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The Forgotten Issue in Effective Correctional Treatment: Program Implementation
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32 guiding principles that will be of use to policy makers, program developers, and clinicians in ensuring that a useful intervention has a greater probability of being accepted are presented.Abstract:
Of all the issues critical to the development of effective correctional treatment programs, program implementation has been relatively ignored. The authors present 32 guiding principles that will be of use to policy makers, program developers, and clinicians in ensuring that a useful intervention has a greater probability of being accepted. The guidelines are organized under four general categories: general organizational factors, program factors, change agent activities, and staffing.read more
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The Effectiveness of Correctional Rehabilitation: A Review of Systematic Reviews
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Strategies for enhancing the adoption of school‐based prevention programs: Lessons learned from the Blueprints for Violence Prevention replications of the Life Skills Training program
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Reforms as experiments
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Program Evaluation: Methods and Case Studies
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The conditions of effective implementation: a guide to accomplishing policy objectives
TL;DR: The authors first identify five conditions conducive to effective implementation and then suggest a number of strategies available to legislative and other policy formulators for overcoming deficiencies in one or more of these conditions.
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Revivification of rehabilitation: Evidence from the 1980s
Paul Gendreau,Robert R. Ross +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the offender rehabilitation literature for the period 1981-87 and assessed the following types of interventions: biomedical, diversion, early/family intervention, education, getting tough, individual differences, parole/probation, restitution, and work.