Your workbook will consist of weekly exercises or reflections designed to facilitate your engagement with the course material and active participation in workshops and learning activities. Each workshop will be structured around an activity or challenge that helps you to explore, put into practice and discuss the key concepts and ideas we learn in set readings and modules each week. Workbook submissions are where you can reflect on the course material and workshop activities, demonstrate your engagement and show what you have learnt.

The workbook will be split up into two parts: one to be submitted in Week 5 and one in Week 12. For the first submission you must complete all 3 exercises in weeks 2, 3 and 4. For the second you may choose any 3 out of the 6 exercises from weeks 5-11. Each workbook task should be around 300 words in length and worth 5% (x6 for a total of 30%). References are not required.

• Active engagement in workshop activities
• Understanding of key concepts and ideas from the course and ability to apply these to concrete situations
• Demonstration of learning
• Clear and succinct reflection
• Participation in group activities and supporting your peers' learning.

Your final assessment will be based around a specially created simulation, ‘Blight Town Boys’. The simulation has you managing the fictional Sir Dennis Hopeland youth detention centre, and has been designed to illustrate the complexity and importance of decision making and the impact your decisions have on the overall objectives of an institution and your clients. The choices you make will change the final outcome of the simulation and the stories of the three young offenders involved. It should take around half an hour to work through depending on how long you take to consider your choices. You are free to play through multiple times if you wish to see the consequences of different choices.

The assessment itself will consist of two parts: a short reflection on the simulation (300 words) and a risk assessment and case management plan (1500 words).

Part A: Reflection

Here you will reflect on your experience of the simulation and discuss what you have learned. You are free to choose what to focus on, but you may start by considering any of the following questions:

• What worked in your play through and what didn't? Did you manage to identify some promising avenues for helping the inmates? Or some things to avoid?
• How would you describe the environment and culture of the prison? What effect do you think it their time in detention might have on the boys’ needs and prospects for rehabilitation after their release?
• What sorts of pressures were placed on your decision making? Were there competing goals that clashed with one another? Did organisational policies or resource constraints prevent you from achieving a desired outcome?
• What kinds of issues need to be foreseen when making decisions, and how does hindsight affect the way you see your choices?
• How did you balance competing imperatives, such as the needs of the individual vs. the needs of the institution, or rehabilitative/therapeutic goals vs. maintaining order and control?

Part A does not need to be referenced.

Part B: Risk Assessment and Case Management Plan

For Part B you will choose one of the three main characters from the simulation and put yourself in the shoes of a case manager responsible for planning and overseeing their rehabilitation and re-integration once they are released from detention.

First you will conduct a brief risk assessment of your client. Based on what you learnt about them in the simulation, identify their criminogenic needs—you can use the major risk categories from the LSI-R framework to guide you in this—and if relevant, any non-criminogenic needs you think will be important to address. You will also decide what level of risk you think your client poses of reoffending after they are released. If you do find there are any gaps in your knowledge about your client that are relevant to making an assessment, you can also identify these as avenues for further questioning.

Next you will recommend an intervention for your client (you may include more than one if you wish) and justify why you believe it would be effective. You can choose the approach you want to take here and what you think is most important for your client, but your recommendation/s must address specific needs or goals your client has. You will need to make a case for why your intervention/s would help rehabilitate your client and prevent recidivism with reference to empirical evidence and the principles/theories/approaches to offender rehabilitation that we look at throughout the subject. This part must be referenced using APA 7.

• Critical reflection on decision making within an organisational context
• Consideration of different approaches to offender rehabilitation and the need to balance different goals
• Ability to understand and apply risk assessment frameworks and sound judgment of risk
• Understanding of criminogenic and non-criminogenic needs and appropriate rehabilitative interventions
• Use of empirical evidence and theories of offender rehabilitation to justify decisions
• Clear, succinct and persuasive writing and correct use of APA 7 referencing.

This will consist of two multiple-choice quizzes: one in Week 5 and one in Week 12. These are designed to help you gauge your comprehension and help you to engage with course content, and will be based only on set readings and content contained in weekly learning modules. No further research will be required.

Each quiz will contain 15 questions drawn randomly from a larger pool. Questions will be worth 1% each for a total of 30% (15% per quiz). The first quiz will assess content from Weeks 1-4, and the second will assess Weeks 5-11.

Quizzes will be open for one week. Once you begin, you will have 24 hours to complete them. You will be able to save your progress and return to the quiz at any point within the 24 hours.

• Comprehension of set reading materials and module content
• Evaluating and responding to questions using evidence provided in set materials