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The Risk Principle in Action: What Have We Learned From 13,676 Offenders and 97 Correctional Programs?
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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.Abstract:
Over the recent past there have been several meta-analyses and primary studies that support the importance of the risk principle. Oftentimes these studies, particularly the meta-analyses, are limited in their ability to assess how the actual implementation of the risk principle by correctional agencies affects effectiveness in reducing recidivism. Furthermore, primary studies are typically limited to the assessment of one or two programs, which again limits the types of analyses conducted. This study, using data from two independent studies of 97 correctional programs, investigates 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. Overall, this research indicates that for residential and nonresidential programs, adhering to the risk principle has a strong relationship with a program’s ability to reduce recidivism.read more
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Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Research, Best Practices, and Emerging Models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss existing and emerging models, their research basis, and recommendations for best practice in the treatment of sexual offenders, including specific characteristics and methods on the part of treatment providers.
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PCRA revisited: Testing the validity of the Federal Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA).
TL;DR: Overall, this research indicates that the PCRA predicts equally well across race, gender, and ethnicity and for differing follow-up time periods and is a valid predictor of arrest for any criminal behavior and arrest for violent criminal behavior.
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Child Pornography Possessors and Child Contact Sex Offenders A Multilevel Comparison of Demographic Characteristics and Rates of Recidivism
TL;DR: Results showed significant differences on demographic and criminal history variables, with CP offenders demonstrating a lower frequency of prior criminal offending and substance abuse, and higher rates of pre-incarceration employment and level of education and rates of recidivism.
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How do Former Inmates Perform in the Community? A Survival Analysis of Rearrests, Reconvictions, and Technical Parole Violations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided insight into the post-release performance of all former inmates with available data who were released from a prison in New Jersey in 2006 (N = 12,187).
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Gender, risk assessment, and sanctioning: The cost of treating women like men.
TL;DR: The authors empirically test the predictive fairness of an instrument that omits gender, the Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA), and find that women obtain slightly lower mean scores on the PCRA than men (d =.32, 99% CI =.29-35, or 87% overlap in scores); this difference is wholly attributable to men's greater criminal history, a factor already embedded in sentencing guidelines.
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