Violent Recidivism
Found 6 free book(s)Risk and Needs Assessment in the Federal Prison System
sgp.fas.orginstruments can, with a moderate level of accuracy, predict who is at risk for violent recidivism. It also suggests that of the most commonly used risk assessments none distinguishes itself from the others when it comes to predictive validity. The Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model has become the dominant paradigm in risk and needs assessment.
Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ...
www.childwelfare.govviolent behavior. AF-CBT has been found to improve functioning in school-aged children, their parents (caregivers), and their ... recidivism (prevention of child welfare system involvement or repeated reports/ allegations) Improve the level of child’s safety/welfare
Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Research, Best Practices ...
files.eric.ed.govrisk of recidivism. Static risk factors – those that cannot be changed through intervention – include younger age, previous sexual offenses, the commis-sion of non-contact sexual offenses and non-sexual violent offenses, and offending against male victims, unrelated victims, and strangers (Hanson & Thorn-ton, 1999).
Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent to Delinquency
www.ojp.govrecidivism rates among juveniles convicted for violent offenses in criminal court when compared with similar offenders tried in juvenile court. With respect to general deterrence—whether transfer laws deter any would-be juvenile offenders—the picture is less clear. The studies on this issue have produced somewhat conflicting
Offender Classification and Assessment
samples.jblearning.comwith recidivism and criminal behavior,they arereferred to as criminogenic needs (Simourd & Malcolm, 1998; Simourd, 2004). Three Generations of Risk Assessment Some scholars believe that the instruments for correctional assessment in …
From the Administrator Gang Prevention: An Overview of ...
www.ojp.govmembers may be involved in serious and violent offenses. Researchers sometimes find it difficult to distinguish “gangs in embryo” from ordinary small groups of delin-quents. A complicating factor is that very young gangs are extremely unstable. Adolescence is a time of chang-ing peer relations and fleeting allegiances to both friends