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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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Assessing the implications of a structured decision-making tool for recidivism in a statewide analysis disposition matrix for court recommendations made by juvenile probation officers
TL;DR: In this article, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has implemented a disposition matrix to guide recommendations made by juvenile probation officers to the court and examined whether recidivism rates for dispositions/placements made within the suggested range of this matrix differ from those outside of the suggested ranges.
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Evaluating Shame Transformation in Group Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders
TL;DR: The role of shame and guilt in a domestic violence offender treatment program is examined, similar to the use of reintegrative shaming in restorative justice, to promote greater offender accountability and empathy.
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Emotional Psychological and Related Problems Among Truant Youths: An Exploratory Latent Class Analysis
Richard Dembo,Rhissa Briones-Robinson,Rocio Ungaro,Laura M. Gulledge,Lora Karas,Ken C. Winters,Steven Belenko,Steven Belenko,Paul E. Greenbaum +8 more
TL;DR: Comparison of these two classes on their urine analysis test results and parent/guardian reports of traumatic events found significant differences between them that were consistent with their problem group classification.
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The Future of Community Corrections Is Now: Stop Dreaming and Take Action
TL;DR: The political, economic, and social context in which community corrections functions makes it extremely difficult to achieve successful outcomes as mentioned in this paper. The current fiscal crisis, however, is forcing chan...
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New Directions in Correctional Research
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed key research findings in the four areas of mass incarceration, community corrections, institutional corrections, and prisoner reentry, with an eye toward mapping uncharted or underexplored territory.
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