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Increasing the effectiveness of correctional programming through the risk principle: identifying offenders for residential placement*
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In this article, the authors analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, post-release control, or probation, and found significant and substantial differences in the effectiveness of programming were found on the basis of various risk levels.Abstract:
Research Summary:
This study analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, post-release control, or probation. Offenders who successfully completed residential programming were compared with a group of offenders (n = 5801) under parole/post-release control who were not placed in residential programming. Analyses of program effectiveness were conducted, controlling for risk and a risk-by-group (treatment versus comparison) interaction term.
Policy Implications:
Significant and substantial differences in the effectiveness of programming were found on the basis of various risk levels. This research challenges the referral and acceptance policies and procedures of many states’ departments of corrections, local probation departments and courts, and social service agencies that provide offender services.read more
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Psychopathic Personality Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy
TL;DR: This comprehensive review addresses what psychopathy is, whether variants or subtypes exist, the sorts of causal influences that contribute to psychopathy, how early in development psychopathy can validly be identified, and how psychopathy relates to future criminal behavior and treatment outcomes and provides an integrative descriptive framework--the triarchic model--to help the reader make sense of differing conceptualizations.
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The Risk Principle in Action: What Have We Learned From 13,676 Offenders and 97 Correctional Programs?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how adherence to the risk principle by targeting offenders who are higher risk and varying length of stay and services by level of risk affects program effectiveness in reducing recidivism.
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The moral judgment of juvenile delinquents: a meta-analysis.
Geert Jan J. M. Stams,Daniel Brugman,Maja Deković,Lenny van Rosmalen,Peter H. van der Laan,John C. Gibbs +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that developmentally delayed moral judgment is strongly associated with juvenile delinquency, even after controlling for socioeconomic status, gender, age and intelligence.
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Drug treatment services for adult offenders: The state of the state
TL;DR: The drug treatment services and correctional programs available to offenders do not appear to be appropriate for the needs of this population and the National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices survey provides a better understanding of the distribution of services and programs across prisons, jails, and community correctional agencies.
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The twelve people who saved rehabilitation: how the science of criminology made a difference
TL;DR: The authors argued that the saving of rehabilitation was a contingent reality that emerged due to the efforts of a small group of loosely coupled research criminologists who rejected the "nothing works" professional ideology and instead used rigorous science to show that popular punitive interventions were ineffective, that offenders were not beyond redemption, and that treatment programs rooted in criminological knowledge were capable of meaningfully reducing recidivism.
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The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Demetra Andrews,James Bonta +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors investigates the relationship between the beginning and maintenance of criminal activity and diverse risk predictors (singular and social, static and dynamic) in the development of criminal behaviour.
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Does correctional treatment work? a clinically relevant and psychologically informed meta-analysis *
TL;DR: Clinical sensitivity and a psychologically informed perspective on crime may assist in the renewed service, research, and conceptual efforts that are strongly indicated by the review.
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When interventions harm: Peer groups and problem behavior.
TL;DR: Development and intervention evidence relevant to iatrogenic effects in peer-group interventions are explored and it is proposed that peer aggregation during early adolescence, under some circumstances, inadvertently reinforces problem behavior.
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A meta‐analysis of the predictors of adult offender recidivism: what works!*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used meta-analytic techniques to determine which predictor domains and actuarial assessment instruments were the best predictors of adult offender recidivism, and the LSI-R was identified as the most useful actuarial measure.
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Classification for effective rehabilitation: Rediscovering psychology.
TL;DR: Four principles of classification for effective rehabilitation are reviewed: risk, need, responsivity, and professional override.