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ENHANCING OFFENDER RE-ENTRY An integrated model for enhancing offender re-entry
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In this paper, the authors argue that despite diminishing crime rates in many countries, high rates of incarceration continue to engage political and public scrutiny in the management of (increasing) correctional populations.Abstract:
Notwithstanding diminishing crime rates in many countries, high rates of incarceration continue to engage political and public scrutiny in the management of (increasing) correctional populations. I...read more
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Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
John Monahan,Jennifer L. Skeem +1 more
TL;DR: This work addresses four principal problems confronting risk assessment in sentencing: conflating risk and blame, barring individual inferences based on group data, failing adequately to distinguish risk assessment from risk reduction, and ignoring whether, and if so, how, the use of risk Assessment in sentencing affects racial and economic disparities in imprisonment.
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An integrative theory of desistance from sex offending
TL;DR: The Integrated Theory of Desistance from Sex Offending as mentioned in this paper describes the desistance process in four phases: decisive momentum (initial desistance), rehabilitation, re-entry, and normalcy.
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Does intra-individual change predict offender recidivism? Searching for the Holy Grail in assessing offender change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and critique academic and government literature linking individual change scores to recidivism, focusing on three key treatment domains: cognition, violence, and substance misuse.
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Dynamic risk and protective factors
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the literature regarding the identification and measurement of risk factors considered imminent precipitants of subsequent criminal conduct (i.e. dynamic risk factors) and framed these risk factors against the so-called protective factors that are presumed to mitigate risk.
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The federal Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA): a construction and validation study.
Christopher T. Lowenkamp,James L. Johnson,Alexander M. Holsinger,Scott W. VanBenschoten,Charles R. Robinson +4 more
TL;DR: Tests of the predictive validity of a 4th-generation risk assessment instrument designed for U.S. probation revealed that the assessment instrument predicted rearrest reliably when using the assessment results based on administrative data or officer-completed assessments.
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Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy.
TL;DR: It is suggested that delinquency conceals 2 distinct categories of individuals, each with a unique natural history and etiology: a small group engages in antisocial behavior of 1 sort or another at every life stage, whereas a larger group is antisocial only during adolescence.
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In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of addictive behaviors using the key transtheoretical constructs of stages and processes of change.
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Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory
TL;DR: The nature and function of human agency is examined within the conceptual model of triadic reciprocal causation, which accords a central role to cognitive, vicarious, self-reflective, and self-regulatory processes.
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Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
TL;DR: Maruna as discussed by the authors argues that to truly understand offenders, we must understand the stories that they tell - and that in turn this story-making process has the capacity to transform lives, and provides a fascinating narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on the criminal path but instead have created lives of productivity and purpose.