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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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Operationalizing Risk, Need, and Responsivity Principles in Local Policy: Lessons From Five County Juvenile Probation Departments:
Joel Miller,Carrie Maloney +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the operationalization of risk, need, and responsivity principles (RNRP) in local policy in five Pennsylvania county juvenile probation departments and found that the core policies focused on officers'...
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Social Work Contribution to Desistance Among At-Risk Youth.
TL;DR: The hypothesis that social work services promote the youth’s desistance through the promotion of voluntarism for desistance gets support from this study of 586 at-risk youths in Hong Kong, with data collected from both the youths and their responsible social workers.
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Challenges in Parole Supervision: Views from the Field
TL;DR: In this paper, a focus group with parole field officers from one large state (Pennsylvania) was collected as part of a larger inquiry following the imposition of a moratorium on all parole releases, which was triggered by a series of violent incidents involving recently released parolees.
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30 Intervening Effectively with Juvenile Offenders: Answers from Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a general critique of the injustices characterizing juvenile corrections became focused on the empirical effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, with the claim being made that "nothing works" to reform wayward youths.
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TL;DR: Four principles of classification for effective rehabilitation are reviewed: risk, need, responsivity, and professional override.