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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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The Allocation of Sexually Transgressive Juveniles to Intensive Specialized Treatment: An Assessment of the Application of RNR Principles.
Ellis ter Beek,Rachel E. A. van der Rijken,Chris H.Z. Kuiper,Jan Hendriks,Geert Jan J. M. Stams +4 more
TL;DR: Results of current allocation showed a population with relatively less treatment needs to receive community-based MST-PSB, compared with populations receiving residential SYC and FYC, and future allocation practices could benefit from assessing treatment needs and recidivism risk, by use of an actuarial tool.
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Risk, Need, and Responsivity: Unrealized Potential for the International Delivery of Substance Abuse Treatment in Prison:
Jennifer M. Jolley,John J. Kerbs +1 more
TL;DR: This article examines the delivery of substance abuse treatment in prisons and the determinants of prisoner access to and use of services and develops a model for service delivery that integrates supply- and demand-side factors into a framework that traces the pathway of prisoners through programs.
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A Decoupled System: Federal Criminal Justice and the Structural Limits of Transformation
TL;DR: The United States federal criminal justice system is changing. as discussed by the authors proposes a number of structural, structural, and procedural modifications to reorganize a continuum of fragmented bureaucracies into a cohesive federal reentry-centered system.
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Using Plan-Do-Study-Act and Participatory Action Research to Improve Use of Risk Needs Assessments
TL;DR: Many community supervision agencies use a risk/need assessment tool (RNA) to assess client risk level, inform case planning decisions, and allocate supervision resources as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to assign supervision resources.
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Parolee Recidivism and Successful Treatment Completion: Comparing Hazard Models Across Propensity Methods
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of treatment regimen completion on time to recidivism controlling for propensity to complete treatment was investigated. And the sensitivity of results under various propensity score methods was examined.
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