in the laboratory or in an overdue manuscript for an obscure journal.” No Date.

“Gilbert and Sullivan wers probably joking when they proslaimed that "a policeman's iot is not a happy one," but law enforcement officers tend to view this hypothesis as an established fact. In professional publications and in conferences concerned with police problems, the theme of the "unhappy lot" energes with increasing frequency…”

By Hans Toch

Letter of accepttance: “Dear Hans, I am in receipt of your draft proposal for an "innovative research program" and I think it is an excellent proposal with which I fully concur.

The setting in which you propose to conduct the program may already be available here and in operation. We have a unit called the Diagnostic and Evaluation Unit to which any inmate can be sent from any correctional facility by administrative transfer who is thought by the institutional personnel to be evidencing emotional problems and to be in need of more intensive evaluation and treatment.”

Department Of Correctional Services. Matteawan State Hospital. 1974. 12p.

By Hans Toch and James R. Acker

From the letter of acceptance:

Dear Jim and Hans, I read your article "Accommodation, Sponsorship, and Religious Activities in Prison" with great interest….Your manuscript is the best submission I have received since I began my tenure with the CLB. If one's target Is to fite a first-rate "law review" article, you hit the mark again I wish I had written your article….Hence, I am delighted to extend an offer of publication. If I may, for a short while, I will delay informing you of the issue in which could appear.

Kind regards,

Jim

James E. Robertson, J.D., M.A., Diploma in Law Distinguished Professor of Corrections Editor-in-Chief, The Criminal Law Bulletin Minnesota State University

Project Narrative: The problem-oriented approach to policing is only ten years old but has received wide endorsement. It has been called "a philosophical revolution" and "the cutting edge of policing" (Malcolm, 1989). Wilson and Kelling (1989) have written that the concept "constitutes the beginning of the most significant redefinition of police work in the past half century" (p. 48). James K. Stewart (1987) has noted that "the problem-solving approach to policing. • • represents a significant evolutionary step in helping law enforcement work smarter and not harder…”

Research Progrtam on Public Policy, Institute of Justice. U.S. 1990. 127 p.

Report on HM Special Unit.

Scottish department. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland. 1993.

The Scottish Ollice, Design, Print and Publication Service GF1229 1 1/93. 44p.

By Keith Bottomnley, Atton Llebling and Richard Sparks

A Report prepared for the Scottish Office. December. 1992. 92p.

By Hans Toch

"The prisoner should hold the key to his own cell" is a well-known phrase coined by Captain Alexander Maconochie in the 1830s, before h e embarked for a historic assignment at the Norfolk Island colony, where he invented parole and established the world's very first prison incentive system. A subtitle of a recent book about Maconochie (Morris, 2002) alludes to "the roots of modern prison reform."

Pre-publication. Prison Service Journal. ND. 10p.

By Hans Toch

“In 1924, a town in West Virginia wanted to become the site of the first federal reformatory for women. To attract this prize the town donated 202 acres of prime pasture adjoining a river, a railroad, and a neighboring farm that became available at distress prices.”"

Pre-publication, The Prisonjournal, Vol. T3 No. 1, March 1994 62-12 ©1994 Sage Publications, Inc

By Hans H. Toch, Edward F . Alf and Leonard V. Gordon. 1950s? 51p.

By Hans Toch. Pre-Publication Draft (Confidential). 1950s. 31p.

By Hans Toch. 1960s. 26p.

By Hans Toch. Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. Project CoDirector. Institute for the Study of Crime and Delinquency, Sacramento, California. 1950s. 32p.

By Hans H. Toch. 1950s? 42p.

By Hans Toch. 1950s?

By Hans H. Toch.

Michigan State University. 1950s. 11p.

By Hans Toch. Michigan State University. 1950s. 3 pages.