Responding to the “nothing works” movement in corrections, researchers in the field of
corrections have employed meta-analytic techniques since the mid-1980s to cumulate …

Developed in the 1980s and first formalized in 1990, the risk-need-responsivity model has
been used with increasing success to assess and rehabilitate criminals in Canada and …

The effectiveness of treatment for sexual offenders remains controversial, even though it is
widely agreed that certain forms of human service interventions reduce the recidivism rates …

Contemporary social scientific scholarship is being transformed by the challenges
associated with the changing nature of, and responses to, questions of crime, security and …

Research Summary Over the past two decades, researchers have been increasingly
interested in measuring the risk of offender recidivism as a means of advancing public safety …

American Criminal Justice Policy examines many of the most prominent criminal justice
policies on the American landscape and finds that they fall well short of achieving the …

This chapter presents the" Risk-Need-Responsivity"(RNR) model of correctional assessment
and treatment in three major sections. The first section outlines principles of effective crime …

This meta-analysis reviews the predictive accuracy of different approaches and tools that are
used to assess the risk of recidivism for male spousal assault offenders. In total, 18 studies …

THE UNITED STATES PROBATION system was created in 1925 by the Federal Probation
Act. This Act gave the US Courts the power to appoint federal probation officers and the …

This study examines the predictive accuracy of three risk assessment approaches for
intimate partner violence (IPV) among a sample of 246 male perpetrators who were charged …