The premier paradigm of offender rehabilitation is the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model
and several training programs for community corrections officers to better apply the RNR …

Traditional forms of community supervision focusing on control and punitive functions have
been shown to be ineffective in improving client outcomes. In response, several officer …

The science of effective offender rehabilitation remains a very young field: dominated
theoretically and empirically by the work of a small group of Canadian psychologists. Their …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

The development and implementation of training programs aimed at increasing community
supervision officers' use of core correctional practices served as the focus of this review …

Objectives Although prisons aspire to rehabilitate offenders, they fail to prepare prisoners for
release into our modern digitally sophisticated society. The objectives of the current study …

Growing empirical research finds that a correctional system devoted to punishment is
ineffective and can produce criminogenic effects. As a result, justice organizations, including …

THIS ARTICLE IS about the relationship between recidivism rates and supervision skills
used by probation officers (or others who supervise offenders on community-based orders or …

Community supervision agencies commonly use resource allocation models to identify the
amount of monitoring and treatment to provide individuals under supervision. The risk-needs …

Objectives Using meta-analysis to determine the effect size of the recidivism rate of
participants in community correction programs that are conducted entirely in community …