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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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Examining Risk: Profiles of Adult Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined risk profiles presented by men who have assaulted their partner versus those who have killed their partner in an act of intimate partner violence (N =526) and found that men who killed their partners are different than men who did not and were involved in the batter intervention program (BIP) in that they presented with a greater overall risk.
La necesidad de un informe social para la decisión y ejecución de las penas comunitarias
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to find out the reasons that explain the scarce use of Presentence Reports in the Spanish adult criminal justice system, based mainly on interviews to Spanish judges to understand why they hardly request such a report.
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Understanding Resistance in Correctional Therapy: Why Some Clients Don't Do What They Should, and What to Do about It
A reabilitação do criminoso: uma proposta alternativa ao cárcere duro...
TL;DR: A reabilitacao do criminoso, bem como a busca por alternativas efetivas that possam encontrar investimentos politicos e subsequente reducao da incidencia de crimes, is a propostas efetiva no campo da politica criminal, e a pertinencia das proposta reabiliacao no campos criminais, bemo-de defesa de defesa por muitos teoricos norte-americanos as mentioned in this paper.
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Mark W. Lipsey,David B. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis procedure called “Meta-Analysis Interpretation for Meta-Analysis Selecting, Computing and Coding the Effect Size Statistic and its applications to Data Management Analysis Issues and Strategies.
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Predicting relapse: a meta-analysis of sexual offender recidivism studies.
TL;DR: The results suggest that applied risk assessments of sexual offenders should consider separately the offender's risk for sexual and nonsexual recidivism.
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Does correctional treatment work? a clinically relevant and psychologically informed meta-analysis *
TL;DR: Clinical sensitivity and a psychologically informed perspective on crime may assist in the renewed service, research, and conceptual efforts that are strongly indicated by the review.
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Classification for effective rehabilitation: Rediscovering psychology.
TL;DR: Four principles of classification for effective rehabilitation are reviewed: risk, need, responsivity, and professional override.