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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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A Rejoinder to Dressel and Farid: New Study Finds Computer Algorithm Is More Accurate Than Humans at Predicting Arrest and as Good as a Group of 20 Lay Experts 1
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The Evolution of Supervision within the Federal Probation and Pretrial System
TL;DR: The Admnistrative Office of the U.S. Courts has undergone a series of philosophical, policy, and funding changes that intend to move the system towards an outcome-based focus as mentioned in this paper.
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Criminogenic or criminalized? Testing an assumption for expanding criminogenic risk assessment.
TL;DR: Testing the implicit assumption that populations in which recidivism risk factors were identified are interchangeable with populations experiencing the onset/duration of exposure to the criminal justice system caution against the uncritical expansion of criminogenic risk assessment from community corrections to policing, pretrial, and sentencing.
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The effects of the timing and dosage of correctional programming on recidivism
TL;DR: This article examined the effects of program timing and duration on recidivism outcomes among 1,879 offenders released from Minnesota prisons in 2005 and found that the point at which prisoners entered programming...
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